The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-28


and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois.
The annual meeting of the Pittsburg &
Lake Erie Railroad Company was held on
Tuesday. and the old officers and directors
reelected The report showed gross earn
ings of SIC, 09S, 1868, an increase of 25.4s per
cent, and net earnings of s., 90, 47l.56 an in
crease of Is per cent
f. II. Tristram. assistant general pas
senger agent OF the Wabash at Pittsburg,
left on Monday for Pasadena, Cal. He is
half owner in a large ostrich farm at that
place and annually makes visit at this
season of the year. In addition he owns
very fine orange grove at Riverside.
A heavy immigration from Sweden and
Norway is announced for this spring and
summer to the great Southwest. In the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1902, $4,000 set
tiers came to this country of these nation
alities and il is expected that double that
number will come during the present year.
fast run was made last Saturday on
the Cincinnati. Indianapolis & Western by
the RoachdaIe express between Indianapo-
lis and Roachdale, the thirty-six miles be-
ing covered in thirty-fve minutes. The
train was hauled by an Indiana, Decatur &
Western Grant engine, built In 1880, and
consisted of three cars. one of them the
private car of President McDoel.
F. w. Whitaker freight traffic manager
of the Chesapeake & Ohio. and Thornton
Lewis, general freight agent OF the {. d
o.. are making a trip over the territory
from which the G. IL o. draws its traffic.
Mr. Whitaker states that the c. & o. Is
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business and is beginning to move coal both
west and east-bound in large quantities.
| BY Feb. LIST the Brooks Locomotive
works will have finished fifty-three loco
| motives since January first, the largest
number in the history of the plant for one
month. The works now has on hands con-
tracts to keep it busy for the year There
pany. The Baldwin Locomotive works now
have over 1900 men. and its output is $50
engines per month.
| 1t is reported in Pittsburg railroad circles
that a movement is on foot to draw the
Gould Wabash lines into the Community
| OF Interest arrangement of the Pennsyl-
vania, the Reading and the Baltimore d
Ohio: The Gould engineers have prac-
| tically surveyed for a connecting line be-
| tween the West Virginia Central and the
| Western Maryland railroad from Cherry
Run, West Virginia, TO Cumberland, Nd.
| r. III. Wallace. assistant general pas
| senger agent of the Erie at Cleveland, and
| II. c. Holabird. general agent of the Erie
| at Cincinnati, are in the city and will re-
main to-day. 1t is probable that with the
| taking effect of the Fries spring time table
| through sleeping car will be put on be-
| tween Indianapolis and New York. 1t is
| thought that the Erie, with its differentials,
| would draw good business from this Sec
! ton.
w. w. Richardson, district passenger
| agent of the Pennsylvania at this point,
! when absent last week visited Philadelphia
| and New York. He states that one can
hardly conceive of the volume of business
the Pennsylvania road proper is handling.
| Between Harrisburg and New York, where
are almost constantly moving in both d-
rections, and meantime the passenger bust
ness of the lines is very heavy.
| A Pennsylvania official says the conges-
ton of freight is now such as Pittsburg
has never experienced and is a result of the
drastic remedy applied by the Pennsylvania
railroad and lines west last week to move
coal and coke. The Pittsburg, FIT. Wayne
A. hn bod hon tor ri
of the coal movement to the northwest,
and its capacity was overtaxed. The
Sheridan yards on the Panhandle are also
in pretty bad shape, while those east of
Pittsburg are overtaxed with coal.
The Pennsylvania has recently been ac-
curing valuable property in Cincinnati
buying in close proximity to that which is
owned by the Miami and Erie Transpor-
tation Company. suit is now pending to
show what corporation, if any, is back OF
the Miami company, and it is believed
the pennsylvania will be shown to be in
control. A prominent official of the COM
pany says il has recently acquired proper
ties at less than S3,O00.000 which will within
a few years be figured as SIS, 100000 assets
Arrangements have been effected be-
tween the Lackawanna Railroad and the
Pullman company within the past few
days. the result of which will be to give tc
| the LJckaWanna an entirely new equip
Nothing has occurred since the change in
management OF the road which illustrates
| more IOTClDly imam tnlS the progressive
spirit of those now in control of the LacKa
wanna's passenger traffic. The new car:
are of the most modern design, both i'm CON
struction and interior fittings, and no ex
pense will be spared in making then
among the most luxurious ever turned ou
by the Pullman Company.
w: III. Drayton, jr, division freight agen
OF the Pennsylvania, on Monday informed
President c. C. McGill, of the Baltimor,
Chamber of Commerce, that the Pennsyl
vania would at once take steps to hurry
grain which is in transit to the seaboard
. President Murray, of the Baltimore & Ohio
gives assurance TO the committee that ev
cry effort will be made to bring i'm tn
. grain now in transit, and now that thes
two trunk lines have assured their coop
GRAFTON ii is expected that delayed grain
will soon be forwarded 1t is estimates
all corn, is in transit on the Baltimore 4
Ohio and the Pennsylvania.
Henry c. Rouse, president of the Mis-
souri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, has ar
: ! rived at Berlin from St. Petersburg havin
made mdwinter trip from Picking I
= Moscow in the record time of seventee
4 days and nineteen hours over the Easter
: | Chinese and Trans-sberian Railroads. Hi
| journey was accelerated by complimentary
, special trains through Manchuria and tn
, | other eastern provinces. Mr.. Rouse wa
: | favorably impressed by Russian achieve
. | ments He believes in the ultimate com
. mercial value of the Trans-siberian Rail
road as well as in its immediate strategi
use. Mr.. Rouse found the railroad we
constructed and admirably conducte
| throughout, even on the lines recentl
$ | opeled. Though ii is still in the hands a
s sible to soon make all rail journe
from Berlin to the Pacific coast in less tina
e fortnight.