The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-26
Personal, Local and state Notes.

PERSONAL, Local and State Notes.
A. A. Zion. chief train dispatcher OF the Belt
road. was called to Lebanon, yesterday. BY
the serious illness of his mother.
The Nickel-plate passenger department. is urg-
ing the adoption of ordinary round-trip tickets
for special business with connecting roads.
L. D. Richardson has received his appoint
ment of superintendent of the weighing bureau
of the Central Traffic Association, with Office in
Chicago.
Emigrant travel from the seabord has in .
creased largely since the first of the month
The trunk lines bringing out 800 to 1000
emigrants daily.
| The Vanda,ia has received the material for its
new combination iron and steel bridge over the
Wabash river at Terre Haute The bridge
proper will be $50 feet long and erected in four
spans
Some of the roads have been offering CO cut
rates to circus mon and their equipments. As
consequence the agreed rates have gone all to
pieces, and there is now promise of an overflow
oe circuses.
The crews OF the passenger trains run the
Vandalia have recently received strict orders
not 10 allow person to get on to their trains
who has not purcnasedaa ticket.
The Lake Erie & Western has under contem-
plation making some important improvements
to their terminal facilities at Sandusky. The
exact nature and extent will be decided on whlie
President Brice is West.
G. Fitch Perkins. chief clerk in the managers
Office of the Erie, Youngstown g Ashta bua di-
visiop of the Pennsylvania lines, has been APP
vice Geo. Y. Mause. deceased
Thirty miles of the Cincinnati, Hamilton g
Indianapolis road is being regraveled to depth
of fourteen inches. and when the steel purchased
is in the track tie road will be entirely steel rail
from Indianapolis to Hamilton.
Freight agents at this point yesterday re-
ceived tho following notice: Taking effect at
once the Chicago. Burlington g. Quincy road is
prepared to receive freight for all points the
c.. B. & O. road and its connections"
The Palmerton Wreckiug-frog Company has
[ust reserved from the Pennsylvania road an
order for twelve of the wrscking frogs and the
company has under consideration placing on
each engine one of these wrecking frogs.
AS car inspectors object to platforms in the
new train sheds above the level of the tracks,
the question is raised. sis the Union Depot the
place to inspecs trains?" Certainly it is not the
place to take out boxes, jacK up cars etc.
It is limited that the recent revival of reports
regarding the completion of the South Pennsyl-
vania road are designed to remind the Pennsyl-
vania people that the Vauderbllts still have n
thorn to thrust into their sides in they get
too obstreperous over the export rate question.
With the taking effect of the spring time table,
the Cincinnati. Wabash & Michigan will have
three through trains daily. except Sundays be-
tween Indianapolis and Benton Harbor. The
day trains will haul parlor cars and the night
trains combined sleeping and reclining chair
car
Benjamin McKeen, son of VIM. r. McKeen,
president of the Vandalia. who, some months
ago was appointed engineer of maintenance of
way on the I. ii. & L. division, is making an
excellent record In that position He is putting
the road-bed in excellent condition, aud doing
the work economically.
The commissions paid by some of the Western
lines to ticket agents in this section causing
good deal of talk. and the passenger agents of
the roads which are maintaining tariff rates
threaten to reduce rates to meet the cuts made
by the agents who receive commissions and then
divide with the purchasers
Now that the Ohio. Indiana & Western
has cut loose from the Cincinnati. Sandusky &
Cleveland they will not need all their consol
engines, and will, it is stated. turn q number of
them to the Ohio Southern road These
engines are all OF superior build and pur-
chased at very reasonable figures
One of the officials of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton Railroad Company states that
the work of preparing the annual statement has
progressed so far as to chow that the Cincinnati,
Hamilton 81 Indianapolis division of the eysteln
in 1887 paid operating expenses and fixed
charges for the first time in it's history.
Col. Joseph Hill, of the Vandalia, under an
agreement between all Indianapolis lines that
notice should be given when the pay of any
class of workmen was advanced, has notified
the roads centering here that he had decided to
advance the pay of conductors of the yards and
the switching trains to s. 35, dav or night,
and of brakemen and switchmen to g. 10. day or
night.
II is quite evident that the Vandaia and the
Bee-line, with their eastern connections. have
decided none too to put on vestibule trains
between St. Louis and the seaboard. The
temotations for the first-class travel from the
Southwest to go east around through Chicago
after the Atchson. Topeka e Santa Fe gets On
it's vestibule trains will be great and the middle
routes to hold their business must make their
lines attractive to frst-class travel by their su-
perior equipments and better time.