The Indianapolis journal., 1904-05-18
Answer to Yesterdays Puzzle

to Lancaster, o., is sixty-nine miles. Mr.
Peters says that to meet such competition
it is necessary 10 Introduce electric nnes'
they can be operated cheaper than
steam road.
Citizens of Canton, O., are attempting TO
raise $4,000, having been given to under
building of the Wheeling * Lake Erie
shops at that point The shops were de-
stroyed by fire last winter. and the com
pany has been searching since that time
for a suitable location for new buildings.
The shops employed three hundred men,
and prospects are favorable for raising
the funds required.
The Central Freight Association has de-
cided to maintain divisional rates on lake
and rail business in the hands OF the
steamship companies prior TO the cancella-
tion of the lake and rail rate announced Tor
May Z, and the railroads Will handle al
the tonnage so accumulated up 10 May 20.
A report is current that the trunk lines
will make an all-rail rate, however, the
same as the rail and lake rates, but TINS
report is not confirmed.
In accordance with the usual summer
practice, the Pennsylvania has sent elght
engineers, who were in service during the
unusual rush of the wipter, back to hring:
This is In accordance with the custom OF
all the roads, and when extra engineers are
needed these men will again be given en-
gines. The setting back of the men does
not mean that freight business is unusually
light, but that with favorable weather
the tonnage of trains has been Increased,
and there is less demand for engineers.
Inspired by results accomplished by the
crusade against the scalpers at Chicago.
St. Louis and Buffalo, passenger represent
atives at Cleveland and Detroit are taxing
action similar to that of passenger ofnclals
in Chicago and st. Louis, and are about
to institute proceedings against brokers.
asking for injunctions TO restrain them
from handling St. Louis exposition tickets.
The Detroit passenger men are more luke
warm than are the Cleveland officials,
who have plunged into the fight with a
vim that augurs success. Unless scaiping
iC for nod out in
the roads may have to withdraw the stop
over privileges on st. Louis exposition
tickets
c. c. Waldo, general manager of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, and r. b.
Turner general superintendent, were in
the city yesterday, the former to attend
pany and the latter to look after matters
in connection with the terminals at Indian
apolis. The company must have additional
room to handle its increasing traffic and
hopes to purchase in the near future
grounds in the eastern part of the city for
additional yards and to erect new
roundhouse and machine shops.
l.. F. Loree, president of the controlling
company of the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific and ST. Louis q San Francisco,
who returned on Sunday from a trip over
the lines, states that he found everything
satisfactory. The new rolling stock
Gently purchased is arriving and being put
into use, and the company is contemplating
further improving the equipment, the
roadway and stations, purDosing TO make
Mr.. Loree neither affirms nor denies the
report of extending the Rock Island system
to the Pacific coast.
George j. Gould has an extraordinary
capacity for work. and 1t is said can ac-
complish more work in a given time than
any other financier, simply because of his
grasp of details and wonderfully accurate
memory. He is thoroughly informed
that he can, and generality does, make his
decisions seemingly on impulse. He seldom
is in his office more than three days a
10 o'clock he is ready 10 go through with
astonishing amount of business. He
proceeds fast as three secretaries can
follow, and then is ready to discuss ques-
tions of policy with associate railroad
officials. BY following this course Mr..
Gould has increased his six thousand miles
of railroad, left by his father, in a dozen
years to sixteen thousand, and doubled his
personal wealth.
1t is twenty years since the shops of the
| Panhandle in the eastern part of the city
were completed and the old shops on Lib
erty street abandoned Since then there
has been a marked change in the officials
| of the road William Swanson, recently
deceased, was master mechanic at that
time; James McCrea was then general
manager of the Pennsylvania lines west
of Pittsburg. with headquarters at Colum-
| bus. He is now first vice president of the
Pennsylvania; Joseph Wood was then su-
perintendent of motive power of the shops
| at Fort Wayne, and is now second vice
| president; j. j. Turner was then superin-
| tendent of the Indianapolis & Vincennes,
| Pennsylvania. At that time L. F. Loree,
| now president of the controlling company
| of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and
| st. Louis q San Francisco, was engineer
| of maintenance of way of the Indianapolis
| & Vincennes under Mr.. Turner. John F..
Miller, then superintendent of the Pan
| handle is now vice president of the Cleve-
| land Akron & Columbus, and Z. w. Nc
| Kenna formerly superintendent of the JEFF
| fersonVille, Madison x Indianapolis, is now
| assistant to the president of the Chicago,
| Milwaukee & ST Paul; W. w. Richardson.
! now assistant general passenger agent of
| the Pennsylvania, was Office boy for j. j.
Turner.