The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-06

years.. than on any other OF the Pennsyi,
vania's Western lines. The directors will
meet next week and probably declare a
two-per-cent- dividend.
President Ingalls,, of the Chesapeake &
Ohio, says he expects TO yet spend 2.0oo.Oo
port News.
81 Sisler, late ranmaster of the Wabash,
on Thursday suffered a second stroke or
paralysis. and has been taken TO the hos
pital at Toledo.
1t is stated officially that w. III. Hurl-
burt is TO be continued as general pas
senger agent of the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company.
Ex-President Rhinehart, of the Santa Fe,
is rapidly recovering from the recent oper-
alton he underwent, and expects TO be at
his office In a few days.
The Big Four will order six more passen-
ger engines of the Garstang type within a
short time, should the earnings continue
as satisfactory as at present.
The officials of seventy-two Western lines
have been asked to attend a meeting at st:
Louis, Oct 16. to consider the question OF
aboiishing free transportation.
The Railroad Commissioners of Illinois
will next week inspect the portions OF the
Vandalia, the Big Four and the Chicago
e. Eastern Illinois roads which lie in that
State.
W.. w. Dering, who represents the pas
senger department of the Pennsylvania
day en- route to visit his parents in Penn
sylvania.
According to figures compiled by the Rail-
way Age there were 1,10O miles of new
track laid In the nine months ending Sept
80. by eighty-three lines in thirty-one States
and Territories.
The New Albany and Vincennes railway
project has been revived. 1t Is three years
since the line was surveyed, and but for
the depressed times it would have doubtless
been built before this.
The stockholders of the Minneapolis &
st. Louis say they have the money 20 buy
m fhn rad ~ m fD-onloorre0 ole GHf
The stockholders nave elected w. L. Bull
president of the company.
John Garstang, who is visiting William
Garstang, superintendent Of motive power
of the Big Four, has been connected with
the Grand Trunk for thirty-seven years,
and helped to grade the road. He now SUI
perintends the laying of adj new rail and
ballasting on the main line.
1t is stated on good authority that the al
lance between the Southern Railway Com
pany and the Chesapeake & Ohio is of such
100000 depot at Newport News, and that
Newport News instead of West Point will
be used by the Southern Railway Company
as its deep water terminal.
at Fort Wayne or Logansport who took
part or even sympathized with the Debs
strike 1t. is stated not one man is now in
the employ of that company. Some who
were retained after the strike were soon
dismissed when it became known that they
had been even sympathizers.
lie executive committees Oh the Master
Mechanics and the Master Car-builders' As
sociations will meet in Chicago to-day to
arrange details for the next annual meet
ing and select the meeting place. As fully
fifteen hundred attend these annual meet
ings 1t is necessary to select a point where
hotel accommodations are ample.
1t is thought that the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy and the Pennsylvania Company
through business over the Toledo, Peoria
& Western, which will largely increase the
.1x.~A - &L.- - -
interest of both of these big companies to
utilize the T.. P. & w. as far as practi-
cable.
The track layers on the Fort Wayne G.
Wayne next week. In entering the city
the company will use the tracks Of
the Wabash road. Two construction
gagged in ballasting the line. The company
expects to put on regular trains into Fort
Wayne by Dec. 1.
fault on Grand Rapids & Indiana first
series bonds is not a matter to excite APP
prehension- These are not the bonds guar
anteed by the Pennsylvania Company, but
may be presented for purchase at 10 for
the sinking fund to the amount OF $500, 900.
A considerable per cent. of these bonds
have already been so presented.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and
Queen & Crescent deal is still shrouded In
mystery. 1t is claimed that the c.. H. &
ID. syndicate and the Southern Railway
Company have reached an agreement as
to what the Southern Railway Company
must pay to the c., H. e. d. for control
of the Alabama Great Southern, which is
an important connecting link for the South
ern railway.
Executive officials of Western roads have
received registered letters from the Inter-
state-commerce Commission containing cop
les of the new order relative to the making
Of through rates and the acknowledged re-
sponsibility of each line in making such
rates. The Pennsylvania lines have al
ready issued tariffs in accordance with the
order, which it is likely will be obeyed
without protest.
A meeting of engineers and firemen who
were thrown out of jobs by the Debs strike
at Fort Wayne was held last night in that
city for the purpose, of ascertaining the
number of experienced and capable engine
men and firemen who were willing to go to
South America to run engines. 1t is said
that there is a good demand for experienced
engine and trainmen in that country. A
railroad man who mas given the South
American employment scheme considerable
movement is made in that direction a COM
mittee be sent to South America to look
over the field.
John Chesbrough, general passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern, by circular announces the following
appointments: f. p. Jordan, ticket agent,
St. Louis city Office. vice J. NJ. Hoffner,
agent. St. Louis city office; w. e. Joyce,
chief clerk. general passenger agent, vice
G.. f. Stewart, resigned; j. NJ. Hoffner,
chief clerk, assistant general passenger
agent. vice w. @. Brown, promoted. The
following. take effect Oct. Is. 1894: w. P.
Louis, vice T. c.. Wells. resigned; j. b.
Scott ir. travelling passenger agent Vim