The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-05
Personal. Local, ana state Notes.

This has been the banner year with the ex-
press companies for handling fruits, the tonnage
this year being treble that of last year.
Passenger trains going east aud those going
west commenced 10 start yesterday from the
eastern and western ends of the new train sheds.
With the handsome improvement in business
the Pennsylvania people are re-employing many
of the men who were dropped from the pay-rolls
during the dull times.
In the last eight months the vandalia has put
sixteen miles of new heavy steel rail in their
track-teu miles on the main line and six miles
on the IT,, Il. & l.. division.
The Grand Rapids e Indiana and the Lake
Shore road have agreed on plans for a new union
depot at Kendallville. The building is to cost
$1,000, and is to be completed within ninety
days.
A few weeks ago President ingalls,. of the
Chesapeake & Ohio road, ordered ten miles of
heavy steel rails for that road, and it is already
in the track. Last week he contracted for
twenty miles more.
Col. Geo. l.. Perkins, who, since 1s43, has
been treasurer of the new Norwich 81 Worcester
road, has been quite i'll for several DAYS, and it
10 feared he viii not recover. On Aug. 3, 1888,
he celebrated his one hundredth birthday.
Second Vice president DuBsrry, Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company, has been substitute
ed for Edmund Smith, late treasurer of the
same company, as one of the trustees of the
S100, 000, 900 consolidated mortgage OF 1873.
Auk0St cdEnlIeS DcSiu u COmo IN, ana are
somewhat Of a surprise because they are so
good. Last year the roads did a heavy business
in August, and earnings were large, and il was
expected that this year they would show a sharp
decrease.
FL. w. Hubbard. general freight agent OF the
Vandalia, spent yesterday in the city. He has
men out hunting up lost cars in every direction
and is urging the master car builder to repair
all cars out of order as rapidly as possible, so
great is the demand at the present time.
Superintendent Whitcomb has put in use at
the Union Depot baggage-rooms a truck for car
rying trunks which 20 more convenient and USE
full than the ordinary two-wheeled truck. 1t
costs only one-fourth as much and weighs 40 lit
tie that a man can carry it as conveniently as Q
common valise.
The Lake Erie & Western people are short of
power to move their vast business and will prob
ably purchase several heavy freight engines. In
the past year the company has added largely to
its freight equiment in the way of cars, and their
business is growing so rapidly that they find it
was fortunate they did so.
The monthly report of J. B. Eckman. ~secreta-
ry of the Indianapolis Weighing Association,
shows that in the month of August the follow
ing gains over shippers weights were made: In
carload fret ghts, 1925, 723 pounds; in platform
freights, 2O,4lO pounds, making a total gain
over shippers weights of s, 446, 1873 pounds.
Mr.. Garstane, formerly master mechanic of
the Decline at Brightwood. bat now general
master mechanic Of the Chesapeake & Ohio rail
road shops, was in the city yesterday to remove
his family to Richmond. Va, his headquarters.
Mr.. Garstane has under him at the shops of the
company in Richmond ana at Huntington some
seventeen hundred men.
T. c. Smith. master-mechar CT the p, d. &
i. shops, who made trouble with the EN- ployes
on the Mackey system, has resigned, and c. G.
Robinson has been appointed his successor.
President Mackey is credited with having acted
very honorably in the matter, and has raised
himself greatly In the esteem of the engineers,
fremen and employees on the road generally.
General Freight Agent Wood, Of the Ohio, In
diana & Western, states that they are greatly
crippled in their business for want of cars
! This road 10 one Of the lest equipped in the