The Indianapolis journal., 1903-05-20

model roads crossing Indiana ard with
It's new vestibrle trains and powerful At
iantic type engines is making very fast
The Pere Marquette is gradually altering
its plans for local Michigan road into
grand trunk line extending from Chicago
to Buffalo. One of the first moves TO pro-
vice Tor the increasing business was the
matter or equipment, and the new man
agement has ordered 5000 new freight cars
and set aside money to pay for them out
OF Its new bonds. The company is now
pushing Its entrance into Chicago.
The Wabash officials have been notified
by those in charge OF the tour planned for
President Roosevelt the route has been
changed and the Wabash will be used for
a considerable distance. 1t had been in
tended 10 use the Cincinnati. Indianapolis
q western, but now the special train from
st. Louis will be taken to Danville, Ill.
whence 1t will be brought by the Peoria
* Eastern 70 Indianapolis on June f.
Two veterans in the express service have
been retired on pensons-one, j. Harper,
who has been fifty years in continuous
forty-four years its agent at Erie; the 9TH
er is l.. +. Lowell, who has for over fifty
years filled a position for the Wells-Far-
go Express Company. At the time OF his
the Pacific department for that company.
The new trains which are to be put on by
the Pennsylvania line on Sunday will be
provided with new equipment. Each train
a library smoker, Pullman sleeping cars
and compartment observation cars. and
will be run through solid from New York
TO st. Louis and from New York to Chi
cago. The so-called limited trains will be
reduced one hour between Eastern and
Western terminals.
Jackson A. Adams, fifty-seven years old.
the oldest engineer on the west end division
of the Pennsylvania Railroad dropped dead
about O'Clock Monday morning while oil
ing his engine In the Springdale yards.
dying of heart failure before physician
arrived. Mr.. Adams had been employed
as an engineman on that road for thirty
years. He was very popular, a member
of the Brotherhood Of Railroad Engineers.
and a member of the Presbyterian Church.
The scheme which has been contemplated
for connecting the Michigan Central and
the Lake Shore Railroad at Grand Rapids,
Mich, is to be carried out, the right OF
way necessary having been secured The
connection will enable the Lake Shore TO
run it's trains into the Union depot at Grand
Rapids over the tracks of the Michigan
Central. By building the connecting link
the Vanderbilts will secure an independent
line of their own from Grand Rapids to
Chicago
The ticket scalpers are in high glee over
the decision of Judge Ellis. of New Orleans.
in the Civil District Court. He refused to
grant an injunction prayed for by the Queen
& Crescent against the ticket brokers in
that city, and the scalpers in New Orleans
will continue TO do business unless enjoined
has joined other lines centering in New
Orleans in an endeavor to enjoin brokers
from scalping tickets when conventions are
held in that city and the matter may be
carried to the Federal Court.
The Big Four is testing with much sue
cess an automatic stoker on one of its
largest freight locomotives. 1t is
a great relief to the fireman;
consumes less coal than when the firebox
door is open and coal thrown in by the
ordinary process. William Garstang. SUI
Satisfied it will work saving in coal and
lengthen the life of the firebox and f1ues
as opening the door of the firebox lets in
cold air and weakens boiler plates and
f1ues.
Association of Railway Claim Agents, to
be held in Niagara Falls on the Sd. 4th and
5th of June, several unique topics will be
discussed. First on the list Is, "Can a
number of railroad companies combine tn
create and operate a bureau whose purpose
shall be. among other things, to secure
from and furnish. solicited or unsolicited
to each road a record of such employees as
have been discharged or have left the
service under circumstances making the
continuance in railroad service objection
able or undesirable. and how can such a
bureau be organized and managed to pro-
duce such results?"
The motive department of the Big Four
is experimenting with its new heavy freight
engines as to their coal consumption per
ton hauled, and II is claimed that quite
a saving of coal will be realized from the
use of this heavy locomotive when tonnage
hauled is taken into consideration. There
is one feature, however, with the large
freight engines now in use that has not
heretofore been noted. These engines are
even the new cars show the effects of the
strain when used in these long trains, but
IL is said the increased tonnage hauled
much more than offsets the increased cost
In int oirip
One of the oldest and most reliable
gineers on the Wabash has been given
a leave of absence for six months under
unusual circumstances. He is suffering
deemed 1t wise to ask him TO seek perfect
quiet for some time. He has been running
the fast mail train between Decatur and
Springfield for nineteen years. One night
recently the train came to a sudden stop
between stations, and on being questioned,
the engineer said that an Indian had en-
tered the cab and applied the brake. The
next evening the same stop was made. but
this time the Indian went further and shut
off the steam. After questioning the fire.
man as to the cause for the stop and as to
the action Of the engineer, the faithful old
engineer was laid off.
Miss Jennie Smith, the famous railroad
evangelist, is in Pittsburg. 1t was thought
that because the convention of the Order of
Railway Conductors is being held in Pitts
burg 1t would be an excellent opportunity
for her to address the railroad men. The
railroad evangelist is known to every rail-
road man in the country by reputation. and
most of them know her by sight. Before
engaging in the work Miss Smith was an
invalid for twenty-three years. for sixteen
years was strapped to a cot unable to
move her body, and from the cot she spoke
to great gatherings of the unions of rail-
road men. She became interested in the
work of railroad men from the kindly man.
ner In which they treated her i'm lifting her
cot into and out of trains on which she
travelled.