The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-12

the Lake Erie belt by the Big Four people.
The new line will DO about two miles long
aud will tonch the pulp-mill. five big iron
and steel-mills and four glass works. lt
now requires SIX switching engines In
Muncie.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg has
discharged it's train collectors
The Chicago Il Erie earned. in October.
e237 e34, an increase over October, 1891, of
s.. 62O.
The management of the Grand Trunk has
agreed with the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen on q scale of wages to apply to the
whole ystem, to go into effect Jan. !. 1893
The Yandalia company has put one of Its
steam ehovels at work on the recently ac-
CURED Terre Hante IL Peoria. and two con-
struction trains. with full complement of
men.
The Railroad Commission of South Caro-
lima has issued it's annual report, which
shows that the State now has 1881 miles of
road. increasing the mileage in the last year
but forty miles
The vandalia and Big Four were yester-
they were ready to receive freights for New
Orleans, as usual. the strike troubles hav-
ing been adjusted.
E. A. Ford. chairman of the Columbian
passenger committee. has issued q call for
another meeting. on Nov. %. at which time
it will be decided whether to continue or
disband the organization.
r. M. Rogers. general manager of the
Hick Stock-car Company, was in the city
yesterday for the purpose of examining the
pattern car of five hundred which the In
diana Car and Foundry Company is to
build.
1t is understood that the stock holders of
| the Indianapolis. Rockport 81 Chattanooga.
&C their meeting next week, will elect
| Charles DePauw president of the COM
| pany, he having become financially inter-
ested in the enterprise.
Thomas Noonan, general manager of the
Central States Dispatch. has returned from
| the East. The dispatch is gaining great
| favor with the Eastern roads over which it
| operates, and all show a readiness to put
| In their full quota of cars.
The improvements which the Pennsyl-
! vania Company have been making at Brad
| ford are nearing completion. and freight
traffic of the Indianapolis division can be
handled much moro readily at that point.
as tho side-track room is increased six
miles
The new Union Station at Terre Haute
| will not be ready for occupancy before
/ Jan. l. The contractors have experienced
much trouble in getting the material.
| which was shipped from the East. il being
delayed By the Buffalo strike and the great
rush of freight
A halfdozen strong roads are said to be
| on q still-hnnt to secure conrol of the New
York and New England. the Can adam Pa
cine and the Boston s Maine being of the
road is gathered In by any company it's
stock may go to par.
/ Theexecutive off GERS of all the trunk lines
and of all the roads in the Central Traffic
territory yesterday received circular let
ters asking them to attend meeting of the
lines in New York. Nov. 81. for q general
| conference No intimation was given as to
what subjects are to come mp
The Grant ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Company
wall now GO on and build Its works on the
ground purchased near Chicago. the Su.
| prone Court of Illinois having decided
that Mrs. Hetty Green has no claim on the
land where the works are located. The de-
clsion involves property valued at g.
| OC0,C00.
The Big four yesterday completed the
| lay ing OF 15S miles Of new steel rail on It's
system. divided as follows Cleveland d.
vision told Bee-line), twenty-five miles;
Cincinnati division. seventeen miles; St.
Louis division. forty miles; Chicago di.
vision. hfty-six miles; Peoria IL Eastern,
twenty miles.
c. Z. Fulton. commissioner of the Chica.
60 and Ohio River Traffic Association. ad-
mits that the passenger department. is In O
very demoralized condition ct present. He
Is somewhat discouraged. so bitter Is the
sylvania, for the fight seems to be between
them. the Big Four being the greatest SUI
ferer but not the originator of the trouble.
DR.. Talbot, medical examiner of the
rennsylvania Voluntary Relief Associa-
tion at this point. has received in the first
ten days OF November eiehty-eighs appli-
cations for membership. The revision of
the associations bylaws is proving just
the change needed to make the organiza.
ton popular with the employees. All over
the system they are now eager to become
members.
The trunk lines are about placinp orders
Tor new equipment. more especially loco
motives. The Philadelphia 4 Reading will
place an order for forty locomotives for the
I. X. proper. and the same number for
the Lehigh Valley. The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and the Baltimore e.
Ohio. which have been so seriously troubled
with biockades. will. within the next nine
ty days. place large orders for locomotives.
The three monster passen ger engines " Inch
the Nandaiia recently received are now
hauling the heavy express trains between
Ierre Haute and ST. Louis Being much
the largest passenger engines now runainG
into st. Louis. they are attracting q good
deal OF attention. Engine 191. Thomas
Memnefee engineer. with ten cars. made
mp forty-seven minutes on the fast time
which Train IL makes between Terre
Haute and St Louis.
The directors of the Mobile s. Ohio are
considering proposition which, about a
year ago. was suggested by ID. J. Maclxey
president of the Evansville lines, who az
that time was interested IN the Mobile *
Ohio. It's the completion of the Montgoni.
cry, Tuscaloosa u Memphis so rs to max
1t connecting link between the Mobile
NJ Ohio and the Alabama Midland which
would give the Mobile ~ Ohio an outlet tC
the Southeast and a through line from st
Louis TO Florida and Georgia points.
The last formality in the construction Of
the 81 Louis new Union Depot was com
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