The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-10
Personal. Local and state Notes.

The Ohio & Mississippi earned, in FEBRUARY
1926, 527 against 1911. OF in FEBRUARY 1887, and
$285. 900 in 1886.
G. A. Greenleaf yesterday received an order
from the Norfolk & Western Railroad Company
FOR two iron sixty-foot turntables
Commencing with to day. clergymen who ride
over the Cincinnati. Wabash e Michigan road
will be carried at two cents a mile
A corps OF engineers is surveying a line from
Litchheld. Ill.,, to St Louis, paraleling the line
of the Wabash. It is believed that the A., r.
& s. F. is behind the enterprise.
H. Shipman, of the Pullman car-works, has
been appointed master car builder of the Van
dalia. a position which has been vacant since
the decease of E D. Carter.
Rate wars are telling on the earnings of the
Wabash Western. The official statement sh ows
that the road in February earned $3.50 .058
against 1923 in February. 1887, and $449, 906
in 1886.
4 Representatives of the Brotherhoods of Loco
motive Engineers and Firemen said to be in
the city taking note of which of the roads are
handling cars Of the Chicago, Burlington g. Quin-
cy road.
The Chester Valley road has been reorganized
and Austin Corbn has been elected president Of
the com pany. making the ninth railroad compa-
ny OF which he Is president, most of them i'm
portant lines.
Indications that freight rates to the Pa
eifc coast are again to go all to pieces Since
the recent advance business has dropped off, and
some of the lines. it is alleged, already offer
ing cat rate.
The impression prevails that within thirty
days the discharged men on the lire of the Penn
sylvania Company west of Pittsburg will be re-
employed by the company, or at least large
per cent. of them.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton s. Dayton Railroad
company has contracted this week, for 900
tons of new steel rails to be delivered within
sixty days. Most of them will be distributed on
on the G., H. g. l. division.
The Wabash people have asked the O.. L, ST.
Z. 81 c. to run train to connect with their
Cannon Ball train at Lafayette, and the Terrs
Haute & Peoria is arranR iue to a passen-
ger train ont OF Terre Haute to connect with it.
plate fast-freight line. yesterday In the city
He reports business ipzt sIow rather quiet with
the line, bnt looks for early i'm Drovement
10 fact all the lines are complaining that traffic
is light
Officers of the Pennsylvania Company official
~ deny the rumors to the effect that the COM
pany had been pro-rating with far Western roads
on east-bouE6. cut rates. and far as the Penn
sylvania Company is informed no other trunk
line Is cutting rates.
j. W. Sherwood formerly superin tendent of
the c.. l.. ST. L. & c.. who has been in Caifor-
Mo for some months has returned and ia now in
Chicago He is in excellent health and spirits
and will probably at carly date take a good
position on one of the Northwestern lines.
Ten years ago the Bee-line Inaugural ted fhe
system of promoting competent employees as op-
portunity offered, and the result has been very
gratifying to the management, which, by SO do
ing has secured one of the best corps of men in
country. This. In a large measure accounts for
the freedom from accidents on this line
1t is intimated that brighter days are ahead
for the Peoria, Decatur & Evansyills road
Some or the directors TO give the road mora
attention and put some money into IT, The
directory includes some capitalists who ara
amply able to lift the road out of the mire.
among them being +. Roosevelt. Edward Bran
don. j. II. Mooney and H. L Nicholas, all
wealthy New Workers..
Last year upon all the Pennsylvania lines
80 aIsx-s. ~
psr ton per mile one quarter of a mill less
than in 1856, while the increase in expense Of
moving it was five one-hundredths of a mill, so
that there was a decrease of three-tenths OF a
mill per ton per mile in the net earnings. There
was an increased earning per passenger per
mile of eleven one-hundredths of mill and n
decreased expense Of thirty four one-hundredths
Of mill.
veteran engineer on one of the indianapolis
roads, In commenting the extension of the
strike beyond the G., B. & O. lines, said. yester-S
day, that the uniform good judgment of the of
fcials OF the Brotherhood should satisfy any
one that care will be used in ordering
strikes. Another says the 18th will be the
crisis, and that the Brotherhood has given to the
roads OF this country ample notice that unless
the G.. & Q strike settled before that
slime trouble might be looked for on other roads
The Atchison, Topeka.& Santa Fe people are
preparing to carry out the buildiu. OF the ST.
Louis. Kansas City & Colorado road as orig
inaiiy projected by Harry Drew and other In
dianapolitans. who built some sixty miles Of the
road and then sold their interest to the A. T. q
S F. people. The road is to De built from
Union, ITS present western terminus. 10
portion OF the A. T. & S. F. road. leaving that
line At Versailles it will be built via Sedalia to
Kansas Cry
John Taylor, the English broker, who is the
disturbing element in the Pennsvlvania Rail-
road Company, has addressed circular letter TO
the stockholders. protesting against any partial
raainc down OF the securities on alleged depre-
citation, unless complete valuation or every |
thing be made. He closes the letter by saying
that after millions have been abstraetsd from |
the revenus en- capital account without ex-