The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-19
PaubnndIe Statement.

The statement OF the business OF The
P~itrsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & st. Louis
road for September, 1894, compared with
the corresponding month Of 1893, has Just
been issued by Secretary S. B. Liggett. 1t
shows a decrease in gross earnings of $91,-
1906 q decrease in expenses of &4, 246. So;
a. decrease in net earnings of $500. The
nine months OF 1894, as compared with the
same period of 1893: show a decrease in
Expenses Of i.Ssi. SIS. ii: a. decre ss Sc In net
earnings Of s27S.9J.75.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
There are TO be two more home seekers
excursions, one oct. %, the second Nov. 6.
WI. Robinson has been appointed gen.
eral baggage agent of the Baltimore &
Ohio lines.
]. II. Coleman has been appointed SUPER
visor OF the east end OF the Chicago di-
vision or the Panhandle lines.
The Big Four will mex Sunday run a low
rate excursion from. Union City to Indian
apols and one from Lafayette.
John Leahey. representing the passenger
department Of the Cincinnati. Hamilton &
Dayton. has located at Chicago.
The Illinois Central recently let the con-
tract Tor nineteen new locomotives. and is
now in the market for five hundred freight
cars.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton g. Dayton an
n nSSnSes Special st rates to the hrysanthemum
3, from all points on It's lines.
The withdrawal of the Illinois Central
from the Western Passenger Association is
thought to mean further trouble through
the withdrawal of other lines.
The fiscal year with the Terre Haute &.
Indianapolis ends with Oct. 81, and the Of
fcials Of the different departments are al
ready at work on their reports.
C u. Schaf, assistant general manager of
the Big -Four lines, will be in the city to-
day for a conference with William Gar
stang, superintendent of motive power.
Hettie Green win shortly go to Texas to
look into the advisability of extending the
Texas Midland road to Paris. She has ar
ranged to go over the line as located in a
wagon.
Austin Corbin. c. A. Peabody and H. J.
Thornell have been selected as a committee
to protect the interests of the first mortgage
b~ondholders in the Cleveland. Canton &
Southern.
which Is TO run from st. Joseph to Benton
Harbor, has commenced. 1t Is intended to
connect it with a new road to run to Nap
panee, Ind.
The Pittsburg, Akron & Western road has
been sold at sherin's sale for sS44, 900 to par
ties representing New York and Pittsburg
bondholders. The appraised value of the
road is 81, 265, 900.
AS 1t is necessary for the court to ap-
prove the contract between the Northern
Pacific and the Chicago. Burlington &
transcontinental line a few days.
The wife of Capt. John Wise. a veteran
passenger conductor on the Vandalia who
suffered a slight paralytic stroke recently,
Is mucn better, and her physicians speak
health. ~
The Union Pacific is placing freight and
passenger representatives at Portland, Ia
coma and other important points where the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Company
has of late looked after the business of both
interests.
AS soon as the new passenger equipment
is received from the Barney & Smith car
works the Big Four will equip its new
fast train with this new rolling stock, which
IS said to be the tneSt ever turned out by
these works.
Bard e. voorhees,, attorneys for more
than one hundred creditors Of the Pitts
burg. Akron &. Western Railway Com
pany. with claims aggregating $4,000, have
given notice that they will ask to have
set aside the sale of the road.
George Lowell, general Superintendent of
the Monon, was in the city yesterday. He
states that all along the line freight traffic
is improving and local traval Increasing.
One of the inroads on the earnings of the
Monon the last few months was the light
local passenger business.
James Means. division freight agent of
the p, C., c, c. & st. L., was indicted by
the United States grand jury at P%ittsburg
yesterday for discrimination In the matter
of beer shipments from Cincinnati to Pitts
burg. The trial of the b. & o. officials for
the same offense will begin to-day.
s. II. II. Clark. managing receiver of the
Union Pacific, who was for several weeks
in the mountains of Pennsylvania resting,
has returned to duty. Mr.. Clark opposes
feeders, particularly in Nebraska and Kan
sas. He thinks such feeders necessary TO
the system.
There is much speculation as to whom
Haute road will elect as president of the
company. Since the ousting of d. j..
Ma eEs the properties TpEs brs have been without tout
forming very acceptably the duties OF pres
ident. 1t Is said that q New York man Is
likely to be elected to the position.
BY arbitration the Panhandle route of the
Pennsylvania system has been awarded a
differential between Pittsburg and Chicago
against the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne e. Chi
cage BY the Panhandle lines the 1rst-class
limited. H 81. against inst s IS and sio. respectiveiy..
by the Plttsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago.
rates Of competitors.
The report has been circulated in the
South that the Illinois Central road is con-
templating an extension of Its line from
NatcheZ TO Texarkana and Shreveport. The
officials of the road deny IN the strongest
terms that they have any such scheme IN
contemplation, and say that they have not
only never thought OF such a thing. but
that the Illinois Central has no extension
schemes of any kind under consideration.
George L.. Bradbury. general manager OF
New York yesterday. The election of OFF,
GERS OF the Cincinnati, Jackson & Mackinaw
occurred while he was East, and resulted
in the election of Calvin ;. Brice as pres
ident and Mr.. Bradbury as vice president.
Mr.. Bradbury states that be will retain F.
NJ. Drake as general manager, and that 1t
Is the intention TO extend the road, sooner
or later.
The officials of the Grand Rapids & Indi-
ana were in Pittsburg on Wednesday and
held a lengthy conference with President
Roberts and others OF the Pennsylvania
lines. the G.. r.. & 1. practically being a
Pennsylvania line. A belief prevails that
there Is soon TO be a change in the policy
OF operating this road. and also in its of
fetal roster. Since tie retirement OF w
| O. Hughart. last April, W. r.. Shelby has
acted In the capacity OF president.
Leslie p. Farmer, who at present holds
the important position or commissioner OF
the passenger department OF the trunk
lines. began railroading as i messenger boy
on the Bee-llne, at Indianapolis. lie went
with the Boyds on the Pennsylvania road,
where he got much OF his railroad educa-
ton. and then took the general passenger
agency OF the Erie, going from that to his
present position. Re is a shrewd. far-seeins
man. has many Important questions as
commissioned 10 decide and often il called