The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-06

Personal. Local and General Notes.
Edwin Gould Is. this week. inspecting the
Gould lines in Texas.
The Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg coal
cars are Doycotted by striking miners, VINO
refuse to load them.
George II. Mead has been appointed adj
vertising agent of the Chicago Greatwest-
ern. with headquarters at Chicago.
Steps are being taken to establish a
railroad mems branch of the Young Mems
Christian Association at Terre Haute.
The Brooks locomotive works are shipping
new locomotives to the Illinois Central,
this month, at the rate OF six per week.
The stations, the water tanks. switches,
etc., on the Louisville division of the Penn
~sylvania lines are being painted neatly.
Lester E.. Drake, who formerly repre-
scented the Missouri Pacific at Louisville,
KY, died, last week, at Las Vegas, n. NJ.
At stations on the indianapolis e. Vim
cennes fifteen to twenty cars. are being
loaded now daily with corn, mostly the old
crop.
The Railway Passenger and Freight Con-
ductors' Mutual Aid and Benefit Associa-
ton viii hold its annual convention in Chi
cago Nov. %.
On Monday the Monon fast express ran
from Monon to Lafayette in thirty-six min
utes, making one stop. The distance Is
thirty-two miles
The Lake Erie & Western has opened
a night telegraph office at Arrowsmith and
appointed operator Wallace, at Xxi
to take charge OF 1t
In October there We're shipped East from
the Indianapolis stock YARDS, over me
| Panhandle line, for Eastern markets, 81
carloads OF live stock.
Freight business on the Michigan division
of the Big Four is heavy beyond precedent.
The through freight trains are run in two
and three sections to handle the business.
George Sherman, general manager OF the
Vanderbilt fast freight lines, spent yester-
day I'm the city. He says that getting cars
TO handle the business is now the problem.
AS expected. j. NJ. Barr. on Nov. 1, sue
tendent of the Great Northern. Mr.: Nc
kenna will now give his whole attention to
MS railway devices.
The merchants of Savannah are trying
70 arrange for some low-rate excursions
from Atlanta to their city. General pasSen-
ger agents OF Northern roads have been
asked 10 give the matter attention
William Garstang, superintendent of mo-
tive power and rolling stock of the Big
| Four, has gone to Memphis TO examine a
lot of cars built for a Southern road, which
is not now in shape 10 pay for them.
On the Pennsylvania lines east of Pitts
burg 100000 tons of coal are consumed
annually by locomotives and Tor other pur-
poses. In distributing the coal three thou-
SAND cars are kept in constant service.
Receipts of canned goods and dried fruits
from California are, at the present time,
the heaviest in the history OF the transcon-
tinental lines. Large numbers of cars are
stopping here or gong to points beyond
daily.
Colonel Gray, division freight agent, and
Frank Reynolds, general live stock agent
OF the Pennsylvania lines, last night, went
to Columbus, o., to attend g. conference OF
the freight officials of the lines west OF
Pittsburg.
John F.. Nolan, for sixteen years a loco
motive engineer on the Michigan Central,
died on Sunday, at st. Thomas, Ont, the
eastern end of his run. He was a prominent
member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers.
The managements of the Illinois roads
have decided not to take individual ac-
ton in future in regard TO rulings OF the
State Board of Railway Commissioners, but
TO call a meeting and pass upon such rul-
ings Jointly.
1t is practically settled thai the Penn
sylvania lines west OF Pitts6urg VIII this
beyond that figure should November and
December be favorable to handling business
economically.
Yesterday the Lake Erie & Western
brought in thirty-five people and turned
hem over to the Cincinnati, Hamilton x
Dayton. These people are en- route 10 Geor-
gla TO settle on lands belonging to the Fftz-
gerald colony.
The Philadelphia & Reading Is, This
month, to award the contract for two inn
mense warehouses, to be erected at Phila-
delphia. Each building Will be several hun
dred feet long and ten stories high from the
grade of the proposed subway.
On Sunday next the Pennsylvania Com,
pany will further shorten its running time
between Chicago and Louisville with IL:
Atlanta express. the train leaving Chicago
at noon, reaching Indianapolis for supper
and Atlanta at Ills a m. next day.
As now scheduled, Train 5, on the Bis
Four, makes the run from Cincinnati to
indianapolis in three hours and ten min
utes. making fourteen stops; distance, IN
miles, which makes il one of the tastes
trains running on the Big Four system.
Passenger officials say that not In years
has east and west-bound through trave
been as satisfactory as the last six weeks
1A--4e - l@-~ ~ - -
the occasion of the great meetings a
Boston and Baltimore during the summel
months.
Indications are that the railroad will ge
better rates for hauling the cotton crol
this season than for years. This year eacl
OF the Southern lines is assigned a certain
percentage as its share. based upon tn,
average tonnage each road has hauled ii
the last three years.
An order has been given by Harry Miller
superintendent of the Vandalia main line
the Pennsylvania line. is reported one hou
and fifteen minutes late. or more. a train
be made ID at Indianapolis to run on tn
schedule of Train p. - = 70
The Monon people have now got thef
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES rails distribute,
TO the city line of indianapolis and l
will be In the track in three weeks, max
ing II a track Of that weight from Indian
been laid since Sept. /.
John Taylor. general traffic manager o.
the Lehigh Valley road. is dead. He en-
tered the service OF the Lehigh Valley IL
1851 as axman Of a construction gang, anC
had been with the road since as station
agent, conductor. general freight agent an(
general traffic manager
The steamer City of Topeka, which
sailed from Tacoma yesterday for Alaska
carried a shipment of L rails and FISH
road in the famous Treadweii mine OF
Douglas island. IL is said that this viii
be Alaska's first railroad.
The Columbus & Hooking Valley. tn
longest line between Columbus and G
cagn runninC In connection with the Chi