The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-10-17

railroad companies and executive omcerS Is
other contracts This undoubtedly would in
crease the difficulty Of securing agreements. and
might tend to check their number and scope,
since railroad managers would consider care
fully beforehand all the provisions OF a contract
which they would be obliged to fulfill under legal
sanction. But the necessity would develop pools
enough 70 give stability TO rates
Personal. Local and State Notes.
The Ohio. Indiana & Western and the Ohio
Southern roads are securing right or way Tor q
belt road at Springfield, D..
The Adams Express Company now does the
business over five of the Indianapolis roads,
and is negotiating to get on to the sixth road.
One Of the indianapolis railroad companies
has Just sold q lot of old iron rails at SO q ton,
the purchaser taking all they can furnish at that
figure.
General Manager Bradbury, Of the Lake Erie
& Western, who was expected home last night.
teleg-sphed he would not return until later In
the week.
The annual meeting of the stockholders OF the
Indianapolis, Decatur & Western road will Do
held in this city on the day of the national cleo
ton, Nov. B.
Aaron King. who for over thirty years WAS a
conductor Oh the Worcester & Nashua road, and
later its superintendent died last week at
Nashua, n. a., aged seventy years.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has con-
tracted for q Sprague electric motor to operate
q n kh0 EAAhOO4o NV ao1
been in use at Aurora, on the C., b. & @. road,
for a year or more.
The members of the Decline Mutual Benefit
Association mold their annual meeting In the
Superior Court room this evening. 1t Is expected
that fully 125 members will be present. Pre-
eeding the meeting the members have q sup
per at the new Union Station dining-hal!s.
It requires 800 carloads of sand per year to
supply the locomotives on the C., l.. ST. l.. & c.
road with sand TO prevent their slipping. Mas
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city yesterday and closed = contract for 100 car
leads, to be taken from the bottom OF White
eiver.
The extension of the Chicago & Indian Coal
road, from Goodland TO biomsnee, was opened
for business yesterday. The following are the
stations on the link which connects the G.. 1.
C. with the Chicago e Eastern Illinois: Percy.
Junction. Brooks, Morocco, Pogue, Hopkins aud
Momence.
The general passsng ger agents in the Central
Trafic territory are now troubled as to what
they can do next year TO make their earnings
show uD as we'll as they have this year. Even
at the low rates at which business has been
carried, passenger earnings have been remark
ably large.
The past season the Cincinnati, Iudianapo-
lis. ST. Louis & Chicago road has distributed 81
9lS carloads of Gravel. The main line Is now
graveied its entire length 70 a depth Of fifteen
TO eighteen inches Within the last three months
the sidetreck capacity OF the road has been In
creased some e, 600 feet
The annual meeting OF the stockholders Of the
Cincinnati, Indianapolis. ST. Louis & Chicago
road will be held in this city on the 30th of this
month. The fiscal year with the company ended
On June 80. Some time ago the annual state
nent was published, which showed the gross
earnings of the year to have been 81, 946, 279.62
Trains of the c., l., ST. L. & G. road from
Chicago are again arriving on their olden-time
promptnees, as a result of President ingalls,
stirring the Illinois people up for delaying the
Hs. EA,a rneno ~ fsin art nf ThTaa q
had become altogether too common a practice to
please Ingalls,, whose special hobby is TO run
trains on schedule time.
One OF the officials OF the Woodruff company,
who was in the city yesterday, thinks that there
is some truth in the repors that the Woodruff
Sleepinecsr and the Mann Boudoir Palace-car
Company are to consolidate their interests,
which would place Woodruff cars on all the
lines Of Importance south 4 the OHIO river ex-
cept the Louisville &c Nashville
The Cincinnati Enquirer says that President
ingalls, has selected for general manager of the
of the Chespeake q Ohio, Oscar q. Murray,
who has been for two years past freight-trsfic
manager on the Missouri Pacific road. and who,
prior TO his taking a position on the NJ. F., was
general passenger and freight agent of the Gulf,
Colorado 81 Santa Fe road. President Ingalls,
shows a determination TO place good men in the
more important positions on all the roads with
which he IS connected.
A few weeks ago the Journal intimated that
there were indications that the Chicago & Grand
Trunk was endeavoring TO secure control of tho
Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City road, running
from Toledo across Ohio. Indiana and Illinois to
st. Louis. The report now comes from New
York that the Grand Trunk people have succeed
cd in doing so, and that before New Years they
will be operating the road It Is expected that
the remaining portion OF the road which is now
narrow eusge will be converted into standard
gauge by Dec ID.
President Hammond returned yesterday from
al inspection of the Indianapolis. Decatur &
Western road and says that be is more than
ever convinced that this is a valuable railroad
property and time will demonstrate such to be
the case. Business vas to be seen all along the
he aud connections are working very cleverly
with thorn. The road is now earning its fixed
charges and operating expenses and bids fair to
have a handsome surplus at the close OF the
next half years business.
W. H. Joyce. who on Monday last took hold
As general freight agent of the Pennsylvania
road, Is a con- parativeiy young man, but has
had a long and varied experience in the freight
departments or the Pennsylvania and Northern
Central railroads. He entered the service Of
the Northern Central railway in 1863, and on
Dec. !, 1852, was appointed division freight
agent of the Northern Central and Baltimore 81
Potomac railroads. and on July 1. 1853, was Sc
lected 10 fill the position OF coal freight agent,
in charge of the coal and coke traffic OF all the
lines owned and controlled by tue Pennsylvania
Railroad Company east of Pittsburg and Erie,
which traffic is equal to 60 per cent of the en-
tire business of the road.
Since the retirement of W.. II. Fisher from the
service of the ST. Paul & Duluth road he has ac-
ceptsd the position of vice-president and Rener-
al manager of the Duluth & Winnipeg railroad.
q line projected some years ago TO extend about
$50 miles IN q ~northwesterly direction from Du-
luth. through the pine forests OF Minnesota and
the rich agricultural lands of the Red river val
ley. to . connection with Canadian lines at the
boundary line of British America
The road received a large land
grant which, il is claimed, has never
been forfeited, and which it Is still entitled to.
The project, which has been lying dormant for
several years. has recently been revived, and Mr..
Fisher has now entered actively upon the con-
s~truction of the line. The employees Of the ST.
Paul & Duluth railroad gave "A banquet to their
late president. William II. Fisher. and presented
him with a massive silver service, valued at
over two thousand dollars, as a token of their
appreciation and regard.
Most Of the delegates TO the annual conven-
ton OF the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Engi-
peers. which convenes at Richmond, Va, to-day,
from the North and Northwest met at Chicago,
aud were taken out OF Chicago over the L., n.
A. & c. road, tho Pullman company furnishing
them nine OF their elegant coaches to travel in
free OF charge and the roads, as well. charge
nothing for their TRANSFORMATION Each of tha