The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-16
Personal. Local and state Notes.


Personal. Local and State Notes.
The G.. L. St L. & c. contemplate building
new depots at Arden, Milroy and Adams this
season.
The Ohio & Mississippi has advanced the pay
of its trainmen The movement seems to be
quite general in its character
The Lake Shore road is receiving from the
Taunton locomotive works seven switching
gines which weigh 10000 pounds each. and are
equipped with the American steam brake
L. L. Fellows. formerly agent of the Wabash
at this point but more recently representing
the Cairo g. Vincennes road at Memphis, Tenn,
has been appointed agent of the Lake Erie g
Western at Kokomo, vice j. ii. Matthias re-
signed
The organisation of the Railroad Clerks Asso-
citation is going satisfactorily. About one
hundred have paid the initiation fee and others
are doing opportunity offers, and the or
ganization promises to be of great benefit to the
mem Dership.
The fast express train which the Indianapolis,
Decatur q Western is running in connection
with the Wabash. leaving Indianapolis at $50 P.
IL, makes the run TO Decatur in five hours and
ten minutes, and makes forty-nine stops at sta
tions and railroad crossings.
Freight men are feeling more cheerful over
the situation. Within the last few days there
has been q decided Improvement in local traffic,
and west-bound through freights are reaching a
tonnage never before touched in March. and it
is all high class freight which pays well for car
rying it.
The Indiana Midland is having uphill work
to make both ends meet, even though 1T has no
fixed charges to pay. Every day makes it moro
apparent that the road must be extended to
some point where there ia some business,
where there is a connection which will turn
business over TO them.
Earl Park is one of the most important water
ing stations the c., l., St. l.. & G. road. The
company has experienced good deal of trouble
IN getting an ample supply. and will to-day be-
gin the sinking of a driven well (eleven-inch
pipel, expecting to 60 some 300 feet before soft
water in sufficient supply is reached
Indications are that General Manager Clark,
of the Missouri Pacific, will soon follow General
Managers Talmage and Potter. His physicians
tell him that rest is imperative, and he has gone
10 Hot Springs TO tarry several weeks. He was
so feeble that he had to be carried from his
private car to the hack which took him to his
hotel
Harry Drew goes to California in few days
to build suburban railroad out of San Fran
is believed that friends of the A. [. o. s. F.
are behind the scheme and are taking this quiet
method of securing an entrance into San Fran
cisco. expecting at no distant day to have line
of their own to that point
Rumor has it that Col Joseph Hill is to retire
ms general superintendent of the NAndalla to ac-
cept position on the Pennsylvania lines. His
year is rp on the 9TH OF April on the Vandaha
Some weeks ago the Journal rntimated that on
that date he might retire from the Vandala. but
IL was then understood that he to take a
position of the North weStern lines.
Secretary Sanger, of the Yardmasters Mutual
Benefit Association of the United States and
Canada. will to-day send 81, 900 to the widow of
Charles McCrea, Terre Haute, who died a
short time ago from injuries he received when
on duty. and on Saturday he will pay to Mrs. j.
Hicklin the same amount on the life of her hus-
band, who was killed in the c., l., st. l.. & G.
yards, about sixty days ago.
The Railroad Mems Building and Savings AS
gociation is of the most prosperous institu-
tions OF this character in the city. Although
but six months old, 1900 shares have been
taken, and their money is loaned readily One
feature of the association which is favorable to
railroad men, who liable at any time to be
transferred to some other point. is that on one
days notice they can have all the money they
have paid in returned to them and any accrued
interest thereon.
For several months G. w. Prescott. superin-
tendent of motive power of the Vandalia. has
been in very poor health. and it is understood
that he has rendered his resignation, and is to
be succeeded by Charles Butler. master mechan-
ic of the company's shops at Efingham, and a
very competent mechanic. Mr.. Prescott has
made excellent record on the Vandalia.
Since he took hold the power has been increased
fourteen engines, and all that were on the road
then have been thoroughly rebuilt, and to day
the Vandalia is one OF the best equipped roads in
the West.
compels railroad companies operating lines in
that State to provide each freight car with
stick of sufficient length to permit the brakemen.
or any other person whose duty it is to couple
cars. to stand outside of the bumpers and raise
the link. The stick must be placed IN some
place easy of access hne is to be imposed
and on the employe for failure to use the same.
A similar law is in force in New York, aud the
number OF accidents from coupling cars has
been largely reduced.
There is not q road in Indiana which is in so
trying position. regarding the c.. B. & Q.
strike as the Ohio. Indiana &IWestern- The C..
B. O.. is its best connection. both for pas-
senger and freight business, and with the light
crops on its own line is more dependent than
ever on the c., B. & O.. TO help it out earn
ines. aud should the engineers and fremen
that road strike they will simply force the road
again into bankruptcy, as it will not be able to
earn operating expenses to say nothing about
fixed charges on the newly arranged bonded
debt Other Indianapolis lines cease to
haul cars of the c., T. 81 @. without msEing
serious inroads into their earnings.
The much abused Toledo St Louis e Kansas
City road is coming out of the woods in good
style On the portion of the road between To-
ledo and Frankfort. Iod., which has been con-
Verted into n standard gauge, fast through
train has been put. and is run in connection
with the fast train OF the Lake Erie g. Western
connecting with the latter at Frankfort and as
good time is made as by the Wabash between
Toledo and Kansas City. The work OF widening
the gauge between Frankfort and St Louis will
be commenced IN about SIXTY DAYS. and by Sept.
j il Is expected that the road will be in
full operation. Some of the finest equipments
TO be found road IN Indiana are run
the T., St L. 81 K G.
The work OF doubling the track Of the Chi
cage. ST. Lons & Pittsburg from the Union
tracks to Irvington has been abandoned, for the
present, at least, which means that the suburb
an trains will not commence running to Irving
ton this spring. as had been expected by the
Irvingtonites. 1t is very fortunate for the
Pennsylvania Company that the strike the
~, p. q q did occur IL has furnished an ex-
cuse for the company TO discharge thousands of
men and abandon numerous improvements
dertaken within the last years. which would
bAye been beneficial to the road and acceptable
70 its patrons Official of the road. who is
1lAgusted with the whole proceeding, says that
there IL not a department that now has men
sufficient to do the business of the respective
departments with the promptness and efficiency
Tor which the Pennsylvania IN times past has
been noted
Notes Conserving Express Matters.
This Pacific Express Company has withdrawn
from this point, which il has been reaching oyer
she Lake Erie & Western road tits a relic OF
the Wabash. running in here over the L. p &