The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-05-22

increase Of s5l. $50; for the month to date.
S,Se,So2. an increase of s2s.7Si.
The Big Four lines mot including the
weeks of May si92, 1924. an increase over
the corresponding two weeks of 1894 of
$40, $3.50
The Chicago papers have revived the re-
port that the Chicago & Northwestern is to
purchase the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
and that the deal will be perfected in a
few days.
Train 1. the fast mail over the Pennsyl-
yania and Vandalia lines. now arrives i'm
st. Louis under the new schedule at $40 D.
M. instead OF 10 p. M, getting in ahead
OF train q.
ern and Northwestern roads passed through
the city yesterday en- route to Louisville to
attend the annual convention of railway
claim agents.
The parlor car which is run between Gin
einnati and ST. Louis over the Cincinnati.
hamilton & Dayton and the Vandalia is
now hauled between Indianapolis and st.
Louis on train q.
Under the present schedule passengers on
the fast train from New York to ST Louis
over the Pennsylvania and the vandalia
apolis for breakfast.
Z. Merkle & Son, who recently purchased
the lease Of the dining rooms, restaurant
etc, at the Union Station. indianapolis. are
negotiating for a similar lease at the Union
Station, Terre Haute.
Joseph Crawford, Superintendent of the
New York division of the Pennsylvania
INES, who was injured In wreck a few
weeks ago. has been taken to an asylum in
Jersey City to be cared for.
Daniel Jannowitz. who for some years
the Northern Psce in fhs of
represents the Wisconsin Central I'm the
East. covering Pennsylvania and New York
Edwin Seitz. chief clerk of j. r. Cavan-
augh, superintendent of car service of the
Big -Four. has accented the position of pri-
vate secretary TO George Jarvis. assistant
general superintendent of the Lake Erie &,
Western.
E b. Taylor. general superintendent of
transportation Of the Pennsylvania lines
west OF Pittsburg. spent yesterday in the
city. in the afternoon inspecting the shops
yards, etc. in company with superintendent
Darlington.
p. A.. Bonebrake. superintendent of the
Louisville division Of the Pennsylvania
lines. has given an order TO the effect that
all business letters addressed to the train
masters department be sent to him, which
would indicate that a trainmaster is not TO
be appointed at present.
Under the new train schedule of the Pan
handle, Columbus, Cincinnati and Louisville
trains are consolidated at Logansport and
one of the longest and heaviest passenger
trains running into Chicago.
A. NJ. Underhill. assistant engineer of
maintenance of way OF the Chicago division
OF the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago,
has been appointed chief engineer OF the
Peoria division of the Vandalia lines. j. e
n
cheering department of the main line
Captain w. F. Wheedon, conductor on
the Madison branch of the Pennsylvania
lines. who has been indicted for embezzng
collected. has been for thirty-six years a
passenger conductor the J.. NJ. & l.,
now the Louisville division Of the Pennsyl-
vania lines.
The Mayor and city attorney of New AL
bany have notified the trustees of the first
mortgage bondholders of the Kentucky and
date steps are taken to fOreclOse the first
mortgage the city will demand to be re-
leased from its Endorsement OF S250,O00 of
the first mortgage bonds.
The remains of r. p Wickham. late chief
clerk of the passenger department of the
Peoria. Decatur & Evansville. accompanied
by party of Mr.. Wickham's friends, passed
through the city. yesterday en- route to
Norwalk o.. for burial. -Tne deceased was
for many years connected with the pas
senger department of the Wheeling & Lake
Erie.
The Grand Master of the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen receives a salary of So
urer 5000 year. first vice grand master
$4,000 year, and the second vice grand
master 5000 year; At the convention
this week it is thought that i'm each case
a year.
The Pennsylvania Company has prepared
plans and specifications for new depot at
Madison. Ind, where the first depot
erected in the State. it being only a frame
shed: this was built in 1888 and abandoned
cost of @ The ne Tp depot viii uf be
credit TO the company and an ornament
to the city.
1t has been definitely settled to extend the
Mexican Central road from Guadalajara
westward TO the Pacific coast. Lewis King
man. chief engineer OF the Central. is now
engaged in making final surveys The ter
minus will probably be either San Bias
or Chametla. A new issue of bonds will be
made to furnish the requisite capital for
the construction of the extension.
J. r. Cavanaugh. superintendent of car
service of the Big Four, states that the
freight officials of Ohio roads are watching
with considerable anxiety what the damage
to the fruit crop Is. the grape shipments
from Lake Erie average 5000 carloads year
Private report says that the grape crop of
New York is damaged 80 per cent, but thus
far the damage is not SO great in Ohio.
A meeting of the advisory committee
of the emigrant clearing house was held
in Chicago yesterday. Chairman Caldwell
with the Grand Trunk, which led to the
dropping by that line of excessive COM
missions On west-bound emigrant business.
The report was approved, and minor mat
ters of routine took UP the balance of the
meeting.
The dining car fremont which was in the
Coatsville wreck the Nandalia a few
weeks ago, came out of the Pullman shops
this week. and yesterday was put on train
No. 20. it's usual run. The car has the APP
Its interior is elegantly finished and its
upholstery very handsome. and the dishes,
silverware and cooking utensils throughout
new.
c. c. Waldo general superintendent Of
the Cincinnati Hamilton q Dayton. was in
the city most of the day yesterday, return
ing TO Cincinnati on the evening train. He
SAYS the new train schedule. which shortens
the time between Cincinnati and Toledo
and Detroit fifty minutes and gives the
fast train from Indianapolis Toledo con-
nection. bids fair to considerably increase
the business OF the trains.
The Panhandle engineers and fremen
whose Headquarters are at Columbus, o.,
have formed a club TO be known as the
keystone Club and have secured a room and
equipped IL with airbrake apparatus and
other pieces OF machinery used in train
service. :. II. Bush. superintendent of mo-
tive power. has consented to talk to them
from time to time Oh machinery, airbrakeS,
steam heating apparatus, etc.
About year ago the Big Four put on
fast freight train leaving Chicago at $3.50 u.
m. and delivering at Indianapolis early the
next morning all the freights for this point
that had been received up to the hour of
the trains departure and it has proven
great success. On Sunday next the COM
of indianapolis, leaving at $3.50 p. III. and
delivering in Chicago the next morning all
freight received up TO the hour OF the
trains leaving Indianapolis
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