The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-03-14
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headquarters at Santa Fe. N. NJ. is IN the
city for q day or two visiting friends.
Oscar Murray, on Saturday last. was
elected vice president and general man
ager of the Day ton ~ Union road. which
is owned jointly by the Big Four and the
pahies.
Twenty years ago, when A. A. Mcleod,
now president of the Philadelphia II Read
ing. was manufacturing mineral water in
Duluth. Mimi. |. ID. Bald win. now district
passenger agent of the Monon, was in his
employ.
John Sloan, conductor on the Pittsburg.
Fort Wayne & Chicago, is at q hotel In
Fort Wayne quite i'll. When on his train,
last Friday, ne was attacked with hemor-
rhage of the lungs, n for Q few hours his
case was critical.
Chairman Cald well, Of the Western Pas
senger Association. has called a meeting for
March IL TO hear the report of the special
committee on worlds fair rates. 1t is stated
that the report will favor q 2O-per-cent re-
duction on regular rates.
James Donohue. formerly commercial
agent OF the Missouri, Kansas d Texas
road. has been appointed general freight
and passen ger agent of the Kansas CITY,
Pittsburg & Gulf. He will also manage
the traffic department of the Kansas City
suburban belt road.
The VandalIa people claim to have proof
that the Big Four's st. Louis division is
cutting rates out of Indianapolis on west
bound business. and it is stated that the
matter is to be referred by General Man.
ager Williams TO Vice President and Gen.
eral Manager Murray, of the Big -Four.
The report of John. Wise, conductor on
Train 20. over the Vandalis. shows that he
yesterday handled on that train, between
SI Louis and Indianapolis. 2l2 local and
ninety through passengers. 1t is said there
10 no train crossing Indiana which pays as
large q revenue per mile run as does this.
Within the last four weeks four veteran
conductors and train disDatchers on the
Erie road havedied- Abraham Wandell died
last week; be had been on the Erie thirty
five years. William Davenport. another
old empioye. IS very feeble. and has given
up q train he had run for over thirty years.
George Bradbury. general manager of the
Lake Erie & Western, last week con-
tracted with the Brooks locomotive works
for ten heavy freight engines, mogul type.
and two thousand tons of steel rails, and
Will expend Sl00.O00 this year in perma-
nent improvements. such as widening wa
ter ways. filing ~trestles. etc.
H. r. Dering, assistant general passenger
agent OF the Pennsylvania lines. with head
quarters at Chicago, is of opinion that
east bound rates ont of Chicago and out of
St. Louis are strictly maintained by all
lines for the first time in many years.
which is one case where the presidents
agreement has been respected.
| luo OlUCl0U0ti, nAUliIOn W Layton
company has contracted for a new bridge
at Hamilton. on the Indianapolis division,
over the Miami river. The structure will
be of Iron and nearly one thousand feet in
length. The iron bridge over the White
water at Connersville is completed, and
trains run over it forty miles an hour.
In the last six months tho Big Four has
added TO its power ten heavy passenger en-
gines. twenty-five switching engines. and
twenty-five ten.wheel freight engines.
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Fifteen of the freight engines have been
put In service on the Chicago division. and
the other ten on the st. LOUIS division.
The statement of the receivers of the
Philadelphia q Reading Company and the
Phiiadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron
Company Of the current liabilities and as
sets of both companies on Feb. 20. 1893.
show the total liabilities to be 2lS,472.-
$3.50 assets. SIS. 709. 1874. 40. making the ex-
cess of current liabilities over assets g.
696. DISCO
j. +. Cavenaugb. car service agent of
the Big Four. has brought out of the refuse
room the desk which j. III. Devereaux used
when president of the Bee Line. 1t is man.
nfaotured from walnut and is a very
snowy piece OF furniture, now that it has
been cleaned and polished. Mr.. Deveraux
IS said TO have worked at this desk for
thirty-one years.
The average loaded car movem emit on the
Big Four the first twelve days of this
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4.23o loaded cars per day. For the CORE
spending twelve days of 1892 the average
movement was I. 800 per day: in 1891, 1898
per day. At no time in the history of the
Big Four has the daily freight tonnage
moved been as heavy as since the first of
this month.
East bound shipments from Chicago last
week aggregated 80. 0S9 tons, against AZ, 654
tons for the corresponding week last year.
Of the weeks traffic the Grand Trunk car
.ta a 0E n Il Ch4.2 n To- ~ D.AA-
burg 81 Ft. Wayne s.4S2. and the Wabash
5.66 tons. The roads are now rapidly GET
ting the best of the freight blockade and
expect that in a short time they will have
things cleared up.
The Rogers locomotive and machine
works. after an existence of sixty years,
has been reorgaDiZed as the the Rogers
Locomotive Company. A curious coin.
cidence is found in the death of George
Holilngsworth. IN his eighty-seventh year.
the day following the change. Mr. Hol-
lingsworth was the oldest locomotive en-
gineer IN this country. and had been con-
nected with these works from the first.
A survey is now being made for an all
line railroad. which, Ii is said. will be
buIlt between Detroit and Toledo some
time this year. The new route will be
called tho Detroit & Toledo Short-line
Railroad. The object of the new road is to
afford Detroit connections with the Penn
sylvania and other roads which do not en-
k& 1At V oD " ~
for the past week laying out the route and
q charter will be applied for in q few days
probably this week.
The general passenger agents of the rail
roads In the Trunk-line Association re-
turned to New York yesterday from Chi
cago, where they held a conference with
the passenger agents In the Central Traffi,
Association. which includes the lines run
ming east from Chicago. An agreement wal
not reached on the question of ALLOWING
stop.over privileges on worlds fair tickets
to which the passenger agents of the West
ern roads objected. and another meetin,
Will be held in Cincinnati the last of THU
week.
For five years Grant Davis carried
morning newspaper in Xenia, and accu
mulated enough money TO come to Indian
apolis and enter a business college abou'
eighteen months ago. On leaving the col
lege he took the position of ~stenographel
in the office OF III. Nj. Bronson. a~ssistan
general passenger agent of the Big Four
Last November he passed a oivil-servicl
examination. and yesterday was notified
that he had been appointed q copyist in tn
Pension Office. at q salary of 5000 o year. Il
APRIL /.
Emperor Franz Josef VIII Not Abdicate.
NEW YORK, March 13.-stephen Won Ucron
the consul OF Austria Hungary at New YOrl
says there Is no truth in the story that EmperO