The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-20

total of 2.s54.56s cars; average detention
lisa days. The Chicago Csr-service As
ISOLATION handled the largest number, 259.-
SIS cars: the Indianapolis Association
handled loo. COZ.
: The railroads centering at Kansas CITY
are again suffering from q car shortage.
The grain men sutfer the most. but other
shippers are unable TO ship any great
amount Of freight. In the territory con-
tiguous TO Kansas City the estimate OF
eight thousand cars.
A. NJ. Stimson. general agent of the Big
Four. on Saturday purchased from Judge
~. L. Nipton twenty acres of ground near
Lafayette. including she beat gravel bank
In the northern part OF the State. The
gravel wall be used In ballasting the road
between Lafayette and The
consideration was $4,000.
A Pennsylvania official remarked yester-
day that the excellence of the methods OF
the Pennysylvania Company in filing va
cancies IN official positions as they occur
10 aptly illustrated by the death of Second
Vice-president DuBarry. Thirty men in
order as subordinate officials are promoted
without any friction or al associate Official
taking umbrage.
the Big Four. spent yesterday in the city
among the various Offices. talking with the
heads of departments. and returned to Gin
cinnati last night for o conference with
IICslQcut 1uRhiio. men 8bktQ IL tltEc
were to DO any change In division superin-
tendents. be answered that he dad not
know Of any being necessary.
w. h. Bells. secretary and treasurer OF
the Railway Officials and Employees Asso-
citation. has returned from Hot Springs.
To-day the directors of the association
viii elecs . PRESIDENT, as succcssor to l.. ID.
Hubbard, deceased. This will mean the
election of q vice-president also. as I'M
doubtedly Chalmers Brown. the present
vice, Will be elected president.
Harry Crawford. ST.. is in the city as one
of the attorneys in the case of Pope, re-
ceiver of the Indianapolis. Delphi IL Chi
cago road, which the Monon purchased at
foreclosure sale. 1t is an old case. dating
way MI. feS ford do will 81 turn sn,' his o a,tent ion
to STRENGTHENING the legal snarls the lndi-
ana Midland has drifted into since he has
been East.
M. d. Woodford, president of the Gin
cinpati, Hamilton q Dayton, has just con-
tracted Tor ten new passenger engines and
twenty-five new coaches. TO be delivered
between now and March !. The engines
Will ell be heavy. and OF the ten-wheel
type. This, added to the company's present
equipment, will make 1t the best provided
road, according to it's mileage. in passenger
equipment in Ohio or Indiana. 1t Is stated
that the Monon has made equally large
contracts for power and passenger equip
mont.
E. A. Peck, general superintendent of the
Big -Four, retired last night from that posi-
ton. after twenty-six years of faithful
service. first on the Decline and later on
the Big -Four. He already has O good POSI-
tion. open to him. but he will probably take
q few weeks rest before he takes hold of
active work again. There was q report
current yesterday afternoon that Mr.. Peck
had been offered the presidency OF the
Citizens Street-railway Company, but he
said last night that the matter had not
been even mentioned to him.
i. +. Smith. superintendent of the Penn
sylvania Lines Voluntary Relief depart
ment west of Pittsburg. has issued the
monthly bulletin for November. 1t shows
that IS 1850 WAS disbursed in death benefits
from accidents, and $4,000 in death benefits
from natural causes; s.. 1873 in accident
benefits. and So, 449. so in sickness benefte.
making the total disbursement of the
month s19. 6S2.1 10. Eleven death benefits
were paid, AL accident benefits, and 439
sickness benefits. In the forty-one months
paid out in death benefits S2S6. 06O, in
disablement benefits, s4Os. $50. OF; total relief
fund benefits paid, S6g4, 500
THE smooth manner in which matters
move along on che Vandalia system" said
a railroad man, lis due to the fact that not
In twenty-five years has there been an off,
cial dropped; from the beginning men hold
ing of1ioial positions have been promoted
rs new offices were created, as they have
been with the great growth of the system.
Some In the train service have resigned.
but In each case to take some Off cial posi-
ton on another road which carried with it
o higher title or larger salary. There ie
not another road IN the country where off,
cial positions nave beer SO well held as
since VIM. X. McKeen accepted the presi-
dency Of the Terre Haute a. Indianapolis
in 1857"