The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-08-12
day. Il was ordered in effect because that
road was cutting worlds fair rates from
Mobile TO Chicago.

road was emitting worlds fair rates from
Mobile TO Chicago.
Personal, Local ana General Notes.
The New York Central earned in July
s .926.2sl an increase over July. 1892. CT
sl33. 1872.
Albert s. White. general freight agent of
the Big Four, was In the city yesterday on
Official business.
I. Is. Hiteman has been appointed master
mechanic of the Chicago * Indiana Coal
road. vice ID. Ii. Murohey. who recently re-
signed.
A committee OF the Order of Railway
Conductors Is making a strong effort to
have passenger conductor Mccullough. on
the Chicago & Erie. reinstated.
The Pennsylvania Company has resumed
work on IFS passenger station at Anderson.
and that thriving city can soon boast of
having a $1,000 PASSENGER depot.
Business on the Chicago IL Eastern ILL
n0is has improved this month to such an
extent that orders have been issued TO be-
gin working ten hours in the shops of the
company.
The bridge on the Peoria & Eastern road.
near Danvllle. Ill, which went down with
q wrecked freight train on Sunday last. Is
SO far replaced that trains began to run
over IL last night.
The managers of the Pennsylvania and
Big Four are somewhat surprised over the
July statement of passenger business.
through business east bound exceeding
that OF July, 1892. Notwithstanding the
worlds fair.
1t is stated that L. A. Boyd. formerly
superintendent of the Indianapolis. De.
catur 81 Western. later SUI perintendent of
the Citizens street railroad, can have q
good position on the Cincinnati. Hamilton
IL Dayton should he choose to accept it.
f. 0. McCormiok's successor on the Gin
%cinnati. Hamilton IL Dayton has not yet
been named, but q belief prevails that as
the position of general superintendent was
filled by promotion. the other position will
he. In which case John Leahey. who would
I'LL It ably, will be the man.
Instructions have been gwen to file ar.
ticles of incorporation for the Terre Haute.
Chester ~ Saylor Springs road. Terre
Haute is taking more interest in the enter.
prise. and. with an easier money market.
the road IS likely to be built. In the death
of Josephus Collett the enterprise lost one
OF it's most ardent friends.
The Big Four made an excellent selection
OF a represent ative at Kansas City In w.
Root. The first fourteen days after he be-
gan work. which was in the latter part Of
July, be billed out of Kansas City 1GO
loaded cars for the seaboard over lines the
Big Four and it's Eastern and Western
connections operate.
Hon. Aldace f. Walker, chairman of the
~Trunk-line and Central Traffic Assooia-
tion committee. it 10 stated on excellent
authority, will soon retire. The real OBJ.
ject in employing him was to influence
legislation In favor of the railways pooling
bnsiness. but he has been unable to accom-
plish much in that direction.
the NJ. X. u T.. finds that the bulk OF
Texas business is coming to his line via
Kansas City, and has established through
train service from Kansas City to San
and Kansas City lines are friendly 10 Jas.
Barker. and the bulk of the business Will
drift to that route.
1t is said that the Santa Fe discontinued
it's relations with the Jacksonville South
eastern to cripple 1t. and by and by buy it
In. Others contend that the Santa Fe will
make more money by having the friendship
of the Chicago * Alton. Illinois Central,
Wabash and other Chicago lines, in get
ting their business west of Kansas City,
which heretofore they did not get.
Between 6 p. NJ. Thursday and z A. M.
Friday, 115 carloads Of hogs were delivered
at the Indianapolis live stOcky ards. and at
1880 A. NJ. every hog had been sold at 25
cents per one hundred pounds higher than
hogs commanded in the Chicago market.
| OF the receipts seventy-three carloads
were shipped TO Eastern markets.. CIeve-
land, o., being one of the largest buyers.
The earnings of the Indianapolis, SPRING
field 81 Western the first week in August
Tell SS.s42 below those of the correspond:
ing week last wear. and were the smallest
OF any week since the present manage.
mont has been IN control. General Man
ager and Trustee Peirce says it is wholly
attributable 10 the fact that there was no
money on the line OF the road to move the
grain.
Engines POI and pa, of the Big Four, will
come out Of the B~rightwood shops to-day
rebuilt. Both are hrst-class ten-wheel pas
senger engines, end Will come in good play,
so heavy 10 worlds fair business with the
| Big Four. When the company gets it's ten
new eignt-wheel passenger engines and it's
thirty new ~ten.wheel freight engines in
service it will have the largest number of
locomotives per mile OF any road crossing
Indiana.
General Manager Snyder, of the Ches-
apeake and Ohio steamship line. announces
that on Sept. l the first of the oompany's
new steamships will leave Newport.News
and thereafter run regularly on certain
dates. These steamships will ply between
Newport News nj Liverpool. London and
Glasgow. leaving on regular dates, regard
less OF the tonnage furnished. They will
be run In the interests of the Chesapeake
& Ohio and the Big Four lines.
The Wabash and the Chicago q Alton
are having quite sharp skirmishIng through
the press rs regards the equipment of their
limited trains between Kansas City and
Chicago. The Wabash uses the Wagner
sleeping cars and the Chicago Il Alton the
Pullman. and the trains in this service on
botn roads are very elegant. Both make
the same time between Chicago and Kan
4 Sae Clby, ana WnaL Is singular the NUMBER
of passen gers carried does not vary more
than eight or ten in any month. so evenly
is the business divided.
The retrenohment policy is striking the
travelling passenger and freight agents
with a good deal of force. j. Coates and
Isaac Bortell. of the Missouri. Kansas IL
Texas. who are allotted to Eastern terri
tory, have been asked for their resIgna-
tiOns. Frederick Wethereld and q. Warner,
representing the Chicago, Burlington IL
Quincy In the East. have been notified of
their dismissal on the 18th. ID. H.. Moses.
who represents the Chicago * Rock
Island at Cleveland. will retire. and on the
30.h A. II. Dougherty. who represents tho
same road in Boston. The Union Pacific
has dismissed three men at Pittsburg and
In that territory. namely: L. +. Fowler.
and D. +, Fowler, and Mr.. Milbourne has
been transferred to New York. Messrs.
Warner and Wethereld had been with the
20" for q quarter OF q century.
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