The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-13

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increase in earnings the first week OF Sep
tember OF sos.
II. NJ. Bronson, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big -Four. will return from
P1ttsburg this morning.
Tuesday, August IS, the executive COM
mittee of the Peoria & Pekin Union will
hold a special meeting in Peoria
William Orr has been appointed general
tlcket and freight agent of the Duluth &
Winnipeg, vice Orlando Rowley. deceased.
George j. Charlton, assistant general
passenger agent Of the Chicago e. Alton,
returned yesterday from a trip to the
Passenger conductors Osborn and Ken
ney. on the Panhandle lines, are ON the
sick list. A number of railroad men are
reported Ill with typhoid fever.
Notice has been given by the Missouri
Pacific road that 1t will extend the return
limits or Knights Of Pythias tickets, max
ing them good to leave Washington Sept.
16.
There is no longer any question as to the
Toledo. Peoria & Western being in control
OF the great corporations, the Pepnsyl-
yania and the Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy.
that had the company $500 more box cars,
1000 more coal cars and 500 stock cars the
lines would be doing Is per cent. more
business.
meeting OF the Indianapolis Car Service As
ISOLATION, but so few roads were repre-
sented that no business OF Importance was
transacted.
Peoria & Eastern. leaves for Council Bluffs
to-day to visit his father, the receiver of
the Omaha a St Louis. He Will be absent
until Monday.
The Illinois Central earned in August
sl,4H,I51, a decrease as compared with
August, 1898. of s431. 099. No road was bene-
nted last year more by the worlds fair
than was the Central.
p L. GOSS first yica nroSidapn IF fha
Brooks locomotive works at Dunkirk, N.
Y, was in the city yesterday. He states
that the outlook for the locomotive works
Is Frightening somewhat.
The business of the Roadmasters' Asso-
citation convention at New York was fin
ished last evening. The next annual con-
vention will be held I'm ST. Louis on the Sec
ond Tuesday of October, 1895.
A. d. Mcleod, assistant general freight
agent of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day
ton. is taking an extended Western trip.
On Tuesday he attended a convention of
railroad men in Kansas City.
On Sunday last 1900 persons were car
ried into Chicago on low excursion rates,
excursion trains being run from other
points beside Indianapolis. From Indian
apoiis about $500 people were taken.
The Big Four last night brought in a
coach load Of Indian students en- route
from the Northwest to attend college in
Virginia The Big Four turns them over
TO the Chesapeake & Ohio at Cincinnati.
Work at the Panhandle shops is accumu-
lating to such an extent that in all de-
partments 1t is thought ten hours daily
VIII soon be required. In the car depart
ment the men are now working ten hours.
The directors of the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga * st. Louis railroad have reelected
J.. w. Thomas president and general man
ager, j. III. Ambrose treasurer, j. ID. Ma
ney controller and Hunter Mcdonald chief
engineer.
w. w. Dunavant has been appointed
passenger agent of the Queen & Crescent,
WIN nlQ6n1fQ rfaF2 Qf lIQUalQnd N Ar
Dunavant has been in the passenger work
twenty-three years. most of the time on
the Erie.
The first of sixty locomotives which the
Brooks locomotive works are building for
the Brazilian government will be COM
pleted and shipped in a few days. 1t will
bear the name OF Fourth of July, as on
that day the big contract was made.
Five years ago rs per cent. of the box
cars were but twenty-eight feet long and
had a carrying capacity OF 5000 to 1900
pounds. Now IL Is stated that 80 per cent.
of the box cars In use are thirty-four feet
long and have double the carrying capacity.
The New York Central has contracted
with the Beech Creek Coal Company for
over the Falls Brook system from New
burg to Lyons or Geneva. 1t is stated that
it will require 1,lO trains of forty cars
| each to carry IL.
live stock made by the roads Eastward on
the 4th of this month has been restored,
dating from yesterday. The reduction was
based on 20 cents per 100 pounds, Chicago
RI New York; under the restored rates it
Is 80 cents per 100 pounds.
A meeting of the Western trunk-line com
mittee was held at Chicago yesterday, but
the business transacted was exclusively OF
a routine character. 1t is claimed that since
the committee got into working order there
has been no rate cutting and no charges OF
rate cutting against any or the roads rep
resented by the committee. The agreement
thus far has been worked like a charm.
TIL contract for grading 300 miles OF
the new Interstate & Gulf road was let
ton Company. of Danville. Ind. The bonds
to build the road have been sold to English
CAPITALISTS. and track laying will be COM
menced within sixty days. The grading
viii be pushed in both Kansas and Texas
and 1t is bought the weather will permit
working through the winter months.
The Middle Georgia & Atlantic railroad
was sold at public cutlery, in Savannah
yesterday, under foreclosure by the order
of the Savings and Trust Company, trus
tee under the mortgage executed to secure
a syndicate composed mostly of stock
holders OF the property. The road wa!
bought for the pooling committee of the
syndicate by Mr.. Herman Myers, who's
bid was s195. 000. The total issue of bonds
is S729,0D, and these. with the stock of tn
road which was owned by the SeaboarC
company, and all other Assets, were solo
under the mortgage. For the present TIL
road will be operated as heretofore.
John II. Inman. OF New York. speaking
of the reorganization of the Richmond
Terminal properties, said yesterday thai
the Vanderbiits and Rothschilds have nC
interest whatever in the reorganization
Drexel. Morgan & Co. are engineering Il
with their own resources. Mr.. Inmar
stated that he knows that the Southern
Railway Company will get control of the
Cincinnati Southern railway. This will give
the Southern a line from Cincinnati Il
| New Orleans. This reorganization beinl
effected upon a very low basis Of capital
~ization, the properties will pay fxeC
charges and will prove great factors In
building up the territory through which
they pass.
General Manager O'Neil, of the lowe
Central, in closing his annual report, saws
THE decrease In gross earnings was dus
to the delay in passing the tariff bill emo
the Encouragement OF divisions of rates by
Chicago trunk lines" He calls especial
attention to the value of the Peoria Quite
for the Iowa Central. and declares its In
terests must be constantly fostered. He Il
also hopeful of great advantage in tn,
development of coal mines on and neal
the lire of the road, especially in Iowa
He states that while the physical con
dition OF the property has been fully main
tanned, the per cent. of operating ex
penses to total earnings from operation
was IS. l6, against O.7S per cent. in 1893
The company now operates 49S miles o
main line, and the operating expenses pc
mile were but 81. 403.74.