The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-26

record that division is making as to earn
ings. and the indications are that through
the winter the traffic will be heavy. He
states that within five years the earnings
of that division have doubled in amount.
The Illinois secretary of state yesterday
licensed the incorporation of the Decatur
Railway and Light Company of Decatur.
The object of the company is the opera
power plants. The capital stock is 81, 800, 900.
The incorDorators are W. b. Mckinley
Charles lilly and y. R. Stephens, of Cham
paign.
On Tuesday the Twentieth Century Lin
tied on the Big Four made its fastest run
between Columbus and Cleveland in the
history of the road. covering the les miles
in IA minutes. making a five-minute stop az
to Limedale was covered in ffty-five min
utes. The train was hauled by one OF the
new Atlantic type engines.
1t is stated the lake lines will quit taking
freight Dec. l. Rail shipments will then
show marked increase. There is not a
road east of Buffalo which could not supply
cars to relieve the grain situation there II
1t so desired. but the lines between Buf1alo
lines of traffic which pays better that they
are holding off the grain movement.
A telegram from Pittsburg says that If
Mayor Wyman, of Allegheny, signs the or
ell the Baltimore & Ohio will succeed in its
effort to keep the Wabash out of Allie
gheny The ordinance, 1t is said, gives the
b. & o. the privilege asked for by the Wa
bash and denies the request of the latter
for right OF way and franchise through that
city.
The Southern roads are calling loudly on
the Northern lines for cars to move cotton,
lumber, pig iron and phosphate, and ship
ments of coke from Birmingham, Ala, to
Northern States have assumed large proper
tions. There is a shortage of cars in all
these lines of traffic despite the fact that
equipment of Southern and Northern lines
during the past summer.
On Tuesday there was the heaviest freight
movement over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
& Chicago in the history of the Western
division. The movement included 1e6
freight trains hauling 1856 freight cars and
was handled in twenty-four hours. Count
ing the number of passenger trains on that
division brings the total number up to 40.
The road Is now in excellent condition, all
congestion having been removed.
d. s. OBrien, one of the best known tele-
graph operators on the western division or
the Pennsylvania, died at Long Cliff Asy-
lum for Insane, at Logansport, Ind, on
Tuesday. He was taken to that institution
about year ago and gradually declined
Of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago at
Plymouth. The remains were taken to
Grovertown. his former home, for burial.
A bulletin was posted on Wednesday in
the Pennsylvania shops at Fort Wayne in
would be put in each day except Thursday
and Saturday until further orders. The &C
ton was taken by the officials because OF
the great amount of work on hand and be-
cause the appropriation for the present
month will permit of the additional expen-
diture. The order will affect chiefly the To-
connective repair department.
A railroad official in commenting on the
robbery at the Big Four uptown ticket
Office, said that too much money Is handled
at the uptown Offices for the protection af-
forded. The Pennsylvania, he said, had the
right plan; no person Is admitted behind
the ticket counter and the tickets and
money drawer are so far removed from the
front that person must have Key TO
gain entrance to anything valuable. The
arrangement is the work of George Rech.
the veteran ticket agent.
Charges of commission payments to
steamship agents by railroads operating
all sides, but there is the usual lack of EVIL
dence in all cases and nobody believes any
thing will come of the allegation. Despite
the fact that there Is plenty of business
roads running east from Chicago are said to
be more Or less involved In the practice,
and each one Is afraid to prefer specific
charges against another for fear of getting
itself into trouble.
Lewis ]. Cox. general manager of the
Terre Haute plant of the American Car and
Foundry Company, will retire from that
position on Jan. /. Mr. Cox has taken q
favorable time to sever his connection with
the company, as it has no important con-
tracts on hand. Mr.. Cox has been connected
with the car works twenty years. He was
born in Terre Haute in 1857, is a business
man of marked ability and through his in
domitable energy has been the principal
factor in bringing the Terre Haute car
works to its present efficiency.
]. r. Cavanagh, superintendent of car
service of the Big Four, who is interested in
the new car works projected at Vincennes
says the prospects are good for the estab-
lishment of works that will give employ
ment to 500 men. A number of railroad men
are interested in the enterprise, which in
sures the new works getting their share OF
construction of new equipment. and as Vim
cennes is located on the Big Four it would
bring that company a good deal Of business
in the way of hauling lumber, iron and other
material used in the construction of cars.