The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-05

ing Dec. 81, 1894, were:
& 1884. 1893.
o opos exp , s aSs' ~ 49, ~, g., ;ssa Dec las: sl s.ns
Net ...s........ ss7. 1851 sls, ses Inc. $685.
Gross IL mos. i, $50. 0e6 1,7f0,o49 Dec. 122, 9S3
Net IL moss. 263,43 1854 Inc. 63,S99
Personal, Local and General Notes.
John Stowell, passenger conductor of the
Big Four. who has been i'll with the typhoid
fever several days, was thought to be better
yesterday.
Fl. f. .Bowsher, district passenger agent
Of the Missouri. Kansas & Texas for this
territory, was in the city yesterday on Off
ciai business.
J. r. Barnard. general manager of the
Peoria s. Eastern, is arranging his affairs
to spend six or eight weeks this spring in
London and Paris.
The calls for empty cars indicate that
the grain men intend to take advantage of
the reduced east-bound rates which went
into effect yesterday.
D. Comstock. treasurer, and c.. H.
Horton, paymaster of the Big -Four lines,
were In the city, last evening, to attend the
Van Wrinkle reception.
transferred over the Belt road IA, S66 cars,
and Belt road. engines last week handled
$40 carloads of live stock.
j. F. Grennen. of the Indian
apolis division Of the Pennsylvania lines, a
few days ago, completed his thirtieth year
OF service on those lines.
NJ. e. Ingalls,, president Of the Big Four,
has gone to Washington, where he will
meet other railway officials and, if possible,
settle the pooling bill question.
Passenger men estimate that the mainten-
ance of east-bound passenger rates out Of
Chicago by the ten lines since jan ] has in
creased the revenue of the roads $4,000.
A parry of seven will leave to-day for the
City of Mexico, going. over the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton, the Queen & Crescent,
thence via Havana to the Mexican capital.
TIL meeting Of railway surgeons will begin
ifq animal session in China pn Nov I opI
will continue several days. 1t is expected
that fully fifteen hundred surgeons will be
in attendance.
d. G.. Hall, for years connected with the
passenger department of the Georgia Cen
tral., has been appointed passenger agent
Of the Georgia Southern & Florida, with
headquarters at Atlanta.
President Ingalls,, of the Big Four, has in
structed William Garstang, superintendent
Of motive power, to keep his expenditures
this month down to the basis of Sis, 600 for
twenty-six working days.
H. B. Hammond. president of the Indian
apolis, Decatur & Western, has so lar re-
covered from his illness that his wife has
under contemplation going with him to Eng
land to remain some months.
The round-trip rate from Indianapolis
to New Orleans for the Mardi Gras cele-
b%rations, Feb. rs and 26, will be So. Tickets
Will be on sale from Feb: IS to "a and be
good to return on until March 20.
Col. b. w. Wren, general passenger agent
OF the Florida Plant lines. has appointed J.
j. Farnsworth general Eastern agent of the
SYSTEM, WIFI authority sweeping IN Its
scope. In passenger circles it is considered
an excellent appointment.
r. 3. f. Peirce states that but few roads
are so well provided with power as is the To-
ledo, st. Louis & Kansas City, of which he
was a recently appointed receiver. The COM
pany in the last two years has spent $780,
900 in equipment, and has Lightweight en-
gines which are practically new.
All passenger trains on the Chesapeake &
Ohio are now lighted by electricity. A
large storage plant has been completed at
Richmond, va. and all cars are changed af
that end of the line. Each coach is equipped
to light the train for sixty hours.
The st. Louis Belt Railway Company,
whose purpose Is to construct and operate
a belt line to connect in St. Louis. has been
600. The object of the proposed belt line is
to tap all street railways, giving every line
and system connection with each other.
Vice President and General Manager Har-
ahan. of the Illinois Central, and J. A. Rob-
ertson. general manager Of the Monterey &
to take steps looking to the establishment
of a steamship line from New Orleans to
Tampico, the gulf terminus of the NJ. & NJ.
G.. road.
The rate war between San Francisco and
Puget sound and Alaska ports is still vigor-
ously prosecuted, Yesterday. the Pacific
duction. and q rate of $40 cabin and 81
storage from San Francisco to Seattle was
charges.
Mrs. NJ. E: Castle. grand vice president
OF the ladies' auxiliary of the Brotherhood
sf hos9mo eriy fd Ens GIN n,,rr has g gone on a
ing auxiliary branches at prominent South
| most prosperous branches yet established.
Owing to the demand for quicker mail
service between Chicago and the north Pa
for carrying the fast mail between Chicago
and st. Paul., will shorten the time of its
fast mail train to eleven hours between
Sunday.
operative, dating from Feb. l. Some five
thousand employees are affected and Will
per month tn care for the sick and disabled
employees and In case of death see that
the employs has a proper burial. The OPP
position to the charitable enterprise has
subsidized.
Judge Lurton. OF Nashville, was in Gin
cinnati yesterday to sit with Judge Taft
In the case involving the receiyership or
control of the Chesapeake & Ohio South
western railway. There we're also many
the hearing was postponed by the court to
Friday. Feb. Is, on account of other press
ing business.
The Chicago. Paducah & Memphis yester-
day ran its first passenger train over the
portion of the road just completed. now
extended from Altamont. H., to Marion, Ill,
ing country and fruit section and taps
one Of the best coal belts in Illionis. Il
Die lair 10 pe u NdiudDi lteueF 10 the
Wabash road. in the interest of which the
road was built.
Il Is announced arrangement have been
practically completed for a steamship line
| between Portland, Ore, and the Orient, to
be operated in connection with the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company and the
| Great Northern railway. IL is said a rep
resentat!ve of Samuels & Co, of Yoko-
hama. will arrive here. "Wednesday, when
the contract will be closed. The service
will probably be inaugurated about May l.
The Knickerbocker express has now been
on one hundred days, and in that time the
Big Four has but once delivered IL to the
Lake Shore at Cleveland late, while on the
l other hand the Lake Shore usually delivers