The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-30

New complications are bound to rise after
That date, unless one side or both shows
more conciliatory spirit than at present.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Passenger conductor Holmes. of the Mo-
non. is confined at home by an attack OF
grip
w: L Laird, general travelling freight
the city on official business.
E. p. Gibbs. master mechanic of the
oregon Railway and Navigation Company,
Will retire from that position on Feb. ].
In the week ending Jan. 26, there were
transferred over the Belt road 1880 cars.
and Belt road engines handled 1854 carloads
OF live stock
w. E. FosEett has been appointed man.
| ager of the Chicago Refrigerator-car line,
with headquarters at Chicago, vice G. l..
Ewing, resigned
| four miles In length. from Covington, Ind.
! to the mineral springs in Fulton county,
will be commenced.
| George Rockwell, vandalia district pas
senger agent at this point. accompanied the
parties injured in the wreck of Train 20,
! New York
The fast vestibule train from Cincinnati
to Chicago, over the Cincinnati, Hamilton
g Dayton and the Monon, was delayed at
ConnerSville five hours. yesterday, by a
freight wreck.
d. c. Frederic, superintendent of car serv-
ice of the st: Louis, Chicago & St Paul, is
| In the city This road is doing good deal
| of business, he states, in this section,
through its connections.
The Chicago Burlington & Quincy. road
issued a statement yesterday that the net
earnings of the Burlington system for the
| year ending Dec. 81, 1894. were s., SOC, $40,
decrease compared with 1893 of 81 159, $50.
Train Z. the Panhandle, was, last Fri
day, hauled from Newark to Columbus,
thirty-threee, miles, in thirty-nine minutes,
eciipsing all former records with a heavy
train between the two points by four min
utes.
The management of the Northern Pacific
road has forbidden employees of the COM
pany to engage in any other business, and
as result a number of the agents have re-
signed, their salaries not being sufficient
to support them.
The reduction of coal rates from the In
diana and Illinois coal fields is increasing
the business of the roads interested in this
branch OF traffic, as the coal operators of
Ohio no longer have advantage in rates
to Chicago and other northern points.
The increased tonnage, east-bound. out of
Chicago last week, is said to be due to
cut rates. 1t seems singular. If this be true,
that the Pittsburg Fort Wayne & Chicago
carried treble the tonnage of either of what
are called the weak lines, carrying 10 9sS
| tons out of a total of 81, 1863.
The Big Four is credited with having the
handsomest passenger trains now running
| into Chicago They sare made up of the
new passenger equipment built at the Bar
| between Cincinnati and Chicago are new
from baggage to parlor car.
| President Galloway, of the Nickel Plate
| is, with subordinate officials, giving the
property and its equipment thorough in
| spection In railway circles it is thought
that the, Vanderbilt people could not Wen
have made better selection than Mr.. Cal
loway to look after this property.
The Connecticut Legislature, last week,
| passed a law that no electric, cable or
horse railroad shall, hereafter, be
structed across any steam railroad at grade
neither can steam railroad construct
road across the electric, cable or horse rail-
roads at grade the law to take effect at
once.
| Engineer Donaldson. on the st. Louis di-
vision Wis, n Of the Big Four. Yesterday, hauled
Garstang engines from Nation to Terre
s at s IN ans stY ars ds
lance was practically covered at speed of
| mile minute, as shown by the official
train sheets.
| A Chicago general passenger agent says it
| looks as though the agreement Of the east
bound lines not to pay commissions be-
| scaIpers are resorting to their old tricks of
raising tickets by plugging, indicating that
their supply of new material was becoming
scarce. Passenger conductors of the Indian
| apolis. and Chicago lines. have in the last
few days, taken up tickets. SO mutated
and made the passenger pay full fare.
r. B. Woolsey, superintendent of tele-
| graph on the Vandalia, has rendered his
| resignation, to take effect Feb. l. He will
| be succeeded by Pennsylvania Company
man. A. NJ. schoyer. superintendent of tel
egraph of the Pennsylvania lines west,
ths na to take S
| with the Vandalia fourteen years leaving
the Indianapolis st. Louis road to take
| the position, and many will regret his re-
| tirement.
| G; S. simms who was recently appointed
| assistant superintendent of the Pittsburg
| Fort Wayne & Chicago between Crestline
and Chicago. was promoted from an en-
gineer of maitenance, of way. demonstrat-
| ing that the Pennsylvania Company pro-
l heretofore.
| intendents from that branch of the service,
which is rather discouraging to train
| whose ranks most roads select their super
| ntendents
The subscription books for the San Joa-
ouin (Cal) railway were opened yesterday
| with $l.025.000 to start with. The principal
subscribers were Claus spreckels, $500 900,
and John ID. and Adolph B. Spreckels, $780,
| 600 each. The prospectus states that the
! company is to be organized for the purpose
| of operating a continuous and permanent
| line of railway between San Francisco and
| bakersfield. over route to be determined
hereafter. The capital stock is to be Sc, Co.,
900 in sixty thousand shares.
Feb. /, j. p. Bradfield will become super
| intendent of the Western division of the
| New York Central. succeeding George Fl
| Burrows, who has been in poor health for
| a year or more Mr.. Burrows is now seven
| tv-two years of age and held a position on
| the New York Central long ago as 1853;
| later he general superintendent of the
| Toledo Peoria & Western. In 1878 he re-
cessor has held official positions on the
West Shore road. but. for the last year has
been general Superintendent of the New
York. Ontario & Western.
The total net earnings of the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy for the month of De
| cember, 1894, We're 942 a decrease from
the same month of 1893 of $50, 122 Freight
earnings for the month decreased S467 ISL
Passenger earnings increased $4,000 and
operating expenses fell off S322.S71 For the
year from Jan. to Dec 81, the total gross
earnings of the road were $31 .514,S77 a de-
| crease from 1893 of Sc, s4l, 6O5 Freight earn
ings We're $40 266, 1856. decrease of 49, 9S3 oil;
passenger earnings were &241.35S, a de-
crease of s2,9t4.023; operating exnenses were
| sl9114,S0T: decrease of $50 $50: net earn
| ings were 81, SO0,571, decrease of 1,179 152.