The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-21


Is much milder. Stocks had been almost
exhausted before the dun times came and
car works shut down. and now. when they
nave contracts, they must walt until they
can get lumber to begin operations ex-
tensively
Personal, Local and General Notes.
1t requires es7 passenger locomotives to
handle the passenger trains OF the New
York Central lines
William Parks passenger conductor on the
Panhandle lines, returned yesterday from
Hot Springs, Ark. relieved OF his rheumatic
troubles
An Eastern road last year carried, it is
stated, seven thousand bicycles free. This
year the road will get fifty cents for every
bicycle ii carries.
The Illinois Central will build branch
to Elgin- The right of way has been Sc
cured along the bank OF the Fox river from
the main line at Coleman.
Capt r. G. Fleming. superintendent of
the Savannah, Florida Il Western railway,
who was stricken with paralysis last week,
died at Savannah, Ga, yesterday.
Official notice has been given to all inter-
ested lines that the two years boycott
the Union Pacific road has been raised and
that round trip business will be freely inter-
changed.
Edward Ryder, who for some years was
train master on the Monon lines. but now
retired railroad man, farming in Knox
county, was in the city yesterday calling
on friends.
The Erie was the first road to run its
trains on telegraphic orders. The Erie ran
the first train under such orders in 1853 the
first order being sent by Charles Minot
then superintendent.
The merchants of Gainesville, Tex. passed
resolutions boycotting the Santa Fe road
and the management of the road has Or
dered the company's shops at Gainesville
removed to some other point.
Charles Norris. agent of the Michigan
Central at Joliet. has resigned to take the
general management of the Rio de Janeiro
branch of the Panamerican Coffee and
Commercial Company, In Brazil
rc, (snt1 NV
OF OF. Huntington, w Va, which has been
IDLE for over a year. will resume opera
will employ about one thousand men.
r. B. +. PIERCE, receiver of the Toledo, st.
Louis & Kansas City, has already made one
popnla r., move insrcting the az to
than he has been doing Tor years past.
The formal opening of the Santa Fe,
Prescott & Phoenix road has been set for
March IL. The road runs from Ash Fork.
on the Atlantic & Pacific division of the
Santa Fee, to Phoenix, Ariz.. the entire
length of the line being 1876 miles.
ID. G. Edwards. general passenger agent
OF the Cincinnati, Hamilton e. Dayton, is
credited in railroad circles with being one
of the best officials to get revenue on the
number of passengers handled of any like
official on any road running into Cincinnati.
The VandaIia will arrange it's tracks SO
that Its passenger. engines can take water
when running, as done on the Pennsylvania.
The question Of erecting number of inter-
locking signals and switches between st.
louis louis ana indianapolis Is also under con-
The Colorado, wyoming & Great North
ern Railroad Company, composed of citizens
of Grand Junction, COLI has. placed three
Will build a broad guage railroad from
S Sia M Junction TO Green RIVER wyoming,
o i'iiies, uurihs the year.
A. A. Heard, assistant general passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific railway, has
been appointed general passenger agent of
the Great Northern Steamship Company,
and general IsaS apapt n the Mort
railroad, with headquarters at Buffalo. The
appointment Will become effective March Is.
Three Pullman sleeping cars just out of
turned over to the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton to. go to Toledo to take party
from Toledo to Mexico over the c.. Fl. &
D. and the Queen & Crescent to New Or
leans. then over the Texas Pacific to
Mexico.
the State Department from San lose Costa
Rica, says that the government has granted
large ana vaiuapse concession o. lands to
Britishers. who will construct railway
IN , 19sta Htca ana open up new ana
Va w,,n seeslon o. country s,1,
Pennsylvania Company, last week delivered
lecture before the engineering class of
two hundred students in the University of
M escoa NH, Inc STUDENTS were greatly
uscript. but kept them interested for over
By the opening s Of PEI the e' western section Of
the Siberian road 495 miles in length. there
is now an unbroken line from st. Petersburg
to Omsk, distance of 212S miles, and it
takes four and one-half days to make the
trip 1t is expected that this road will
handle fifteen million bushels of wheat and
eignteen hundred tons OF teas annually.
No meeting Of the advisory committee
of the emigrant clearing house for the pur-
pose of probing the difficulty between the
Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pacific
was held at Chicago yesterday, because
OF the failure of Chairman Caldwell to re-
turn from st. Louis, where he has been in
conference with the Missouri Pacific and
the Missouri, Kansas e Texas lines
At a meeting of the officers and .r.mo
arents nf III ~ .ne oiieeIs ana franc
shipments of coal the rate of 1891 was re-
affirmed for 1895. This rate is for the
western Pennsylvania, West Virginia and
Ohio districts and was agreed ON, notwith-
standing the remonstrance of the Pittsburg
coal operators who claim that the tllscrim-
ination in favor of the Hooking Valley lis a
great injustice to this district
william & Ral5v;, Who Cor s,r,a - -
was GENERAL p.asangar anert ~ S tu years
vile New ihanw e chioaa " .ne LOUIS
( located In RifPaio ana dni bas - ; now
a railroad guide which has recently been
Endorsed by the Buffalo railroad pa ssenger
committed. While especially designed For
the roads entering Buffalo, il Elves al
their connections and other valIafie noints
of information on RECONSIDERATION matters
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