The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-21


Big Four between Pittsburg and ST. Louis.
The winner will receive $50.
The Southern Indiana reports for January
gross earnings @1,l@, an increase over Tue
corresponding month of 1903 of S25,O60 Inc
net earnings were $3l,557. a decrease as
compared with last year OF S2,f02
w. ID. Holiday. formerly assistant gem
eral passenger agent of the Big Four now
holding the same position with the Wabash:
has been elected second vice president OF
the Traffic Club, of Pittsburg.
The announcement is made that julius
krauttchsnitt is soon to relinquish the
position of general manager of the Southern
Pacific to become director of the Hartman
lines with headquarters i'll Chicago.
j. Il. Connors, late superintendent of the
Scioto division of the Norfolk western,
will on April become general agent of the
Pocahontas Coal Company, with headquar-
tiers at Dayton, o., at handsome salary.
The Chesapeake & Ohio has contracted,
in connection with the Big Four, for twen-
ty-one passenger carloads OF Beers from
Newport to st. Louis. The party will go
from Cincinnati to st. Louis over the Big
Four
c. F. Casper has been promoted from
division operator to trainmaster OF the
Ohio river division of the Baltimore d
Ohio, vice G. III. Bradford, assigned to
other duties. /. d. Moore succeeds Mr.
Casper as division operator.
Passenger conductors on the New York
Central have asked General Manager Smith
to allow them to wear their blue vests all
the year A rule prevails that white linen
vests be substituted for the blue broad
cloth during the summer months.
Pennsylvania Railroad officials emphat-
ically deny the statement that the COM
pany has begun the reduction of the wages
of employees and have issued an order to cut
the wages of track men from 10 to 20 per
cent. No such action has been thought or.
A. d. Shindler, superintendent of the val
ley division of TIE Santa Fe. has been APP
pointed manager of the California North
western. The position is new one. II. c.
Whiting, who had the title of general man.
ager of the road. is to retire. He has been
with this road for Twenty-Five years.
1t is announced that d. II. Caldwell, who
recently resigned trainmaster of the
Nickel-plate, will to-day become chief dis
patcher of that road, with headquarters at
Fort Wayne. ]. +. Pope, who has been one
of the trick dispatchers, will take three
months vacation and go to California.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana has de-
cided to build a number of new depots
on the southern division. One will be built
at Hunterstown and another at Vicksburg.
Work on these two buildings will begin as
soon as the weather is favorable. Probably
new stations will be erected at a number
of other points on the line
The Lehigh Railroad directors, at their
meeting last week, took no action toward
the new issue of bonds under mort
gage L. Il. Thomas, president, said: IF
you can bring me man with ten fif
teen million dollars. in his clothes, who
wants TO Duy valley DOHuS, L Will
get him into a room, lock the door and
see he does rot get away until complete
6eal with him..
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will
to-day inaugurate, through fast freight
| trains between Toledo, Chattanooga and
other Southern cities. The cars will be
routed via the Queen & Crescent, with
which the c., III. * ID. has maintained traf-
| fic arrangements for many years. Cars
will be loaded for Georgia. Alabama, Flor
| ida, Mississippi and Louisiana, and be
moved on the quickest time.
| Superintendent Ferritor, of the Wabash,
| accompanied by subordinate officials, was in
Fort Wayne on Saturday, where a number
| of changes had been under consideration
! for some time, which, when made, will
| improve the service OF that division. The
entire party went from Fort Wayne to To-
| ledo, after inspecting that line for the pur-
! pose of selecting point between New
| Haven and Toledo, at which TO establish
/ a block signal station.
ST. Louis passenger official says it
| was mistaken notion that the Wabash
| has any advantage over other lines in the
| East on worlds fair business. All pas
| sengers from the East must first go to the
| Union Station where they Will have their
| choice of steam road or four electric lines
| to get to the worlds fair grounds. The
| Wabash road to the fair grounds is en-
tirely independent of the Wabash proper
| and no road has any advantage over the
other, all being on the same basis.
The determination of the Big Four and
! the pennsylvania 10 continue SUNDAY eX-
/ cursion rates between the points heretofore
used is assured. The Sunday excursions
| are very pCuar and are great revenue pro-
! ducers during the summer months, but
! General Passenger Agent Lynch, of the
! Big Four is opposed TO increasing the
/ fare, as il is thought this would deter
| many from taking advantage of the ex-
cursions. The season will probably open
| the latter part of May, and doubtless at
the same rates in all directions.
One of the towns which profted from
railroad expenditures for improvements
last year was Scranton, Pa. During the
year a million dollars was spent by the
| Lackawanna Railroad in and around that
city This road is building immense car
| shops at Keyser Valley and thus far al
| most 5000 has been expended on them
and the work is not complete. These shops,
when finished will be among the most
| efficient in the country and will greatly
facilitate and cheaper the work of repair
| ing the company's freight equipment. They
| will also enable it to construct some of its
new equipment on a favorable basis of
| cost Large sums remain to be spent in
| the purchase of expensive machinery re-
auired for such shops In addition TO what
| was spent the shops the Lackawanna S
| coal department devoted $530Oo0 to i'm
| provements and new work on it's collieries
! around Scranton.