The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-22

vandalia system. position which It viii
be hard to fill with man as capable Tor
the place as was Mr.. Hubbard.
Frank Reed. general passenger agent of
the Monon lines, was in the city yesterday
on official business He states that passen-
ger traffic is beginning to improve with
the Monon, the earnings of his department
the second week in January being 9, 4bz
ahead of the corresponding week of 1873
A lien has been filed by John Z. Lamb,
of Terre Haute, against the Indiana, lii
nois & Iowa road for 100000. The suit is
South Bend by Mcintosh Bros, of Milwau-
kee, the contractors who built the South
Bend extension. the railroad company stiii
owing the contractors $4,000.
1t is stated that H. w. Hubbard, late gen.
eral freight agent of the vandalia, did not
leave large estate, although for years he
less than 5000 a year. but he had an in
valid daughter who has been SO for fifteen
years and he lavished money on her in
hopes of restoring her to health He car
ried some life insurance, but not a large
sum.
But few roads in the country show
remarkable an increase In earnings from
week to week as does the Missouri KAN
sas Texas, especially in its passenger
since James Barker became it's general
passenger agent. The second week in jan
sec. ID. 'Ne corresponding week q -''s "
In passenger circles the general express
sion is that the o In Locals ss
sleeping car run between Indianapolis and
New York. The Big Four people are. not
ness to the Big Four Knickerbocker ex-
press, which hauls local sleeping ing, COACH mSa
between Indianapolis and New York. The
time by both lines is the same.
The Columbus, Sandusky & Hooking rail-
road stockholders have elected as directors
ans nry Y " New Yorn charles anf H. padey
zarhorst sanausky; s'eS Chase andrews
g. i, Tnrney', G. G. Hoover F. i. Picard. g.
w. Sinks, Theodore Leonard and G. y.
Firestone. of Columbus; president. w. e.
Guerin.
The average pay of locomotive engineers
on the New York Central railroad in the
year 1894 was e fremen and an Wip erd
trainmen, $633; roadmasters and trackmen,
5000; telegraph operators, $500; mechanics
and flagmen, $500; trackmen, $419 The COM
pany employees 4,379 trackmen, 1915 me.
chanics and helpers in the shops and 2523
swtchmen.
The Pennsylvania railroad proper heads
the list in number of locomotives owned, It
being 1625 the New York Central tn comes comes
Pacific third with 1,o66. the Senta Fe next
with 1oo2. the Chicago & NIoerthwesteran
St. Paul has 1893, the Baltimore & Ohio $50
and the Erie 664. In this statement the
number of locomotives used on the main
lines only included.
roads to sell mileage, books would need to
road boasts Of having its mileage book
good on fifty-nine roads 1t is noticeable,
in the naming of the roads. instead Of say
ing the Big Four lines, the general pas
senger agent has hit upon the novel idea
of naming each division as a separate road.
thus getting ten names, he using the d.
vision name as known on the train sheets,
or the former names of the roads, as in the
case of the Whitewater or the Cincinnati,
Wabash & Michigan.
All of the Western roads have now re-
corded their votes on the question of ad-
vancing the one way and round trip rates
to the Pacific coast and the vote is unani-
NOUS for the raise which will take effect
on Feb. Is. The matter was practically de-
cided some days ago. but there were a few
lines which were slow in getting in their
votes and the matter was not considered
as finally settled until they had been heard
structed to notify all the connections of
the Western roads of the proposed advance
and the date on which it will become eff
fective.