The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-19

Western viii meet any rate made if it has
to haul wheat from the Missouri river for
one cent per busheL-
The management Of the Rock Island has
made an Important change III its methods
OF organization by placing the department
OF maintenance of way under j. +. Ste
vens. fourth vice president. who IS now in
charge OF the operating system. Hereafter
the maintenance or edch division or the
road will be under the supervision OF a
superintendent.
T.. s. Eustis, passenger traffic manager Of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. is again
in Chicago after an absence Of several
months which he spent in the Southwest
recuperatlng from a long illness. w. ID.
Cornell, travelling passenger agent of the
road. is in the Southwest recovering his
health and will soon lie back at Buffalo In
charge OF his work.
The employment bureau OF the Chicago &
Alton. established about a year ago. has
presented it's first annual report, which in
dicates that the plan has proved successful.
The bureau was formed for filling vacancies
with men whose homes are adjacent to the
lines of the road. During the year the
company received 7S applications through
the bureau and 22 were accepted.
On Feb. II the connection via the Grand
Rapids az Indiana Railway of train No. %
for points north OF Fort Wayne was dis
continued, and the connection of train No.
9 now runs as far as Grand Rapids, leav-
ing Fort Wayne at 4:0 y. m. daily and ar
] TYING at ITd1l IdpllS at ~ p III. DdllN
except Saturday connections of trains No.
20 and No. p have been discontinued be-
tween Mackinaw City and Grand Rapids.
II. c. Shepard, who will succeed Col. S. f.
GRAY as general Western and division
freight agent Of the Pennsylvania at Indi-
annapolis, will arrive in the city on Satur-
day and will at once arrange TO bring his
family here and begin business. A freight
| official who knows the gentleman saws he
will prove an ambitious and popular freight
official with shippers and will make some
lively competition for other lines East and
North.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton. on
its Fort Wayne division. has had a seri-
Gus time for the last thirty days on ac-
count Of bad weather. The bridge at
Cloverdale was carried away, completely
blocking traffic. Work was begun repair-
ing bridge when a bridge on the main line
went out near Troy, o., over the Miami
river. Both breaks have been repaired, the
line is again open for traffic and the train
service moving along as usual.
A Toledo paper starts a rumor that the
Wabash has purchased a large tract OF
land lying between White House and Mon
clover for the purpose of building big shops
which would accommodate the Wabash, the
Wheeling & Lake Erie and be a great con-
venience. An official says that without
doubt in the near future the Wabash will
build big shops somewhere in that vicin-
ity. but the matter may not be taken up
by the company until it's new Toledo &
Pittsburg line is in operation.
An official of the Lake Shore says that
II the company can get a little spring-like
weather it will soon clean IN all of its con-
gestion. On Sunday there were twenty-fOur
hours of good weather for moving trains
and during that time 126 trains were moved
on the Western division. The time of the
Florida flyer, north bound, has been short
ened from St. Augustine TO Chicago thirty
minutes. The train now leaves St Angus
tine at $50 O'Clock a.. m. and gains thirty
minutes etween st. Augustine and Nash
willie.
Bankers having close relations with the
Pennsylvania Railroad and the Goulds said
yesterday that the differences between
these interests are still very marked. They
say these differences were in a fair way
toward settlement some two weeks ago
when the Pennsylvania company an
nOunced its 100000 loan. Soon there
after, however. the Pennsylvania Railroad
sought to impose certain conditions on
Mr.. Gould and the negotiations which con-
templated the taking over of the Western
Maryland Railroad by the Pennsylvania
Railroad were abruptly terminated.
c, S. Blackman, general Eastern passen-
ger agent of the Big Four at Buffalo. has
been in Boston and New York looking aft
er the prospects for exposition travel. He
says the Big -Four will be in shape TO handle
in many places is being double tracked and
parts of the line will be used for paSSen-
ger trains only. The company will have
the large Pan-American coaches which
gave such excellent service during the fair
at Buffalo and forty additional coaches that
the Pullman Company is building. These
COdCneS nave "A seating CAPACITY OF Gl5nly-
seven passengers.
AS a result of the Baltimore fire that city
is likely to secure a Grand Union Rail-
road station in the heart of the city, in
point would center. Nearly all railroad
points of as much Importance as Baltimore
have magnificent central stations, in which
center all the traffic coming to the city.
fetal and feasible surely would benefit Bal
timore. 1t is stated that the fire has
building of a union station at that point
which would be a credit to the road and a
great benefit TO Baltimore.
1t is stated that the Canadian Pacific
Railway Is using force to prevent the en-
trance into Vancouver of the Great North
ern Railroad. which has been building from
the international boundary Tor the last
eighteen months. The completion of the
Canadian government Of a bridge across
the Fraser river. which is nearly finished.
The appeal 10 Ottawa has resulted in an
order giving the Great Northern running
rights over the Canadian tracks at New
Westminster, with permission to cross them
just east of the Fraser river bridge. Inc
Canadian road still maintains its policy of
opposition.
Officials of the Big Four state that it is
no fault of that p that their through
trains from the East via Cleveland are al
most daily two to five hours late. Very
seldom during the past winter nave thelI
trains failed to make scheduled time after
receiving from the Lake SnoTe EOau. Inc
time is lost east of Cleveland. The Big
Four's new type of passenger engine can
quite readily make the time, fast as 1t is,
between Cleveland and Indianapolis. ano
when they strike the St. Louis division
there seems TO be no holding of trains,
these big engines hauling a through train
with about the same speed they would on a
summer day.
1t is probable that there will be no strike
of telegraphers on the Erie Railroad, as
a result of a meeting at which 400 teleg-
raphers were present on Saturday night
A report of n committee OF twelve that had
been in conference with the official OF the
Erie for the past ten days showed thai
there might be some difficulty in adjusting
all of the eighteen grievances which the
operators have presented, but the sense OF
the meeting indicates that the men believe
the Erie officials will treat them fairly. T.
NJ. Pierson, of this city, vice president OF
the telegraphers' organization, says he is
confident that a settlement will be reached
without a strike.