The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-22

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gloom.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
On May the Indianapolis 81 vincennes
will advance the rates on coal and several
other commodities.
The Vandalia will on May l put on it's
tickets to Lake Maxinkuckee at the usual
reduced rates.
Thomas Noonan, general manager of the
Central States Dispatch, who has been
East ten days, returned yesterday.
VIM. Sullivan. agent of the Big Four at
this point, left yesterday for Hampton
roads to witness the naval display.
S. g. Warner will, on May !. take the po-
sition of general passenger and freight
agent of the Cotton Belt road. vice w. II.
Winfield. resigned.
The Vandalia company is remodeling its
freight depot at Terre Haute, making the
office rooms, among other things more
cheerful and inviting.
The West Shore and the Nickel plate
will put on one of the new through trains
between New York and Chicago May !. and
ssecOnd each way on May Is.
j. A. Shannon, of New York city. has
|. the New York Dispatch refrigerator line,
with headquarters In Kansas City.
The Ohio Falls car works on Thursday,
shipped q train OF fifty cars to the Ohio
Southern, on @ contract for FIVE hundred
oars the works are building for this road.
New Castle, Ind, has become quite an
important railroad center. trains of five
roads now arriving aud departing there,
and with two lines it is made q division
point.
The Brooks locomotive works have inst
delivered to the Lake Shore road five heavy
passenger locomotives. which are guaran.
teed to haul twelve cars over the road at Q
mile q minute.
The new road being built at New Castle
to connect the Peoria q Eastern and the
Whitewater roads, without using the Pau
handle tracks. is delayed by the heavy
rams Of the past week.
A satisfactory agreement has been reached
IL Hartford and the New England railroad
regarding the traffic between the two roads,
the arrangement to 60 into effect at once.
Every thing is now arranged for the con-
struction of a belt road which will connect
Gas City and Jonesboro. Ind. The former
IL located on the Panhandle line and jones'
boro on the Michigan division of the Big
Four.
The general Offices and shops of the Van.
dalia company at Terre Haute were closed
and draped yesterday out of respect to
Charles X. Pcddle. deceased. and the en-
ployes of the shops attended the funeral in
body.
J.T. r. Mckay. general freight agent of
tho Lake Shore road. who has been travel
| ing the last fourteen months for his health,
returned. on Thursday, much improved.
and will, on Monday, assume his usual
duties.
| 1t is stated that Engine 1s3 of the ten.
wheel style, on Thursday hauled the South
western limited. on the Bee line division of
the Big Four, for several miles at a speed
ranging from forty-seven to fifty seconds
per mile.
The Baltimore & Ohio will on May IA put
on through trains to run between New
York and Chicago, via Pittsburg. The
| time of these trains is not fast enough Co
make it marked competitor of the Penn
| sylvania lines.
The Wabash lines earned IN the second
week OF April 60, 4OO. decrease as COM
pared with the corresponding week of 1899
| of S13. 100. The grain movement over the
| Wabash is the lightes: In any April in the
| last twelve years.
c. b. Keller, the newIy-sppointed en-
| gIneer of maintenance of way of the White.
water road will make his headquarters at
New Castle. and 1t 10 limited that other
officials of this road are to have their head.
| quarters moved there.
The only stops the fast train the Lake
| Shore road will put on to run In connec-
| tion with the Empire State express of the
| falo and Chicago will be at Erie, Cleve.
| land, Toledo and Elkhart, Ind.
The new trains which the Chicago 81
Eastern Illinois, the Evansville & Terre
Haute and the Louisville * Nashville are
running between Chicago and Nashville
are attracting good deal OF attention, be-
| ing fast trains and entirely new.
The Santa Fe road has announced q
round-trip rate from San Francisco to Chi
cago for 500. good for nine months The
fare one way. limited to u continuous trip.
will be $50. Return tickets will be the
| same price. This rate goes into effect May /.
The Columbian express on the Pennsyl-
| vania road, consisting of nine cars. four Of
them Puilmans. was hauled on Wednes-
| day from Fort Wayne TO Columbia City.
| twenty miles. IN seventeen minutes. This
piece of track 10 level and straight. and
several miles were covered at the rate of q
| mile every fifty-one seconds
William McKeen. SON of VIM. r. McKeen.
president of the Vandalia company, has
gone into the c0mpany's shops ut Terre
| Haute to perfect himself In the IN chinist's
| trade. Another son. Benjamin McKeen. is
engineer Of maintenance of way of the
| Logansport division of the Wand ALA. an d
u hlling the position with marked ability.