The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-24

ally one of the cheapest of the Vanderbilt
stocks, and its low price will lead TO specu-
latiOn in ii.
The Chicago & Northwestern contem-
plates building a line 10 Gladstone, Mich,
and has put a surveying corps in the
field to locate the route.
Earnings of the Chicago. Milwaukee &
St. Paul for the third week in August
were S5i9,6i3. an increase Of $2S,S3 over the
corresponding week OF 1893.
L. VI. Fisher and Warren Hockett, Wa
bash engineers VINO are out of a job as a
result OF the strike, have purchased an
eating house at Logansport.
1t is stated that the freight traffic Of the
Baltimore & Ohio road is now 30 per cent
creases in earnings are shown from week
to week.
On Sept. / f. r. Hurst takes the position
Of yardmaster of the Lake Erie & Western
the Cincinnati, Hamilton d Dayton at In
dianapolis.
President Clarke, of the Union Pacific, is
still resting at Cambridgeboro, Pa: He Is
In constant communication by wire with
Omaha and largely directs the operations
OF the road.
J.. A. l.. Waddell has been appointed con-
western road. Mr.. Waddell was the en-
gineer who built the bridge across the
Missouri river at Omaha
Thirteen Wagner and Pullman sleeping
cars are TO be brought here to carry the
Knights of Pythias, who rendezvous at In
dianapolis on their way TO Washington on
Saturday and Sunday next.
Charles Adams, city passenger agent OF
the Cincinnati, Hamilton a. Dayton. left
yesterday for a short rest in the East.
John Leahey will look after his duties
while Mr.. Adams is away.
Thomas Manifee, the Vandalia engineer
VINO was injured in the wreck on Monday
night, is not as seriously hurt as at first
supposed. He escaped with a broken collar
bone and bruises about the body.
Ii is stated that III costs the larger SVS-
TENS $1,000 to issue a new time table, con-
sequently changes in the running of trains
are mostly made In the spring or fall and
adhered to the remainder or the year.
General Manager Toucey, OF the New
York Central. and General Manager Pugh,
of the Pennsylvania, are spending a few
days at CressOn Springs, Pa, and. it is
stated, are together much of the time.
The business of the American Express
Company has so increased on the Michigan
division OF. the Big, Four that a second ex-
press car is hauled on Trains Z and % be-
tween Indianapolis and Benton Harbor.
General Superintendent Van Wrinkle says
he is quite we'll satisfied with the business
the Big Four proper is doing, as it is av-
eraging the week through 400 loaded cars
a day, and would do better if cars were to
be had.
S. N. FELTON,, president and receiver Of
the Queen x Crescent road, has gone East
TO attend the meeting of the Southern Rail-
way and Steamship Association and look
after other matters in connection with his
III OcllAOhS.
E. G.. Perkins, an old-time passenger con-
ductor, but who for two years has been
depot master of the Chicago. Milwaukee,
position OF trainmaster on the Southern
Minnesota road Sept. /.
Eastern papers say that the attack Of
A"ttorney-general Maloney. of Illinois,, on
the Pullman company has been beneficial
to the company, investigation having shown
that it Is really a sounder institution than
it has been credited with being.
Tt1 Io-Xz o. D--A-. L.,
exploded a bomb by announcing that, in
| connection with the Drummond line Of
steamers, it will, on Sept. 4, run an eXcur-
sion to Mackinac island at s. for the round
trip. The regular round-trip rate is a7.10.
A deal has been perfected by which the
| Chattanooga Southern road gets possession
of the Union Railway Company, a local
road at Chattanooga, with five acres or
yards. The company will spend considera-
BILE money now in improving the property.
Stephen Little, the expert who turned the
has gone to Denver to make an examination
of the accounts of the Denver & Rio
Grande; Mr. Little Is the expert who in
General Agent Rodney, of the Vandalia,
says that in his long connection with the
road he has never known it to handle as
many melons as 1t has this year, especial
ly at Indianapolis. Seldom is there a day
that a train load or more does not arrive
at indianapolis over this line.
p. A.: Bonebrake. superintendent of the
A.A0A ~ NAAAA.I l. zinc
lines, has rendered the employees Of that
division a free train for an excursion to
any point on the division. They will prob
ably go TO Rushville. Each employee is
privileged to take one friend with him.
The indianapolis, Decatur & Western
yesterday turned over to the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton two train loads of eX-
cursionists to the Soldiers Home at Day
ton. One train came from the Peoria, De-
catur q Evansville road and the other
OF six hundred excursiOnists, from points
on the l., ID. & W..
General Passenger Agent Turk. of the
Southern railway, is visiting Southern
points and making numerous changes in
passenger men, mostly in the way of trans
ferring them to other points. Edward
Kirby, an East Tennessee. Virginia &
Georgia man. who represented that line al
Atlanta, is the only man dropped thus far
Employees of the Santa Fe railway, who
in years past, have purchased their winter
supply of coal in Chicago. shipping it tC
their homes free. thus saving s. to 50 pei
ton, cannot do that this year. Last yeal
several employees who were given this priv.
ilege by the railway resold the coal at q
profit. The company has now put a stoI
to the whole business, and emplo~es who
buy their coal in Chicago must ..ay the
freight like other people.