The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-10-30

templates side trips and entertainments
that will consume sixty days
Offices of the Chicago & Rock Island,
the st. Louis * San Francisco and the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois in thirty lead
ing cities and at $50 smaller points. are
to be consolidated and all the business
transacted from one joint office under
the management of the Rock Island. 1t
is claimed that the consolidation effects
a saving Of nearly s1,000.000
The Chicago Great Western service to
Omaha Will begin on Sunday. passenger
can then reach Denver from Minneapolis
with the Rock Island train which leaves
Omaha five minutes after the Great West
ern limited arrives at that point: The
Great Western Will put on two through
trains, one day and one night train.
AS a result of the visit OF James McCrea,
president of the Pennsylvania and of the
Vandalia, and Vice President Wood, last
week, to Terre Haute, 1t has been decided
to lay new main track south of all the
present tracks in the yards at Terre Haute.
distance of four miles east, which Will
greatly simplify matters and give addl-
tional room much needed in these yards.
An official of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road is authority for the statement that
the road will shortly inaugurate system
Of retrenchment and will in a few days is
sue circular laying off many men, the
force being cut down in every division. The
reason for this move is that the net profits
of the month of September this year were
500, 4SS less than for the same month last
year.
w. w Foulkrod president of the Philadel-
phia Trades League, has received letter
from Joseph Ramsey, jr, president of the
Wabash Railroad Company, in answer to
the resolutions sent him inviting the
Wabash Company to establish a terminal
in Philadelphia. Mr.. Foulkrod did not make
public the text of the communication, but
said the letter was very encouraging to
the trades league.
w. F. Burrows. superintendent of the
Union Depot of the Sante Fe at Atchison
for twenty-five years, has resigned, and
will return to his former home in Massa-
chusetts- Mr.. Burrows has been in the
West forty years, and was a conductor on
the Hannibal & St Joseph during the war.
1t is stated that G. NJ. Rathbone, late SUI
perintendent of the Missouri Pacific, will
succeed him at Atchison.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton's
application for membership in the Joint
Passenger Committee has been accepted.
| The committee is made up principally
from lines running from Chicago, New
York and st. Louis. Small lines are not
admitted unless they part of the New
! York-Chicago lines. The c., II. & d.
takes the position that. in connection with
| the Il. & o., it is through line.
Passenger men of all the important lines
are visiting st. Louis to examine conditions
there and be able to better report to their
patrons who intend to visit the st. Louis
over, except to California and to the
| South, and this gives passenger officials
| time TO investigate the conditions at st.
| Louis, that they may be we'll informed re-
garding the conveniences for handling
| traffic.
The new station of the Wabash at the
| ST. Louis worlds fair will have 800 feet
| frontage on n grand entrance plaza 400
by zoo feet, which the exposition will main
tain at the main gateway. The Wabash
main line will consist of four tracks for
the entire distance along the north front
of the exposition and through trains will
stop at a platform along the main track
on the north side Of the leased track and
| In immediate proximity to the world s
fair station.
w. w. Atterbury, general manager Of the
| Pennsylvania railroad, is expected within a
few days to issue a circular to the train
men east OF Pittsburg stating the result of
| committee. It was learned that the prin-
| cipal demand of the men, that for shorter
work day. was refused. A number of minor
| concessions were granted The men are said
4 to be satisfied and IL is asserted there was
never any danger or strike.
Warren ]. Lynch, general passenger
agent of the Big Four system. yesterday is
sued the following: In view of the inter-
ests of this company centering in st. Louis
| during the worlds fair the headquarters OF
w. p. Deppe, chief assistant general pas
senger agent will be transferred to St
Louis. effective at once. c. L. Hillary, as
sistant general passenger agent, having re-
signed to become traffic manager of the
worlds fair at st. Louis. all employees here
tofore reporting to Hillary will report to
Deppe."
There has been a decided rivalry between
! the engineers the Chattanooga division
of the Southern Railway and those on the
Western Atlantic Railway for years
| caused by the close races that occur fire.
/ quently near Dalton, where the tracks
Of the two roads parallel each other for
! several miles, and although there is an
order on both roads to prevent racing be-
tween the passenger trains, it has little
effect the engineers. speed is often
| attained which causes alarm on the part
| Of passengers.
Kuhn. Loeb e. Co., of New York, have
purchased $10,000.00O Long Island Railroad
Company forty-six-year refunding mort
| gage 4 per cent gold bonds. guaranteed
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
and sl0000000 Philadelphia, Baltimore &
| Washington Railroad Company forty-year
! first mortgage per cent. gold bonds. The
$l0000,000 of Long Island securities are par,
of an issue of s45, 900 of these bonds
| the remainder of which is reserved to re-
tire the unified bonds of the system The
$40 5000 Philadelphia, Baltimore q Wash
ington bonds part of an issue of S20,-
100000 first mortgage 4 per cent bonds
secured on the entire railroad property
of the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washing.
ton. The entire bonded debt of this road
has been s12, 10000 in the shape of single
obligations not secured by mortgage. The
property, therefore, is not incumbered The
proceeds of the new Long Island bonds
will be used in financing and paying fol
extensive improvements.