The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-22
Personal, Local and state Notes.


On application. the Ohio 6 Mississippi road
has been permitted TO rejoin the ST. Louis Pas
senger Association.
O. e. Thomas. one of the veteran conductors
on the G.. B. & D., is dangerously i'll at his
home in Dayton. O.
Union Depot officials give the Bee-line credit
of having made the best record with their
trains eff all the roads entering the Union De-
pot
r. r. Marks, agent of the Indianapolis g Vim
cennes road at Swiss City, has resigned, and on
the Both of this month will be succeeded by A.
Fl. Bixler.
E. G. Pechin. general manager of the Ohio &
been abolished. Samuel Hunt has been ap-
pointed general superintendent
Under the new code of rules recommended by
the convention of superintendents, and adop ted
by many roads, trains now ssannulled" in
stead of discontinued or abandoned.
John N. Abbott. formerly general passenger
agent OF the Erie road, is in New YORK, con-
ferrine with Baltimore 81 Ohio officials who
have offered him the position of general pas
senger agent of that road.
Seventeen people. who are forerunners of q
party Of 200 or more, left Perry county for
Washington Territory yesterday. The party
will look the country over and fix upon some
place for a settlement Of IndIanians.
There are las bridges the c.. T., ST. L. g.
c. system, seventy three of which the
main line. and all but thirteen iron and steel
and all but one built within the last three years.
On the branches the bridges all Howe truss
wooden bridges.
The conference committee which has been
at work for some months past endeavoring TO
prepare q classification the basis of eight
classes 10 still struggling with the problem, but
expects 10 be able to make a report by the mid
die of next month.
II 10 stated that the Hoosac tunnel line is
bripRi ng cordage fourth class freight West at
cut of 10 cents hundred pounds. One hundred
ear loads To come West for the reaper and
harvester machine companies, to be distributed
IN Indiana and Illinois
The mar ayers of the A, IT, & S. f. road
being complimented all sides that in the
face of the unproyoked attack, they showed
such an admirable temper and forhearanee.
The discretion OF this course is shown bv the
harmonious return of the strikers to their work
Officials OF the Pennsylvania Company say the
report that they had been passing engineers
over their lines which wished to go TO enter the
service OF the c., b. & @. 10 false They have
issued no passes except to regular employees of
the road since the interstate law went into eff
feet.
Com plant is again made of the rough manner
the switching engines handle the sleeping
coaches which are taken from the spur tracks
west OF thes depot. and attached to outgoing
trains at midnight, and also OF the manner
coaches which transferred from road Co
another al this point ara handled.
Cars of the C., B. s. @ road coming for
ward over the Ohio Indiana & Western in con-
ward is more than ordinarily heavy. owing to
the fact that some of the freights had been de-
layed by the strike on that road The o., l. &
w gets more than all other Indian apolis roads
OF the c.. b. & @. business.
The roads have taken of their night track
walkers, the season for broken rails being over.
All the roads the past winter have been remark
ably exempt from trouble from this source. On
the indianapolis & st. Louis, which il 264 miles
long. there have been but twelve broken rails.
and n every case the traek-walk~rs discovered
Them IN season to prevent accidents.
The Lake Erie & Western people have made
friends for themselves and for the L.. n. A 81
C which does business their yards at this
point, by the prompt manner they handle their
business The company keeps three switching
snRlnes IN service here. against two when tho
road was operated by the Wabash, and every
thing 10 done IN a buNinesa-iiks manner, which
10 duly appreciated BY shippers.
Notwithstanding the failure Of the crops
she line OF The Indianapolis. Decatur s. Western
road, il has done shat many roads OF larger pre-
tensions have not done = last twelve months
having earned its esiing expenses and
epeugh to pay per ce.l, its first mortgage
indehtedness. and shat earnings il makes the
remainder of this month above operating ex-
psnaes will be in the character OF surplus.
That the Rad il managed economically no one
will question
Articles Of incorporation were hled yesterday
with tho Secretary Of State, OF Illinois. by tina