The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-18
Ira mc Notes.

The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
handled at Indianapolis in the week ending
March l6 a total OF s4 cars, $50 being
The Peoria & Eastern experienced an off
week, handling at indianapolis 1,S95 loaded
cars against 2,l13 in the week ending March
The four Pennsylvania lines last week
handled at indianapolis 1910 loaded cars
against 4,070 in the week ending March 9;
decrease last week thirty loaded cars.
The Lake Erie & Western forwarded from
Indianapolis last week 2H loaded cars,
three fewer than in the week ending March
., the inbound loaded car movement show
ing a slight increase.
The empty car movement last week was
the largest in some months reaching o.214
the total movement; 20 per cent. is con-
sidered a fair average.
The indianapolis & yincennes continues
to make a favorable exhibit, doing fully
100 per cent. more business than five years
ago. In the week ending March 16, this
road brought in 5s1 carloads Of coal and
live stock.
dianapoiis last week 1881 loaded cars, an
increase over the week ending March 9 of 10
had the company plenty OF cars its volume
OF business would now be in excess of any
former period.
One of the striking features of business
with the through lines is the close equality
in tonnage of traffic in both directions. The
Panhandle last week brought in S76 loaded
dio anu tbC lsUVl, IN dHddiid
brought in 92 and forwarded west 961 loaded
cars, and on the Big Four lines proper
about the same proportionate loaded car
movement is shown.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
In February IS, 25S passengers were handled
on the Indianapolis division of the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton & Dayton.
Charles Watt. general superintendent of
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago. has
gone South on quite an extended trip.
The Monon management is figuring on the
putting in of a number of interlocking
switches and signals at roads they cross.
.Pittsburg paper says the shops of the
Panhandle at indianapolis are the most
pleasantly located works of the kind in the
country.
Since July 1. 1894, the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois shows o decrease in earnings when
compared with the same period the preced-
ing year of $435.560.
To keep down expense it is stated that
not pushed repairs, and as a result now
has at Scranton lis crippled locomotives.
w. Fl. Fisher. general passenger agent of
the Columbus e. Hooking Valley, passed
through indianapolis yesterday en- route for
Hot Springs, where he will spend ten days.
Local passenger officials have been notified
that H. A. BEDFORD has been appointed COM
piler of the associated railways Of Virginia
and the Carolinas, vice A.. Madison re-
signed.
The arching of the tunnels ON the Pan
handle lines between Columbus and Pitts
burg has dispensed with a large number
of tunnel watchmen and helped to lessen
expenses.
George G.. Street, who has just taken the
position of general manager of the Blue and
Canadian Southern fast freight lines, has
been connected with that company twenty
seven years.
The stockholders of the Illinois,, Indiana
e. Michigan will hold their annual meeting
for the ~electioi: of directors in Michigan
City, Ind, April 10. and other important
business is to be transacted.
A railway official who has recently been
travelling in the Southwest states that the
railroads In that section are steadily i'm
proving in business. and it is, looked upon
as a material sign of prosperity.
At the meeting of the freight department
of the Central Traffic Association, held in
Chicago last week, appropriate resolutions
on the death of II, w. Hibbard, late gen
eral freight agent of the vandalia, were
passed.
1t is believed in financial circles that the
agreement the roads which handle the
bituminous coal have entered into will en-
able the Columbus & Hooking Valley to
make such earnings that it will become a
dividend payer.
ID. II. McCabe. general freight agent of
the freight committee of the Central Traffic
dered his resignation as chairman, a posi-
ton he has filled for three years. His sue
cessor has not yet been selected.
X. G. Mullin, one of the oldest passen-
ger conductors in point of service on the
Pittsburg division of the Pennsylvania
lines, was buried Saturday at Greensburg,
Pa. From several divisions of the PENN
sylvania system floral emblems were sent.
Passenger conductors on the Panhandle
lines are required to present a neat and
tidy appearance when on duty, and this
has resulted in the men in such capacity