The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-01-15

Underwriters of $4,000, 900 of Lake Shore
cent. installment to pay $25.000,OO0 of the
Philadelphia & Reading notes.
J. II. +. Hughart, general manager of the
Grand Rapids & Indiana, accompanied by
his family, left yesterday for Florida, where
he will spend a four months vacation.
+. c.. Hart, superintendent of the ter
minals of the Chicago. Milwaukee q st.
Paul. has been promoted to superintendent
of the Wisconsin division OF that road.
A. A. Zion. superintendent of the Union
Railway Company, who has been confined
10 the house for two weeks with grip, was
at his office part of the day yesterday.
Seventeen engineers and fremen have re
economy in burning coal in December on
the Western division of the Pennsylvania.
Work ON the St. Louis division of the
Big -Four is being pushed, and it is expected
June, when it will at once be put into
service.
1t is understood that President Loree. of
the Chicago, Rock Island q Pacific, has
under contemplation removing the head
quarters of the system from New York TO
Chicago.
Allen Gould, travelling freight and pas
senger agent of the Chicago < Northwest
ern, and J.. Listop, occupying the same
position with the Union Pacific, were in the
city yesterday.
1t was announced at Baltimore & Ohio
headquarters yesterday that George r.
INdluolDH Hdu DtGl tltClt0 Ills III Pitoi-
dent and traffic manager of the Baltimore
d Ohio system.
The ~scalpers are much puzzled over recent
decisions OF the courts, and indications are
that their business in Central Traffic AsSo-
citation territory. if not wiped out, will be
considerably interfered with.
+. Z. Buckingham, for sometime superin-
tendent of transportation of the Union Pa
ci1c, viii become its general manager and
will have active control of the road on
the retirement of President Burt.
c. S. Davidson, superintendent of the
Hartford division Of the New York, New
Haven & Hartford, has been retired on
half pay. He is seventy-four years of age
and has been connected with the company
fifty years.
A new fast freight line, known as the c.,
H. a D.-West Shore, is ready for business
and will operate East over the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton, the West Shore and
the Nickel-plate. A. d. Mcleod has super
vision Of the new line.
John r. MacMurdo, one of the most pop
ular and widely known railroad officials in
the South, died at Ashland, Va, on
wednesday, aged sixty-eight. Mr.. Mac
Murdo was for many years connected with
the Chesapeake q Ohio.
The executive committee of the Union
Pacific met in New York yesterday, but
the meeting is said to have been wholly
routine in character and no action was
taken regarding an additional vice presi-
dency or the general managership.
President Loree. of the Baltimore & Ohio,
states that his principal work for the next
two months viii be the unification of the
various lines from the standpoint of the
chief operating officials, and that it will be
necessary TO introduce a number of re-
forms.
The State Tax Commission has increased
the assessment Of valuation OF, the steam
railroads of Michigan this year $27, l7O, 800.
On Jan. 6 the commission will meet and sit
as a board of review and hear objections
to this vauation from any roads wishing TO
be heard.
The city ticket and freight offices of the
Chicago, burlington IL Quincy and the
Northern Pacific in st. Paul are to be con-
solidated Feb. /, and IL is believed similar
consolidation will be made at all points
where the two systems have ticket and
freight offices.
Joseph Wells, a well-known railroad man
and brother of Arthur Wells, formerly SUI
perintendent of the Big -Four. now general
manager OF the Santa Fe Pacific, died at
San Francisco this week. Another brother,
r. Il. Wells, is general manage of the Salt
Lake-Los Angeles line.
The contest which has been waged for
months between the Southern and the
Louisville a Nashville has been brought to
an end by a compromise that will result In
eight injunctions held by the roads against
each other being dissolved. All disputed
cases are covered in this Withdrawal.
The Louisville Bridge Company has re-
ceiVed from the Pennsylvania $144,O0 for
the payment of the claims of the Louisville
d Nashville, which were provided for in
the settlement reached in Pittsburg be-
tween the directors of the railroad and the
attorneys Of the Louisville Bridge COM
pany.
f.. Joyce, the retiring superintendent OF
the Buffalo q Lockport Railway. was on
Tuesday rendered a pleasant surprise by
his friends in Buffalo and presented with a
handsome gold watch. chain and locket
studded on the back with diamonds. Mr..
Joyce takes the position of superintendent
of the Shehann & North Tonawanda.
Joseph Ramsey, president of the Western
Maryland, West Virginia Central q Pitts
burg Railway, announces that Alexander
Robertson. having resigned as manager Of
these companies to accept the position Of
general manager of the St. Louis Terminal
Association, Horace O.. Clark has been APP
pointed manager, with headquarters at
Baltimore.
1t is stated that although three of the
lines of the Big Four out OF Anderson, Ind,
are paralleled by electric traction lines the
annual report of the company shows that
there was an increase in passenger receipts
at Anderson In 1903 over the preceding year
of 81, s09.5S. The total receipts for the pas
senger station of the Big Four at that point
last year was $92,63S "a.
1t is stated tina the Big Four will discon-
tinue it's Chicago sleeper on passenger
trains No. AZ and No. 43 between Chicago
and Columbus. The company has been
greatly Inconvenience In the handling of
it's trains by reason of these sleepers dur
ing the stormy weather In the East and
West. and for the present the service will
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il will be renewed.
Several hundred workmen and two trains
are engaged in building a third track from
Crestline TO Toledo Junction. on the Toledo
division of the Pennsylvania. When these
tracks are completed, all of its Toledo bus
mess as we'll as that of the Sandusky di-
vision, will be handled by way of Bucyrus.
1t is stated the company plans to make
this the largest railroad yard in the world.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie has completed
the last of ten publication plants which
ii has been erecting along its line. In or
der to obtain. pure water for its engines.
the company has expended in this manner
$500, 900 in the erection of plants at various
points. The water is treated chemically
forms in the boiler. Most of these plants
have a capacity of G0,O00 gallons an hour.
The Wisconsin Central has created a stir
among Northwestern lines by carrying in
1903 u per cent. of the flour and milling
products which left Minneapolis during the
year. This road hauled 14.0S0 carloads. as
against II, 955 for the Chicago Northwestern
its nearest competitor for the traffic. The
Chicago Great Western carried 12.ll2 car
loads. 1000 in excess of that of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul, and nearly 5000 car.
loads i'm excess of the Chicago, Burlington
a. Quincy.
The Missouri, Kansas & Oklahoma rail-
tary of Oklahoma a copy Of n first extension
mortgage in favor of the Central Trust
Company of New York as trustee. with the
Missouri. Kansas * Texas as guarantor foI
a loan of $1,000. 900. A portion of this amount
ic 70 ba nSad in retiring tho hopdc apf