The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-09
A. w. Dfckfnson Seriously III.


f,Osi: butter. 1.S4s: hides, 900; lumber, 6,742;
miscellaneous 1,525.
A. w. Dickinson Seriously HI.
Mr.. A. w. Dickinson, late general man
ager of the Missouri Pacific, is lying in
critical condition, with heart trouble, at
his home in Seymour, Ind.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
George Diefenbach, general agent Of the
Big Four at Dayton. is in the city on of1l-
cial business.
The indianapolis. Decatur & Western
earned in March $500. an increase over
March, 1894, of S9,746.
On Sunday the Chesapeake & Ohio COM
menced using it's new double track between
Ashland. KY, and Huntington,W Va.
The Big Four is erecting at Paramount
an interlocking switch and signal at It's
crossing of the Chicago Indiana & Eastern
In the week ending April there We're
transferred over the Belt road 14.ol1 cars
Last week Belt road engines handled 700
cars of live stock.
w. J.. Truitt yesterday took hold as the
Four and the Chesapeake & Ohio, with
headquarters in Chicago.
Calvin Skinner, formerly travelling en-
gineer on the Chicago 4 Erie, is now
master mechanic of the Queen & Crescent
shops at Birmingham, Ala.
A. e. Stillwell, vice president of the Kan
yesterday, going East on his special car
over the Pennsylvania lines.
w. Z. Sharp yesterday went to Chicago
to take general charge of the locomotive
and car departments of the Chicago &
Erie at the Chicago terminal
The directors of the Terre Haute, .Olneyy
& Chester will hold meeting to-day in
Terre Haute to take some definite action
looking to the construction of the road.
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
earned in n March, $24a, 5sl, an an, increase over
Eastern Illinois earned s2Ss5O7, an increase
this year of $6,2S7.
The schedules show that between Pitts
burg and Walls, on the Pennsylvania
road, 1872 passenger trains are handled daily,
and at Walls. over one hundred freight
trains received or forwarded daily.
yolney d. holland, for the last five years
a passenger conductor on the Panhandle,
indianapolis division, was yesterday ap-
pointed general yardmaster Tor the com
r. F. Kelley left on Sunday for Buffalo
to look after the interests of the Wabash
in that territory. This will force the Big
Clellan succeeds Mr.. Kelley at Louisville.
Ky.
service of the Big Four, left last night.
accompanied by his wife, for Marshall
town, Ia, being called there by the prob
father.
The fine Glass p engine 1886, sent West
few weeks ago, and which was three weeks
Terre Haute yards. came out of the shops
yesterday repaired, and brought over Train
20 on time.
Thomas A. Garrigan, who left the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern, April /, on
the 18th will become travelling passenger
agent of the Big Four and Chesapeake
Ohio, taking the place vacated by Clint
Hendrickson.
The earnings of the Atchison system, all
lines, were for the fourth week in March
month to date So. 1856, 376, an increase of $54,-
323. All the earnings given are approx
mated gross earnings.
1t is stated that Chairman Finley has Sc
cured the promise of the Queen g. Crescent
to come into the new Southern Passenger
Association, and that this removes all ex-
cuse for the Louisville & Nashville not
coming into the organization.
number of engineers and master me-
chancs of Indianapolis lines left for st.
ing of the Railway Air-brake Association,
which convenes in that city to-day, and
will be in session until Friday
c. H Ferguson, the Oldest engineer on
the indianapolis, Decatur & Western, who
has been confined to the house for five
weeks, the result of surgical operation,
some time before he will be able to re-
sumo work.
NJ X Elliott. general superintendent of
the Vandalia lines, is iii the city. Mr.. Ell
lott states that there will be considerable
work done on the roadbed OF the main line
ties; so far as ballast is concerned, it is
in excellent condition.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton in
March handled at Indianapolis 1888 loaded
cars; of this number ,S39 were received
and 1859 forwarded. This was an increase
in number of cars brought in over March,
1884, of 1876. while in the number for
warded there was a decrease of 103 loaded
cars.
call has been issued by A. w. Post
for the seventh annual convention of rail-
road commissioners to be held in Washing
ton, May a. The railroad commissioners in
ter .'a and t the 'A Association Of American
Railroad Accounting officers is also in
vited.
orders have been given for the building
Columbus of new engine for the Madison
Hill to replace the old one. In its con-
duced which will greatly simplify its
build and at the same time increase its
adaptability to the service on the hill.
on the Big Four, hauled the Knickerbocker
express from Terre Haute to Indianapolis.
five cars in eigh;ttyseyrsn minutes tra dstanf it
sleeping cars added at Indianapolis. was
hauled from indianapolis to Gallon at an
average speed of forty-two miles an hour.
The Toledo St. Louis & Kansas City
earned in February, gross. Sill .261, against
ST., 923.56 in February, 1894. an increase
this 81 Tse met
1894, an increase this year Of ~ 2S5 65. This
increase in net earnings the first month
Mr.. Peirce was receiver OF the road is Ger
tanly credtable.
The executive committee of the Indiana
Car Service Association were in session a
couple of hours yesterday, approving bills
and the refunding of money where car
service had been collected when the fault
was with the road. Matters now between
the roads and shippers arc moving very
pleasantly the shippers having learned that
il was for their interests as well as those
OF the roads to load and unload cars
promptly
The yandalia passenger department is
pleased with the business the road has
been doing out of Indianapolis the last
three months The official report shows
that the receipts from sales of tickets at
the Union Station ana the two outside
ticket Offices in the city for the quarter
ending March 81 exceeded those of the cor
responding three months of 1891 by sl41ss45.
in months as follows: January, $,S69.5O;
in February, s517o; in March. A,14o.95.
comparative statement of the motive
power department of the nig Four road for
the years ending Dec 81, 1898 and 1894.
shows saving in favor of the latter
year as follows: Pay rolls, 67,604.9o,
per cent: material pur-
chased. s99 974.66, or l. per cent; oil and
waste purchased, IS. or rs per cent;
coal purchased. s123.91265. or IL per cent.
These results have been obtained with an
increased freight car mileage of per
cent, which speaks we'll for the organizd-
ton of this department.
officials of the TRANSFORMATION department