The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-07

W r. iJaIDS, pTeSluenf, VI. A. DOWNING,
vice president; r. S. Mckee, secretary.
Mr.. Downing takes the place of Horace
scott. who has held the position of vice
for business. a three-per-cenf. semi-an-
nuai dividend was declared on the common
stock. In January a Observation-Disclosures
the preferred stock. The year 1894 was a
more prosperous one with the company
Of 1892. 1872 en- De'0" the business
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Indianapolis division of the Central
Association of Railway Officials will hold
Its regular monthly meeting on Saturday.
In January there were handled at the
Union Station ASP pieces of baggage,
against 1928 in January, 1891; increase this
year, Aha pieces.
Joseph Wood. general manages of the
Pennsylvania lines, wno has been in South
Carolina for a couple of weeks, returned
to his headquarters yesterday.
X. A. Campbell, general passenger and
freight agent of the Louisville, Evansville
& st. Louis, who has been very Ill. has so
tar recovered as to be about again.
Master Mechanic Pennock, of the Pan
handle shops at Logansrort, sailed yester-
day from New York for England. He ex-
poets to be absent about two months.
George w. Ristine. an ex-fast freight line
man, has been offered the receivership of
the Colorado Midland. He Is now general
manager of the United States car works.
The home seekers excursions billed for
Tuesday were failures. At Indianapolis there
were more passenger men to look after this
business than there were excursionists to
travel.
James McCrea, first vice president of the
pennsylvania Company, who has been in
New York and Philadelphia for a couple
of weeks, returned to Pfttsburg on Mon
day night.
The pay rolls of the Union Railway Com
pany and Belt road, under A. A. Zion, SUI
We're operated at So, 2s7.2 less cost to the
company in 1894 than in 1898. Et
The Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis
the last week of January showed an in
crease of s9, 252 over the corresponding week
OF 1894. This is the first week in the last
three months that an increase has been
shown.
The seven larger private stock car COM
panies, controlling about 1,5O0 cars, are con-
sidering the pooling of their business, thus
cutting down the expense of each company
having a set of officials and consequent ex-
penses.
The owners of the Toledo, st. Louis &
line are guaranteed to admit of running a
train OF locomotives over them. each
engine weighing one hundred tons. at sixty
miles an hour. safely.
The legal docket of the L., ". A.. & c..
is now the cleanest in the history of the
road. There are now but three important
cases in litigation, and these We're inner
tied from what is known as the Breyfogle
management of the property.
John Bloom, engineer on the Panhandle
lines, Pittsburg division, was buried yester-
day at Pittsburg. He was one of the oldest
of engineers on the Panhandle lines. and
formerly ran on the Logansport division.
He leaves a wife and nine children.
The east-bound passenger committees of
the Central Traffic Association and Trunk
lines will meet in Cincinnati next Tuesday
to take steps to strengthen the association
and If possible induce the Erie to again be-
come a member of the east-bound commit
tee.
The Baltimore & Ohio people have under
contemplation extending the block signal
system over its entire mileage. The higher
officials will meet in Chicago, Feb. II, to
examine the operation Of the different sys-
TENS in use on Chicago roads, and will
adopt the one they think the most COM
plete.
Col. William Shaw, of the Chicago, Bur
iington & Quincy passenger department. is
IN the city. He has just returned from an
extended Western trip, and states that
business with most of the roads is improv-
ing and railway arrangements are much
more cheerful over the outlook than two
months ago.
The regular bimonthly meeting CT the pas
senger department. of the Central Traffic
Nothing but matters of a routine nature
were up, and nothing more exciting than
reduced rates for meetings were Under eonl
sideration an day. =.
At neither Chicago, Peoria nor st. Louis
are the east-bound pool per cents. evened
up, and the reduction in east-bound rates
on grain will not tend to help matters.
this will ultimately break up the pool or
force a reorganization of percentages, or a
rate war will follow.
w. d. Ewing, formerly with the Mackey
lines. now general superintendent of the
Fitchburg road, Is making an excellent rec
ord. 1t is claimed that the earnings of the
last six months and the economies intro
duced have left a sum sufficient for the
company to resume the payment of divi-
dends of at least 4 per cent.
George S. Morrison, recently elected presi-
dent of the American Society of Civil En-
gineers. is well known in Indiana. He was
during its construction. Among the monu-
ments credited to his ability are several
of the bridges now spanning the Missouri
and the Mississippi rivers, notably the one
at Memphis.
The Omaha road is after the scalp of the
Burlington. 1t claims that the latter line is
paying excessive commissions for business
coming to it by the Northern Pacific from
the territory west of Billings. The burling-
kind. but the matter will very likely be
made the subject of a complaint to Chair
man Caldwell.
The two new engines which the New York
Central has just turned out of it's shops at
West Albany are numbered S3S ana III. and
are exact types of the 999, which has been
Empire State Express. Number sSS last
week hauled four cars from Albany to
Utica, ninety-five miles. in ninety minutes;
at one point thirteen miles was covered in
ten minutes.
One of the latest railway projects is the
building of a road from Brazil, Ind. to
NldulSOu Ill.,, tIOSSlllS the lHuldTapOIlS d.
Vincennes at spencer. the Monon at Bloom
ington, the Evansville & indianapolis at
Lawrence, the Baltimore & Ohio South
western at Brownstown and the Louisville
division of the Pennsylvania lines at Croth-
ersville. If built the road would pass
through a country not well prov.ded with
railway facilities and open up a rich min
eral and agricultural section.
The official report of the Indianapolis d-
vision of the Pennsylvania lines shows a
larger per cent. of its employees to be men,
bers of the Pennsylvania Voluntary Re-
lief Department than any other division, the
Little Miami excepted: such would not be
the case were any Of the Pennsylvania
shops located on the Little Miami division.
Only a small per cent. of the employees in
the company's shops become members, al
though there is more sickness among the
shopmen than among the trainmen, but
few disablements from accidents.
The present winter has given the roads
an excellent opportunity to test the eff
fectiveness of the heating of trains by
steam from locomotives. The Big Four,
which heats its trains direct from the en-
CINE, has experienced no trouble thus far,
while the Pennsylvania Company has ex-
perienced a good deal of difficulty in heat
Ing its trains by the return system. 1t is
quite difficult to keep the water from set
Ting at low points in the hose and freez-
ing, and yesterday most of the trains were
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