The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-11
Personal, Local and General Notes.

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the movement Is 1000 it is considered a
good business.
Personal, Local and GcneraI Notes.
The Ohio Southern earned in February
81 I2s an increase over February, 1884, OF
S94s 2S6, against s876.392 In February, 1894,
against $751; ss9 In 1893 and $l.106,496. in 1892.
The directors of the c., G, G. ST. l.
have declared quarterly dividend on the
preferred stock of IA per cent, payable
April 1.
II is stated that the. position Of train
master on the Louisville division of the
Pennsylvania lines will not be filed until
after March 15
The New York, New Haven & Hartford
viii spend several hundred thousand dollars
this wear i'm the abolishing of grade cross
in2s on it's lines.
All the Western lines follow the example
of the Chicago Great Western, Ii is stated.
and sell tickets to parties of ten or more
at two cents mile between all stations.
Samuel Bricker, one. of the veteran engi-
neers on the Panhandle lines who, how
ever, has been unable to run for two years,
is lying at the point of death at his home
in Logansport.
w; II. scriven, roadmaster of the cleve-
land 4 Phtsburg, II is stated, will sue
coed w. II. Potter as engineer of main
tenance of way the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago.
y A. & c. lines, was in the city Saturday.
i He Is much gratified over the earnings
better results for March.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas has COM
meneed the erection of $4,000 passenger
will expend large sum of money in en-
larging its yards at that point.
The. telegraph operators of Pittsburg and
A4legheny have organized a mutual bene-
tit association to be known as the Tele-
graphers Aid Society. 1t will embrace both
railroad and commercial telegraphers
"A, a passenger station on the Boston &
Maine. at Lynn, Mass, is to be torn down
TO 10 give place to more modern structure.
Tne present s depot d o has been in use fifty
sold through its ticket window.
Business has fallen off to such an ex-
tent on the Chicago division of the PAN
handle lines that the SIX freight locomo-
tives borrowed from the Pittsburg Fort
Wayne g. Chicago Were returned on Sat
urday.
building at the Altoona shops for the Pan
handle lines were received on Saturday.
They are numbered $50 and s1s. taking the
glnes recently sold.
A meeting of rate clerks of roads in the
Central Traffic Association territory is
agreed upon at the Boston meeting for the
Christian Endeavor and the Knights Tenn
lar gatherings in that city.
The projected San Francisco & San Joa-
quin Valley has purchased 10000 tons OF
steel rails for the enterprise, which will be
Mhen DY IS t sa M f @ fbs ra
needed to construct the road as located.
The indianapolis Superintendents' Assoc
citation held its annual meeting on Saturday
handle, president; George Bender. of the
Big Four, vice president, and George Stats,
of the indianapolis Il Vincennes, secretary.
William Garstang. superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big Four will go to-day
to Cincinnati to meet representative of the
tract for six more passenger engines of the
same type as those built for the company
last year.
John Hugo, baggage master on the Penn
sylvania lines, Is thought to be fatally ill
with typhoid fever. He has been a baggage
master on the Pennsylvania lines forty
years. and is one of the oldest employees in
the company's service having passed the
three score and ten line.
The receivers of the Northern Pacific have
been granted permission to enter into a
lease with the Minneapolis & st. Louis,
which owns tracks near and in st. Paul,
Pacific to run its trains in order to gain
access to its st. Paul terminal
What is known as the Columbus military
there good many United States troops
taken from Columbus o., to Western mill
custom to pool the business between i've
roads, but friction now has risen which
threatens the existence of the pool
The Graham & Morton TRANSPORTATION
Company is negotiating for the lease of
the steamer Greyhound. of the Detroit
line. to take the place Of the chicora.
which is to ply between Benton Harbor,
St Joseph and Chicago for the, vandalia
and the Big Four is completed.
Construction work on the Little Rock
& Pacific will begin to-day, the contracts
for the first twenty miles having been
The proposed line will be aso o. miles LONG lone
and will form a link of direct line east
and west across the continent. An Eng
lish syndicate is furnishing the money.
The Railroad Gazette of March publishes
cut. of the new design for fiat and coal
cars for the Big Four. which is to be its
capacity and the trucks and frame will be
the the same from the top of the rail to the
box box cars. reducing i the ' liability illy
for repairs to a minimum. The Gazette
speaks of the design as being an excellent
one.
Commissioner Blanchard of the Central
Traffic Association is not making much
headway in getting the Indianapolis roads
into line on rate matters. A meeting was
called for Friday, but as neither the Monon
the Lake Erie & Western or the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton was represented, the
meeting was adjourned until Saturday. On
that day the Big Four and the Pennsylvania
done Secretary Eckman teIegraphed for in
structions in the matter
G. J. Grammar, general freight agent of
the Lake Shore road was in the city
Saturday evening en- route for Evansville
TO spend Sunday. He expressed regret that
his name had. been associated with the
s st. Louis should the present receivers
De removed 1t has been alleged that he
had something to do with the bringing
about of the present disturbance over the
receivership. but The statement had not
the least foundation. He has been too
busy in his own position on the Lake
Shore to-. look after the affairs of any
other railroad company. and. from the
tenor of his conversation, under no con-
sideraton would be accept the receivership
OF the l.. Il. St l.. Tn justice to Mr.
Grammar it should be said that the runor
that he or George Evans. the former gen.
eral manager would be appointed re-
ceivers of the road originated liz Boston
where large per cent. of the securities
of the road are held and where both have
warm friends
Disposition of Garbage.