The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-28
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal, Local and General News Of Inter
est to the Public.

Personal. Local and General News of Inter
est to the Public.
Z. Fl. Hunt. of the Merchants Dispatch
at st. Louis, is spending the holiday season
with friends in this city.
Henry Fraser. general agent of the Big
Four az this point. is spending Q few days
with friends in Rock Island.
p. Doherty. who has been In the White
line Off CO at this point for some years. 1t Is
feared. is fatally i'll. He is now with his
parents at Union City.
Frank Ford, who was chief engineer of
the Decline for thirty years. has been In
tho city for q couple of days. connecting
business with pleasure.
George NJ. Burns, private secretary of
Joseph Ramsey, jr, general manager OF the
Big Four lines. arrived yesterday and will
now make Indianapolis his home.
E. +. Brituey, now with the Big Four.
will on Jan. l take the position of chief
claim clerk of j. Q. Van Wrinkle, general
superintendent of the St Louis Terminal
Company.
r. F. Marshall. secretary and treasurer
of the National Yardmasters' AssOciation,
has been in the CITY for a compile of days.
the guest of j. @. Hicks, president OF the
association.
John Newell. president of the Lake Shore
road, reports the outlay this year for new
buildings. second track. sidings, heavier
iron bridges and In reducing grades to have
been 81, Ol5, COO.
The present management of the Ohio &
mississippi Is purchasing no new equip.
ment or making any important improve
ments to the property. awaiting the DrOs-
pective changes.
Robert Blee, who. for many years, was an
official on the Decline, was in the city yes
terday looking up some business in CON
nection with Brightwood. he having bcen
interested in the founding of that town.
The one hundred passenger coaches which
the Gilbert Car Company is building for
the New York Central road will be equipped
with steam-hestlnR apparatus furnished by
the Consolidated Car-heating Company.
Commissioners Donald has called q meet
ing of the passenger department. of the
Central Traffic Association for to-day ut
Chicago to consider the question of \ uni
form basis for theatrical and excursion
rates.
Parties are securing options on ground
south of Washington street and east of
Alabama. and 1t is thought the options are
obtained by the Monon people, who are de-
termined to have Independent terminals at
Indianapolis.
Leonard Crossman, who for q long series
of years was master mechanic of the Gen.
trail road OF New jersey, and well known In
the Master Mechanics Association. being
one of it's founders, died last week In
Elizabethport. N. j.
The ten-wheel engine first built for the
Big -Four, No. $50. has Just been turned out
OF the Brightwood shops rebuilt. 1t is pro-
nounced by expert mechanics {" BIO the
handsomest piece of machinery now run
nlng on Indianapolis lines.
General Manager Ramsey, of the Big
Four. was in Findlay yesterday, looking
after matters in connection with the Find
lay Belt road. To-day he will go to Colum-
bus to look after improvements the Big
| Four 10 making at that point.
Tn railroad crossing war between the
Missouri. Kansas IL Texas and the Kansas
City. Fort Smith IL Nevada railroads.
which promised to develop into serious
trouble. is now at a stand-still. pending
the result of the legal controversy.
1t is stated that the negotiations for a
pooling agreement between the Hockin g
Valley coal operators and the railroad com.
panies Is nearly completed. Under the new
pool shippers will receive 80 cents o ton
more than the present circular price.
r. b. I. Peiroc, trustee and general man.
ager of the Indianapolis Decatur & West
ern, and party. who went to the Pacific
coast q month ago yesterday. have lett San
Francisco for home. expecting TO arrive in
Indianapolis or Saturday of this week.
1t is stated officially that the tonnage of
the Pennsylvanla lines has increased on It's
Chicago and Louisville division in the last
two years more than on any division of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, the
increase being fully $50 per cent. since 1890.
Under the new schedule Tram 81 over tie
Pennsylvania lines and the Vsndalia makes
the run between Jersey City and st. Louis
and Jersey City and Chicago seven and q
half hours quicker than does Tram /. which
for years was known all over the country
as q fast mail train.
The new combination smoking and bag
gage-cars which Barney d. Smith are build
ing for the Big Four are of superior build
and convenience. Besides having ample
space for baggage. there is a smoking
apartment which will accommodate com.
fortably forty persons.
Harry Miller, superintendent of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
lines, states tbat for some time past the
earnings of the division have shown an In.
crease of 81 900 a day Over the correspond
ing period last year. and, like all other d.
visions. the showing would be better had
the company all the power needed.
Shipments of four. grain and provisions
from Chicago to the sea- board by roads in
the Central Traffic Association last week
amounted TO ~. APO tons. against IL. 1S5 for
the preceding week. an increase of 5.34l
ing week last year. OF this traffic the Van.
derbilt lines carried So per cent, the Penn.
sylvania lines Is. the Chicago L. Grand
Trunk 10. and the Baltimore Il Ohio 5.
The monthly record of the Railroad Ga.
zette of railway accidents in the United
4 olbbco bhoS III WON
100 accidents, in which sixty-one persOnl
were killed and 100 injured. The acciden,
list includes LOG collisions and eighty.foul
derailments. There were during the month
eleven passengers killed and forsy-four EN-
ployes. Eight of the accidents occurred OF
Indiana roads. three being on Indianapolil
lines.
p. o. Colliver, prosecutor Of Putnam
county. has brought suit in ,14 cases. in
the Putnam Circuit Court, for violations OF
the blackboard bulletin law. OF this mum
Der 357 are filed against the Vandalla. 81!
against the Mon0n. 3l9 against the Bis
Four and 1873 against the Indianapolis. De
catur ~ Western. 1t the full penalty OF
the law is enforced the fines will amount
to Sl4. 500. one-half of that sum going to the
prosecuting attorney.
Owing to the removal of General Man
ager kamsey's entire office force from Gin
cinnat, TO indianapolis on Jan. l. Messrs
Alfred Bean. Robert Pickard and possibly
others who have for o considerable period
constituted a part of the office force of the
general superintendent will be relieved
The gentlemen have proved tSemselves
most efficient in general and division Off CT
work, and their retirement will be regret
ted by their feliow-employes.
1t is said TO be the intention of tho Chico
go 81 Eastern Illinois. in connection will
the Indianapolis, Decatur 81 Western. L