The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-08
Personal. Local and state Notes.

PERSONAL. Local ana STATE Note8.
C. c. Waite, general manager of the c.. Fl. e
d., has returned from mis- rest OF several weeks,
much improved in health.
NJ e. Ingalls,, president Of the c., l., St L. g.
C., has gone to New York, and does not expect
to return until Oct. 10, unless something unex-
pectad calls him home.
Under the new deal, passenger conductors on
the Cincinnati Hamilton q Indianapolis run q
few miles further each week. but, an Offset,
their pay runs mp to $3.50 per month
Judge Stevenson Burke is in Saratoga watch
ing the Hooking Valley arbitration case, in
which he is interested in financial way to the
extent Of several hundred thousand dollars.
The Pennsylvania Company is running 132
trains a day between New Albany, Jacksonville
and Louisville. On Labor day it carried over
the bridge q $40 people. Since 1t dropped the
fare to FIVE cents its business has more than
doubled, and it is proving to be a money making
move
Said general manager yesterday: with the
meeting or the legislatures In Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois, next winter, l look for them TO take up
the question of rates and make the rate of ell
lines cents per mile, so boyish have the eener-
al passenger agents been acting Of late, and /
think 10 Is just what the roads deserve
The demand for cars is active and increasing
The c., H. g. has been 1000 cars short of fill
ing its orders for several days. The Penn
sylvanis, with its large equipment, is short of
cars, and the Decline, which has been Boosting
that il was able TO fill all orders which came
along is beginning TO economic in their dis
tribution-
The Peprsylvsnis Company has just issued
neat and convenient hand-bo giving valuable
information as to travelling on their trains, such
as the class OF ticket on which passenger can
stop of, on rates. aud the different classes of
coaches and ears run by the company Another
excellent feature is q map or every prominent
town and city touched By its lines, East aad
West
The Pennsylvania special No. 20. run be-
tween ST. Louis aud New York, is scheduled the
entlre distance to make an average speed or
$40 miles per hour, including stoppages.
This exceeds the average speed OF the limited
fast train the Pennsylvania lines between
Chicago and New York, the average speed of
that train being 34.5 miles per hour the entire
distance.
The Ohio, Indiana & westsra people are
again negotiating with the n. Y, p. a. D., and
Erie people for the establishment of line of
through coaehes between New York and Peoria.
aud possibly some point further west. The Erie
petitors, one or two trains excepted, and tho o.,
d W., In connection with the Erie could es-
tablish frst-class line
1t is probable that the Pennsylvania Company
IN the near future will put solid trains be-
tween Louisville aud Chicago via INDIANAPOLIS
running them entirely independent of trains of
other divisions into Chicago. Independents
trains will also be rua between Cincinnati and
Cnicago. Between the cities named the Penn
sylvania Company have decided to leave moth
ing undone to prevent their getting the full
share Of the passenger traffic.
General Manager Green and John Eagau gan.
eral passenger agent of the c., l., ST. L. & c.
road. were III the city, yesterday, looking into
the rate war which the passenger agents of the
c., II. & |. and the c., l., St l.. and c. have in
augurated on the commercial travellers excur-
sion to Cincinnati One of the officials states
that General Passenger Agent Rockwell of the
C., II. & D., Is urging them TO withdraw the 81
rate the day of the excursion, he fMr. Rock
wel) promising thar there shall be no more
shading Of rates If the present misunders tsnd-
ing is overlooked.
The Pullman company il now building coach
es for the Pennsylvania Company with fourteen
sections, in which several new features have
been introduced, the most important being an
ingenious valve arrangement in connection
with the air reservoir OF the Westinghouse air
brake by which water stored in the tanks below
the car is forced through pipes, thus doing swav
with pumps and giving as complete water serv-
Ice as Is found in the best appointed residences
When the cars are heated, warm as well as cold
water can be drawn from faucets in The dress
ing
The Louisville, New Albany g. Chicago road
earned IN August S2l3, l02, an increase over
earnings in 1887, same month, of IS, 712; the
Chicago a. Indiana Coal road s47 1888, an in
crease this yesr Of "a 954; the Chicago e East
ern Illinois sos. 465. increase Of 81. $685. the
Ohio & Mississippi 1914, PAT, a decrease Of $685.
GA the Wabash Western $500. 667, decrease Of