The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-13
Personal. local and state Notes.

Personal, Local and State Notes.
L. G. Cannon. who has been the Pacific
coast railroading for some months has returned.
The fixed charges resting on the Indianapolis
& Vino ennes road are 5000 per annum, or
81, 700 mile.
The Pennsylvania roads. combined. carried in
the year 1887 over sixty-eight million passengers
and over loo, GOO. 900 tons of freight *,
The understanding is that the general offices
of the Chesapeake g. Ohio road will be removed
from Richmond. Va, to Cincinnati at an early
date
Theodore Curtis, for some years in the Wanda
liza motive-power offices, has accepted the posi-
ton of one of the chief draughtsmen at the
Brooks locomotive works.
At indianapolis. Louisville and Cincinnati
cars of the G, B. & Q. are not moving very
freely. ami officials show timidity about press
ing trainmen to handle them.
The late W. B. Haywood, passenger conductor
the Lake Erie & Western. carried Sc, 500 life
Insurance.; one of his policies of So, 500 was in
the Conductors Brotherhood Association
There is growing belief that there is some
thing in the rumor that the A. L. q s F. is to
secure control of the Toledo. Peoria & Western
road This would give the A, L. 81 S. F.
good eastern outlet, via Peoria and tie State
line. Il r
Investigation has convinced the officials of the
much smaller per cent of their engineers
members of the Locomotive Brotherhood than
they have bean led to believe by current
ports. as. is
paSS6ugSr-rAt9 D6LWeeu
of Georgia is still on, but attempt is to be
made tomorrow to get tho general managers to-
gether, and bring about an adjustment, if pos
sbe The war is on local rates, and does not
affect travel between the North and South.
The trains of the Vandalia before another fall
will all be fitted up with the Graydon steam
heater, which is supplied from the locomotive.
The A., T. e. s. F., with it's z 500 miles of road
adopts the Emerson system of steam-heating.
The car-stove will soon be found only third
rate railroads.
The lake vessel owners have agreed not to
open navigation as early as usual this year
Boats will not start until May l, which is two
weeks later than last year Meantime rates by
rail are now down to usual summer figures. and
when the strike troubles q good busi-
ness is looked for.
j. W. Sherwood, formerly superintendent of
the c.. l.. ST L. d c., spent yesterday in the
city and returned on the evening train to Chica.
60. He has good position offered him one
of the Northwestern lines add one Calfor-
MIA road, but has not as yet fully decided which
position ne will accept
Freight traffic the Peoria division of the
Ohio, Indiana & Western road Is now the light
est at any time for many years and bids fair to
be so until there is new crop of wheat and oats
to move. The grain crops on their line west of
Indian polls last year failure. This in part
accounts for the light business.
Other roads beside the Pennsylvania are pre-
parIng to reduce their forces in allAdepartments
to minimum, in anticipation of several mont his
light frleghttrafhc In. fact, the tonnage
carried except west bound, is far below the
usual March average. and April and May will
not likely show much Improvement
On number of Indiana roads engineers are
graded On the Bee-lIne there are two classes;
formerly there were three. On the Chicago %
Eastern Illinois there four grades and the
engineers are apparently we'll satisfied with the
grading The fourth class includes engineers
only in charge OF an engine for nine months.
The efforts to bring about uniform CLASH
fcation all roads in this country ia not NEST
ing with the encouragement which had been
nk0Hf nF "a Fna6 do hHf VIC -
Louis and the Missouri river cannot agree and
if they cannot it is hardly probable. that the
transcontintnta1 lines VIII take the matter up.
Seventy-seVen men in the EN- ploy of the Penn
syvania Company at this point have since Sat-
urday received their pay and certificates of DIS
charge. Fortunately. large per cent of them
are carpen tiers and mAchlnIsts who will proba-
bly, have but little trouble in fndine work. SO
much building is going on and so busy are the
machine-shops.
The Florida tourists travel has been rather a
surprise passenger who had predicted
that the Southern pleasure resorts had lost their
attraction IN winter and pleasure-seekers and
invalids would all hereafter go to California.
The statistics of the Southern roads show that
since Oct / some sixty thousand Northern tour
lists had visited Florida and they are still going
there.
In the six months ending April % the move
ment of cotton by rail was sl6 752 bales against
62l. 233 in the corresponding period, 1887. and
against Gil. 600 the corresponding period 1856
The Jeffersonville, Madison & In dianatolis and
the Cincinnati Southern roads showed the
largest increae in tonnage carried The Evans
vile 81 Terre Haute also makes an excellent
exhibit, carrying during the season 81 500 bales.
The Pennsylvania Company has disposed OF
its green houses along the line and given in
structions agents to dispense with fiower-beds,
grass-plats ETC.. about their stations ii is is to
bring any expense TO the company. The Eng
lish sfoegh holders who Tot satisfied with 81
per cent per annum dividends, among other
things alleged that the Pennsylvania Com
pany lavish in its expenditures in the di-
rection here alluded to.
Round-house rumor has il that the engineers
on the Ohio, Indiana IL Western and the Gin
cinnati. Hamilton s. Dayton are dissatisfied
What their grievances are is not stated. IL can
not De wages. both reads engineers and
trainmeE generally are a well paid as any
roads run 10 Ohio or Indiana. A passenger
train engineer on the o.. T. & w. it Is stated.
makes the from INDIANAPOLIS to Peoria in
eight hours aud receives 81. AZ for making the
run On the c.. H. & d. engineers average to