The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-08

sary to keep engines in perfect order. While
no company compels its employees TO work
in shops on Sunday. on special request
good many respond.
Henry c. Rouse. president of the Mis-,
souri, Kansas & Texas. who accompanied
General Miless trip inspection OF the Amer
lean army in the Philippines and China,
left Peking Dec. 30 and is now returning
home by the Siberian Railway, stopping al
ST. Petersburg for short time. He VIII
then come directly to New York.
The Pennsylvania Company, operating
the Grand Rapids & Indiana, will expend
Rome City. Ind, a greater pleasure resort.
improvements will be made TO the park
with the earliest coming of fine weather,
and new steamer will be built to take
the place of the City of Rome, which was
burned last summer
DR.. Henry NJ. Wharton is conducting re-
vival services at Fort Wayne. His private
car, which cost $4,000 and was gift OF
director. and son OF DR.. Wharton, is their
home. This car Is several feet longer than
ordinary private cars. and is elegantly and
comfortably furnished, and has eight
rooms. Besides these are the observatory
or general sitting room and the kitchen
An official of the Santa Fe says when
that company has completed its cut-o1s
and extensions in the Southwest 1t Will
have a route to San Francisco 46S miles
shorter than the present. The road Will
then be In better position to combat with
the strong competition of the Southern Pa
cific. The main cutoff across portions OF
Texas and New Mexico takes the Santa Fe
over different route, avoiding very diffi-
cult mountain climbs.
The Chicago & Northwestern has put on
through service which brings Sault Ste.
Marie into closer connection with Chi
cago. The through sleeping car leaves
Chicago daily at 8 p. m, except Sunday,
and south bound leaves at o'clock p. m.
Direct connections made in Chicago
with all lines south and west, and at Mil
waukee. Fond du Lac, Appleton and Pow
ers with the train service of the North
western lines from points in Wisconsin,
| southern Minnesota and the Dakotas.
Frank ]. Reed. general passenger agent
| OF the Monon, was in the city yesterday.
| He Is gratihed over the passenger bust
pany s fiscal year. passenger earnings in
| creasing during that period nearly $4,000
over the corresponding period of 1901. He
states that he began the year with some
| anxiety. as In the preceding year passen-
| ger earnings of the Monon were handsome
| ly in excess of any former year, and he
had to overcome that increase. He is graft
| fled over the fact that Monon trains
reached terminals so near on schedule
\ time.
On Monday last the new alliance between
the Illinois Central and the Southern Pa
| cif1c systems for transcontinental passen-
! ger business went into effect without a
hitch, and for the first time in the history
OF the Southern Pacific its entire trains
| were Iefr1ed over the MISSISSIPPI. Ihey
| take the transfer boats at Avondale, are
| brought over TO the Southern Pacific yards
| and then run into the Illinois Central sta
ton This move is significant as having ar
| important bearing on transcontinenta
| traffic. IL means that solid vestibule trains
| will now be operated from Chicago, Gin
cinnati, st. Louis and Louisville by the
Illinois Central and the Southern Pacific
| to San Francisco and the Pacific coast
! without change of cars. Ii will be of bene
fit 10 indianapolis, as Big Four and Van
| dalia trains connect with this road.