The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-17

responding six months of 1892 of 49, 154.
The Ohio Southern road earned in 1893
of S991. The decrease was the result of the
lighter coal traffic. due to the shutting
down OF so many manufactures
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Vandalia yesterday completed a new
telegraph line between Terre Haute and
st. Joseph, Mich
The receivers have ordered the working
hours reduced in the shops on the Evans
vile & Terre Haute.
The manag ements of the Peoria, Decatur
& Evansville and the Louisville Evansville
& st. Louis are now distinctly separate
c. f. Daily, general passenger agent of the
Lake Erie & Western, has gone to st.
Louis and Kansas City on official business.
ern Pacific, next Monday takes the position
OF purchasing agent Of the Evansville &
Terre Haute.
The Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
ton Of a new depot at Charlottesville, to
be constructed of pressed brick
John w. Daily after many years of ser
vice as superintendent of terminals of the
Missouri Pacific has been appointed assist
ant superintendent of the Kansas City &
Beatrice.
George T. Gunnip, representing the Santa
Fe road in the southeastern territory, is in
the city. He states that Pacific coast travel
is fully 100 per cent. heavier than in jan
uary, 1893
ton IL Dayton officials, while i'll the city to-
day, viii take the preliminary steps to es-
tablish an office on or near Washington
street for General Agent Stiles.
The receivers will retain r. B. Starbuck
as superintendent of the Peoria, Decatur e
EyansVille on which road r he has made
for many years on the Bee line.
When the New York Central and the
Lake Shore put on the eighteen-hour train,
New York TO Chicago, the Wabash pro-
poses to put a flyer from Toledo. start
ing on the arrival Of the eighteen-hour
train at that city.
Evansville have filed their bonds and taken
charge. They will ask the court to authorize
the borrowing of sufficient sum of money
to put the roadbed in good physical condi-
ton and properly equip the line.
George Brecount, who formerly represent
cd the Monon, as general passenger agent
at this point, now representing the road at
Cincinnati was in the city yesterday to
attend the lumbermens convention, and
he was selected honorary member for
life.
When the Louisville & Nashville intro
duced it's retrenchment policy, a few months
ago, it abandoned it's Western office at Kan
a position. Yesterday he was reappointed
Western passenger agent of the l.. & N,
with headquarters at Kansas City.
:. The interlScling signal put in by the Bal
Four at Storrs which was to be operated
by electricity, after heavy expenditures has
Switch and Signal Company's plants, to
operate twenty-eight levers, is being sub
stituted.
The position made vacant by the promo
ton of A. Il. Cults to be general passenger
agent of the Minneapolis & St Louis. is
to be filled by ]. n. Brown, formerly assist
Pacific, and more recently connected with
the transportation department at the
worlds fair.
The parties who built a road known as
from
Elkhart to Mishawaka, are now contem-
plating building further Westward in fact.
the road is being extended to South Bend.
1t is proposed 10 push on to LaPorte or
Michigan City. and possibly, in time west
of these points.
The Missouri. Kansas & Texas railway is
making arrangements TO build a line into
Kansas City. Vice President Purdy has
ordered preliminary survey of a line from
Green Ridge In PettiS county, near Sedalia,
to Holden. Johnson county. where there will
be connection with the Paoli branch of
the Missouri Kansas & Texas
With the completion of the Fey Hotel, at
Peoria, which Will be within sixty days. the
Big -Four will have commodious inviting
ticket office in one of the ground floor
the Big Four at Peoria, was in the city
last evening, and states that the business
of the Peoria x Eastern out of Peoria rs
increasing the last few days.
Men we'll informed express the opinion
that the appointing or receivers for the
Louisville Evansville * St Louis is fortu-
roadbed and rolling stock will be in shape
70 handle more business. There are now
nine engines ana 40 cars undergoing re-
pairs at the shops in Princeton, and as soon
as they are repaired the train service will
be increased and the road run on business
principles. 1-.efe.
senger Association the Alton will introduce
a resolution making it the duty of Chair
man Caldwell t to make al an fHi4 S re-
they relate to the worlds fair business.
The Alton thinks that some Of the lines
paid too large divisions TO some OF their
connections and it desires to have the
matter looked into. No complaint is made
against any particular line.
Ii is claimed by railroad men that the
English locomotive James Toleman, which
made several experimental trips between
Chicago and Milwaukee. is a failure so
far as superiority goes: The engine is now
at the West Milwaukee shops awaiting
further disposition. 1t was found that
with four cylinders there could not be
steam enough generated in her boilers in
consequence of which she was short" on
steam when considerable hauling power
The engineer who was running the Cars
tang engine on the st. Louis division of the
Big Four, when ii hauled the Southwestern
limited three miles consecutively at the
he dared not run any faster, but believes
that if pressed the engine would develop
chanics who have examined the engine
say that no engine has yet been built in
with six to eight cars.
John G.. Williams no longer enjoys the
title Of general counsel Of the Nandalia.
AS general manager he Is responsible for
the safe and economical operation and con-
dition of the rolling stock, etc. He how
ever, is at the head OF the law and real
estate departments, and has power 10 en-
ploy attorneys where required, but the po-
Sition Of general counsel centers with the
pennsylvania Company, as understood. This
results from the introducing Of Pennsyl-
Vania methods of doing business.
Some years ago, when Tanners creek on
the east end of the Chicago division of
the Big Four, made such bad work with
bridges, carrying out thirteen. those
washed out were replaced by combination
wood and iron structures Eleven of these
have now been taken out and heavy iron
bridges substituted. and the remaining two
the bridges on this division from one end
to the other within the last eighteen
months. The wooden bridge over MUDDY
creek, which was two hundred feet long
has been removed, and three substantially
built stone arches, sixty feet in width each,
replace it. 1t cost, complete, $4,000
AS matters now stand. the PENNSYLVANIA
Company has the majority vote in the
Union Railway Company, having three d.
inally there were five rOadS-the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati & ST Louis the Jeffersonville,
Madison & Indianapolis, the Bee line the
Big Four and the Nandalia- The absorb
ton Of the latter by the PENNSYLVANIA
Company gives 1T the majority. But under
the rules of the Union Railway Company
no important improvement can be under
vor of ii. Under the reorganization the
leaSna lines OF the Union Railway Conn