The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-05

lines east, was presented by the thirteen
division superintendent under him with
beautiful loving cup.
+. W. Everett assistant superintendent OF
the western division of the New York Cen
trail, has been promoted to superintendent
succeeding j. Il. Bradfeld. promoted TO as
sistant general superintendent.
c.. +. Henderson, general manager of
delphia & Reading Railroad, insists that
coal lie sold at the old prices. The Reading
has all its thirty-one collieries at work.
The proposed changes of the New York
Central at the Grand Central depot In
New York Will cost the company $25,000,OO,
and for the first time the company will be
made 10 pay for rights obtained from that
city.
John F. Kinsman. of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern. will go to Baltimore as
assistant chief engineer of the entire sys-
tenn. 1t is stated that new position will
be created for p II. Erwin, who holds the
same title at present.
Last week the Rogers locomotive works
delivered TO the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy the first on a contract for new pas
senger engines. The engines will weigh
eiShty-one tons and be able to maintain
speed of eighty miles per hour.
The report of ]. r. Cavanagh. car serv-
Ice superintendent of the Big Four. shows
that in 1902 there were handled on the sys-
tenn 1923 $50 loaded cars, averaging little
over eighteen tons per car and the heaviest
business in the history of the Big Four.
Wabash engineers have begun a survey
Tor the connecting route through Toledo De-
tween the Wabash and the Wheeling q
Lake Erie and Ann Arbor. The new line
will give. the Wabash an independent bridge
across the river and entrance to the Lake
Shores depot at Toledo.
On Friday the Empire State Express made
the fastest run on record, covering the dis
tance of eighty-one miles from Syracuse
to Rochester in seventy minutes: making
the run in one hour and twenty-for min
utes. clipping fourteen minutes from the
record between those points.
General Manager Murphy, of the ST. Jo-
seph d Grand Island Railway, has placed
for his road an order for seven new loco
| This is in addition to other orders for i'm
| proving the operating service. made neces-
sary by rapid increase in business.
The contractors who have the building
of the new double track of the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne & Chicago from Cressen, O..
to Chicago, are at work on the grade with
| large force of men. From 500 to 1000
men will be employed for at least one
| year on the contract A considerable por-
ton. of the distance is already double
| track.
The freight movement over the Penn
sylvania in 1902 was the greatest in tom
| age In the history of the company. More
| cars were moved than ever before, and
| the tonnage was nearly doubled. From
Jan. to Dec. 81 1,929,45S cars were moved
| over the middle division, which is the test
| division of the road.
| w. r. Mckay has been appointed assist
| ant real-estate agent of both the North
west and Southwest systems of the Penn
| sylvania- Announcement is also made OF
| the appointment of b. b. Summerville as
| chief assistant engineer of the Southwest
| system, and +. c. Ericsson as chief assist
| ant engineer of the Northwest system. Both
have been for number of years in the
engineering department of the lines west
of Pittsburg.
The American Light and Power Company
| which controls the Observation-Disclosures pro-
| cesses for making fuel and fixed Illuminating
gas from crude oil. promises to be a good
| thing in the near future for the railroads
| The company claims that in a tank which
| can be readily accommodated in locomotive
tenders, enough fuel gas of a fixed perma-
| nent quality can be compressed and stored
to run one of the largest types of freight
| or passenger locomotives at continuous
| high speed for ten or more hours, and at q
cost one-third that Of coal in the present
| practice.
Pass Railway Company adopted a pension
| system for its employees. All officers and
| employees who have attained the age OF
seventy-five years were retired on pension
| and such of them as have been twenty
years in the service and wish to retire car
do so on pension. Engineers, firemen, con-
ductors, brakemen, flagmen, train baggage
| men, yardmasters, bridge foremen, section
| foremen and roadmasters who have at.
tanned the age OF sixty-five years may bt
retired on pensions. Hereafter no person
| inexperienced III railway WOrk or over
thirty-five years of age will be taken into
the service of the company.
Andrew Cameron, an old resident of Sc
| Vile, o., is the oldest man in railroad serv
| ice in Ohio. When seventeen years old h
was foreman of a gang of men working OF
| a railroad in Scotland. He came to Amer
lea In 1854 and began work on the Grea
| Western of Canada as foreman of con
| struction. In 1865 he came to the United
| States where he was made foreman of
gang of men in the construction of tn
Atlantic & Great Western. In 1875 he moved
II Seville and entered the service of tn
Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling. He 4
now eighty-one years old. but unable to d,
heavy work and has accepted position a.
fiagman at a street crossing.