The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-13

NJ. f. Ingalls,. president of the Big Four
lines, leaves for the East to-day. to he ali
sent ten days.
The business of the Vandala at st. Jo-
seph. Mich, has become so important that
the company has placed q switching engine
and crew there.
A steam shovel and two construction
trains were set at work on Monday on the
Terre Haure 4 Indianapolis road straight
.ening the curve at ReelsvIlle.
A mass-meeting of the rate clerks will be
held at Pittsbur9 April %. TO consider sum-
iner tourist rates from points in the terri
tory OF the Central Traffic Association.
On Monday last, at the shops of the Penn
sylvania Company IN Fort Wayne. was
commenced the building of one hundred
furniture cars for the Western sy stem.
An excursion off the Lake Erie & West
ern road will be rnn to-day under the
auspices OF the New York store. Train No.
9, arriving at 1870 A. NJ, will be run IN two
sections.
reinstated agent of the Big Four at Leb-
anon. Ind, position he left few weeks
ago TO take q similar position with the In
diana Midland.
s. X. Blair. superintenden mt of transpor-
tation of the Nickel plate road has OBJ
tanned few weeks leave of absence. and
Will spend the time at West Baden Springs,
he being In i'll health.
X. w. Crockett. agent of the Wabash
road at Delphi, last Thursday completed
his twenty-first year as agent of the COM
pany at that point. He was with the CON-
pany some years before taking this agency.
e.. NJ. Emmett, l.. +. Force and A. b.
Starr. officials of the Pennsylvania lines
west of Pittsburg. have gone to Harris
burg. Pa. TO select standard frog for the
Southwestern and the Northwestern sYs-
TENS.
A. II. Hanson. general passenger agent of
the Illinois Central has gone South for a
few weeks with his wife, who Is In i'll
health. G.. A. Hines, who represents the
road In this territory. accompanied them as
far as Indianapolis.
The connecting link between the POUCH
keepsie bridge system and the New York q
New England road will be completed this
week when another all-rail through line.
quite direct, between the West and Boston
can really be established.
That dining cars properly operated help
a road to business is evidenced on the Chi
cago, Burlington ~ Quincy. Its excellent
service in this direction had much to do
with the roads securing forty or more
lodges Of the Knights Templars for Den
yer.
The Big Four has perfected arrangements
with crossing roads for interlocking sig
nails on its Sc. Louis division at Kansas.
Paris and Windsor. and contemplates put
ting In interlocking switches with the In
dianaDolls Belt road. and at Nation and
Venice, Iii.
The Ohio Valley Railway Company ex-
poets to have it's trains running between
Evansville. Ind. and Hopkinsville. Ky,
by July ]. The heavy rains of late have
given the contractors n good deal of
trouble. causing washouts at troublesome
places to fill.
ID. j. Mackey, president of the several
roads centering at Evansville. says that the
Evansville IL Terre Haute road. after pay
ing all fixed charges. including those of its
proprietary lines and 8 per cent. on Its
stock for the current fiscal year, will show
q surplus of S270,000
The Vandaha inspection party reached
here at 3 P. NJ, yesterday. and to-day will
go over the I. III. IL l.. division. They yes
terday ran down the Center Point branch,
which is developing considerable business.
President McKeen said that probably this
branch would be extended several miles
further south this year
The stockholders of the Pittsburg Gin
cinEati. Chicago Il st. Louis road held
their annual election in Pittsburg yester-
day. The directors having been classified,
but three members were elected, namely:
Briggs s. Cunningham, of Cincinnati,
George S. Willard. of Chicago. and II. II:
Houston, of Philadelphia. The board will
organize at later date.
General Manager McDoel and Treasurer
w. Ii. Lewis. of the Monon. were at Craw-
louisville yesterday. and paid SyGO.63 into
the county treasury, which was accepted.
This is the amount of former taxes and
not what IS assessed against the road by
5000. The amount paid will be final if
the roads win the contests now being made
against the new assessments.
4. G.. Wells. superintendent of the ST.
Louis division of the Big Four, has been
selected as chairman of q committee ap-
pointed by the Superip tendents' Associa-
tion of st. Louis to look over and recon-
mend the best interlocking device to af-
ford protection to trains at st. Louis
Bridge junction, eight roads being inter-
ested, to protect the trains of which will
require at least ffty-lever machine.
The Columbus & Hooking Valley road
now has one hundred locomotives and 1928
freight cars Of all descriptions which Is
nearly double the equipment that was on
the road when &. {. Waite became it's
president and general manager. President
Waites annual report shows that the road
in its last fiscal year was operated on So 50
per cent. of its gross earnings. which was
O.SS per cent. less than in the preceding
year.
The Vandalia now has twenty-six miles
of siding at Terre Haute. but the business
of the several divisions centering there has
so increased that much moro room is
needed at that point, and the company now
propose TO lay out additional yards near
the fair grounds. which will give them
In the year 1891 an average of 1,550 cars
were handled daily at TerIe Haute.
local railroad official last week re-
ceived letter from VIM. ID. Ewing, assis t.
ant su Derintendent of the Fitchburg road
formerly with the Mackey lines in which
he stated that he was we'll pleased with his
position, and was accomplishing some
needed reforms. Another railroad official
met one of the directors of the Fltchburs
road recently in New York, asked how Mr.
Ewing was doing, and he spoke in the most
complimentary terms of his services
The presidents of lines comprising the
Trunk-line Association met in New York
yesterday and discussed east and west
bound freight rates On account of the
early opening of navigation the rates have
not been strictly maintained within the
past month. All the representatives pres
ent pledged themselves to maintain the
tariff rates. which are on the basis of Is
cents for first GLASS by rail and 81 by rail
and lake between New York and Chicago.
James Landers. trainmaster of the Indi-
annapolis ~ Nlncennes road. returned from
the wreck ut Brooklyn yesterday, and in
stead. he says. of SIT, 600 damage being done
the engine was damaged $50. an old freight
car was burned except the trucks. and the
freight burned spoken of in the telegram
sent over the country was load of sand.
ages In a wreck. but the i. 81 V. officials
think that In this case the word exagger.
ating does not cover the ground.
superintendent Wells. of the st. Louis
division of the Big Four, has suggested to
the agents along the line that they clean
ND about their stations, and it has led them
to taking some pride in the matter. sodding
over the unsightly places and giving the
better class of stations q more inviting ap-
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