The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-02

Little Rock in connection with the sale of
the Little Rock & Memphis railroad. to &C.
cur next October. He has an idea Of buying
the road with view TO extending 4. to
Paris, Tex, TO connect there will the Tex
as Midland. Mr.. Green is the son II Mrs.
Hetty Green and the active manager Of her
railroad interests
Meeting of Southern Lines Called.
j. c. Halle. chairman OF the committee
OF the Atlanta terminal lines. has called
meeting of interested Southern lines on
Aug. 8, to be held in Chicago to discuss
rates and arrangements for the Atlanta
Exposition. Mr.. Halle has requested the
lines OF the Western Passenger and Central
Traffic associations to meet with them.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
Strict rules have just been issued on the
Pennsylvania lines regarding the use and
disposal Of torpedoes.
Edmund Smith, who for many years was
director OF the Pennsylvania, died at
Philadelphia on Tuesday.
G.. +. Richardson has been appointed
master OF transportation OF the Southern
Pacific. with headquarters at San Francis
cinnati and Columbus. o.. ffty-six coaches
wcll filed with the Niagara Falls excursion
lists.
The Peoria e. Eastern will this week. re-
ceive FIVE hundred tons of new steel rails.
which will be placed in the track westward
from Waynestown.
The roads entering at Terre Haute are
making arrangements to run trains to
draw crowds to the races at that point,
beginning Aug. 5.
The Toledo. Ann Arbor & Michigan has
begun the construction OF its new Ham,
burg line, which will relieve the company
OF some heavy grades and sharp curves
The Baltimore & Ohio is rebuilding at
its various shops forty-five of its loco
motives. which have been partially disabled
for some time, but are worth rebuilding.
Northern Pacific. says Yellowstone Park
travel has been 30 per cent. in excess this
year of any summer since the road was
built
Ira Mccormick, who retired, on Wednes-
day night. as trainmaster OF the Lake Shore
road has been presented by his associate
employees with an elegant gold watch and
chain.
New York Central has been appointed gen.
eral superintendent OF the companys yards
at Buffalo. In place OF d. Keeps, who re-
Gently mysteriously disappeared.
Both the Pennsylvania and the Baltimore
K Ohio Southwestern are arranging for ad-
ditiona1 side tracks at Louisville to
commodate the cars which will arrive there
during the c. A X. encampment.
1t is stated that no fast freight line oper-
ating between Indianapolis and New York
has shown larger earnings than has the
West Shore. the Merchants Dispatch
Charles f. Newberry. general yardmaster
OF the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton at
Toledo. retired from that position yester-
day and was succeeded by II. c. Chapel,
formerly in the Indianapolis yards.
Receiver Peirce. OF the Toledo, st. Louis
& Kansas City. still holds aloof from the
Western coal pool. alleging that several
roads have contracts out at rates below
those the pool proposes to establish.
An official of the Pittsburg & Western
says there has been no trouble between that
road and the Lake Shore regarding the
connection at gainesville. The plan has
been abandoned as an economical measure.
General Ticket Agent Donough. at the
Union Station. states that the receipts from
sales Of tickets in June were fully $1,000 in
excess of those of June. 1894, and In July
the receipts from sales of tickets were
ST. ahead Of July. 1894.
n. X. Elliott has adopted the custom of
sns pc Sn 1hs
tendents together once month TO talk
over matters. The first meeting was held
on Monday last at Terre Haute.
A railroad seventy-five miles long in
which Alabama capitalists are interested.
is to be built from Montgomery to Cam
den. Ala. 8. ID. Bloch. of Montgomery.
is president. of the company, and ex-Gov-
ernor Jones is interested in the project.
General Manager Barnard, of the Peoria
* Eastern, Is elated over the compliments
OF the new station of the company at Dan
signs, and is very convenient and at the
same time attractive in its appearance.
The fast freight over the Bee-line division
OF the Big Four which hauls perishabie
speed of twenty-six miles sn hour. The
run from indianapolis 10 Cleveland. 281
miles. Is made in less than fifteen hours.
stops deducted.
Freight officials are on the anxious seat
again. The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has detectives again at work at some
of the prominent Western shipping points.
Through asking for inside rates the detec-
tives are said TO have secured some valua-
BILE information.
The Pennsylvania. the Lehigh Valley and
next meet the reduction in coal rates made
10y the Erie and the Lackawana lines from
rate as by ali Ines will ' then be $40 per ton.
instead of y, the prevailing rate Of some
years past.
mechanical engineer states that a care
full examination of the latest locomotive
builders books bears out the statment made
by the Schenectady locomotive works that
on no road i'm this or in foreign countries is
there an eight-wheeled passenger as power
full as Nos. 200 and POI, recently delivered TO
the Big Four.
Work was begun on Wednesday on the
projected Terre Haute. Saylor Springs &
Mt. Verona. A st. Louis contracting firm
has secured the contract TO build the road
from the Indiana State line TO Mount Yer
non. and it is evident that Terre Haute
will have another railroad before Indian
apolis gets one.
General Passenger Agent Daniels of the
New York Central. who cf lat has poem
issuing his four-track series, giving :
BILE Information TO the lrave.ing paolic. will
have some OF them bound i'm cloth for per-
manent reference. His last book in the
series is entitled Health and Pleasure on
Americas Greatest Road"
G.. c. Knowlton, formerly passenger con-
ductor on the Indianapolis & St. Louis,
but for the last fifteen years on the Mis-
souri, Pacific, is in the city. He Is en- route
east on his vacation. Mr.. knowlton says
at no time since he has been on the MIS-
souri, Pacific has the outlook for business
been more favorable than at present.
The Pennsylvania is experimenting with
the Moskowitz system OF electric lighting
of cars. The dynamo Is clamped TO the
axle of the car which also acts the
axle of the dynamo. A storage battery I'M
der the car holds the electricy for use
when the car is not in motion. A switch
board in front of the car controls the light.
The receipts of the Cincinnati. Hamilton
& Dayton from the sales of tickets at its
outside Office at Indianapolis for July were
$3.50 in excess OF those OF July, 1884 This
includes its Niagara Falls excursion bust
ness The receipts of the Monon were
slightly in excess OF last Year The Monor
had no excursion business OF Importance tc
swell its earnings.
Edward s. Harrison, who represents the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy on the Pa
cihc coast. is spending his vacation In visit
ing friends in this State. He once resided
at Terre Haute. but left that city twenty
nine years ago TO enter the railroad service.