The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-14
PersonaI. Local and GencraI Notes

VIM. r. McKeen, president OF the VAN
dalia. was in the city yesterday on official
business.
NJ G. Lormi has been appointed Pacific
coast agent OF the New \ ork. Ontario &
Western.
John G. Williams. vice president and gen.
eral manager Of the Vandalia, has returned
from the East.
lines will hold their regular monthly meet
ing on Tuesday.
The Wabash earned in the first week Of
June $22l ,667. On increase over the corre-
spending week of 1894 of s5i,426.
Theodore Nj. Ely, chief of motive power OF
the Pennsylvania lines. with his family,
sailed for Europe on Wednesday
The Louisville. Evansville & st. Louis in
the first week Of June earned 1910 more
than In the corresponding week last year.
On Sunday the German Lutheran Church
OF Logansport will run an excursion from
Logansport to Indianapolis over the Pan
handle.
The new wheat crop of southern Indiana
and already arrangements for cars to
handle il are being made.
George T; Gunnip. general agent of the
passenger department of the Santa F'e, and
Judge Bacon, holding the same position
with the Chicago & Rock Island, are in the
city.
]. Z. Brown, who has for two years been
the travelling engineer on the Toledo x
Ohio Central, has been promoted TO be
master mechanic OF the company's shops
at Corning.
Engine was yesterday turned out Of the
shops of the Belt road rebuilt In man.
ner which persons competent to judge say
is very creditable to the master mechanic
OF the company.
The net earnings OF the Louisville, New
Albany & Chicago for April were SSS,S9o,
an increase over April. 1894. of sls.2es-an
increase which speaks well Tor the pres
ent management.
The Baltimore & Ohio southwestern. the
Wabash and the Chicago & Rock Island
roads will run a solid train from Cincin-
natl to Denver for the Educational Asso-
citation delegates who go TO the latter city.
In May there arrived and departed at tn the
239 cars, against 1885 trains in May, 1884.
handling 9.406 cars; increase In number
of trains this year, 26l; in number OF cars
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton has
this week put on five additional suburban
trains each way. running as far as Glen
dale fifteen miles from Cincinnati. This
move will head off electric lines,
low rate is given on the suburban travel.
Frank Reed. general passenger agent of
the Monon, was in the city yesterday. He
reports the passenger business of the lipe
as good, and the earnings of the road the
first week OF June show an increase over
the corresponding week Of 1894 of over 81
900.
A dispatch from Cleveland says that the
appeal of the Toledo Ann Arbor North
Michigan Railroad Company against the de-
cree OF the United States Circuit Court or
Ohio ordering the sale Of the road on July
.. has been granted, and the sale will not
take place.
The N. Y. p. & o. division of the Erie
and the Pittsburg & Lake Erie. in eonneci,
with coal traffic that they have leased
one thousand coal cars from the ONO
Southern and five hundred from the Cleve-
land, Akron & Columbus.
Tho Cincinnati Iackson G. Van Vert
company will next week let the contracts
for new shops at Van Vert. work TO begin
inmediateiy the impI improve rd1,nd Wd con-
brick machine shop, 40 by 70 feet, and a
blacksmith shop 60 by So feet.
For ten days past the rate on packing
house products from Kansas City TO Texas
common points mas been 25 cents pei. 100
pounds. The tarln rate is % cents, and on
Tuesday the roads out of Omaha named the
same rates on that class of freights. when
the regular tariff is ~ cents per 100 pounds.
The Toledo e. Ohio Central has under
consideration withdrawing from the Union
Railway Company OF COLUMBUS o., and
erecting handsome passenger station in
that city separate from the other roads.
No definite action has yet been taken, bur
such an event Is said TO be not improb-
able
1t is stated that Louisiana is likely to be-
come the terminus OF the Chicago & Alton
branch road to jefferson City. The Off
Gals have. since the first or the month.
TO Louisiana and from Louisiana TO Jeffer-
son City, looking TO the contamination of
this new terminus scheme.
Engine 1917. Garstang build. on Wednesday
night hauled the Knickerbocker express of
five cars from Nation to indianapolis, 129
miles, in l62 minutes, and from Terre
Haute to the Union Station. Indianapolis.
seventy-three miles, in eighty-six minutes,
making two stops. This Is the best time
ever made between such points with any
train.
Samuel Hersey, who has been running
an engine on the Toledo. st. Louis & Kan
sas City for sixteen years. has been re-
lieved on account OF color blindness In
recognition of his long and faithful service
he will be given a position in the shops
Several other engineers and firemen nave
been dropped one OF the results of the
Toledo oculists trip over the line.
A meeting of the Trunk Line Associa
closed doors. After adjournment. Secretary
Holt said that the principal business trans
acted at the meeting was the consideration
of the general condition of east and west
bound freight rates. After a lengthy discus
sion, the matter was referred TO the trunk
line board OF presidents for final considera-
ton.
The resumption OF work i'm the coal mines
OF Ohio viii make great difference in
the showing of earnings OF Ohio coal roads
the next sixty days. They will from now
on be running against the Debs strike
period OF last year, and some of the roads
should show an increase of 100 per cent.
Rates are 20 to 40 per cent. better than
last year. as a result OF the formation OF
the Ohio Coal Association.
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