The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-14

ident for thirty-three years. being elected a
director for the thirty-seventh year in sue
cession.
S. +. Clark, an Erie Railroad conductor.
Of Gallon. Ohio, died suddenly of apoplexy
yesterday, in a committee room OF the
House of Representatives at Columbus, y.
He had been attending a meeting of Ihe
legislative committee of the Order of Rail-
way Conductors.
Paul Quigley, an engineer on the Decline
division OF the Big Four, has just completed
nifty years of service on that road. He Is IN
excellent health and expects to run ar englne
several years longer. When ne accepted the
position of engineer his father was master
mechanic of a road at Gallon and Paul was
but seventeen years old.
The Big Four has made arrangements by
which the ticket agent at the uptown office
of the company in this city will be protected
against loss for the theft, a few weeks ago.
of $500 at his office, the circumstances being
such that the agent was not in tauit- Inns
is an unusual, but seemingly just act, where
a company meets a loss in such a manner.
Eastern trains for the last six weeks have
been late in larger numbers than in any
like period in the history of the Union sta
ton. Much OF the time Trains IL, 70 and 43,
over the Big Four from New York, have
been run in two sections, which Is very eX-
pensive, and on the Pennsylvania most OF
their through trains, which arrive much or
the time late, are hauled by TWO locOmo-
tives.
The new service of the Queen & Crescent
to Jacksonville and other Florida resorts.
sleeping cars from Chicago via the Big
Four. the MOnon and the c., III. &. D.. from
Detroit and Toledo via the C. II. * d, and
from Cleveland via the Big Four and Louis
vile, all connecting at Cincinnati, The
first trip was made by the several lines
named on schedule time.
The Canadian Pacific has adopted a device
for arresting the headlong movement of run
away trains by providing long upgrade
switches for them TO run into. A safety
track or spur is used TO divert the runaway
trains. At these spurs switch tenders are
stationed continually night and day. By
this arrangement a train or cut of cars can
not run very far in case II should get be-
yond control on a steep grade.
L. F. Loree, the new president of the
Rock Island, and Z. p. Ripley, president
of the Santa Fe. have arranged a confer
ence which will undoubtedly result in the
Santa Fe being given trackage rights over
the Rock Island line from Liano, n. M, TO
Kansas City. Should the trackage ar
rangement be entered into ii would obviate
the Santa Fe building 500 miles of road in
order TO avoid the mountain passes in
through traffic.
The B~rightTood home of the Young Mems
Christian Association (railroad branch) is
very prosperous. 1t has been open about a
month and is credited with being one of the
best provided homes for railroad men in the
country. 1t has a large restroom and a
room is being fitted for an air-brake APP
paratus to give lectures. 1t has forty bed
rooms, Mflcn are IurnlSneu at lV cents d
night to employees, and has six parlor bed
rooms which are good enough for any pri-
vate home. for which an employee pays So a
month. Most of them are taken by cOnduc-
tors and engineers. Everything is provided
to make it a pleasant resting place.
General Manager Marmont, of the Indiana
Car Service Bureau. has completed his re-
port for 1903. which shows that the lines I'M
der his Jurisdiction handled CAT ,016 cars,
with an average detention on the part of
~consignerS of 1873 days and a detention by
the roads of fifty-One days. In 1907 the bu-
reau handled 493, 27S cars, with an average
detention of 1.5S days. The detention was
business was so much heavier and became
so congested, but the business of 1903 was
quite satisfactory, as many new roads were
included that were not well informed as re-
CARDS the operation of the bureau.
The car ferries across the Detroit river
are giving the lines that use them consid-
cradle trouble. The Wabash has given an
order that the road will accept nothing but
rush freight for Suspension Bridge. The
cost of taking cars across the river is high,
the Wabash putting the figure at 81 apiece.
The Grand Trunk was unable TO handle the
business, and switching lines were forced TO
declare embargo, and a little later the
Michigan Central announced itself as con-
gested. Now all the roads have turned TO
the Lake Shore. both at Toleda and Buffalo.
and have asked for assistance. The Lake
Shore has been handling as much freight
as possible, and is finding its capacity linn
tied, but it has hopes of pulling out of the
difficulty without much inconvenience, and
the manner in which il has gone about the
work indicates that ii has been fairly sue
cesSful. 1t is a question whether the Lake
Shore can handle all Of the business alone,
the cold weather sapping it's power and
the snowstorms interfering and increasing
the difficulty.