The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-14

ten into good running order. and the roads
gained in August through its operation
$5.0Os.6f.
This week was the first OF the harvest
excursions OF this fall, and proved a de-
cided failure, hardly paying the roads for
advertising.
A. ID. Mcleod. assistant general freight
agent OF the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day
ION road. returned yesterday from MS
Western triD.
Hon. w. w. Grape, just elected general
manager OF the Flint * Pere Marquette
road. is but thirty years old and has had
but six years experience with railways.
The Kentucky and Indiana Bridge Com
pany has defaulted on the first mortgage
bonds interest. and foreclosure OF the flrst
mortgage on the property seems inevitable.
The official report of CONDUCTOR Smith
shows that on Train IS over the Big Four,
yesterday, from St. Louis to indianapolis.
he handled $40 local and forty through
passengers.
Among the improvements early contem-
plated by the Baltimore * Ohio Is the
building Of new shops at Cumberland, Nd,
and the erection of a handsome passenger
station at Harper's Ferry.
On Wednesday the Pennsylvania Com
pany started its shops at Fort wayne on
have worked but eight hours, and some Of
the time have been shut down.
The directors OF the New York. New Ha-
ven & Hartford have declared a 2-per-cent.
quarterly dividend, the same as paid In the
previous quarter. From 1872 To 1894 the
quarterly dividends were 2z per cent.
Ford Wood, general freight agent OF the
Peoria * Eastern, returned yesterday
have been restored TO tariff, and 1t looks
as II for the present they would be main
tanned.
j. X. Peachy has been appointed assist
ant general freight agent OF the Illinois
Central road for the Northern and West
ern lines. Mr. Peachy is promoted from
chief clerk in the general freight ofiice OF
the road.
$. ID. King. who was purchasing agent
and superintendent OF stock OF the Pennsyl-
vania Coal Company, has been appointed
superintendent of motive power of the Erie
& Wyoming Valley road, with headquarters
at Dunmore, Pa
Judge Barr. in the federal court at Louis
vile. has decided that the Monon's indorse-
ment of the bonds of the Richmond, Nicho-
~lasville. Irwin * Beattyville road was IL
legal. never having been approved of by the
stockholders OF the L., n. a. q c.
T.. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines and of the Wanda
liza, will to-day have a meeting OF the pas
senger men in the West at ST. Louis to
new assistant general passenger agent.
The Chesapeake * Ohio double track
bridge over the Big Sandy river Is about
completed, and has cost $4,000. The struc-
ture has five long spans and 9H feet or
viaduct approach, and is the longest struc-
ture over any stream in the Southern
States.
The combination chair car and sleeping
coaches now run between Cincinnati ana
Jacksonville. ILL.,, nightly over the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton X Dayton, the Indianapolis,
Decatur & Western and the Wabash have
become a profitable line to the roads in
tereSted.
The effects OF the late France Chandler,
general passenger agent OF the wabash
road, have been collected, and his bonds
and FOOD securities alone reach xyDUUD. The
property will go TO his brother. two sisters
and a son of a deceased third sister as
joint heirs. He did not leave a will.
+. w. McKenna, formerly superintendent
of the Jacksonville, Madison & Indianap-
oils, now general superintendent of the
Eastern department OF the Great Northern,
has been granted a patent for renewing old
steel rails, and those who are well in
formed think that he has a fortune In this
invention.
1t is understood that the Illinois Central
Minneapolis & st. Louis, which is to be sold
at foreclosure sale oct. IL. Only nineteen
miles separate the Central from st. Louis
at Mora, and fourteen miles of the dis
lance is already graded, SO that 1t would
be a simple matter to connect the two
lines.
The report of President Smith. of the
Louisville x Nashville, which Will be pre-
scented at the coming annual meeting, will
contain the unpleasant announcement that
the company the past year lost xl,OOO,O0O
II through the unsuccessful OOuln CdTOllud
railroad deal, the l.. q N. e~ndeavoring to
secure a majority OF the junior securities,
but falling.
The Bureau of the American Republic is
| Informed from Guatemala City that an An
glo-Dutch syndicate has put a surveying
party in the field looking for the most
feasible route for a railroad to connect
Is understood that this Anglo-Dutch syndi-
cate has in contemplation a system or rail-
ways for all of Central America.
II~oII O II1fIf1ov - Tnt0, ~ L.,v1
closed a contract with the Frazier-High-
land Construction and Equipment Company
Of Chicago for the construction of a rail-
way line between Manchester and Win
chester. o.. twenty-five miles. for 100000.
The road will be in operation by Dec 81.
Head & Holiday. Of %Ironton, and +. s;
Miller q Co, Cleveland, bankers, will
manage the new line.
The Master Car and Locomotive Painters
Association in convention at Buffalo, have
ing year: President, W.. p. Leopold, Sa-
vannah, Ca, of the Central railroad of
Georgia, vice-president c. o. Copp. Law
ond vice-president, George II. Cassie, Ad-
rian, Mich. of the Lake Shore; secretary.
Robert Mckeen, of Kent, O.
II is thought in the higher railroad cir
port that the stock of the Louisville, New
Albany * Chicago has been purchased by
a new syndicate that the pur cIas;nn has
Hamilton & Dayton may secure control OF
the road. No one will question that the
Monon would be more valuable to the Gin
| cinnati, Hamilton * Dayton than to any
other company that could be named.
Adiel son Of Judge Sherwood,
formerly assistant attorney of the st. Louis
81 San Francisco railroad, has been APP
pointed receiver Of the ST. Louis, Kansas
city Il Colorado railroad. a line running
from 81. Louis to Union, a distance OF
about sixty miles. The appointment was
made by Judge Caldwell. OF the United
States Court, now In session in ~. Paul,
The 81. Louis. Kansas City & Colorado
railroad is a branch of the Atchison sys-