The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-10
Personal, Local and General Notes,


of the consummation of the scheme.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
II. w. Hibbard, general freight agent of
the VaDdalia, is in the city on official busi-
meas.
The Ohio & Mississippi earned, in April,
$685. ,005. an increase over the earnings of
April, 1889, of S27. .547.
Oscar Murray, traffic manager of the Big
Four lines. left last night for New York, to
be absent until the middle of next week.
The Mackey system of roads has become
so extensive that their timetables OCCUPY
five pages In the Official Railway Guide.
The Lake Erie g. Western is carrying east
out of Indianapolis fully 80 per cent. of the
hardwood lumber shipped to Eastern
markets.
The Lake Erie & Western begins May
well. showing an increase In earnings the
first week of s., S64 over earnings of the cor
responding week of 1889.
ID. F. Whitcomb. superintendent of the
Union Railway Company and Belt road.
has appointed A. A. Zion master of trans
portation of the Belt road.
West bound freight rates out of here are
said to be considerably demOralized The
Yandalia and the Indianapolis, Decatur s.
Western are said to be the leaders in the
break.
The Chicago & Alton has declared it's
regular 2-Der-cent. quarterly dividend, pay
able June 2. This is the only Western road
which has maintained its former rate of
dividends.
L. A. Ford has called the attention of the
agents In the passenger department to the
fact that the Pennsylvania Is not COM
mIssion-paying road, by discharging GER
tain agents. who have, confary to instruc-
tions, been receiving commlbs.~us.
James Phillips who for ms nv years was
a passenger conductor on the Jeffersonville
Madison Il Indianapolis road, and more re-
Gently superintendent of one of the roads
Sradlating from Fort Worth, is spending q
few days with friends In this city.
The Burlington yesterday posted four
dollar passenger rate from Kansas City to
st. Louis. few minutes later the Wa
bash named the same figure. and in the aft
ernoOn the Alton and the Missouri Pacific
followed suit. The low rate is cut of so
cents.
Vice. president McCrea. General Manager
Wood. General Superintendent Miller and
the several division superintendents of the
Pennsylvania, yesterday went over the
third division and spent three hours at
Elwood inspecting the new glass-works
at that point.
The Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas CITY
road is said to be cutting sharply into the
business of the Wabash. east-bound More
especially does the former suffer in its live
stock traffic. In future the competition be-
tween these two lines bids fair to be of no
small proportions.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton has
ordered from the Schenectady locomotive
works i've passenger engines of the same
type as No. 129 which is making such a
favorable record for speed in hauling the
heavy express trains on the Cincinnati.
Hamilton IL Indianapolis division.
The Railway Age says that over 1.1Oo
miles have already been added to the track
have been in all 944 new roads begun or in
corporated since the LIST of January last
The paper predicts that the construction of
1890 viii exceed that of 1889, when $500
miles were built.
The general managers and the general
passenger agents of the Western roads are
making commendable progress toward re-
organizing their respective associations on a
more permanent basis than ever before, and
within the next thirty days it is likely that
the rate-curting will be at an end, and for
some time TO come.
The Mackey lines show good earnings for
April The Chicago IL Eastern Illinois
shows an Increase this year over earnings
OF April: 1889, of So. $50; the Evansville n
Ierre Haute an increase of Si1.S14; the
Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis an in
crease OF O.4SS, and the Peoria, Decatur IL
Evansville an increase of S6.S3S.
The beginning of the Lake Shore system
wac the Erie & Kalamazoo road. thirty
three miles long. and IL took four hours for
the trst train 10 make the trip. The COM
pany then owned one locomotive. The
main lines now cover !, 400 miles and of
this mileage 5I4 is double track. The
equipments of the system axe now So loco
motives. 2ss passenger cars and Is, 706 freight
cars.
The chief engineer of the Big Four lines
has received instructions to hereafter pur-
chase no steel rails weighing less than six
ty-seven pounds TO the yard. and all light
rails in the system. as fast AZ taken ont. are
20 he placed In the side-tracks and the old
iron rails sold. West of PittsburQ the Penn
sylyania lines have made seveptv-pound
rails the standard, and east of Pittsbura
an eighty-pound rail.
The east-bound cotton movement In now
down TO minimum volume During the
business year ending April 80 there were
forwarded from st. Louis over the Eastern