The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-27
Personal. Local and Notes.

The Monon has ordered a reduction of pay
Of its section men OF IS cents a day, to
take effect Dec. L.
The Republican Railroad Mems Club viii
meet this evening ar Room 3, When Block,
to elect officers for the ensuing year.
George A.. o. Keefe. master mechanic of
the Detroit, Lansing & Northern. has re-
signed. and is succeeded by Walter T. Ru-
Dert
The Pittsburg. Cincinnati. Chicago & St.
Louis is closing some of it's small stations
where electric trolley lines have practically
cut off their short traffic.
The Terre Haute cars works have $50 men
at work, and contracts to keep them busy
for the next sixty days, largely repair
In the week ending Nov. "a there were
transferred over the Belt road 10 1890 cars.
and Belt road engines handed at rhe yards
1885 carloads of live stock.
]. ]. Lee. freight agent Of the Wabash
succeeded by c. j. Stowe, who has been
agent Of the Wabash at North Manchester.
The Barney & Smith Car Works Com
pany, at Dayton, o., has declared a ? per
cent. quarterly dividend, payable Dec. /,
making the dividends of the year s per cent.
William r. johnson, who, after running
an engine ON the .Monon twenty years, left
the service TO take an interest in a stone
quarry, has gone back to his engine and
resumed running yesterday.
As Train 81 over the Cincinnati. Hamilton
& Dayton, leaving indianapolis at 255 D..
m. does not now get any parlor car from
the Nandalia, the c., n. * ID. has put on
one of their own parlor cars.
II. r.. Duval. president of the Florida
Central & Peninsular. has let contracts
for the building of two branches; one from
merield 10 South Lake Weir.
w. p. Lockwood has been appointed
agent OF the Peoria 4 Eastern at Cham
Raign. H. vice 2; g: Mars, Transferred to
fremont, vice f. w. Williams. assigned
TO other duties.
Superintendent Blizzard, of the Michigan
division of the Big -Four. states that they
daily from northern Michigan, the mild
weather permitting. their shipment much
beyond the expected time.
on Dec. 5 the trunk lines will hold a
meeting 10 talk about passenger pools. and
Dec. IS the roads in the Central Traffic As
ISOLATION will hold one for the same pur-
pose. An effort is to be made TO get them
in running order by the first OF the year.
Wright, of the Indianapolis
division OF the Monon, has forty extra men
at work laying new steel rail this side OF
Delphi. The work is being done in a very
substantial manner at every station new
frogs. new switch stands and new switches
are put in
The survey for a railroad along the Guyan
valley in West Virginia has been COM
pleted. The distance from Huntington TO
the eastern terminal Is about 100 miles.
The road will open one OF the richest coal
fields in the world. and VIII be built by
the Vanderbilts-
Train 70 on the Nandala, with It's Iasa
schedule, on Sunday made up forty-two min
utes lost by hot boxes. The run on Sunday,
actual running time, after deddcting stops,
was less than five hours. or an average
speed from St. Louis 10 indianapolis OF
| nfty-two miles an hour.
In October there were. as shown by the
monthly statement OF the Railroad Gazette,
a total OF ix2 accidents. in which Al persons
were killed and 200 injured. The accidents
| Include 81 collisions, 81 derailments and :
from other causes. The number OF collisions
4 fOAfra fQx UfD<S caTeIeS<nS-S. E0TIy-fOuf
were rear collisions. II butting collisions