The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-24
AFFAIRS OF THE
Per.onal. Local and General Notes.

pairs.
The Philadelphia division of the Balti-
more & Ohio road is said TO be fast Decom-
ing one of the best paying divisions Oh the
system.
The bad shape in which the rolling stock
of the Big Four was when consolidated
with the Bee-line is a matter over which
there is much
A. B. Wren has been appointed to repre-
sent the jacksonville, Tampa a. Key West
system of roads In this territory, WITT
Headquarters at Cincinnati
During the year ending Sept. 80 the
Northern Pacific purchased nlnety-tw0
heavy locomotives. $500 freight cars and
fOrty-nine passenger coaches.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe now
twice a week runs a fast special train frcm
San Francisco, loaded with California
products for Eastern markets..
The pay-rolls of the Indianapolis car
works show that the establishment now
gives employment TO SI2 men. the. largest
number at any time since the works were
started.
The Mackey syndicate, this week, made
another payment on the Cincinnati, Wa
bash q Michigan purchase. The final pay
meut will be made Nov. Is, and the Mackey
syndicate will then take full control.
1t is stated that within the next few
days the outside Office of the Big Four, I'M
der the Spencer House, will be consolidat-
ed with the office of the Ohio. Indiana IL
Western, in the Jackson-place Block.
It is stated that the Mackey syndicate
expect to have work commenced ON their
extension from Anderson to Rushville
within a few days The talk of building
to some other point is said to be unfounded.
The Ohio Falls car-works are so crowded
with orders that a portion of their works
IS run day and night. and even Sunday.
This establishment now has contracts
made which will keep it busy at least unsil
mIdwinter.
Charles A. Waterman. cashier in the
freight Office of the Wabash road atLafay-
cite. has been appointed travelling agen6 or
the Great Eastern fast-freight line. His
territory embraces all the Wabash system
west of Logansport.
Superintendent Whitcomb. of the Union
Railway Company. has notified the pugi-
Hstic district passenger agents that here
after If there is any quarreilng to be IN
dulged in it must be off of the Union Rail-
way Company's premises.
The management of the Cincinnati. San
dusky & Cleveland road claim TO have
operated it the last year OH 60 per cent. OF
the gross earnings, and fully maintained
the property physically, besides making
large additions to the equipment.
The c.. c., G. 81 ST. L. big Four earned
in the second week of October S251,217; in
week, 1888, $4,000. This comparison is
made with one of the best weeks last year
with the roads now in this combination.
George Crosby. assistant auditor of the
Ohio, Indiana Il Western. on the lst of
next month will take the position of audi
tor of the Terre Haute & Peoria road. and
Paymaster Robinson, of the o., !. q w,
&P.
Some of the engineers on the Cincinnati
division of the Big FOur received at the
last payday as high as $50 for services
ranHoroH in Sanfan.har BuefnaCo wQa Gn
heavy that doubling the road. even with
freight trains, was almost q daily occur
renee.
1t is stated that hereafter Cornelius
Vanderbilt will look after the Michigan
Central and the Big Four systems. which
are his pet interests. and William X. Van
derbilt will look after the Lake Shore and
Nickel-plate, which are his pet roads west
of Buffalo.
West-bound traffic over the Lake Shore
road is the heaviest at any time IN Its
history. On Sunday last, over the western
division, train No. 81 was run in ten sec
TONS, and each section hauled forty cars OF
more. From the yards at Elkhart 40 cars
were sent out.
General Manager Barnard, df the Ohio,
Indiana IL Western, has given instructions
that office expenses of the company must
be cut down so per cent, which will relieve
a number of men in the auditors depart
ment, and, in fact. all the departments will
DO mOTo OI less dutCtcu-
Every thing points to an ugly passenger
rate war on Southern roads. Excursion
business for the fall and winter is being
INDUCED In to an extent never before
known, even the Louisville ~ Nashville
taking a hand. The boyeottine of the
L. q N, is causing bad feeling.
Since the Big Four shortened it's running
time there is seldom a day that there has
not been thirty to forty minute time to
make up between Indianapolis and Kanka-
kee on the trains going north. Almost dali
ly the run is made from here to Kankakee
In three hours and twenty minutes, time
taken Tor stops to come out of that.
Since the Cincinnati, Wabash IL Michi-
gan got their line through to Benton Har-
* West Michigan has turned over to it at
that point has averaged six hundred car
loads a month. When the Vandalia gets
into St. Joe. it will certainly secure its
share of this traffic. as it opens a more di-
rect line 10 the Southwest.
Cornelius Vanderbilt and Chauncey NJ.
Depew, who, last week, went over the
Chesapeake * Ohio road in cOmpany with
President ingalls,, say the road is a much
more valuable property than it is credited
with being and has a bright future, but the
report that 1t Is to be consolidated into
their system of roads is not true The in
terests will work tremendously, but will
net be one.
a party cOnverSant with the situation
says that it now looks very favorable to
the Big Four people and the Cincinnati,
Sandusky & Cleveland folks adjusting
their grievances and working amicably to-
gether. Paralleling the c., s. & G. be-
tween Springfield and Columbus would
doubtless punish the c., s. & T.. severely in
n loss of business, but it would be an ex-
pensive method of punishment TO the Big
Four.
The Central Traffic Association is igur-
ing on a readjustment of rates from north
ern Ohio and Indiana points to the South
west. The action is taken at the request of
the Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City road.
When what is known as the Toledo rate
sheet was made, the T.. st. l.. & X. e.. was
a narrow-guage line. This sheet has been
IN force many years. and. outside of the re-
quest of this new standard-gunge road, it
badly needed revision.
Engine No. 115, on the st. Louis division
OF the Big -Four system, is credited with be-
ing the ~fieetest locomotive run on any
Western road. 1t certainly has done some
remarkable running. Yesterday this en-
CINE ran from Danville To Indianapolis,
nineteen miles. in twenty-five minutes.
lowing down within the city limits. The
train crew, including the engineer. state
that fifteen miles of the distance was COW
cred In fourteen minutes.
The monster consolidated engines of the
Ohio. lndlana& Western which were trans