The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-27
Personal. Local ana General Notes.

the Hooking Valley road yesterday con-
tracted for one thousand thirty-ton coal
cars.
Joseph Wood, general manager of the
Pennsylvania lines, has gone West on a
hunting trip.
II. G. Parker, traffic manager of the
Lake Erie & Western. returned yesterday
from the East.
r.. B. f.. Peirce. receiver of the Toledo,
ST. Louis q Kansas City, will return from
Toledo this morning.
G. c.. & St. L. has advanced s. per share.
Very little of it is on the market
Albert s.. White, general manager of the
Erie fast freight line. is expected in the
city to spend Sunday, en- route to st. Louis.
The passenger business of the Nickel-plate
has reached such proportions that the man
agement has placed dining cars on the
through trains.
On May / the Wabash. the Chicago &
Alton and the Illinois Central will move
their city ticket offices at Chicago into the
Marquette Building.
Frank s. Divine, chief clerk of f. #. Cost,
assistant general freight agent OF the Big
Four at Chicago, Will spend Sunday in the
city with his parents.
c. c. Wheeler, an official of the Chicago &
Northwestern, is spending a couple of weeks
at Indian Mineral Springs. His private car
stands on a side track at Attica, Ind.
William Brown, many years a passenger
conductor on the Jeffersonville, Madison &
indianapolis, now in Texas. is visiting
friends in this section for a few days.
" SOihpiCtC hI6iA-Cs Jbot OaN VI LIZ
shops, have been placed this week on the
Big Four to run on the Michigan division
between indianapolis and Benton Harbor.
The rumor is again current that Samuel
Spencer is to resign as president of the
Southern Railway Company, and that Mil
ton H. Smith, of the Louisville d Nash
vile, will be elected to the vacancy.
When the new engines ordered by the
Big Four are received the Big Four proper
will have 457 locomotives, all serviceab1e,
12 of these having been built for passenger
service. The Peoria & Eastern has sixty
six additional.
Encouragement Charles d. Hayes, of
Undertook, and LATE Pence, of Colorado.
have completed the purchase of a control
ing interest in the Kinderhook & Hudson
On. Y.) railway. The transaction amounts
to about SIS, 0C0.
visor of the Knoxville branch of the Louis
vile e. Nashville, with headquarters at
began as a section boss On the Jefferson
vile, Madison & Indianapolis.
officials of the Reading road say, rela-
tive to the rumors of a probable war of
complications will be temporarily adjusted
at the next meeting of the sales agents in
New York on Tuesday next.
For some months past the engines of the
Louisville division OF the Pennsylvania
Company have been going through the
shops for general repairs, and the locomo-
tiveS of this division are now among the
best coming into the Union Station.
An electric locomotive of a new type has
been completed at the Baldwin locomotive
works for the North American company,
which operates the property of the Oregon
az Transcontinental Company and extensive
street railway and electric lighting inter-
ests in Milwaukee,.
The Phenix Bridge Company is completing
the new bridge of the Big Four over the
Ohio River. The iron work will be entirely
S comp snd in incl tb1rfg d tns approaches tps aches, w next
should be completed. At the latest, it is
expected trains will cross the bridge June /.
The directors of the Chicago & West
Michigan railroad have issued a circular to
bondholders stating that owing to inability
to meet payment of coupons due May | and
half payment in cash and one-half in scrip,
the paymen in ten years, with interest at
5 per cent. semi-annually.
Train 5, recently put on between New
York and st. Louis, which is the fastest
train run west bound, is proving one of the
most popular trains the Pennsylvania and
the Vandalia have ever run westward. Its
s~leeping-car travel is large, and it carries
large numbers of people who do not patron
ize sleeping cars. The growth of travel
trains are run, is a source of much COM
ment.
The Baltimore & Ohio southwestern line
between St. Louis and Cincinnati is thirty
four miles shorter than by the line of
either of it's competitors: the track and
equipment of the line are in good condition,
and it is a surprise to railroad circles that
it does not make the run an hour quicker
than either of it's competitors, instead of
dltCI1iRLiH5 ~ II tiiiC Will lie "a
vantages that the Knickerbocker and the
fast trains of the Pennsylvania have be-
tween st. Louis and New York.
Some of the labor leaders are coming
out in favor of an organization similar to
that of the Pennsylvania Voluntary Relief
Association as the best means of caring
for sick members and the proper burial of
the dead. and where a large number of
men are employed by one company they
asso @mf the the 1erT Bnrford OF Pr s n re and
Lithograph Company has an organization,
and a very prosperous one, operating on
much the same plan of the pennsylvania
Voluntary Relief Association.
The employees at the Panhandle shops feel
disappointed because on Thursday a notice
with May 1, the shops would be run the
first five days of the week but eight hours,
and on Saturday but five hours. One of the
shop men says that he read that the net
earnings of the Southwestern lines in the
Pennsylvania system the first three months
of 1896 were several hundred thousand dol
lars in excess of the corresponding three
months of 1894, and on reading this state
ment and the notice he felt that the COM
pany was not treating its employees very
generously.
The building of the New Albany & Vim
cennes is again being agitated. Persons in
terested In the enterprise have been making
Investigations. and find that towns on the
proposed line are ready to vote subsidies.
project. but the vote has lapsed. the road
not being commenced within the statutory
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vote a similar tax IL it will insure the
building Of the road. The original survey
passes through the best agricultural por-
lions of southern Indiana. a section cele-
brated for Its prolific grain and fruit crops
and for its fine timber. The line also runs
through thirty miles of the best of the
southern Indiana coal fields.
In passenger circles it is thought there is
no better opening for the establishing of a
through s~leeping-car service In the country
than between indianapolis and Toledo and
Detroit. and If the Cincinnati, Hamilton d
Dayton does not move in the matter the
Lake Erie e. Western and the Wabash
will put on a line of sleeping cars between
the points named. The matter was up for
consideration between General Passenger
Agent DAILY, of the Lake Erie & Western.
and General Passenger Agent Crane, of the
Wabash. when the latter was In Cincinanti
on Thursday. The Big Four and the Gin
cinnati. Hamilton e. Dayton via Sidney will
have the short line, and the rate Is based
on the distance by the two roads-22 miles
from indianapolis to Detroit; via Peru the
distance is 231 miles, and via Frankfort,
over the Monon and Toledo, St. Louis g.
Kansas City, Pa miles.
President Merriam, of the Chicago & West
Michigan, does not take a very cheerful
view OF the future of the road, in his am
nual report showing that the conditions of
the road have changed wonderfully in the
last ten years. TIL total number of tons of
freight carried one mile in 1885 was AZ, S,019.