The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-27

2 month promptly. and despite the hard
times the. leading roads have done admir-
ably In this respect.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
II. e. FELTON,. general freight agent of the
1nicago q Eastern Illinois, is in the city on
NJ. a: Cook. engineer of maintenance of
way of the Queen & crescent's Southern
DIVISION is In the city for day or two.
George Rockwell. district passenger agent
OF the pennsylvania lines at this point, was
SO III yesterday as to confne him at home.
u. F. Huston. receiver of the Peoria,
Decatur d Evansville, was IN the city
road.
The Lake Erie & Western earned in the
third week Of February ss7,9e1.71. an in
of s9,990.19.
g. p. AckerIy. general agent of the jack
sonville Tampa & Key West, has become
Palm Beach Daily.
James Charlton, general passenger agent
or the Chicago & Alton, will arrive in the
CITY CITY, THIS evening and remain until Thursday
Frederic Ellison, claim agent of the Van
dalia, will retire about the first of the
month and make arrangement to go as
Honduras.
The Chicago Great Western has gone a
step turther than any other of the rail-
roads on the temperance question, and has
forbidden trainmen boarding at houses
Where bar room is connected.
biair q Baker have purchased from the
and have had them rebuilt at the Indiana
car and foundry works. They will use them
In shipping horses to Eastern markets.
Official notice is given of the appointment
of George w. Mudd as master mechanic of
the Wabash railway shops at Springfield
III, dating from March !. and on that date
W.. 8. Cooper will succeed him at the Mont
pelier shops.
J. F. Doyle telegraph operator of the
Pennsylvania and the Vandalia at the up
town office has resigned and goes to Day
ton. o., to take the secretaryship of the
Ware Coffee Company. G. K Miller of
indianapolis office.
Superintendent Reilly, of the Peoria &
Eastern, states that the new train, leaving
peorla at noon to connect with the knick-
indianapolis. and which haurs a Cleveland
sleeping car. has become one of the best
paying trains the company runs.
William Gibson, superintendent of the
Cincinnati division of the Big Four, in con-
y,.ersation yesterday said: .1f the, Lake
Four as promptly as the Big Four does its
trains to the Lake Shore, the Big Four
would be unsurpassed in the movement Of
its trains schedule time"
M. w. Mansfield, superintendent of the In
dianapolis & Vincennes. states that immense
piles Of thing are being stacked up in Green
grounds. and that more work will be done
this year in that direction than in any
value of draining their grounds
Medical Examiner Talbot, of the Indian
apois division of the Pennsylvania Com
pany's voluntary relief department, states
that in no time in the years the organiza-
tion has been in existence have there been
SO many disabled members to look after
On the Indianapolis division alone, yester-
day. sixty members were shown to be
drawing benefits, and the smallest sum at
rate of $40 a month.
1t is officially stated that the gross earn
tngs OF the indianapolis & Vncennes for
1894 were 10 per cent. less than in 1898, and
despite the economies introduced the net
earnings were about 10 per cent. less. This
is due to increased taxes the road, the
eeipts of any one month s. go little Iss more
than one-twelfth of the gross earnings of
the l. & V. went to pay taxes.
Under its new schedule the Chicago, NIL
waukee g. St. Paul fast mail train makes
the run from Chicago to Milwaukee, eighty
five miles, in one hour and fifty minutes.
With this train the time from Chicago to
fffty-fve minutes; distance, 420 miles. TAX
ing out stops. the average. speed of the
train is forty-Six and One-eighth miles
hour. Portions of the made at
speed of 53.65 miles an hour.
The New York Central is testing system
of lighting it's trains by electricity, taking
the power from the axle of the car, and it
is proving very satisfactory test. The
plan involves no transmission of power, each
apparatus being complete in itself The cur
rent obtained from the revolution of the
that the a light t. is Obtained without dificulty
before the train starts or when 1t stops,
as it is intended to have at least eight hours
of lighting in reserve.
Division superintendents, master mechan-
les. engineers of maintenance of way and
car-service men on the Big Four system
tehdent Van Wrinkle There were thirty
officials in attendance. This was the first
meeting of this character, but, hereafter
they will be held on the last Tuesday of
each month at Indianapolis. All questions
of interest to the transportation depart
ment which arise from month to month are
to be discussed at such meetings.
Andrew Stevens, traffic manager of the
Chicago & Southeastern, was in the city
yesterday. He states that the company has
received the engines purchased of the Penn
Sylvania road; they are now moving a good
deal of business, and in a few days will
be doing a good deal more. Regarding the
back pay to the employees he says the
matter has been exaggerated. The company
airy, and In short time, if business is
heavy as expected. will soon catch UP in
the pay of the men.
The employees of the Pennsylvania Com
pany at Columbus, Ind, have been carry
ing novel and practical class Satur-
day nights at the rooms of the he, Railr3ad
point. The Book of Rules has been the
subject of their study for the most part,
master j. VI. Lindiey, who co-operates with
them as an individual, the class being en-
be has b ana sara
urday night L. e. Stacy, State secretary of
the associations. gave the men talk
Some Pecuiarities of Foreign Railroads
No changes in the running of trains have
occurred in this section which has caused
so much surprise as the results from put
ting on of the Kntckerbocker express be-
tween ST. Louis and New York over the
Big Four and the Vanderbilt lines, and the
limited between ST. Louis and New York
over the Vandalia and the Pennsylvania
lines. Both trains are proving the best pay
Hg through trains ever run between St
Louis and the East Nightly when the
trains leave Indianapolis almost invariably
every berth in the New York cars is taken
and the long-haul local business both trains
are doing is equally much of surprise
1t is evident that both lines made a good
move when they put on noon trains east
out of St. Louis, and il has demonst ira ted
that good equipment and fast time will
surely draw the best travel to the midland
lines. These trains carry no second-class
ticket travel.
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