The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-27
Personal. Local and General Notes.

B. L. Babb. superintendent Of car service
of the st. Louis, Chicago & St Paul. is
in the city on official business.
The Columbus & Hooking Valley now has
a floating debt amounting to $2,59S,4SS Of
which $841, S36 is car trust notes.
H. 2. Hammond; president of the Indi,
a second paralytic stroke, and Is in crit
teal condition.
The Haskell & Barker car works. 1t is
stated. have secured contracts for l5O0 cars,
and will start up again after an idleness
Of some months.
The keystone Bridge Company. Of Pitts
burg, has been awarded the contract to
build thirty-three bridges for thS Baltimore
& Ohio Southwestern.
On Monday next Master Mechanic Swan
aston, of the Panhandle lines at this point,
expects to increase the number of working
hours at these shops.
VIM. Bells. general manager OF the Rail-
way officials and Employees Accident As
ISOLATION has gone TO Montana to be alb
sent three or four weeks.
1t has been settled that the new Union
Depot at St. Louis will be opened for bus
mess on July 4, just twenty years after
the dedication of the Eads bridge.
c. c. F. Bent, late general superintend-
ent of the Ohio & Mississippi, now with the
ried on Thursday to a lady of Cincinnati
General manager OdeI of the New York
& New England, says he will decrease the
expenses for the quarter ending March 81
$4,000 when compared with the same
period last year.
George H. Valiant, second vice president
of the Erie, has entirely lost the use of his
lower limbs, but is carried to his desk and
transacts business as usual his head being
free from any trouble.
On Sunday the Lehigh Valley and Grand
Trunk will put on through vestibuled trains
between New York and Chicago, via Nj
agara Falls. The running time of these
trains will be twenty-seven hours.
General Manager Barnard. of the Peoria
& Eastern is out on the western division
for two or three days. looking over the
work, now nearing completion, on the
bridges over the Wabash and Vermillion
rivers.
In 1893 the Illinois Central turned over to
the Vandalia at Effingham, H., the cross
ing OF the two roads. BAT car loads OF
tropical fruits. or an average OF nine and
one-half cars day, for points on the Van
dalia system.
With the opening OF the lakes the Mich
igan division of the Big Four. it is thought,
Will become one Of the most profitable di-
visions on the system for freight traffic;
even now the volume of traffic over the
line Is a great surprise.
Hereafter the Peoria & Eastern, out of
indianapolis for the West, will wait a
reasonable time on eastern connections
complaint Of the p. & E. trains departing
without waiting for connections.
C. w. Fairbanks, who IS familiar with the
affairs of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Day
ton, says there is no ground for the state
ment that in the future the Cleve-
land, Lorain & Wheeling is likely to be-
The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
has its machine for cutting up old ties in
operation near Alliance. o. The machine
was last week tested on new timber by
u inches, and 1t cut them with perfect ease.
1t can be run twenty strokes per minute.
j. r. Cavenaugh, superintendent OF car
service of the Big Four, returned yesterday
is a large amount of freight to be moved
In the next few months, and railway Of
hcialS at Chicago and other northwestern
much
view OF matters.
The Vandalia through it's connection
with the Chicago & Eastern Illinois at Bra
I'll, Is getting considerable business off the
Evansville x Indianapolis line, the trains
running so that excellent connection is made
Tor Indianapolis, by which people its
line can spend few hours in indianapolis
and arrive home early in the evening.
Samuel Potts, who, for thirty years, has
been an employe of the Pennsylvania Com
pany. the last twenty years train dis
patcher, died last week. During the labor
riots or 1917 Mr.. Potts was in charge of the
station yards. and played an important part
I'm dealing with the strikers. for which he
received personal recognition from Thomas
A Scott, then president Of the company.
Harry j. Rhein, who represented the
passenger department of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton < Dayton in this territory. will
on the first of next month, his lot
representative of the freight department of
the Big Four in that section. Mr.. Rhen for
eight years represented the c., II. & ID. as
TO Indianapolis
passenger rate war is on between To-
peka and Kansas City. The Santa Re
claims that the Rock Island reduced rates
In order to secure a part of Knights of
Pythias. and Immediately made a round
trip of 81. The Rock Island and Union Pa
eidc met the rate, and now a broker is sell
ing one-way tickets for so cents The Rock
Island threatens 10 make a round-trip rate
OF % cents unless the Santa Fe withdraws
the cut rate
The re-entrance of the Louisville & Nash
vile and the Illinois Central into the South
ern Steamship and Railway Association
was looked upon ending the rate trosI-
bles, but the adjustment. il proves. APP
piled only 10 certain classes OF freight TO
southeastern points and extends only TO
July 81. when both roads named above can
withdraw. Commissioner Stahlman is con-
hdent that by that, time matters VIII be
running smoothly that all viii be salts
fed.
The troubles between the Atchison. the
Northwestern and the Union Pacific are
now IN better way to be settled than at
any time during the last week. However.
IL Is not by any means certain that an ad-
iustment will be reached The visit Satur-