The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-01-08

the leading roads and several of the roads
took the advance step OF heating their
trains with steam furnished by the locOmO-
tive and much of n minor Importance was
done toward making travel comfortable
and inviting.
Personal, Local and State Notes.
In the year 1888 there were handled at
the city freight depot of the Vandalia, u
165 carloads of freight.
Frank Ford who, for some twenty-five
years, was chief engineer of the Bee-line,
is in the city for day or two, looking up
old acquaintance.
The earnings of the Louisville, New AL
bany & Chicago road for the year 1888 were
s. 259 671 against ,97S in 1887, an in
crease in 1883 of Sl2.693.
III. r. DeTing. assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines vest of
Pittsburg, is out on an extended Western
trip. He is to be absent a couple of weeks
A new station has been established on
the c., st. l.. & p. road, eight miles east of
Indianapolis, to be known as Glen Morris.
Trains Nos. 4 and stop regularly at this
station.
The Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas
road has closed a contract with the hitch
field Qll) car-works for 100 refrigerator
cars, with the privilege of increasing the
order to 200
At the meeting this week in Chicago, of
the passenger department OF the Central
lraIQc ASSOCIATION, q determined eUOfC
to be made to induce every member to sign
an agreement to do no business through the
scalpers.
John III. Weeks who has been so promi-
nent in the extension of the line of the Bal
timore d. Ohio road in years past. more es-
pecially in securing the right of way into
Philadelphia, has severed his connection
with the b. 81 o. company.
During the year 1883 there were 154 per-
sons killed at steam railroad crossings in
Philadelphia. while not one was killed on
the Union railway crossings although four
or five hundred passenger and freight
trains pass over these crossings daily.
Grain-shippers are complaining bitterly
of the manner In which their freights are
delayed on the trunk lines. 1t is stated
that there is still blockade East; and that
the de-tracks between Indianapolis and
the seaboard are full of delayed business.
NJ. E. Ingalls, is authority for the state
ment that all rumors regarding the b. 81 y.
(Kankakee Dispatch) going out of business
have not the least foundation. To the con-
trary, the Big Four is to increase its quota
in the line, as the other roads interested are
doing.
AS q result of the Declines schools of in
structiOn, it is stated that no set of train
men in this country are better informed on
the details of the use of steam taken from
the locomotive for heating passenger trains,
and in the use of the air-brake, and on
train rules generally.
Thos. III. Wicks, at present general super
intendent of the Pullman Palace-car Com
ident, in control of the operating depart
ment. G. A. Garcelon, superintendent of
the st. Louis division, succeeds Mr.. WickS,
with headquarters at Chicago.
The Pennsylvania Florida special from
New York now makes the run to Jackson
Vile, Fla, in thirty hours. In years past
forty-two. hours. was thought to be good
time. This speed shows that the Southern
roads, as well as the Pennsylvania lines,
are in excellent physical condition.
At the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers Of the Terre Haute d Indianapolis Rail-
way company, at Terre Haute, yesterday,
the following directors were elected: VIM.
r. McKeen, JOsephus Collett, d. w. Min
shall, Henry Ross, John G. Williams. Geo.
u. Harrington and Herman Huffman. Henry
Ives was dropped from the list, and Mr..
Huffman substituted.
The ticket-scalpers at this point report
that 1888 was the most prosperous year for
them in their history. The large excursion
given on the Grand Army of the Republic
tickets. and the several national cOnven-
tons all combined to swell their business
The profits of one of the scalpers for the
past year foot up nearly $4,000.
1t is stated on high authority that new
developments in the affairs of the Decline
will greatly help its market value. With
out question it is TO be made part of the
Southwestern system of the Vanderbilt
lines proper, and will bear the same rela-
Central, which the c.. ST. L. & p, the Van
dalia and the Little Miami do to the
pennsylvania, the parent line.
d. III. Baker, general master mechanic Of
the shops of the Pennsylvania Company at
Jersey City is now seventy years of
age, and is still at work. Mr.. Baker was
one of the founders of the Master Car-build-
ers Association. He witnessed the starting
of the first train on the Mohawk g. Hudson
railway, and tells many interesting Incl
stone ties and strap-iron rails were used.
The east bound shipments of flour, grain
and provisions by the lines in the Central
Traffic Association at Chicago, aggregated,
last week, "a, 2S4 tons, against 81, 572 for the
preceding week, an increase of 6662 tons,
and against 1904 for the corresponding
week of last year, an increase of II, lao tons.
The Vanderbilt lines carried 46.7 per cent.
of the business the Pennsylvania lines 90;
Grand Trunk, IT'S; Baltimore d Ohio, 15.4,
and the Big Four, OIL.
Local trains commenced running over the
Chesapeake 81 Ohio railroad bridge, which
spans the Ohio at Cincinnati, yesterday.
| The bridge proper is $50 feet long, and, in
two 400 and $50 feet spans. 1t is double
tracked, and has wagon and street-carways
| IL feet inches wide, and foot passages 5
feet wide. The bridge cost about 5000
OUU, lncluQlng real estate. Ground was
broken for the first caisson in June, 1887,
and Iron-work was begun in March, 1888.
Should the present volume of business
continue through this month, and the pres
emit east-bound rates be maintained. every
| Indianapolis line will show a handsome in
crease in earnings, as all are more OF less
affected by the rates which are in vogue.
| The large-capacity cars now earn Sis when
loaded at Indianapolis and shipped to New
| York, with the usual proportions when
| loaded for other seabOard points. In one
| train-load of freight which was shipped
from indianapolis to Baltimore, last week,
| each car, large and small, averaged to pay
| S1O1 per car.
The Cincinnati Superintendents' Associa-
rion convenes at the Bates House Mt 10
/ o'clock this morning, when a reorganiza-
! tion of the association is to be made and it
will thereafter be known as the Supern-
tendents' Central Association. The snper-
/ intendents OF any of the roads in Ohio, In
| diana or Illinois viii then be admitted 10
| membership. This association is patterned
| after the superintendent association of
| New England. They meet once a month 70
confer about questions which may arise re-
garding transportation or other matters
which are looked after by the superintend-
ent of a road.
Parties interested in the building OF the
Danyille, Chicago & Northwestern road
speak with great confidence regarding the
enterprise. Gen. John McNulta, Kirkland
II III - H.. n n