The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-12-18
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
The smoking cars and the baggage and
mail cars of the Big Four through trains
are now all vestibuled.
L. H. Wilson. late general superintendent
of the Ohio. Indiana & Western. carried an
accident policy OF 5000.
Several One-thOusand-mile tickets were
stolen from the cffice of the Cincinnati,
Wabash a. Michigan, at Marion, Ind. on
Saturday last.
The gross earnings of the Lake Erie g.
Western the second week in this month
were SAT. 704.21; increase over earnings in
the corresponding week of 1888. S2,24.4S.
The first eleven months of this year the
Cincinnati. Wabash IL Michigan shows an
increase of S7.700 liz passenger earnings, as
compared with the corresponding period of
1883.
There are now $50 men at work in the c.,
st. l.. & p. shops. in the eastern part of the
city, and the shops are run nightly until 8
o'clock, so full of business are the different
departments.
The Burlington & Missouri is calling on
the Vandalia and other eastern connections
for grain cars. On Monday last on the st.
Louis division of the this road they were
5000 cars behind their orders.
One hundred and forty-two roads show
an increase in net earnings the first ten
months of 1889 of $50. $685. $50, as compared
with the corresponding period of 1888.
MS ~ ANRAOoNAto - OA1 hstnAoOLhO
dividend.
During the present year there have been
condemned at the shops of the Pennsyl-
vania Company. at indianapolis. eight
engines. Six engines have been built at
the cOmpany's shops here, and twelve re-
ceived from the Altoona shops.
There is the best of authority for saying
that there is no truth in the report origin
ating with a Chicago paper, to the effect
that the Wabash management had decided
to make a general reduction of wages. The
matter has not even been preached.
The ~reorganizers of the Ohio, Indiana &
Western state that 95 per cent. of the bond
holders and 80 per cent. of the stockholders
have accepted the provisions of the re-
organization, and it is believed that the
remaining bond and stockholders will make
no opposition to the plan.
X. c.. J. Pendeleton, agent Of the new fast
freight line, the Occidental, states that the
line starts oft in fine style. He has estab-
lished his office at No. ia South Illinois
street. The line has now three thousand
available cars. and will in a few months
increase the number to five thousand.
Traffic Manager McDoel, of the Louis
vile. New Albany Il Chicago. was in the
city yesterday. He reports the business of
the road at hlgh-water mark, and adds that
II their competitors are maintaining rates
casion for meetings TO brace up rates.
w. r. Baldwin. general passenger agent
of the Cincinnati. Sandusky * Cleveland
road, was in the city yesterday for a con-
ference with II. Nj. Bronson. gcnerel pas
senger agent of the Ohio, Indiana x West
ern road. The relations between the two
companies have become much more AMIGA
BILE of late.
George w. Hayler. of the Union Pacific,
is spending q day or two with friends in
this city. On the first of the year he will
60 TO Portland. Ore, to take a position rs
chief clerk " Wilbur +. Lee, formerly gen
eral passenger agent of the Lake Erie *
Western. but now holding a similar position
on the Union Pacific lines.
One of the problems which the Big Four
and the Pennsylvania people are trying TO
solve is how IL is that whenever the Monon
wishes to make a case against its competi-
tors the scalpers always have mileage
or SOME other tickets of the two ~first-named
roads as evidence against them in favor of
the onon. but when the case is reversed
|. 1T Is impossible TO get such evidence through