The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-24

vanced and what would be lost as the re-
suit of a sale. PROFESSIONALLY private in
dividuals and stock jobbers have fattened
at the peoples expense, owing TO the Union
! Pacific deals. but all possibility of that
would be stopped by the foreclosure of the
! property. The time has arrived for n set
Element of this Union Pacific business.
which concerns not only the West. but
large interests In the East"
TRAFFIC Notes.
| The Pennsylvania lines handled at
Indianapolis in the week ending May %
@ total of 1868 cars. of which number 1906
were loaded. being 1s6 more loaded cars
than were received and forwarded In the
| week ending April is.
With north and sonfh lines the north
bound movement of loaded cars consider
ably exceeds the south bound. THIS Is due
| TO the shipments to the worlds fair and the
| prosperity of the car works in the North
ern States. they using u good deal OF South
| ern pine.
With most east-and-west lines the load
| ed car movement west is in excess OF eest
bound. The indianapolis division of the
| Pennsylvania lines last week broug nt into
INDIANAPOLIS 92l against $50 loaded cars
west !ss against sse Srousht ,n
The Big Four lines handled at Indianapo-
| lis total OF e.50S cars. of which number g..
| eSi were loaded. Including the Peoria IL
Eastern lines. the Big Fonr doing it's
terminal work at this point. total OF H.
ls5 cars were handled, of which number
1884 were loaded. For the Big Four
| proper 1872 more loaded cars were handled
than In the week ending April is.
| With east-apd- west lines the percentage
OF empty-car movement the last few day 8
has largely increased. while with north. and
south lines an unusually small percentage of
the cars handled are empty. Usually with
| east and west lines about one-sixth of the
total car movement 10 empty cars, while
4 Ina II nf,al .sSh
the east-and- west lines and dropped to
| about one-eight with the n0rth-and- south
| lines
| Pereono'. Local and General Not,S
w. II. Dobbins. passenger conductor on
| the Vandalia. Is SO i'll as to DO confined at
/ home.
George w. PRESCOTT, superintendent Of
| motive power of the Vandaiia lines, is 80
| Ill as 10 contine him to the house.
The Louisville. New Albany 81 Chicago
| road earned in the second week OF April
| Sol. l65, an increase this year OF $3.50.
| George L. Pennington, secretary and gen.
| eral agent of the Vandalia, spent Sunday
in the city. lie was accompanied by his
| wife.
| The Chicago & Eastern Illinois earned In
the second week of April S7S 600 an increase
| $500.
| H. r. Dering, assistant general passen ger
| agent of the Pennsylvania lines. is IN the
| city arranging to remove his family to
| Chicago.
Since 1853 the Terre Haute & Indianapolis
| road has paid to its stockholders S69ls per
| cent. in cash dividend de and 45 per cent. In
stock dlvidends
Indianapolis roads are to be we'll repre-
sented at the annual meeting of railway
| teiegraphers. which 10 TO be held on May 10
| In Toronto. Canada.
| H. W. Higgins has succeeded j. L. Nc
| Bride as SUPERINTENDENT of terminals of the
| Illinois Central at Chicago. Mr.. Higgins
comes from the G.. b. IL q.
| George w. Boyd. assistant general pas
who came west with the John Bull train.
returned TO Philadelphia yesterday.
| A. c. Kendall. general ticket and passen-
/ ger agent of the New York & New England
| for long series of years. has rendered
his resignation. to take effect May l.
After May l the Santa Fe win discon.
| Time running Its passenger train crew
| through between Kansas City and Chicago.
making Fort Madison the division point
| Rufus L. Stevens, the Oldest Nan in the
| employ of the Pennsylvania Company at
its shops in Fort Wayne, died Saturday.
| He commenced work as an uph olstereT in the
| company's shops In 1865.
| FL. Plummer. now chief clerk and right
| hand man of the Louisville. New Albany IL
Chicago freight department., on Saturday
| completed his tenth year of service on the
| Monon. he beginning as night operator at
| Indianapolis.
X. o. Wagner, agent of the Grand Rapid q
q Indiana at Portland, Ind, has been
| transferred TO Kalamazoo q more I'M
| portant station. The Portland agency will
be placed in charge of Will Nichols of
| Winchester, Ind.
new coaches to the New York Central on a
contract TO build twenty-five at the rate of
three week. These works last week
| shipped six fine passenger coaches to the
| Evansville IL Terre Haute road.
| c. +. DAILY. general passenger agent of
| the Lake Erie ~ Western, who has been in
| Chicago several days, returned yesterday,
| He states that the l.. +. az w. will have
| five trains between Indianapolis and Mich
ignn City,. running in connection daily
| with the best boats which ply between
Michigan City and Chicago.
The sample tracks of the PennsyIvanla
| Company at the worlds fair are four hun
dred feet IN length with double track
| rails one hundred feet long. weighing leo
| pounds TO the yard. On one of these tracks
| will stand standard vestibuled train of
! the Pennsylvania Company, including en-
| CINE: on the other track the John Bull
| train.
! II is semi of; cIaiIy announced that the
following will DO the officers of the newly-
| united lines of the B. 81 o. South western
| and the Ohio 81 Mississippi railways: Pres
ldent. +. X. Bacon: vice president and gen :
| erai manager. Capt. w. w. Peabody; score
tary, w. w. Peabody, jr.; general pasoen ger
agent. O. p MeCarty: general superiDt tend
| ent. j. q. Rawn; superintendent of the O.
81 NJ. division, q. +. Bent.
Including the switches laid by the Big
| Four since Jan. I to Indianapolis indus.
| tries. the company now has 100 side tracks
or sprivate switches leading to manufac.
tories. lumber Yards. ETC., in Indianapolis
and it's immediate suburbs. While this
would seem TO give the road great adj
1892 there were handled on its switches
s0.463 loaded cars. which is probably abont
40 per cent. of the number of loaded cars
handled on such switches.
The selection of G. J. Grammar for pres
Ident of tho Evansville * Terre Haute road
was fortunate for the Chicago Il Eastern
Illinois and the Louisville & Nashville. it
heing the connecting link of the two road 9.
President Grammar, in the few weeks be
has been in control. has brought remarka
BILE improvements to roadbed and euuip-
ment. Next week the +. & T. III. will re.
ceive another tirst-class heavy passenger
engine. making six in the last sixty days,
and within the next sixty DAYS FIVE new
heavy freight engines will be received by
this company. It Is also largely increasing
its passenger and freight car equipment
Every year makes 1t moro and more evil.
dent that the Pennsy lvania Company must
have more room for handling its rapidly
increasing freight traffic at Ind ana polls il
Nj fra lad in q ho l.. =