The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-04

corresponding seven months ending with
Jan. 81. 1885, of s4s.!45.sS. This increase Is
freight and passenger agent, both as to
freight and passenger earnings. In the lat
ter an increase is shown OF s9,3o6.57.
Trafnc Notes.
II four Pennsylvania lines handled at
indianapolis last week 3.61l loaded cars.
which was five fewer than in the week
ending jan. 26.
The indianapolis & vincennes still leads
point last week ffty-four more loaded cars
than did the latter.
With the vandalia east-bound business
road last week sas Bringing into o0 f~ndianapo oils
1,oo3, against SIS cars forwarded west.
The Peoria & Eastern. with each week
Of late; Is showing some increase in bus
sions at his point 1920 loaded cars. which
was 122 more than in the week ending
JAN rs.
tenn proper was heavier in the week ending
Feb; 2 than in the week preceding last
handled at indianapolis than in the week
ending Jan. 26, when 800 loaded cars were
week.
The Monon handled at Indianapolis last
week $50 cars, 372 being loaded. The roads
business, in connection with the Cincinnati.
showing a healthy increase, but, ike the
L.. E. & W., it suffers in its south-bound
business through the dizziness Of the lum-
Der trade.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton ham
died at Indianapolis last week 73 cars, GIG
being loaded. This road; IN one sense, has
because OF it's disadvantages from lack of
having a city freight depot of its own, on
onNnyyn nf thn ndr nhnfr r or,1 h
Inconvenience which follow.
The Lake Erie & Western handled at
this point last week 538 cars. 42 being
is fairly satisfactory. but it's inbound bus
mess Is light. owing to the fact hat SNIP
ments OF lumber from the north Which tsh
year, are now unusually light.
otherwise, is not giving the G., Fl. & ?:
Pennsylvania took control of 1T, and now
it is in a fair way to lose the only con-
treatment-the indianapolis, Decatur &
Western-which will this week doubtless
come under control of the Lake Erie d
Western.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
II. Bromlet, general agent of the Lake
Shore road, has been appointed division
freight agent, with headquarters at Cleve-
land.
When the Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas
as receiver, the company had in bank at
Toledo and st. Louis SIS, 116.4. p
From Indianapolis to the City of Mex
leo. al rail. 1853 mics. and made under
the new time schedule, the distance is cow
cred in five days and four hours.
p. A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
lines, has been in Pittsburg. his former
headquarters, for a couple of days.
A railroad branch of the Young Mems
at Springfield, o., railway managers at
that point encouraging the movement.
The fast morning train out of Indianapolis
be appreciated by the travelling public.
Each week shows an Improvement in its
business.
The Chesapeake &c Ohio, on April 1, will
turn it's coal agencies over to other parties,
and the management of the G. q Q. will
confine itself strictly to transportation
business.
General Passenger Agent Edwards, of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, has ar
ranged to have the company's mileage
books honored on the Indiana, Illinois d
Iowa.
w. II. Line, the veteran conductor of the
Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago, and-one
of the longest employed men in Ahe COM
pany's pay roll, is lying fatally ill at his
home in Alliance, O.
The passenger department of the Cen
trial Traffic Association will meet in Chi
cago on Wednesday. The most important
question to come up is the abolition OF
stop-over privileges on tickets.
The Brotherhood or halfway Irafnr1en
has a prosperous division in Terre ,Haute
and has arranger for a big ball Feb. Is.
A number of the members of the organiza-
ton have received invitations to be present.
Harvey Knowles. of the Union Railway
Company, was called on Saturday to Wa
bash, Ind, to bury a sister, who had. re-
sided. in Florida for some years, and whose
In the six months of the fiscal year with
the New York Central, which ended Dec.
81, the road was operated on $3.50 per cent.
~ TIC 0rncC mr. a 0ln ~ III mol
cent. in 1898, and against 6S.12 per cent. In
1892.
The Hannibal & st. Joseph claims not to
| have killed a single passenger in any ac-
| cident since 1862. This surpasses the record
| OF the Vandalia, which had run thirty years
without killing one of the passengers on
| its trains.
The passenger equipment of the Evans
Vile & Terre Haute and the Evansville &
Richmond has been undergoing general re-
| pairs and the Improvement attracts SO much
attention that it is being favorably COM
| mented or.
General Manager Peek, Of the Texas Car
Service Association, which EMBRACES every
road in Texas. reports that in December.
1894, the roads handled, as the result of
the large cotton crop Sl,95a loaded cars,
against 48,10S in December, 1888.
Immense quantities of grain are yet to
be shipped from stations on the Wabash
line in Illinois and Indiana. At some of
the smaller stations forty thousand to fifty
thousand bushels of corn are in bins and
storehouses awaiting shipment, it having
been held for better prices.
The Panhandle company is experiment.
ing with a new device of a smoke stack,
the base of which is several inches smaller
than the present stack and gets gradually
larger as it nears it's top The invention
is being tested or q number of freight and
passenger engines on different divisions.
NJ. L.. CroweIl. assistant secretary an6
treasurer of the Toledo. st. Louis 81 Kan
sas City, will probably be retained by
Receiver PIERCE. Mr.. Crowel is an ole
newspaper man. He was with the New
York Times until 1886, when S. H. Knee
land, one of the largest holders of securi-
ties of the T., ST. l.. & *. c., offered hin
a position. and he soon showed so much
ability that promotions followed.
d. G.. Edwards. general passenger agent
Of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
yesterday sent the following notice te
agents: s"The lines running west from the
Missouri river and st. Paul having giver
notice of an advance in passenger rates K
Pacific coast and far West points effective
Feb. 10, this is to advise you that tht
rates from points on this line will be ad
vanced accordingly on that date X the adj
vance information is confirmed
THE COURT RECORD.
Superior Court.
Room 1-John l.. McMaster, Judge.
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