The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-01-09
Personal, Local and General Notes.

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Personal, Local and General Notes.
Conductor May, of the Peoria & Eastern.
Is laid mp with grip.
j. III. Sutor, of GAINESVILLE. o.. has been
appointed general manager OF the Zanes-
vile n Ohio road. dating from Jan. 9.
j. A. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria d Eastern. who has been Ill several
days. 10 improving, and expects to be out
by Monday next
Eight hundred men are employed ct the
shops OF the Pennsylvania Company at
Fort Wayne. Ind. and In some departments
the men are working overtime. so crowded
are the shops with work.
The management of the Kansas City.
Fort Scott & Memphis road is bossting
that the road has been in operation since
1868 and has never killed q passenger nor
had head-end collision.
Charles Nelson. general superintendent
of the Cincinnati. Hamilton 81 Dayton
lines, has recommended to President Wood
ford that he purchase for the company
twelve or fifteen more heavy engines.
The Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul
earned nearly sS00O0.0OO in 1891. In De-
cember the earnings were S6SS, TO moro
than in December. 1890, and the increase of
earnings for the year was over IS. 600, 600.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy road
10 receiving new freight equipment at the
rate of forty box cars day. The general
freight agent says there ia business enough
In sight TO keep every wheel turning for
year.
1t is stated officially that the annual re-
port of the Baltimore d Ohio South
western road. for it's present fiscal year.
will show the largest business and earn
ings which the road has had in its history.
Both the Dassen ger and freI ght departments
show handsome gains.
Many of the bridges on the Whitewater
road are being replaced with new ones.
One was completed this week over Cedar
Grove creek. and contracts have been let
for new bridges over Garrison creek. WILL
Jams creek and Simonds creek. Two Of
them are long structures
John Newell. president of the Lake Shore
road. has so far recovered from his recent
illness as to be on duty again. Mr.. Newell
is credl ted with travelling more miles an
nually than any railway magnate in the
country, and he seldom rides over other
than roads under his supervision.
President Ingalls, contemplates making
the new worlds fair trains, which will be
put on In few weeks between Chicago
and Cincinnati. leaving each termini at
midday, solid trains through to Washing
ton. ID. C.. running over the Chesapeake x
Ohio between Cincinnati and Washington.
Since the first of the mouth the Lake
Erie q Western has received five of the
motive-works are building for the COM
pany. The engine proper weighs 100000
pounds, has q boiler fifty eight inches in
diameter and eighteen by twenty -four-inch
cylinders.
Under the timetable which went into ef-
feet on the Cincinnati, Wabash * Michi-
gan road on Monday last three trains are
run daily. except Sunday, between North
Vernon and Benton Harbor. most of them
SO scheduled as TO make very unsatisfactory
connections with roads which the C.. w. q
III. crosses.
Prospects are favorable to extending the
long talked-of Mahoning road. now under
another name. A report comes from Find
lay, o.. that the company has secured the
right of way at several points whore troub
has been experienced, and will now CON-
plete the road to Fort Wayne and to Green
the Big Four.
George B. Dunbar, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Burlington road in Mis-
souri,. has resigned and accepted position
in the East. Southwestern Passenger and
Ticket Agent Orr, with headquarters at
Kansas City. will take his position, and b.
John. Kansas City passenger and ticket
agent, will fill the place made vacant by
MIR. Orr's promotion.
President Thomas. of the Louisville.
New Albany IL Chicago company. has au-
| thoriZed General Manager McDoel to at
| once replace every bridge on the Indian
| apolls division, between indianapolis and
| Monon, with new iron structures, and yes
| terday the chief engineer. with his force.
begun making measurements preparatory
to letting the contracts.
1t is stated that the recently elected di-
reetors of the Louisville, New Albany q
bought the Sso u n% stoo oI" President dent
Thomas 10 quoted as saying that the new
| equipments and improvements to be sup
piled from the proceeds of the new stock
will enable the company to increase its
earnings 81. O00, 600 the present year.
If Ia sfef a1 hat in fhs voor 1901 m, zorro 6ra-
men were promoted to the position of loco
motive engineers than in any former year.
This 10 due to several causes; first. the
heavy business the roads have been doing
second, an unusually large number of vet
eran engineers left the footboard, giving
place to younger men.
II. III. Bronson. assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four lines. returned
| yesterday from On extended Western bust
ness trip. and is of opinion that passenger
business Will be good tho present year. He
states that he was struck with the good
name Indianapolis Ia getting - q business
center. it standing among the foremost OF
Western cities in the opinion of business
men at prominent points.
General Manager Joseph Wood and John
4. Miller. general superintendent of the
Southwestern division of the Pennsylvania
lines. spent yesterday in the city looking
through the shops, the freight depots and
the yards. which. in each case. need en-
larging. SO rapidly IL the business of the
company increasing at this point. This
morning. in company with Harry Miller,
superin tendent of the Louisville division,
they will 60 TO Louisville to inspect ter
minals there.
John Lazarus. traffic manager of the In
dianspolis, DecD.Sr & Western road, states
| that should tho >arnings of the road the
ends june 80, 1884, be % good as in 1891,
and they are likely to be much larger. the
increase of the hrst half Of the year will
bring the earnings of the l., ID. q w. road
for the present. fiscal year mp to over q half
crease over any former year since the road
was opened for business.
The lves-Staypor deal is again brought
| to the front through q suit against the Gin
cInnsti. Hamilton & Dayton company,
brought by j. b. Manning to enforce the
payment of q dividend on four hundred
| shares of c., III. x ID. preferred stock. The
| cOmpany's defense is that the stock 10 part
| of the spurious stock issued by Ii. =. Ives
| and was purchased by the present holder
after warning of Its spurious character. 1t
is stated that all the Ives stock has been
| Cancelled except 1900 shares, of which this
four hundred is part.
| The Vandalia will spend S2O0,0O0 this
] year in improving it's dock facilities at st.
Joseph. The recent purchase of river front
made by the company is Looked upon by
| those who understand the situation as q
master stroke. When the Vandalia pro-
| posed to establish good dock facilities at
that point the river-front property was