The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-06

volume of business say that about 40 per
cent or this increase was in local business
and % per cent in through business. The
Der Were in excess this year of the ton
mage of February, 1885,, and more coal was
1894. owing to the unusually severe weather,
Wnlcn forced many of the manufactures to
burning coal temporarily
Personal, Local and General Notes.
:, All classes of tickets are now honored on
the knlckerbocker express between ST. Louis
and New York.
tenn (all lines) for the month of January
year.
August Sinclair, editor of the Locomotive
Engineers Gazette will be in the city to-
day, the guest of William Garstang, super
intendent of motive power of the Big Four.
j. A. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria d. Eastern. has postponed his trip to
Europe, expecting to arrange to attend the
International railway congress, to be held in
Paris in June.
the Big Four; Ford Wood, general freight
agent of the Peoria & Eastern, and Thomas
Noonan. general manager of the Central
states dispatch, are in Chicago.
Livingstone ScheIl. of the Pennsylvania
lines, with headquarters at Louisville,
died on. Monday night of pneumonia. He
was very popular man and had been in
the service of the company for some years.
Work on the new railroad bridge across
the Ohio river from Jeffersonville to Louis
s very yba rapidly on and the
will be completed before the approaches
to the bridge are.
On March s. III. Babcoek, formerly an
Indiana railroad man, was promoted from
general freight agent to general traffic
manager of the Rio Grande Western,
position just created. Mr.. Babcock went
to the road in 1886.
e. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania and the vandalia lines is
still in California with his wife, who. he
writes, is improving in health. He expects
to remain until the weather becomes more
summer like in this section.
The Big -Four people are not stopping
at louisville but h have commenced ss con
demnatory proceedings for several squares
. Of ground on which to build a freight
depot and a. system of switches.
David Clark,~who has been master me-
chanic of the Lehigh Valley. shops. at Haz-
elton. Pa, retired on March /. after hold
ng eae Sy b forty Was as and
mechanic of the Norfolk & Western.
C. Waite president Of the bee Columbus
is so well pleased with the result that
he has increased his order from two and a
half miles to seven and half miles of
sixty-foot rails.
The appointment of J. M. Lindley, late
train master of the Louisville division of
the the n ad t. b TO but og
stone to something higher and that when
he becomes acquainted with the Vandalia
lines the promotion will follow.
Last week the Sunset Limited, on the
Southern Pacific, ran from Huston, Tex,
to Lafayette, La, 2fS miles, in four hours
and fortythree minutes ut and thirty stnn min
six to take water. The train sheet showed
that. the actual running time was 51.7 miles
per hour.
Charles Hartshorne, of Philadelphia, vice
president of the Lehigh Valley, was In the
city yesterday en- route from the Pacif1c
coast to Pniaadeipha HE was ta acc4mpameo
oils Union Station and It's surroundings, and
expressed himself surprised at the elegance
of the structure.
The Chicago Great Western railway has
taken an advance step in the way OF two
cent-a-mile rate. The general passenger
agent of the road has notified the Western
Trunk-line committee that, dating from to-
day, it will place on sale ten-ride party
tickets between all points on it's system at
the rate of cents per mile.
The Louisville G. Nashville has been re-
fusing to receive from or deliver freignts
in connection with the Kentucky & INDIANA
Brdge Company ane sut in the
courts at Louisville, under the Interstate
commerce act. to compel the L. q n. TO re-
ceive and transfer such freights.
Said railway official yesterday: Were
/ to make a prediction about the future
of the Indianapolis, Decatur d western
period become a part of the Pennsylvania
system. as it would be worth more to
that road than to any other line unless
it be the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton.
A number of chief engineers of prominence
are in the city, in connection with the Lake
Erie & Western and Muncie Belt road triai,
now in progress before the United states
Court Of the number are Edward Handy.
chief engineer of the Lake Shore road; Ghlef
Engineer Williams, OF TIE Cinclnnae, , 'ac if-
fridge of the Big Four, and Ruggles, or the
Ohio & Mississippi.
The sample ore car built at the shops
of the Pennsylvania Company, at Fort
Wayne, was Completed on Monday, and
should 1t prove as useful as expected sew
eral hundred of the same pattern VIII pc
built The car weighs about ten thousand
pounds more than the ordinary gonooia
and cost about rs per cent. more TO puilu
This expense will soon be overcome snou,e
the car dump coal as it's inventor claims
it will.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy is in
PRODUCING from time to time many or the
features of management OF the Pennsyi-
vania lines. Its present system of keeping
accounts is much the same. its mileage
Pennsyiv Tvs the c. B. & q. books, are
the most carefully guarded and good on
only their respective lines. The 90 has a
voluntary relief department after the same
plan as that of the Pennsylvania.
There has been a rumor current for the
last two days that the Grand Trunk road
Trunk Line Association. There seems to
lack a foundation, but 1t keeps In clrcuia-
ton. All parties IN position 10 Know oL
the matter deny that any such step rs
contemplated. The reason given for the
alleged impending withdrawal is the strained
relations between the Grand Trunk and
the other lines over the emigrant question.
The petition of Simon Borg & Co, New
York bankers, to postpone the sale of the
Georgia Southern and Florida railroad, has
The road was put up for sale with the
upset price of $45OO,0e0. but there were
no bidders. 1t will be put up again March
10 at an upset price of So, 900. il not
sold then it will be put up April at an
upset price of 100000 IL not then sold
1t will go to the highest bidder on April 10
The Pennsylvania has tired of the inroads
the trolley lines have made on it's business
in Pennsylvania and is putting ON addi-
tioar suburban trains and making about