The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-11

Shore. 1888; Fort Wayne, 1925: Panhandle,
1,S5; Baltimore & Ohio. 2,O13; Grand Trunk,
5S7; Big Four. 1856. Shipments were made
up of the following articles: Flour. 1856
tons; grain and millstuffs, 2; l54; cured
fiaxseed, 2.S26; butter, LA; hides, 1,4I6;
lumber. 3.120; miscellaneous, 3.4A. Lake
shipments last week were 12l,1S6 TONS
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Big Four yesterday sold at Indian
apolis 75S tickets for Chicago.
George A. Davis has been appointed
agent of the Vandalia at Bradley.
James Johnson, travelling passenger
agent of the Cairo Short line, is dead
W. p. Foster has been appointed travel
ing passenger agent for the Wisconsin
Central.
j. w. Sherwood, ex-superintendent of the
Big Four, was in the city yesterday calling
on friends.
The New York Central earned in Septem-
Der $4.22l, 7oi, an increase over September,
1892, of 1859.
II. ". Rogers is to succeed J. /. Munoz as
general freight and passenger agent of the
Jacksonville Atlantic.
w. n. jackson, secretary of the Union
Railway Company. left yesterday for Cali
fornia to be absent a couple of months.
The revenue Of the passenger department
Of the Lake Erie & Western for last month
was $4,000 in excess Of that of September,
1882.
The Peoria e. Eastern will to-day receive
two ten-wheel freight engines on the order
the Brooks locomotive works is filling for
this road.
The stockholders of the Cincinnati, jack
son & Mackinaw will vote on the question
of purchasing the Cincinnati, Lebanon &
Northern road.
movement is on foot which may re-
suit in the converting, of the Diamond
plate-glaSS factory buildings at Elwood
into shops for building locomotives.
On Monday the Chicago, Burlington e.
Quincy brought into Chicago 163 day
coaches and forty-three sleeping cars load
ed to their fullest capacity with passen-
gers.
L. G. Morris. of this city. has been APP
pointed agent of the Union Pacific at Gin
cinnati and its territory. He will have both
the freight and passenger business under his
charge.
S. H. H. Clark, president of the Union
Pacific. who has been in the mountains of
Pennsylvania all summer, has recovered his
health fully. and will return at once to his
usual duties.
The shrewd methods by which e. o. Nc
Cormick, passenger traffic manager of the
Big Four, gets business already no
ticeable in the increasing business Of the
road outside of worlds fair traffic.
j.. f. Cavanaugh. car service superin.
tendent of the Big Four. sent in his official
report yesterday, showing that there were
handled the system last month 1888
loaded cars, against 147,250 in September,
1892
Cincinnati & Chicago has been approved
by a majority of the stock and bondhold-
ers. Should the original project be carried
out the road will cross portions OF Indi-
ana.
Train 80, over the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton yesterday was run in two sections,
each section hauled by two. engines,
made with each train, although both left
Cincinnati late.
r. B. Jones. who represents the Chicago
O. T-ln IL, nc fc IN he
city He Is giving his special attention to
building up a good business over their line
for Texas points. where the road has but
On Nov 1 Daniel Janowitz, who has rep
resented the Northern Pacific in this terri
| tory for six years past, with headquarters
ceeded by J. e Turner recently with the
Santa Fe and formerly on the Pennsylva-
MIA lines.
George T. Gunnip, representing the Santa
Fe road In this section, is In the city. He
says the harvest home excursions have been
failures, and really Ii is fortunate for the
company owns has been in service in car
rying worlds fair business.
On Monday Train 20 over the Vandalia,
consisting of ten cars, made up twenty,
| seven minutes between Effingham and
| Terre Haute, sixty-five miles, on the fast
| time the train is scheduled. The new ten
wheel passenger engines are developing
| great speed with heavy trains.
In reading the statements of passenger
| earnings last month it should be borne in
| mind that not only were the harvest ex-
cursions failures, but there was no State
| fair held in Illinois and practically none in
| Indiana, which in September last year
| brought very handsome returns
The Pennsylvania Company will, the
| 10Th Of this month, run a special excursion
train from Madison, Ind. to the world $
fair, TO accommodate the school children
and teachers. About five hundred have al
| ready slgnified an intention of going. The
| fare for the round-trip will be 1915.
| The gross receipts of the Illinois Central
| for the two months ending Aug. 81 were
$S.6sS592. an increase of S65S.OOS over the
corresponding period of last year. The
excess OF receipts oyer all io expenditure was
| earnings We're $2126.0SS. an increase of $685.
| 265 over 1892.
Passenger men at the head of the depart
mentS Of the east and west lines state
| that east and west-bound business for
| July, August and September was 60 per
cent: lighter than in the corresponding
not in the last ten years has east and
| west-bound travel been light.
| People who take Train 20 for New York
over the Pennsylvania lines at 1ndianapo-
| lis, Richmond Dayton and other points
| are complaining greatly Of lack of sleep
! ing car accommodations. and the. sooner
! Indianapolis and New York is restored
the better for the popularity of the train.
1t is intimated that the officials of the
Pennsylvania lines west Of Pittsburg are
| spection party make trip over the Van
| dalia, and the reason assigned therefor is
| the physical condition of the Vandalia
| has been improved that it's track is not
| excelled, If equaled, on any division OF the
| lines of the Pennsylvania Company.
| +. A. Peck has now been general super
| intendent of the ST. Louis & Iron Mountain
| ninety days, and in that time has brought
| about reforms on the road which have
| given ample evidence to the chief officers
| of the line that they have made excel
| lent selection in their present general super
| intendent. He has quite number of cid
| Bee line men with him who are doing eIfi-
| Client service.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company re-
| Gently largely reduced its clerical force in
| its general Offices at Philadelphia, but re-
| to single men. and among the single re-
| tains those longest in the employ of the
| company. Some two hundred were dropped
\ at Philadelphia the LIST of the month,
| and IL is rumored that there is TO be a
| further reduction on its lines west OF Pitts
| burg.
| The retrenchment policy is making bad
| work on the Queen Crescent for the
| travelling passenger agents. Yesterday H.
| c. Shaw with headquarters at Cincinnati,
| was retired; also T. +. McCandless, rep
! resentative at Dallas, Tex. w. G. Wood
will, representing the company at Louis
vile, and II. Ingram, at Birmingham, and
an order has been issued reducing the ex-
| penses OF the travelling freight agents $500
a month.
| on Nov / William Gibson, superintend-
ent of the Cincinnati division of the Big
| -Four. will have his jurisdiction extended To
| cover a portion OF the Cleveland division
| and the Cleveland K Sandusky road, and
the jurisdiction OF L. j. Higgins Will be ex-