The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-15


In September the Indiana Car Service AS
ISOLATION handled 20.SS7 cars.
Belt road engines last week handled 1,225
carloads OF live stock, an increase of 279
Oct. s.
In the week ending Oct. u there were
transferred over the Belt road 1868 ears.
an increase over the week ending Oct. 8 of
LIZA cars.
l.. II. Fleming. city passenger agent of
the PENNSYLVANIA lines, returned yesterday
from a trip north, where he spent a two
weeks vacation.
George H.. Beale and Jesse Baker as as
sistant engineers of maintenance of way
on the Pennsylvania
Delegates from the principal traffic asso-
Citations Will convene in New York city.
Oct. %, to take up the old question of a
uniform classification.
Charles Rockwell. general passenger
agent of the cleveland. Akron & Columbus.
brother, George Rockwell.
The Chicago. Milwaukee e. St. Paul is
running its shops twelve hours a day and
building In addition to repair work two
hundred standard box cars.
NJ. Z. Ingalls,, president of the Big Four,
will return from the East tomorrow and
will remain at Cincinnati until after the
annual meeting, which occurs Oct. 20.
Passenger Conductor Knapp. of the Van
dalia. who during the summer months took
charge OF the Arlington House at Lake
~Maxinkuckee, will This week take his train
again.
Competitors allege that the Midland fast
freight line, which sends freight from In
dianapolis over the Lake Erie & Western,
is cutting rates on grain products TO the
seaboard.
The coal operators on the indianapolis
d. Nincennes are now loading eighty cars
reach one hundred if the company can
furnish the cars.
&c Schaf. assistant general manager
of the Big Four, has gone East. His
private car. just built at Brightwood, was
Visited by a humber of railroad men while
he stopped in Buffalo.
The fast express which the Pennsylvania
Vile & Nashvilie between n'' Chicago and
Atlanta will pass through Indianapolis at
4:30 D. m. south bound.
Frederick Roebling, who has represented
s sRe pas Is Sew s eepaaImaen has OF resi fhe Pis AZ
is the last of the old passenger men who
were or that system TO retire.
The New York. New Haven x Hartford
each way between Boston and New York
I'm five hours There VIII be no extra
charge for riding on the fast train.
n telegram was received yesterday from
H. NJ. Bronson. assistant general passenger
agent OF the Big Four, announcing his safe
arrival from Europe and saying that he
would be home on Wednesday morning.
Freight traffic on the Baltimore & Ohio
southwestern Is so heavy that every loco
motive the company owns fit for work is in
service. Even those which have been haul.
ing construction trains are now hauling
freight.
| Since Sept ] the Big Four and the Gin
cinnat, Hamilton & Dayton have alter
mated each week In running 81 round trim
excursions to Cincinnati on Sundays. and
In the six Sundays have carried 6,214 ex-
cursionists TO that city.
Next Sunday changes will be made in the
running time on the Louisville division OF
the Pennsylvania lines which will better
equalize the passenger train service. Nc
fewer trains are to be run, however. than
under the present schedule.
George L. Barringer. who for years was
general superintendent OF the indianapolis
Cincinnati x Lafayette. now part OF the
Big Four system. spent a few hours In the
city yesterday. He is now a retired rail-
road man and lives near Cincinnati.
The Financial Chronicle gives the earn
33. an Increase over September. 1884. OF
J S.so7s3ozs Or 81 per cent. For the nine