The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-18

will give double daily service each way
between Northern and Southern points.
1t is rumored that the Pennsylvania
Company will have complete control of the
Hooking Valley by July l.
Pierpont Morgan is now sole owner of
the Erie, which is known as the only dis
tnctively Morgan road in the United
States.
Oscar c. Murray, president of the Balti-
more & Ohio, and his associate officials
will start this morning on an inspection of
the system.
The Big Four is exhibiting a picture of
the Knickerbocker special in motion, the
photograph being Slx53 inches and unusual
ly attractive.
w. II. Williams, manager of the Balti-
more & Ohio. has resigned to become super
intendent of freight transportation of the
st. Louis & San Francisco.
The Illinois Central will expend $4,000
in establishing between Central City and
Paducah an electric block signal system,
which is to be in operation by June 1.
To-day the Grand Rapids & Indiana will
put several construction trains and be-
gin ballasting the southern division of the
road. The gravel for the work will be
taken from the pit near Richmond, Ind
w. T. Richards, chief engineer of the
maintenance of way of the Pennsylvania,
has completed plans for a new immigrant
station at Philadelphia for the erection
of which the directors appropriated $780,
coo.
At the annual meeting of the American
Railway Association, to be held in New
York on the 9th, it is understood that
Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois
Central, and b. l.. Winchell. president of
the Rock Island, will be elected president
and vice president of the association.
The Philadelphia & Reading has of late
been discharging a good many men, and
it is alleged that all the victims are MEM
bers of the various brotherhoods. Officials
when asked If the men were being dis
hoo of fhair with
labor organizations, declined to make any
statement.
The summertime schedule of the Big
Four will not be put into effect this year
as early as usual by about two weeks. At
the time card meeting held last week the
running time decided upon, but it was
impossible to announce the exact time Of
the trains, the details of the schedule not
having been fully worked out.
The Erie Railway has just opened at
Cincinnati one of the handsomest passen-
ger offices I'm the country. III. c. Hollabird.
who represents the company at that point
is proud of his new office and thinks he
is entitled to il because of the handsome
increase in passenger business of the Erie
at Cincinnati the last few months.
Albert ingalls,, superintendent of the
Cleveland and Indianapolis division of the
Big Four, in his trip over the line on a
hand car from Cleveland TO Indianapolis, be-
sides examining into the condition of the
road had in view the extending of the
block system over the entire line between
Cleveland and Indianapolis, which will be a
great relief to train dispatchers.
The report is revived that John d. Rookie
feller jr., has purchased control of the
Wisconsin Central. While the story is
discredited in financial circles, there will
be no surprise felt if the Wisconsin Central
changes ownership in the near future. The
road has been in the market for several
years and rumors have sold it to almost
every railroad system in the country.
During the last six months there has
been heavy falling off in equip or
ders of railroads; for instance, during the
last six months the railroads ordered only
20 $40 freight cars against 49, 420 last year.
and during the last six months the orders
for locomotives amounted to 63I, as COM