The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-10-26


cent interest on its bonds aud ether roads
are trying to earn A."
Personal. Local and General Notes.
The c., st. L. 81 p. and the G.. K. 81.
roads are TO erect a new depot at Ridgeville,
Ind, the crossing point of the two roads.
The Lake Erie & Western earned in the
third week of October. $52.911.s9 against
$51.520.s1 in the corresponding week of 1888,
increase this year, sl.59l.01.
The improvements to the road-bed of the
Indiana Midland have been so great of late
that the management now talk of ~increas-
ing the speed of their trains.
The Northern Pacific people have estab-
llshed a district passenger agency at Peoria
@. man, as their representative.
Maj John T. O'Brien, general manager of
the National railway of Mexico, has re-
signed. He has been offered two good rail-
road positions in the United States.
The earnings of tine Toledo, st. Louis 81
Kansas City road for the third week Of this
month were S27.3f1, an increase of S13,OO6
over the corresponding week of 1885.
1t is stated that the men who bid in the
st. Louis Il Chicago road, at the recent
foreclosure sale, are now figuring to secure
control of the Jacksonville IL Southeastern
road.
Austin Corbin has returned from Europe,
but declines to state what he accom-
plished on his trip abroad. A few months,
however. will doubtless develop what he
went for.
II. 8. GRAY has assumed the duties of gen.
eral freight agent of the Hannibal q ST.
Joe road. and will also fill the position for
the Kansas City, st. Joseph d Council
Bluffs road.
The citizens of Peru, Ind. offer a good
bonus to any road that will give them a
more direct line to Chicago. As it now is,
they cannot go to that city without chang
ing cars once or twice.
William Rowe. formerly with the Ohio.
Indiana * Western, now on the Northern
Pacific, is lying very low with typhoid fe-
yer at Tacoma. Both his father and mother
have gone to Tacoma.
C.. L. Henderson, ex-general manager of
the Ohio, Indiana ~ Western, win go to
New York in a day OF two, and while there
will come to some decision as to accepting
a position open to him on an Eastern line.
James Aniba. who for eighteen years has
Grand Rapids q Indiana road, has resigned
on account of i'll health, and goes to Colo
RADIO to engage In business with a brother
who Is located there.
The work Of filing up the long trestle on
tine Belt road between B~-ightwood and
connection with the Lake Erie e. Western
tracks is progressing rapidly. The inn
provement, which is an excellent one, will
be completed In a couple of weeks.
@. NJ. Sehamb. who succeeds w. X. Jones
va superintendent VI Tic EuSdT luOmSOu
works. Is but twenty-seven years OF age.
He will have 5000 men under him.. For
eight years past he has been with the
Carnegie, Phipps g. Co. steel-mill.
Yesterday was a field day at the stock
yards and oyer the Belt road. At the
yards 40 carloads of cattle were re-
ceived. about so per cent. of which was
fine stock for export, and the transfers over
the Belt road ran up to nearly $500 cars.
1t is stated that HI. s. Marcy. traffic man
ager of the Delaware& Hudson Canal Com
pany. IS to be the successor of L. b: Phil
lips, president of the ~Fitchburg road. Mr..
Phillips retires on account of poor health.
lie has been in the railroad service fifty
years.
The Ohio Valley road, under the direction
coming to the front. The freight traffic of
the line has doubled in the last twelve
months, and its passenger trains are max
ing excellent time. and building up a very
satisfactory business.
Messrs. Mackey, Heilman and Houston,
of the Mackey syndicate. went to Anderson
yesterday for a conference with General
Manager Beckley. of the Cincinnati, Wa
bash & Michigan road. and others who are
interested In extending the line from An
ders0n to Rushville, Ind.
President Mackey authorizes an emphatic
denial OF the statement made by one of the
Chicago papers to the effect that the
Mackey syndicate would build q line into
OUlcd&O. ne says IQab the relations De-
tween the Mackey lines and the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois are of the most harmonious
character.
s. j. Pitman has been appointed agent of
the Vandalia at Altoner. on the T. H., 81 l..
division, not Altamont. as stated in yester-
days Journal. Mr.. Orrell, the agent at
Altamont, has held that position for several
years. and behaves so well. says one Of the
officials of the road, that he is likely to re-
main there for years to come.
President Ingalls,. of the Chesapeake &
Ohio, proposes. the coming year, to expend
Ohio road. All wooden bridges are to give
place to iron structures, q number of tres
ties are to be filed. and the road-bed gen.
orally is to be put in good condition for the
rapidly INCREASING traffic over it.
The recent introduction of gas on the
southwestern limited trains of the Van
derbilt lines has proved SO much of q sue
cess that the New York Central Will equip
all its passenger trains with this method of
lighting coaches. The receptacle for stor-
ing gas is filled only once In making the
round trip from New York to st. Louis.
The grading on the extension of the Van
dalia TO st. Joe is wei advanced. and the
track-layers are now laying three-fourths
completed by Dec. 1 that trains can be run
over 1t. but regular trains will not be put
on until the road is properly ballasted and
In shape for trains to make fair time overit
Inc pennsylvania engineering depart
ment has completed it's inspection of the
lines east of Pittsburg. and awarded the
first prize. $50. to j. r. Smith. supervisor
of the New York division. reaching from
New Brunswick to Deans; the second prize,
800. was awarded to Z. Il. Nelson. super
visor of division No. 4, extending from CO.
lumbia TO Harrisburg.
Thomas A. ~Rittenhouse, who for some
years was private secretary of G.. T.. Hen
derson. when the latter was general mana
ger of the Ohio, Indiana ~ Western. and
who has held the same position under the
new general manager. since Mr.. Hender-
sons retirement. Will on the first of next
month retire. and will be succeeded by II.
Wells. a young man from Cincinnati.
Superintendent Boyd. of the Indianapo-
lis. Decatur Western, yesterday arranged
the schedule for the train which will bring
the South American delegation over from
Springfield, Ill. to indianapolis. The train
will leave Springfield about midnight, on
the 31st. and reach indianapolis mt $50 A. NJ.
No fast time will be attempted. the train
being scheduled about thirty-seven miles
an hour.
1t is stated officially that when the rela.
tons OF the Big Four to the Ohio. Indiana
d Western are fully established. steps viii
be taken to increase the shop facilities OF
the Big Four. and also TO improve tho facil-
tiles for handling freight at this point.
meaning that a Grand oAnfral frolnhf afo