The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-23

after serving the company forty-five years.
The Vanderbilt lines will lengthen the
time OF their fast freights between New
York and Chicago to sixty-four hours.
The Toledo. st. Louis & Western has es-
| tablished a passenger agency at Dallas.
Tex, and placed H. l. Mcleod in charge.
Harry Graybill, traffic manager of the
| Belt road and Union Stockyards. has re-
turned from an extended and successful
southwestern trip.
Charles H. Ryan: jr,. has been appointed
| Pittsburg. He is but twenty-three years of
| age and quite a successful railroad man.
M. NJ. Hickey. an old-time Indianapolis
railroader, now superintendent OF the
Southern Railway, with headquarters at
| city.
The Big Four will to-day carry a de-
| tachment OF 1C3 soldiers en- route from CO.
| lumbus to Wilcox, Ariz. The Big Four
will turn them over to the Wabash at St.
| Louis.
Morgan F. Hooker, the Oldest locomotive
engineer in time of service on the Chicago,
burlington Quincy, who was in Salem,
ore, last week visiting relatives, died very
suddenly.
Joseph Griffin has been appointed agent
OF the Hooking Valley road at Radno. o..
He is but eighteen years of age. but is an
road matters. He is said to be the young
est agent in Ohio.
j. J. Turner, third vice president of the
Pennsylvania, E. T. White, superintendent
Of the eastern division of the Pittsburg,
superintendent OF the Pittsburg division or
the Panhadle. went to Philadelphia on Sat-
urday-
John E. Bellaine, of the Alaska Central.
who has been East ordering equipment
for his road, in speaking Of railroad mat
tiers in Alaska said this years business
will exceed that of all previous years. and
the road will be extended 40 miles, from
Seward to Atwood.
usually heavy and is proving of consider
able benefit to the Grand Rapids & In
diana. Most of the immigrants are Swedes,
and seem to be a thrifty class Of people.
They go at once to Muskegon and other
points in Michigan to locate.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will
to-day inaugurate refrigerator pickup car
service on its local freight trains, stopping
at each station and receiving such freight
as Will perish If not kept cool. 1t is ex-
pected the plan will become more popular
than ever with shippers on the line.
John II Grace, who has been general
Great Northern I'm Philadelphia for ten
years, has been promoted to general freight
agent in charge of Chicago territory, and
will assume the duties of the position to-
day. Mr.. Grace is succeeded at Philadel-
phia by H. N. Noble.
The report is current among trainmen
on the Pennsylvania that the company
Will restore its twenty-hour train between
the same date will shorten the running
time to st. Louis. This train was taken
off on account of the heavy freight traffic
and congestion of business.
The big double-track steel bridge the
Panhandle is building over Whitewater at
Richmond, Ind, will be completed within
thirty days, and will be the finest bridge
in the eastern part of the State. The
structure will be 200 feet long and eighty
feet above the water. AS soon as COM
pleted the company will place its new
heavy passenger engines in service between
indianapolis and Columbus.
The work of construction of the belt road
to be built by the Southern Indiana road
at Terre Haute will begin this week. Agents
have been buying mules in the southern
part of the State for the teams, and the
scrapers have been shipped here from Bed
ford. The road will be eight miles long,
but with the switches ten miles of track
will be laid. 1t is expected to have the road
completed within six months.
run the Bee-line division of the Big
Four. Passenger Train 49, on its fast
time, last Thursday, made up one hour
and sixteen minutes in running from Belle
fontaine to indianapolis, a distance of 1f3
miles, arriving schedule. AS the engi-
neers become better informed to the
power and speed of the company's Atlantic
type of locomotives they are getting Won
derful work out OF them.
There Is disagreement as to the date to
run the seashOre excursions this season.
Some of the head officials contend that the
amount of traffic to the seashore does not
justify many cheap excursions and that
they injure regular business. The record of
past seasons shows they are not success
full until after the public schools close for
the summer Consequently those run in
June are poorly patronized and carry pas
sengers who would otherwise pay full fare.
Oran Root, jr.. within eight years has
worked up from clerkship TO the general
manager of the Metropolitan Street-railway
Company, New York. He has over 400 miles
of road to look after and $4,000 men to di-
rect. His appointment has just been an
nounced and he Is said to be the youngest
railway manager in the world, his age be-
ing twenty-nine. Mr.. Root is graduate
of Hamilton College. and worked as a
cable car gripman, then a motorman,
then as a conductor, and thus ne gained an
insight into the operation of the road.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Cleveland National Railway Com
pany, held at Cleveland. reelected the old
elected James McCrea president The
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus has an in
teresting history. 1t was once intended to
form a line projected by the late Calvin s.
Brice, in connection with the Pittsburg &
Western. the Buffalo. Rochester & Pitts
burg and the Northern Ohio, with the Phil
East The death of Mr.. Brice brought
things to a standstill and the road fell into
the hands of the Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania has under contempla-
ton cutting its running time between
Washington and New York to four
hours, which means a saving of one
and one-half hours each way between
these two cities. The faster time will
be put in effect on the completion
of the New York and Washington ter
minals, work on both of which is to be be-
NJ -
ton. This announcement is the first off,
cial information from the company as to
the practical results of the construction Of
it's new terminals so far they are to ben
eft the travelling public. The estimates
show that before the work is completed
there will have been spent in Washington
alone $13, 723, 476. The company expects that
when its new time table becomes effective
travel between Washington and New York
will increase at least so per cent.