The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-06
Personal. Local and General Notes.

also releffeu 10 Tile committee Oh eleVen.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Jay Could is reported to have secured con-
troll of the WyandOtte q Northwestern
railroad.
The new engine building for the j.. NJ. &
J.. to be run on the Madison hill, will weigh
40.000 pounds.
been elected directors of the Wheeling &
Lake Erie road.
l.. G.. Morris, who has been connected
with the Ohio, Indiana & Western road for
some years, more recently as travelling pas
senger agent, has resigned.
General Manager Greene, of the Big Four
lines, lett last evening for Cleveland. 1t is
of each month at indianapolis.
General Manager Greene. of the Big Four
line, has already contracted for 100000 ties
and 1900 tons of new steel rail. TO be de-
livered within the next few months.
A. E. Bates. one of the neutrality-suspicious.
on the Louisville. New Albany * Chicago
road, has resigned TO take similar service
with the Louisville & Nashville road.
A mortgage for 81. 400. 900 is being record
ed at county-seats on the line of the Vim
cennes. Oakland City IL greensboro ROAD
in favor of the New York Central Trust
Company.
The stock of the Chicago & Eastern ILL
nois one week ago was selling at s.; yester-
day it sold at 20. a drop of fifteen points, as
a result of its passing the dividend on the
preferred stock.
The Northern Pacific has just closed a
contract with the Baldwin locomotive
works for seventy-five iirst-class locomo-
tives, twenty-five to be passenger, and fifty
freight engines.
The Chicago. st. Louis g. Pittsburg lines
earned, the first twenty-one days of this
month, S66,26 more than in the correspond
Trn rio lost uQnr md Al mar annf ~ <H,.
gain was made ON the indianapolis division.
George II. Hyde. cashier and paymaster
of the Missouri, Kansas IL Texas road, is in
the city for a day or two, visiting job
Lazarus, traffic manager of the Indianap-
oils, Decatur IL Western, who is his brother
in-law.
General Manager Greene Yesterday re-
ceived q letter from Oscar Murray. traffic
of the Big Four lines, stating that
he would return from the South on the 18th
of this month, and that his health was
fully restored.
The traffic department of the Evansville
& Terre Haute road is being removed into
new n more cOmmOdiOus quarters at
Evansville, which are required through
the lines which the Mackey syndicate has
secured control of.
The Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago
Railroad Company is laying out extensive
yards at Conway. tweDty-three miles west
of Pit.sburg. When completed there will
be fifteen miles of track. SO laid out that
trains can be handled with dispatch.
The Union Railway Company yesterday
received from the Thomson steel-works
fwenty-one carloads of new rails, which
will be used at once in laying the second
track north on the Belt road from the
tracks of the Pennsylvania Company.
The Baltimore & Ohio relief department,
which was organized in May, 1850, has
since paid out in benefits to employees or
members of their families 81 10 00f * Tho
largest disbursements in any one month of
1889 were In November. when they reached
S20.6S5.G2.
The Illinois Car-serviee Association will
begin operations on the 18th of this month
II covers several junction points, including
Peoria Twelve roads are interested in 1t.
Herbert Walker has been selected as its
general manager. Chicago does not come
under his jurisdiction.
ID. i. Martin. general passenger agent of
the big our zines, has gotten ont a very
complete and easily understood folder.
from which one can readily learn the time
of trains on this extensive system and IFS
connections IL Is gotten up in pamphlet
form and of a size to carry III the pocket.
Freight men are beginning to fear that
east-bound business Is TO drop off sharply
within the next few days. The country
roads in Illinois, and In most of the grain-
producing States. are almost impossible.
and prices of corn are so low East that the
HOA0 III Il AnOl Dc lOEWl1Ueu.
Charles Watts, superintendent of the Chr
cago division of the C., St. l.. a. L. road
claims to have the fastest locomotive ON
the pennsylvania system. Ii is q new en-
CINE, class 20" and has a sixty-s,x-inch
~drivlDg-wheel. A few days ago this eagine
hauled a tram of four cars for several miles
at a speed of siXty-eight miles an hour. and
lt Is claimed by the engineer that its high
est speed was not then reached.
William Turreff. superintendent of motive
power of the Big Four lines. is in the city,
and spent n portion of yesterday with GEN
eral Manager Greene at Brightwood. talking
over contemplated improvements. Mr..
Turreff7s idea is 20 have the shops SO en-
larged that twenty. engines eau be housed
at one time for repairs. aud he wants addi-
flonal buildings erected TO do all the re-
pairing 10 the passenger equipment nc these
shops.
Within the last ninety days three loco
motive-works ave been secured for West
ern cities. The Grant ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. of
Paterson, n. j., go To Chicago: the New
York ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Rome City. Y. Y.
go to st. Louis. and the Strong locomotive
works to Cincinnati. liz would seem that
with the advantages which Indianapolis
offers one of these establishments should
have been secured for this city. and a little
ABORT In that direction would have donht-