The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-13


next month. The building will cost $1,000
and President ingalls, will make an address
on its opening.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie is pushing
work on laying the new tracks. four In
number, it's Monongahela division. More
than 1,l00 men are at work grading.
Henry Sachs, engineer of the Vandalia.
has been appointed travelling engineer OF
the lines. Mr.. Sachs Is one or the veter-
ans among the engineers on the road.
Bert MacDougal, assistant city ticket
agent of the Cincinnati. Hamilton Day
ton at Cincinnati. has taken the position of
city passenger agent of the road at Toledo.
The report of the relief fund of the Pitts
burg division Of the Pennsylvania shows
that its membership increased in February
1863. bringing the total up to 10.715 out of
l2,S28 employees.
Freight traffic on the Peoria & Eastern Is
now at it's maximum The first eleven days
of this month there were handled on the
line SIPS loaded cars. as against 6,l21 in the
corresponding week last year.
The Cincinnati, indianapolis & Western
is having trouble with its extension from
Decatur to Springfield. The continuous
rains have made the roadbed very soft and
prevent doing much work in the way or
solidifying the track.
The contract for the building OF a new
station on the Peoria & Eastern at Craw-
fordsville has been awarded to Jungclaus
& Co. of this city, and within few days
the contract will be let for the new build
ing to be erected at Bloomington, ILL.,
The Monon earned in the fourth week of
February S95,20S, an increase over the cor
responding week of last year of s17 291;
since July L the road has earned 81, ,255. fS3,
an increase over the corresponding eight
months of it's last fiscal year of $2747S2.
AS traffic director of the Gould lines A
C. Bird will have jurisdiction over twelve
roads and their allied connections, and ii
may be said his position covers a larger
mileage than that of any other traffic Off
Ger in the country.
John VelSch former freasrI Of fhe
Philadelphia & Reading, is now seventy
five years old and has been placed on the
pension list On April he will have been
connected with the company forty-hve
years and six months.
The double-tracking of the st. Louis divi-
sion of the Big Four between East st.
Louis and Pana. a distance of eighty miles.
is progressing rapidly. The ST. Louis &
San Francisco is, jointly with the Big Four,
building this second track.
The Chicago Great Western this week
received two of the large ten-whaeled type
passenger engines, of which Ii has ordered
ten. The company is preparing to shorten
the time of it's through trains, and pur-
chased these engines to haul them.
The Peoria & Pekin Union Railway Com
pany. at its meeting on Wednesday elect
ed Curtis Milard. of Springfield, ILL.,. presi-
dent and general manager. He will make
Peoria his headquarters, and is said to be
an excellent selection for that position.
j. c.. Winans, who represents the Gin
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton art Fort Wayne.
mas returned from trip to San francisco.
In speaking of the affairs of the c., ii. & ID.
he said the business of the Fort Wayne
division had Increased 800 per cent. since
| the c., II. & d. took control.
Maj. j. G. Pangborn, who had charge OF
the Baltimore e. Ohio's exhibit at the
worlds fair, will perfect similar exhibit
for the st. Louis fair next year. The rail-
road company secured $4,000 square feet of
| space and will devote it's exhibit to the de-
/ velopment of American railway industries,
| of which it is pioneer.
Arthur t. Sullivan, chief clerk in the
| commercial agents Office of the Michigan
| Central, and chief of four Detroit contract
| ing agents of the road, has been appointed
| agent in Detroit and the State OF Michigan
] for the Lehigh Valley Dispatch. The office
4 is new one. Mr.. Sullivan has been in the
employ of the Michigan Central for fifteen
years, beginning a telegraph operator.
Edward t. Flanagan succeeds Mr.. Sulli-
van as chief agent
| A w. Noyes travelling passenger agent
| for the Chicago Great Western, was in the
city, yesterday. He states that work is being
pushed on the company's Omaha extension
and several other branch lines, one from
| Redding to Rochester and another from
Fort Dodge to Omaha On the latter line
| there are thirty miles yet to construct and
| day and night gangs are employed in the
work. When completed the distance from
| Chicago to Omaha will be 500 miles.
| Negotiations are under way for the sale
of the Brunswick & Birmingham road.
| projected from Brunswick, Ga, to Birming-
| ham, Ala with a mileage of 450 miles, in
Guiding branches. In certain quarters the
| impression exists that the Chicago, Rock
! Island * Pacific desires the road to aid it
| in reaching the coast and to give 1t water
terminals at Brunswick, which are said
to be greatly superior to those of Sa-
| vannah.
Indications are that tourist travel to the
Northwest will not be as heavy last
year. During the few months that the
| Northern Pacific, the Great Northern and
| Chicago. &
| to give reduced rates to home-seekers and
! other classes of chief travel the Northwest
! lost prestige, as the Southwestern lines
We're giving reduced rates and were getting
a large portion of the people of the North
who were seeking homes. especially in Ok
| lahoma and territory adjacent, and ii is
thought ii will be some time before the
Northwestern lines recover lost ground
| 1t is stated that the giving of tips Is
being practiced in Kansas City by shippers
to induce the changing of destination of
empty cars in order to divert them to
| places where there is scarcity of equipment,
otherwise they would be sent to owning
| companies. AS it is, all trace of them is
lost and no end of trouble has been caused
| Switchmen and yardmen are accused of be-
ing responsible for the changes and to
have made nice additions to their regular
| wages. The Board of Trade of Kansas
City has taken the matter up, as ii is
claimed to be damaging to commercial in
terests of that city.
]. B. Rucker, who represents the freight
department. Ol the LOUISVILLE 0 NdSnNiiic
in this territory. was in the city yesterday.
In speaking of Indianapolis he said that
freight men of foreign lines looked upon
this city a good place to secure busi-
| ness. The Louisville & Nashville, he said.
had taken out of Indianapolis in the last
ten days sixty-two carloads Of freight,
and other lines in the South drew a large
business from Indianapolis The Louisville
e Nashville now runs fast freight from
Louisville to accommodate its traffic from
! Indiana. The company has q 600
| freight cars and will in thirty DAYS COM
plete a link which will permit the COM
| pany to run its trains from Cincinnati to