The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-22
day last. There is a death benefit of 800
and sick benefit of Sc a week attached to
the membership contract.

day last. There is death benefit of 800
and sick benefit of Sc a week attached to
the membership contract
Announcement is made of the appoint
ment of NJ. A. Robertson as general man.
ager of the st. Louis terminal in charge
Of the operation and transportation. The
Robertson is at present general manager Of
the Western Maryland and the West Vir-
ginia & Pittsburg Railroads, with headquar-
tiers at Baltimore.
GERS of the Wabash had decided to change
division points on the Detroit and Chicago
portion of the road by moving the central
terminal from Montpelier, o.. to North Lib
erty, Ind. 1t is learned that the change will
not be made complete until spring, and the
dispatcher's Office will not be moved until
later
The Joint traffic arrangement between the
Big Four and the Lake Erie & Western, be-
tween FIT Wayne and Indianapolis and FIT.
Wayne and Cincinnati, has now been in OPP
been the results that the arrangement will
be continued. AS a passenger line ii is
proving a great convenience for the FIT.
Wayne territory.
The Union Railway Company has in
structed the men in charge of construction
gangs. including section men. TO make
reduction Jan. / of 10 per cent. In their
wages. During the summer months the
company paid higher wages than in any
former year and this order will cause a
reduction to the ordinary. wages when work
was not so pressing.
President Elliott of the Northern Pacific,
who has just returned from n trip over the
line, says it is in the nature of an educa-
tional trip for him and was eminently salts
factory. He found the roadbed in excellent
condition, the property in fine shape fnclud-
ing equipments and rolling-stock, and says
the company is in shape to handle tre-
mendous volume Of business.
f. A. Williams, the newly appointed as
sistant general manager of the Erie. re-
ThurSdaX
the rolling stock OF the Canadian Pacific.
He began as an apprentice in 1880, and in
1890 became mechanical superintendent or
a branch of the Canadian Pacific. III. ..
Dunkel, who takes the position vacated
through the promotion of Mr.. Stewart,
formerly a Baltimore q Ohio man and
began railroad work in 1859 as a telegraph
operator.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois has
gained valuable freight terminals In the
downtown district of Chicago by its lease
of the Western Indiana road Some time
ago the Western Indiana bought this prop
erty and issued S2.5S2,O00 consolidated
bonds to cover the purchase. The Eastern
Illinois pays yearly rental, assumes the
interest on the bonds because of the extern
sive improvements and track elevation, and
Is to pay the bonds at the end OF forty
five years.
The bitter fight between the Big Four and
the Wabash for transportation of Eastern
mails to Kansas City and Western points
has been renewed. Superintendent 3. h.
SOlter, OF the eastern DIVISION Oh the w d.
bash, expects to add two more trains to the
passenger service west of Toledo on Jan. !.
The cause of this is said to be PROPOSE
ton made to the Postoffice Department by
the Big Four that if given the contracts
now held by the Wabash IL will put on ex-
elusive mail trains from Cleveland for the
West.
Horace G.. Burt, president of the Union
Pacific, has spent more millions in railroad
construction than any other Western rail-
road president, a fact which makes Pres
ident Burt a commanding figure among the
men who have wrought so great a trans
formation in the West. Perhaps no other
president has pushed the engineering idea
further into the operating field than Mr.
career, up to the time he became presi-
dent was spent in the construction de-
partment. Mr.. Burt began railroad work
on one Of the Terre Haute roads.
The Interstate-commerce Commission has
made the following assignments for hear
ings: Central Yellow Pine Association
against the Illinois Central Railroad, taxi
ing of testimony. Jan. 20; oral arguments to
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Railroad,
oral arguments TO be heard Jan.
q. Tiff and others against. South
ern Railway Company, oral argu-
ments TO be heard Jan. IS, all at office
of the commission in Washington. In the
case of Hearst against the Philadelphia d
Reading Railroad heretofore assigned for
Jan. 1S postponement has been made to O
date yet to be fixed.
The New York limited over the Pennsyl-
vania line between ST. Louis and New York
| is now hauled by the best locomotives
owned by the respective lines interested.
| The most skillful engineers run the locomo-
| tives and the firemen are the oldest and
most expert in that line. Particular at
| tention Is paid TO the maintenance Of uni
form pressure of steam. Between Indian
apolis and Columbus, a distance of 1SO
miles, two engines are used, one from an
| dianapolis to Richmond, and one from
| Richmond to Columbus. One evening last
week this train left Indianapolis at $50 p.
! m, with nine care. making total weight
of 425 tons The weather conditions were
| unfavorable, but the time was readily made
by the Atlantic type of engine which are
| now hauling this train, and so well was
| the work of the firemen done that the exact
variation of steam pressure between In
| dianapolis ands Columbus was less than
| three pounds.
| The arrangements agreed on by the trunk
| lines for handling private official or COM
moving such cars free In return as
reciprocal favors upon a basis of eighteen
| first-class tickets for the distance without
stop-over privileges, switching arrange
ments to be limited TO the coupling to and
removal from trains and yard storage rated
according to the present standard after
| twenty-four hours is to be continued an
| other year. The Erie is said to be favored
with more than the average allotment OF
| this business. 1t is stated that fully *
York are handled by this road to and from
| the West and other points. There is nc
| respecting of persons under the ruling. IL
| is cited that ii cost f. HI. Hartman 1859 tC
| take his family to Chicago en- route TO at
| tend the opening exercises of the Great
| been the same had the car been run dead.
| head without passengers.