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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
8
Three flats located two blocks south of the court house advertised at nine dollars monthly rent and thirteen thousand dollars cash price with mortgage balance. Contact K Vorndran Bit tinger Houk Pixley Long Block or phone 460 or 146 for details.
Local ad for C J Wilkinson at 617 Clinton Street selling bicycle tires of best quality from 20 to 35 dollars. Other tires priced from 4 dollars up. Ad promises full repair shop, satisfaction guaranteed, and evening hours with phone contact 2350.
Wabash official C E B Wells described near ten thousand cars handled in thirty days originating in the city and connected lines. Yard crews move 900 tons of freight in 540 hours, with Wells directing operations amid yard and track activity. He noted capacity to handle freight while not declining business, and discussed rail improvements and safety aspects for public travel.
A fragment discusses whether automatic stokers improve steam engine efficiency on railroads. Officials clash on benefits of larger, harder to fire engines, noting boiler pressure, speed, and schedule effects. Critics argue human firing limits, higher costs, and questionable overall value without uniform long‑haul gains.
Report describes wider fire boxes and nine nominal boiler pressure experiments under Haring agency Motive Power official oversight. It notes anticipation of arrangements on the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, with the Mullet type engine to be introduced and questions whether crews can maintain normal hall et pressure on a Vexd monster. Similar engines already run on the Dallas, More & Obio, but not in roll service. BL & O currently test in pushker service only.
The Pennsylvania railroad offers thousands in prizes to track supervisors with the best track on the system east and west of Pittsburgh. W. W. Athertury of the railroad’s retail manager will award $4,600 last year to winners. Klondike prize of $1,100 awarded at ML Wisnan, Trenton. Construction work continues for York city, with renumbering and repainting of freight cars across lines east and west of Pittsburgh. An accidental pitch fire at the Habits Burnet building caused minor damage, quickly contained with insurance covering the loss.
An experiment spanning two and a half years by Harriman studies repairs on steel and wooden freight cars. It finds the average monthly repair cost for steel cars at 2.79 dollars, versus 4.04 dollars for wooden cars, challenging the belief that steel repairs are prohibitive.
Western Gas has begun shipments to Augusta where they contract for erecting a large newly improved telescopic gas holder of 508 000 cubic feet capacity. Though not the largest made by the local company it is among the largest for a city of Augusta size and may be slightly larger. The Western Gas is currently working on one of the largest holders.
The Wabash appoints traveling conductors for lines Toledo to Pittsburg and Columbia to Toledo. D. W. Cacklin will cover Pittsburg to Columbia tasks and G. A. Thates will oversee Columbia to Toledo. They will instruct train crews and report to the superintendent. Changes take effect immediately.
Inspector John Brennan, at Heat Springs Pennsylvania, noticed rails sprung by sun heat for several inches on the Pennsylvania railroad. He flagged fast mail train No. 11 just in time, averting a possible wreck. The incident occurred yesterday as the track bent under heat.
Reports describe damaged contracts and dismay among contractors as labor disputes unfold. Weather delays echo in the plan to complete work by August first. The Tha atelke developments lag, with about forty new arrivals noted since Saturday. Several strikers were expected to return to work, though one applied for and received a plea to resume next morning, but was discouraged by strikers. Sheriff Grice refused a request to relocate prisoner Lee to his ill wife, citing legal concerns.
The tinners pipefitters and capper smiths at the Wabash shop walked out only to notify Master Mechanic Smith of their wage demand. They remain confident the matter will be settled soon and are currently staying close to home.
J Laiile of the Wabash resigns while TL A Bandeliers updates the Wabash shops. Pennsylvania personnel including brake, Tourgee, and W T on layover visit. Heaward Pierce travels to Jamestown for vacation. Bepgs from the Electric Works returns after several days. Two large retorts completed by Hass foundry shipped to South America. TW Wagner reports for duty after a long absence. Pennsylvania near completion of freight cars. Wabash contemplates adding to the Montpelier shop. F Tim Tilbury HL D Nelzer J Smith and WF Max take positions at the Pennsylvania shows. Rf Arense of the Pennsylvania travels to Chicago on company business. William J Kraft of the Northern Pacific visits the city. Other traveling freight agents in town include William Humphrey and John Mulvey.
The Pennsylvania Railroad faces multiple personnel moves and policy debates. Fireman Buckley gets a 60 day leave, while Supervisor Shanty vacations in Atlantic City. Examinations punishable by percent scores proceed for firemen, with Frank Warner sailing to Niagara Falls. Interstate Commerce Commission flags illegal Seattle excursions for Christian Endeavor and Tamplers. Track workers shift between ends as prizes to supervisors draw scrutiny. A boy suffers an eye injury from a steel fragment at Western Gas, with sight status uncertain.
A late afternoon cloudburst struck Princeton and nearby areas in southern Indiana with heavy hail and winds up to sixty miles per hour. Buildings were damaged, communications wires were torn, several residences wrecked, and there were no reported fatalities. local merchants advertise Straw Sailors and Panamas in assigned prices as part of unrelated notices.
The letter from U. A CAINE Grand Chief Templar Malay Good Templars in Weat Kennebuck Massachusetts on February 26, 1001 praises Keeley Cure ads as accurate and warns against false claims. It endorses the Keeley Institute lead by W. V. Daniels in Marion Indiana, promising a positive cure for whisky or morphine addiction.
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