The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-25
week ending March 16. It's inbound move
ment was about the same in both weeks


menl was ABOUT the same IN polh "eOnS
Personal, Local and General Notes.
William Gibson. superintendent of the
Cincinnati division of the Big -Four, Is on
the sick lst.
w. II. Tfgar, chief train dispatcher of the
Pittsburg. Fort Wayne Sc Chicago, spent
yesterday in the city.
To reduce expenses the Mobile & Ohio
road has abolished the position of general
Western passenger agent,
Oscar Murray, freight trafic manager of
the Big -Four, passed drought the city yes
terday en- route for Chicago
Panhandle train No. 5 on Saturday took
out or PittsDurg for the West 2V4 immi-
grants, all Swedes and Austrians.
w. F. Bruner, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Vandalia and Pennsyl-
vania lines, spent Sunday in the city.
Colonel Oran Perry, who, accompanied by
New Orleans, is expected home to-day.
The Lehigh Valley has contracted with
the Baldwin locomotive works for twenty
five first-class locomotives, mostly passen-
ser engines.
The Vandalia and Pennsylvania company
claim to have secured a contract to haul
10000 bushels Of grain from st. Louis to
the seaboard.
The week of the horse sale at Cambridge
City the Panhandle realized from that sta
ton 1920 through business in connection
with the sale.
The pay rolls show that the Big Four has
in all departments 10, 800 men. OF this num-
Der 1900 are connected with the transporta-
ton department.
c. H. Hunt, of st. Louis. representing
the Merchants Dispatch at that point, spent
Sunday with friends in this city. He will
shortly be married.
The boats which ply in the interests of
the Big Four between Benton Harbor, Chi
cago and Milwaukee, will begin running for
the summer to-day.
The Haskell & Barker car works are turn
ing out new cars at the rate of twelve a day
for the Illinois Central, last Saturday deliv-
ering fifty in one train.
a new deOot iS nearing roOnDlafiOn at
Paramount, on the Chicago, Indiana & East
ern,. and it is expected trains will be running
to that point by July i.
J. l.. Gill, who died last week at Column
bus, O., aged eighty-nine years. was one of
the first promoters of the Columbus &
Plqua, now part OF the Panhandle system.
State, has retired from the attorneyship of
the Chicago & Erie. It is said that he re-
celved $4,000 a year While employed In that
position.
The Wabash will at once rebuild the
roundhouse burned last week at Toledo.
The six engines which were damaged by the
fire have been brought to Fort Wayne to
be rebuilt.
The Big -Four will remodel it's depot at
Marion and improve things generally, being
forced to do something in that direction by
the improvements the Panhandle has made
at that point.
The Vandalia company has adjusted all
but three of the claims for personal injuries
resulting from the Coatsville wreck, On
Friday last paying j. w. Cravens, of Craw-
louisville, $1,309.
The Big Four is purchasing new rails for
its branches, weighing g. pounds to the yard
and S3 instead of 80 feet in length. Five
hundred tons will be laid this week between
Greensburg and Rushville.
The Chicago & Erie will erect a building
at North Judson which will answer for a
| passenger station and the second story for
the train diSpatchers of the Western divi-
sion, now stationed in Chicago.
J. M. Kimball, who has been superintend-
ent of the Erie division Of the Pennsylvania
| lines for twenty-five years, will retire on
April l and will look after the company's
coal interests at Cleveland. Ashtabula and
Erie.
The net earnings of the Baltimore &
Ohio for February were 800, 260. an increase
months of the company's fiscal year the net
of S433. I'll.
Charles w. Catlin, who was buried at ST.
| Louis yesterday, was one of the Oldest and
most competent passenger rate clerks in
the country. He was a war veteran, and on
Wabash and held it until death.
BENJAMIN johnson, bill clerk at the Pan
handle offices, has obtained a six months
leave of absence and will spend the time
on the Pacific coast in search of health.
| He has held his present position a number
or years, but is obliged to take a rest.
Rumor has it that S. Fl. II. Clark, man
aging receiver of the Union Pacific, is
anxious to retire from that position and
that he is to return to ST. Louis and take
the presidency of the Missouri Pacific,
which George Gould desires him to do.
Hereafter on the sleeping coach hauled
| between indianapolis and New York on the
Knickerbocker express two sections will
be reserved for Peoria and one for La
| fayette. In case they are not taken they
Will then be used each day for Indianapolis
| business.
But few persons are aware of the fast
| schedule made by the limited mail train over
the pennsylvania and Vandalia westward.
The train leaves Pittsburg only ten min
utes ahead of train No. Z, which is consid-
| cred fast, and arrives in st. Louis six hours
and ffty-two minutes ahead of it.
1t is said that the Lake Erie & West
ern annual report will show 6 per cent.
| substantial surplus. The January earnings
of the road show: Gross, $3.50, 2S9; increase.
| $50, 221; net, 116, 843; increase, SIG, 1856; sur
plus after charges, $5S,885; increase, $23, 423.
Charles s.. Fee, general passenger agent
of the Northern Pacific, has sent to the
! a large picture, thirty by forty-eight inches,
| of Emigrant peak, near Livingstone. 1t is
| said to be one of the finest pictures of
this character ever sent out as an adver-
| tisement by a railroad company.
William Greene, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
e. Dayton, and Chief Engineer Wood are
in New York for a conference with Presi-
dent Woodford. 1t is quite likely that some
decision will be reached while these Of
ficialS are together as regards the new
freight depot of the c., H. 81 d. at Indian
apolis.
With the Big -Four commencing to use the
| Merchants bridge to reach the Union Sta
| tion at st. Louis its own engines will handle
the trains, doing away with the present
arrangement, by which the st. Louis term
inal bridge engines haul the trains between
! st. Louis and East St. Louis, often caus-
ing more or less delay after the train leaves
the Union Station at st. Louis.