The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-21
Panhandle EARNINGS.

Panhandle EARNINGS.
The statement of the business of the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & ST. Louis
Railway Company, including the Little
Miami, for February, 1895. compared
with the same month of 1894, shows in
creased gross earnings, 81, 464.51; increased
expenses, s26. 49, "a; increased net earnings.
$l5,3i6.27. The two months of 1895, CONF
paved with the same period of 1894, show
increased gross earnings, S75,e54S9; de-
creased expenses. S2S,641.52; increased net
earnings, $164,30f.9 81.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Henry Terrell has been appointed re-
ceiver of the San Antonio 81 Gulf Shore
railway.
John G. Williams. vice president and gen.
| eral manager of the vandalia, has gone
to Florida with a party of friends.
Employees of the American Express Com
pany are uneasy, as at several points of
late there have been changes, not only in
The New York Central has engine 1888, a
duplicate of poe, in service, and last week
it hauled four cars from Albany to Utica,
ninety-ive miles, in ninety minutes.
The improvements to the Panhandle road
at Sheridan will be commenced this spring,
under the direction Of Chief Engineer
Becker. The work will be done by contract.
from the East to the Pacific coast will ar
rive in Indianapolis this morning over the
Pennsylvania and go west over the Van
dalia.
The Toledo, Peoria & Western, operated
jointly by the Pennsylvania and the Chi
cago. Burlington & Quincy, earned in Feb
1894 of s4,i16.
p. A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania lines,
master on the road will not be filled for
several days.
officials but in the clerical departments,
Two of the division superintendents have
been reduced In rank and some of the route
agents discharged.
The Panhandle company will on Monday
next open its new depot at Marion, Ind,
for business. 1t is a handsome building,
equipped with all modern improvements and
lighted by electricity.
The private car of William r. McKeen
having been demolished in the Coatesville
wreck, he is now making his Southern trip
in the private car of James McCrea, first
vice president of the Pennsylvania lines.
The Pennsylvania railroad has issued a
general circular TO all ticket agents re-
the Seaboard Airline either to points on
that system or to points reached by it.
The passenger earnings of the H.. N. A.
& G. lines the second week in March We're
$l3. 239. 80. an increase over the corresponding
week of 1894 of, $3.307.lv This was also an
increase over the same week Of any previ-
Gus. year.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton is
paying it's dividends on both it's preferred
and common stock with the greatest regu-
larity. The common stock Is now held at
1851 per, share, and is difficult to obtain at
that figure.
G.. Z. BENJAMIN, assistant general freight
been in the city for a day or two. was
formerly agent of the Big Four at Colfax.
Ind. later general agent of the Big Four
coal interests at North Bend.
A. NJ. Stimson has made such an excellent
record as purchasing agent of the Big Four
that President Ingalls, wishes him to hold
the position permanently; as a consequence
he will in a few days remove his family
from Lafayette to Cincinnati.
The Pittsburg locomotive works have re-
Gently delivered to the Alabama Great
Southern a freight engine weighing 10000
pounds, which is spoken cf on account of
a number of improvements in its construc-
ton as doing remarkable work.
1t is now claimed that Eastern passenger
rates out of Chicago are being better main
assertion is backed by the Increased earn
ings the weak as well as the strong lines
are showing on the east-bound travel.
A. Gazlay, commercial agent of the Grand
Trunk railway, representing the National
Dispatch, sin the city on official business.
This line sends business out Of here over
the Cincinnati, Hamilton a. Dayton, and
claims to make fast time to New England
points.
Although no circular has been issued by
nouncing the fact, it is stated that the
reunion of Union and Confederate veterans
Maw has .sA bsen pi arant sn = ai9 rate Of one nee.. cent II
a mile.
Two or three train loads of cattle for ex-
port are passing through here weekly over
to the Chesapeake & Ohio at Cincinnati
for shipment via Newport News. The
trains make the run from Chicago to Gin.
cinnati in twelve hours.
Fl. G. Stiles, general agent of the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton & Dayton at INDIANAPOLIS.
seven years, his first work being at Con-
nersyilie, commencing as agent IN 1858 OF
vision of the c., III. & d.
1t is stated that a deal is on by which
the Big -Four, should be It carried through,
ing to the Pennsylvania Company, but
which is now of no special use to it, while
it is just what the Big Four will need for
e. J. Sullivan, formerly a train dispatcher
on the Big Four, left for the West yester-
day to accept q position with A. g. Wells,
formerly superintendent of the ST. Louis
division of the Big Four, now general
superintendent of the ATLANTIC & Pacific.
at Williams, A. L.
Employees of the Panhandle lines have re-
ceived notice that they will be required
on the airbrake. on April !. Some time ago
the trainmen were examined on their knowl-
edge of the airbrake and We're given a book
of Instructions to carefully study, prepare
tory to another examination.
At the annual meeting OF the stockholders
of the Indianapolis a. Northeastern. on
will be taken looking TO the building of the
road. Railway supplies never before sold
as low, ana a ROAD can De Oullt- III is stated,
for 49, 0 to $500 less per mile than it could
have been constructed five years ago.
At a meeting of the executive board of the
Canadian Pacific railroad it was decided,
among other measures of retrenchmens,
to make a general reduction in salaries.
For those up to 1900, ) per cent; for those
above that amount, 10 per cent. This will
affect the highest as we'll as the lowest
employees, from the president down.
The rumor that has prevailed in railroad
circles for a few days past that the Balti-
more & Ohio had suspended
or withdrawn its notice of withdrawal from
the presidents agreement regarding east
bound business is emphatically denied by
i. & O. s.. w. officials. President Bacon
and other officials confirm the withdrawal.
The advantages of the interlocking cross
ings are aptly shown almost daily at the
crossing OF the Belt road west of the city.
On Tuesday the Vandalia and the Big Four
fast trains reached the Belt road at the
same moment. The Vandalia came to a
standstiN, while the Big Four train, which
had the interlocking switch. shot across
the Belt road and came to a standstiil in
the train sheds three minutes sooner than
did the Vandalia.
Th labor organizations on the Union Pa
cihc have for some years employed a walk
ing delegate to look after reported griev-
ances at a salary of $500 a year, and they
have now voted to dispense with his serv-
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