The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-15
observation-disclosures
Personal. Local and General Notes.


V. 7. Malott will not entirely sever his
\ connection with the Union Railway Com
jpany until Aug. 1.
General Freight Agent Mckay, of the
Lake Shore road, has returned from Europe
much improved in health.
Indications are that the mileage of new
road this year Will reach at least 1000 miles.
Indiana will contribute about 200 of it.
The railroad men who went to Richmond
to attend the funeral of conductor Corey
carried very appropriate and expensive
floral emblems.
Hereafter employees on the Wabash road
who are injured must sign a blank before
returning to duty, exempting the company
from damage suits.
NJ. A. Zook, engineer OF maintenance of
way on the Logansport division of the
Pennsylvania Company's lines, spent Sum
day in the city, the guest of Horace Eddy.
George Stephens. who has just been APP
vision of the Wabash road. commenced on
the road sixteen years ago as train-dis-
patcher.
Nearly all the right of way for the extern
sion of the yandalia from South Bend to
st. Joe, Mich, has been secured. and the
contractors Will begin work before the end
of this week.
The Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw
road now handles all it's Cincinnati bust
ness by the way of Franklin and the Bee
line, instead of by Carlisle over the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton * Dayton.
III. j. Hayden issues his first notice since
taking the craftsmanship OF the Trunk
line Association, and 1T Is a notice of an ad-
vance In grain rates on Monday, July %,
to the tariff of Dec. II last.
Nj. ID. Woodford. vice-president of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton, has been
elected president of the Wheeling 81 Lake
Erie road. which, undoubtedly to be made
a part of the c., III. 81 ID. system.
o There were transferred over the Belt
sroad last week IL ,3OS cars, against 1862 in
the corresponding week, 1888. Increase
this year, n cars. Belt road engines last
week handled 957 cars of live stock.
The Office of general manager of the Fort
Worth IL Denver road has been abolished,
and X. y Duncan, superintendent, has
been made general superintendent. Mr..
Duncan was formerly on the o.. & NJ. road.
The Ohio, Indiana & Western has stopped
turning its freight traffic east-bound over
TO the CINCINNATI, Sandusky 81 Cleveland,
and the effect is already shown in the fall
ing off of freight earnings with the c., S.
* G.
The short name for the Cleveland. Gin
c%lnnati. Chicago & st. Louis consolidated
line is to be dropped, after having been
used on the C., G., G. Il /. thirty-eight
years.
Engine 500 on Friday last hauled twenty
carloads of live stock over the c., st. L. &
T. from indianapolis to Bradford. a dis
lance of los miles, in three hours. The first
hfty-three miles was covered in one hour
and eighteen minutes.
The bill compelling all roads operating
In the State of New York to equip their
freight cars with automatic couplers has
become a law. Until Now ], 1892. is given
the roads to comply with the provisions of
the law. The penalty for noncompliance
Is 800 for each offense.
The board of directors of the Terre Haute
~ indianapolis road have declared the
usuai 8 per cent. semi-annual dividend,
OF the road of late have been very salts
factory, In passenger earnings the improve
ment IS the most marked.
Inc Baltimore & Ohio company. which
approprlates money annually to the sup
port OF the employees library. will here
AFTER assess each employee y cents Der an
mum TO support the institution. and ali the
money nat the company contributes will
be used I'D purchasing new books.
1t IS feared that the Niagara Falls ex-
cursl0ns VIII demOraliZe rates this wear TO
greater extent than in any former year.
It's aIlegeu that two of the roads which
propose TO run them are giving twenty 10
thirty days for persons TO return. the tick
eJs to be good on any regular trains for re-
turning.
For one hour and thirty minutes yester-
utl luClO Wdo " - JIdln moving on thR
c., st. l.. and p. road between lndiananoiis
and Columbus, which, Superintendent
Miller says, is the first time such n thing
has occurred in the history of the road. and
is due 70 the abandoning of freight trains
on Sunday.
President Ingalls, has asked the managers
of all roads centeTing here TO attend the
meeting on Wednesday aud vote who shall
be superintendent. Several other impor-
tant matters are coming up for cOnsidera-
ton. One is the adoption of some uniform
method of checking and charging for ex-
cess baggage; another is the question of
Belt road engines doing switching on the
Union tracks and at the Union Station.
Robert Blee, general superintendent of
q, T., C.: ~ st. l., big Four has gained
an enviable reputation rs an arbitrator of
questions IN dispute between railroad COM
panles, but his duties are now so increased
that ne VIII give this usually charitable
work the eo-by. His reputation has been
won on the lair manner he settles questions
il dispute. Recently he was called upon
TO arbitrate "a case between the Chicago 81
Alton and the Indianapolis & II. Louis
companies. L. w. Burrows was at the
tIms superintendent OF the road. The
Chicago IL Alton selected Mr.. Blee as
arbitrator, and Mr. Burrows was greatly
4 nledSeQ To accent hin, o,. tho - of <ba