The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-31

Tor passengers ana one at a tower IOr
freight trains, aid a slow-up at a sta
ton.
A Z. Wyatt, superintendent of the New
Orleans & Northwestern, has been appoint
ed superintendent also of the recently COM
pleted Memphis. Galena & louisiana Rail-
road. Mr. WAITS headquarters will be at
Vidalia, La.
Panhandle trainmen will give a ball on
Thanksgiving eve at Steubenvile TO raise
sum TO present TO Ellsworth Raney, for
many years a conductor on the road who
has been off duty for about a year on ac-
count of loconotor ataxia.
The Lake Erie & Western has received
deeds for the additional ground 1t recently
purchased at Frankfort, which is located
three blocks west of the present depot, and
new passenger station and also a new
freight station will be built.
c. L. Hilleary, who to-day retires as
sistant general passenger agent of the Big
Four to become passenger traffic man
ager of the st. Louis exposition, has a con-
tract covering eighteen months and is to
receive a salary OF $1,000 per annum.
Armour & Co. have begun the erection
OF a mammoth icing plant at Columbus,
feet wide and 60 feet high. All the cars of
the Southwestern system of the Pennsyl-
vanla will be iced at this plant when it
is completed
Tomorrow, Nov. 1, the Cincinnati. Hamil
ton & Dayton will take possession of the
Cincinnati, Findlay & Fort Wayne Rail-
road under the ninety -nine-year lease which
was approved at the annual meeting of the
c.. II. & D., which has been operating the
line for nearly two years.
1t is expected that the new electrical
switches and interlocking plant at the re-
lay station at East ST. Louis will be in
operation for the first time at noon to-
day The system has been one year in
building and is claimed to be the most
complete and elaborate in the country
AS soon as practicable President Ingalls,
expects 10 have the Big Four lines double
tracked between Cleveland and st. Louis,
Cleveland and Cincinnati and Cincinnati
and kankakee. The road can then handle
double its present traffic without any more
trouble than 1t handles its ordinary bust-
ness.
Pullman Company in the South with head
quarters at Jacksonville, Fla, was In the
city yesterday. He says everything indi-
Gates a big passenger season for the Flor
ida lines and the Pullman Company is ar
ranging ample accommodations for the
travel.
The Enid & Anadarko Railroad. with all
its stations, rolling stock and other prop
Island & Pacific Company and the deed.
which is signed by c. II. Warren, vice
president. and George H. Crosby, secretary
of the e. & A Railroad, was fled with Ter
ritorial Secretary Grimes of Oklahoma. The
consideration Of the sale was S3,6S2,OO
E. H. Harriman's 100000 cutoff across
Great Salt lake was completed on Wednes.
day, and Mr. Hartman and party or
Southern Pacific officials will come west
to test the wonderful fortymile bridge. Mr.:
Harriman's special train will be the first
TO run across Great Salt lake over the cut
off. and by Dec. 1 trains to and from San
Francisco and Chicago will run across the
bridge.
II. H Kingston, formerly traffic manager
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad, was in the
city yesterday and accompanied the trac-
ton line men in their trip over some of the
indianapolis lines. An impression prevails
that he has decided to take an official posi-
ton on the trolley lines. He was not in
Guided in the Lehigh Valley staff when the
change of policy adopted by e. b. Thomas
became effective.
The work of laying rails upon the Column
bia Falls CMont.) cutoff has begun and
will be pushed to an early finish as far
roadbed is completed for five miles out of
Columbia Falls. 1t is thought that by the
last of November at least the steel will
be laid as far as the new town and trains
run that far. This cutoff will connect the
Great Northern with the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
President Mellen, Of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford. proposes to introduce
Western ideas on that great system. He
is reported as saying that four and one
half hours between Boston and New York
is easy of accomplishment and that no ex-
press train between the cities should take
over five hours. He proposes complete re-
vision of the express service between Bos-
ton and New York and expects handsome
results In net earnings.
III. +. Houghton, assistant general super
intendent of the Big Four, has returned
from New York, whittier he went to attend
the annual meeting OF the American Rail-
way Association He says there were nine
ty-five delegates present and the meeting
was very interesting one. No radical
changes were made in any feature OF the
associations rules. He, with number of
9th 1AlA toe nCt VOL
train over the Pennsylvania and the Ches-
apeake & Ohio.
The motive power of the B. & o. pur-
chased for this year, 200 locomotives, has
been received. The last order for twenty
freight engines and five standard Atlantic
type passenger locomotives was received
this week. The high-speed Atlantic pas
senger engines weigh 177,00 pounds each.
The order included thirty modern switch
engines. The Baltimore e. Ohio now has
/ sos locomotives of all classes. The COM
pany has 5000 freight cars and 5000
steel cars of 10000 pounds capacity.
The report from Cincinnati that the c.,
H. & d. was to purchase the Chicago, Gin
cinnati & Louisville is denied by high
in authority on the road He said their re-
lations with the Monon were highly salts
factory; with their extension in connection
with the former Indiana, Decatur & West
ern, now the Springfield division of the c.,
III. & D., the road enters an era of prosper
he could see no reason why the c., HI. & d.
would wish to purchase the first mentioned
road.
The Cincinnati, Bluffton & Chicago Rail-
road Company. organized to build a line
from Union City to Huntington, Ind, by
way of Trindall and Bluffton. is said to
have met difficulty and will not build the
line. There now at Button firty car
loads of material, most of which is held
by the Lake Erie & Western for freight
charges, and on Sunday sixteen head of
horses and ten wagons arrived at Hunting
oil hold l1x-f l. 4 Oh. L-,,o
people. The laboring men on the line were
to be paid Oct. Is, but it is stated that
not a cent was disbursed; the graders quit
promptly and nothing has since been done.
The freight charges of the l.. f. & w.
amount to 5000. and several thousand dol
lars, 1t is stated, are due the workmen.
Call to County Commissioners.