The Indianapolis journal., 1890-11-03
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Ali OF the city freight dep0ts will be
closed tomorrow until 10 A. NJ to enable the
employees TO vote.
The Lake Shore has established three
new stations. Rockwell Junction, Airline
junction and East Toledo.
A number of important meetings are to be
held this week IN Chicago; most of them to
secure, if possible, better maintenance of
rates.
Walter Nichols, formerly with the Bee
line, but now In charge of the ticket depart
ment of the Queen q Crescent, spent Sun
day with friends here.
President Ingalls, and several of the di-
rectors of the Big Four are in Chicago. On
Saturday the party made a trip over the
Elgin, Joliet 81 Eastern road.
Commencing with yesterday the st. Louis
g. Iron Mountain road is operated in three
divisions to be known as the Missouri, the
Arkansas and the Central divisions
The Big Four stock, which was given the
c., 4. & G. people in exchange for the San
dusky stock. Will participate in the Janu-
ary dividend, which will likely be l Il per
cent. not cents, as some OF the Boston
papers predict.
The Lake Erie & Western, operating the
Fort Wayne, Cincinnati 81 Louisville road.
is TO make some improvements to the COM
pany's shops at Fort Wayne, and has ap-
pointed William McPhail master mechanic
at these shops
L. F. Brockenbrough, assistant general
freight agent of the Big Four, has not as
yet gone TO the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Central. There is some hitch in his ap-
pointment as general freight agent of that
road Chicago paper states.
The Big Four management and that of
the Chesapeake x Ohio road are seriously
considering the putting on of through Wag-
ner sleeping cars between Indianapolis and
Washington, ID. C.. Possibly the arrange
ment will extend to st. Louis.
General Superintendent Magee, of the
Wabash. gives notice that the annual in
spection will begin Nov. IL. The section
showing the highest general average in
each roadmasters territory will he awarded
first premium of SS5; the second best gets
The directors of the Toledo st. Louis &
Kansas City road returned East. Saturday,
well pleased with their inspection trip, and
will urge the people who have money in
vested in the road TO hold on to their Sc
curities. believing that the road has good
future.
This week two Schenectady passenger en-
gines and two Mogul freight engines are TO
l. division of the Cincinnati Hamilton &
Dayton lines. For weeks past this di-
vision has suffered in it's business for lack
OF power.
The boycott on the Union Pacific has
been established. the Chicago Il North
"OStcIH anu the OhlcdgO, Ot. fau1 N Nan
sas City being the only roads which will
prorate with it. The other roads charge
full local rates on any freight which comes
to them from the Union Pacific.
The new crop of corn and the old crop of
wheat are coming on TO the market in large
quantities. Last Saturday the Lake Erie
s. Western was 500 cars short of filing
orders at local points. 1t is thought that
the shipments are yet below the maxim um
Of the next few weeks. If cars can be CON-
manded.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul has
changed its through line to Kansas City,
using its own road to Mason City, Ill,
thence oyer the Iowa Central to Given,
where il strikes the Wabash and uses that
road into Kansas City. This shortens its
line between st. Paul and Kansas City con-
siderably.
s. Welton. general ticket and freight
agent of the Ohio 81 Big Sandy road. spent
Sunday in the city, as the guest of George
Rockwell. Mr.. Welton states that from the
camel coal quarries on that road they are
shipping coal 10 nearly every State in the
Union. Shipments were made last week to
Maine and 10 Nebraska.
President ingalls, and the capitalists who
are with him In his railway deals have been
IN Chicago and that vicinity for a couple of
days. anu this gives color 20 the report
that the Big Four is about 10 gather In the
chicago IL Eastern Illinois road. Mr.
ingalls, and party will pass through here
this morning en- route TO Cincinnati, and
the entire party will leave Cincinnati this
evening for New York city.
Ii is probable that the proposed exten-
s1ons OF the Louisville, New Albany a.
Chicago road will be built by independent
companies and pass under control Of the