The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-11-07
Plan of the O., i. & f.

and is much better received than similar
advances upon the part of other nations.
Plan of the O., 4. & f.
A dispatch from Richmond last night
says: According to reports the Chicago, In
diana & Eastern, the roadbed for which
is constructed as far as Wheeling, a small
town northwest of Muncie. may soon reach
Richmond. 1t is said that the company's
intention Is TO get a connection with Gin
c%innati. and in case Muncie grants a sub
sidy OF $4,000. which will be asked. the
track will be laid to that city in the spring
and on here, where connections for Gin
cinnati would be made with the Panhandle.
route is TO be through Eaton and Dunkirk.
where connections will be made with the
Panhandle.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The vandalia is turning over to the Pan
handle an average Of fifty carloads of cot
ton per day.
The Lima Northern, in which the Brice
syndicate Is interested, will increase its cap
ital stock from. $780, Geo to 81. 100000.
Oscar Murray, freight traffic manager of
the Big Four, was in Chicago yesterday on
official business. and may be in Indianap-
oils to-day.
From Jan. 1 to Nov. 1 the gross earnings
OF the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg
have been increasing over last year in sums
varying from $200,00 to &00,00 per month.
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sixty feet in length. weighing eighty pounds
to the yard, for several miles. to test the
advisability OF adopting that description OF
rail.
& Ohio Central, with others interested in
the property. have this week been in West
Virginia prospecting for a line 10 the sea-
board.
The Baltimore & Ohio still has in service
some Of the camel-back engines in its yards.
built for the company a quarter of a CEN
fury ago, and they are still doing good serv-
Ice In that capacity.
Business at the Brightwood shops prom
ises to be brisk all winter. Within the
last ten days five ten-wheel and two mo-
gul engines have been taken into these
shops for general repairs.
Before the close of the present year the
PENNSYLVANIA lines will have $4,000 freight
cars Of their own. besides the line cars, re-
frigerator cars and stock cars the Pennsyl-
vania lines are interested in.
In October, the official report of VIM. Sui
Ivan, agent of the Big Four at this point,
shows that there were loaded and Unloaded
at the city freight depots 7,70 cars. an in
crease over october, 1894, of 64 cars.
The smoke consumer in use on some of the
locomotives of the Little Miami division Of
the Panhandle lines IS doing much better
than had been anticipated, and is attracting
the attention OF master mechanics on other
roads.
Columbus, o., now has the same number
of roads which Indianapolis has. but Is in a
good way to have three more in the next
eighteen months. If Indianapolis would be-
stir itself IL could still keep pace with CO.
lumbus.
The general managers of the roads in the
Central Traffic Association will meet to-
pool on east-bound steamship business. 1t
Is proposed to better equalize and then
maintain rates.
The work OF putting in an interlocking
signal and switching plant at Anderson,
Ind Is now in progress. The plant will
have forty levers, and will do the work for
the Big -Four, the Panhandle and the Chi
cago & Southeastern.
At a meeting of the Georgia Southern e
Florida railroad held in Macon, Ga, last
night Samuel spencer. of New York, was
Of etsf Baitim RreSsas Vice PRESIDENT. and BENJAMIN fanMii
c. Smith, OF Macon, secretary and treas
urer-
The completion OF the reorganization of
the Toledo & Ann Arbor is now a matter Of
once, but will not begin to draw interest
until Jan. l. 1897, leaving the net earnings Of
next year TO complete improvements already
begun
Trainmasters on the Panhandle lines are
busy arranging for the change of system of
running engines and crews, which is now in
effect on the Indianapolis division, and VIII
soon be In operation or other divisions. 1t
Is the old plan of each engine having the
same crew.
The Vandalia Is utilizing its side tracks
on l'cnnSylVanla street.. nOEIn OF the union
tracks. for the unloading of tropical fruits
and produce which come In here for Indi-
annapolis commission merchants. and IL is
proving a great convenience to the COM
mission men.
Z. w. Sloane, who for thirty years was
superintendent of the Indiana division of
the American Express Company, and who
is now on the company's pension list. has
been taken to a sanitarium at Cincinnati
for treatment for mental troubles resulting
from nervousness.
II the exposition at Atlanta is not a sue
cess it cannot be charged to the Northern
railways, as all roads running southwark
are vying with each other TO make the
fastest time and furnish the best equip
ment, and the rate, with a twenty-day limit
from Northern points. is practically 1 cent
a mile.
While In New York, r. b. F. Peirce will
confer with the Wagner Palace-car Com
pany as regards putting on a line OF Wag-
ner sleeping cars over the Indiana, De-
catur 4 Western and the Toledo. St. Louis
& Kansas City between indianapolis and
81. Louis. II not able 10 make a deal with
the Wagner people. the company may pur-
chase cars for the through service.
TIL Northwestern lines are beginning to
show large Increases in gross earnings. The
returns of the Chicago. Milwaukee & ST.
Paul for the last week of October showed
the largest gross earnings OF any week I'm
the history of the company. reaching ST.
| $50. 7Si. an increase over the corresponding
| week OF last year OF 1913. $50. and exceeding
the earnings of any former week by NS,O0
1t Is thought that the advance in grain
rates from Western points TO Chicago,
which went into effect on Tuesday, will
check shipments to that point. For several
weeks grain has been coming into Chicago
on a cut rate OF 121s cents per 100 poands
from Missouri river points Nearly doubling
the rate will. IL enforced. cause a decrease
I'm shipments of at least one-half. freight
men expect.
The Panhandle is now doing the heaviest
business in its history. In the forty-eight
hours ending Monday night this road de-
Iivered at Pittsburg seventy-two trains,
averaging twenty-six cars each, and for
warded west from Pittsburg sixty full
trains. making fS2 trains handled for the
Panhandle at the Pittsburg terminal In the
forty-eigbt hours. On sunday the road took
into Pittsburg eighty carloads OF live stock
and ninety carloads of dressed meats, near
~ all OF which went east over the Pennsyl-
vania for seaboard markets or export.
Articles OF consolidation of the ST. Lotus.
SLOAN A Southern Railway Company OF
Missouri and Arkansas were died with the
Secretary OF State. at Jefferson City. Mo-.
yesterday The new company proposes 10
build and operate a standard gauge rail-