The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-17


sylvania Company.
Charles Stone, general passenger agent of
the Louisville & Nashville road. returned
this week from his European trip, much
improved in health.
T. " Skinner Canadian Pacific Railway
representative in New York, has been APP
pointed assistant traffic manager, with
jurisdiction over Eastern agencies.
NJ. w. Mansfield, superintendent of the
Indianapolis q Fincennes road, returned
attend a meeting of the Pennsylvania Of
ficials.
Passenger Traffic Manager Nicholson, of
the Santa Fe lines. announces that the daily
service of the California Limited will be re-
sumed between Chicago and the Pacific
coast Nov %.
The new rOundhouse of the Big Four at
Springfield, o., is completed, and has been
put into use this week. The house is COM
pletely equipped, and has a capacity of
twenty locomotives.
Morris Williams. general manager of the
Pennsylvania Coal Company, has been
elected president, succeeding Gen. Isaac
Wistar, whose resignation was accepted at
the meeting on Thursday.
1t is stated that nearly four thousand
carloads of freight for Eastern markets are
lying along the lines of the Southern Pacific
in California, and officials have thus far
failed TO devise means of moving it.
The fact that the trunk lines east are not
passenger agents in New Orleans this week
is exciting comment, and the lines are &C.
cused of snubbing the G.. P. A. convention
The FL Paso Herald contains a cut of
the new $4,000 union depot TO be erected
at that point. This will be a great inn
provement in train service in FL Paso, as
any one knows who has made railway con-
nections at that point
A financial paper says when Jay Gould
died his estate was appraised at $72 000. 000
"A n leading
were at low figures, and 1T is said that these
properties have so improved that the Gould
fortune now exceeds $2O0,000,OO0.
A circular announces the appointment of
X. n. Place as superintendent of the Grand
Rapids district of the Pere Marquette. with
headquarters at Grand Rapids, Mich, vice
c. NJ. Hunt, resigned. w. II. Stillwell is TO
succeed Mr. Place as Superintendent of the
Saginaw district.
The announcement that the Pacific Ex-
press Company is to go into Cincinnati
over the line of the new Chicago, Cincin-
natl & Louisville road is taken as an in
dication that the Goulds are the hackers
of this mysterious new road-despite the
denials that have been made.
The Detroit Southern road Thursday be-
gan the use of the terminals of the Michi-
gan Central at Detroit instead of those OF
the Pere Marquette, which means more
prompt delivery Of coal from the Ohio coal
fields, cutting off S. switching and access
to all principal manufacturing plants.
Charles Mordeaugh, travelling passenger
agent Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
road, was in the city yesterday. He states
that their southwestern limited trains
have commenced running over the cutoff
to Kansas City, which enables his line
to make as fast time as any of its COM
petitors.
The official statement of General Man.
ager Marmout of the Indiana Car-service
Bureau, shows that In the month of Sep
TENDER there were handled by the associa-
a
tention of 1.S6 days, 81 per cent. of which
due to the delays on the part of the
road in delivering cars to be unloaded.
The Wabash has received three of its
new massive passenger locomotives, an en-
CINE which is declared by the Wabash
people to be the most perfect locomotive
ever built. Three more of the same type
a a to be f ne next week completing
be placed In service on the Wabash main
line.
Arrangements are about perfected which
insure the construction of big union sta
tion at Cincinnati, TO be occupied by the
Pennsylvania, the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton, the Louisville q Nashville and the
Norfolk G. Western lines. Arrangements are
being made for terminal facilities for all
the leading railway systems that enter that
city.
c. L. Hillary, assistant general passenger
agent of the Big Four, who has just re-
turned from an extended Southwestern trip,
has decided to accept the offer of general
manager of passenger transportation de-
partment at the st. Louis exposition. 1t is
understood that he will not give up his po-
sition with the Big Four, and on the close
Of the exposition will return to its service.
The regular meeting of the operating Of
ficials of the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg was held Thursday at Pitts
burg under the chairmanship of General
Manager G. l.. Peck. The meeting was
one of the family gatherings that take
place at regular intervals i'm the depart
ments of the Pennsylvania and solves any
particular problem that arises from time
to time.
The annual track inspection of the Penn
sylvania lines west will take place next
week. About 300 of the operating officials
and engineering department will leave
Pittsburg on Tuesday. The inspection will
take five days and will include both the
Southwest and Northwest systems The
prizes for excellence of road work are
awarded on the basis Of inspection made
by this party.
Chief Engineer Brown, of the PENINSULA
MIA Railroad, on Thursday awarded the con-
tract for the erection Of the new shops at
Fairview, in connection with large classifi-
cation yards now in course of construction
by the Northern Central Railway at that
point. The 100000 of new capital which
the stockholders Of the Northern Central
will be asked to authorize will be used in
making these improvements.
The October number of the Book of the
Royal Blue" published by the passenger
department of the Baltimore & Ohio, begins
its seventh volume 1t contains an advance
sketch of the new railway station at Wash
ington, and conveys the first ideas of what
this magnificent structure Is to be. 1t also
contains much valuable information con-
corning the progress of preparations for the
worlds fair at ST. Louis.
President Ingalls,, of the Big Four lines,
yesterday sent a telegram to General SUI
perintendent Van Wrinkle complim anting
him on the excellent manner in which the
roads were handling their heavy traffic at
the present time. An idea of the business
the road is doing is shown by the fact
that on Thursday there were handled on
the system 6,329 loaded cars, and seldom
is there a day that the movement is less
than 5000 cars.
Under the new systems passengers in
Western railroad territory will have the
choice of three styles of milea ge-the new
2,000-mile book, which will sell at $50, the
bearer signing slips each time mileage is
detached, and receiving back $40 when
used; the present credential system which
brings the cost to cents a mile, and a
4,OO0-mle book, good on all roads, similar
to the form of the 2,000-mile book The new
2,000-mile ticket will be good in Minnesota,
Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin, the northern
portion of Michigan, South Dakota, North
Dakota and northern Missouri.
A railroad official in speaking of the tee-
grams that are being sent over the country
Der OF railroad employees is being made,
says the stories are grossly exaggerated
and would work serious trouble were they
in any case as bad represented. So far
as Western lines are concerned the re-
auctions are no more than are usual in
the fall of the year, when repairs to
roadbeds are completed So far as shop
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