The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-02-11


A. l.. Sanger has resigned as purchasing
agent of the Evansville & Terre Haute
Railroad 10 accept position with the Pere
Marquette road. He had filled the position
since 1884.
The latest report is that the Hooking VAL
ley will pass into control of the Pennsyl-
vania and the Vanderbilt interests. and will
become the Western outlet of the Chesa-
peake * Ohio.
The Big Four is completing plans for
feet long, Anderson having become so i'm
portant a division point as TO necessitate
such Improvement
The wholesale houses in the West are
preparing a protest against an ADVANCE
in package rates proposed for March !.
The minimum charge is now 10 cents for
100 pounds. which IL is proposed TO ad-
vance to % cents
A, \. Zion, superintendent of the Union
Railway Company and Belt road. Is fitting
up a room over the east end baggage room
at the Union Station for trainmen to rest in
when connections are late.
The Big Four has under contemplation,
with the taking effect OF the spring time
table. running trains on the Michigan d.
vision through solid to Indianapolis instead
of hauling them on the fast trains between
Indianapolis and Anderson.
d. w. Bowes, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Chicago & Alton, with A.
ID. Perry, the companyS passenger repre-
sentative in this territory. is this week Wis
iting different points in this territory and
looking after affairs at Indianapolis.
The New York Central has purchased
the Continental Hotel property at Buffalo.
which it has desired for years. but never
bought owing to the prohibitive price at
which il was held. This means that Buff
falo will be given new union station.
The earnings of the Boston and Maine
roads for the last quarter of 1902 showed
a general increase of S255,644 in gross earn
ings, but all this and more was swallowed
in
the net income s105,S31; the surplus de-
creased sl49,659.
The railroads operating in Chicago and
st. Louis territory have agreed to revise
rates so far as they relate to carloads
and less than carload shipments Commits
sioner Prouty, of the Interstate-commerce
the differentials between the rates on car
loads and less than carload shipments were
too great
1t might be well for the management of
the Union Railway to define the authority
of the heads of departments. the question
being whether the superintendent of the
Union Railway Company has authority TO
employ or discharge men in the auditors
department or the ticket office or the Pull
man Company. For some years there has
been a clashing of authority over this mat
ter.
Fire caused by the explosion of an auto
matte burner in the Pennsylvania rail-
road shops at Pitcairn yesterday destroyed
the passenger car repair section and cabi-
net shop, entailing loss of $4,000 to the
company. Over one hundred men were at
work In the department and they barely
escaped with their lives. many losing
their tools and the clothing which they
wear to work
The Rock Island will extend its line of
road projected from Enid to Billings, o. T.,
to connection. with the Santa Fe at Ton
kawa. 1t will necessitate the bridging OF
the Arkansas river near Tonkawa. The ex-
tension will begin Immediately. This will
make four cross-lines owned jointly by the
Santa Fe and Rock Island in Oklahoma,
from Enid to Newkirk, Kingfsher to Guth-
RE. Chickasha TO Pauls Valley and Waur-
ika to Ardmore.
There are several young men in the en-
ploy of the Lake Erie & Western who but
a few years ago started as stenographers
and are now holding important positions.
Ralph G.. Morris, now chief clerk for the
freight department. began as a messenger
boy; E. II. Rollins. private secretary OF
Samuel B. Sweet. general freight agent OF
the road, commenced as a messenger boy,
and Edward Wilding, chief clerk for d. w.
Moon. general superintendent, commenced
as stenographer for d. S. Hill.
In no one item is the growth of the coun-
try in the Northwest better illustrated
than in the territory along the lines OF
the Northern Pacific, the Great Northern
and the Canadian Pacific. Taking a four
year period. 1898 to 1902. the earnings of the
Northern Pacific in 1902 were $41, 3S7 .3s7
Canadian Pacific. $37,5OS,05S; the Great
Northern, 3S,012 259-an increase with the
Northern Pacific in 1902 of 81. 707. 661, or
7i.7 per cent; increase of the Canadian
Pacific. sll,364.076. or 42.4 per cent: the
Great Northern, SIS. 1892, 4s6. or 104.2 per cent.
II. M. Bronson, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four. will on May q
complete fifty years service on the Big
Four lines, commencing on what Is now the
Sandusky in 1863. Mr.. Bronson has in his
possession over 1900 annual passes which
he will put in book form and exhibit at the
St Louis worlds fair on request of the
m o.
an ancient look, being issued by the New
York Central. the Harlem. the New York,
New Haven & Hartford and other lines be-
fore the roads were merged TO the extent
they now are.
A Boston financial agency states that IL
present plans are brought to full fruition
terminal company will be organized by
the combined Pennsylvania and the New
York. New Haven & Hartford Railroad in
terests, which will hold the East Boston,
South Boston and Squantum properties I'M
der one management in the interest OF the
Pennsylvania. The terminal company will
do a union station export business for all
the roads entering Boston from the south
and the largest share of the export traffic
of the Pennsylvania and New York Central
systems, handling fast freight traffic from
all quarters.
The bill providing for the s25.Oo00Oo
terminal Improvement plan of the
in New York city was introduced in
the New York Senate yesterday. 1t author
ICES the city Board OF Estimate and Appor-
tionment to make the grants to the railroad
company necessary for the improvements,
permits the depression of the tracks and
building of streets over them. The use of
steam below the Harlem river is forbidden
and the substitution of electricity or any
motive power other than steam, and which
does not involve combustion in the motors
themselves is required
The Baltimore & Ohio, which undertook
to block the Wabash is said to be itself
outgeneraled. 1t was sponsor for a COM
pany recently organized for the purpose Of
building a line. TO be known as the Fair
mont & Colfax Short-line. between the two
points named, and which has been killed
by the quick action of a railroad company
supposed TO be the Wabash. The B. & o.
formed new company, had its capital sub
scribed, charter applied for and route
staked off, but for some reason had not
placed the necessary entry on the county
recorders book. The Wabash people learned
this fact and rushed several surveying
corps into that territory on Monday, diyid-
ing them up so that they began their sur
vey in the morning before daylight and had
il completed In a few hours. a copy was
speedily rushed TO the clerks Office at Fair
mount Va, and placed on record before
any person was aware of what was being
done. The survey gives the Wabash a good
lire to the city limits, for which they have
been lighting the Baltimore & Ohio for
many months past.