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

of the indianapolis car works, the prede-
cessors of this company.
The Ohio Falls car works have deliv-
cred eight hundred of the box cas- on
contract with the Pennsylvania Company
to build one thousand and will prob
ably get another thousand to build on the
same terms.
East-BOund Shipments.
East-bound shipments from Chicago dur
ing last week amounted to 30,7S7 TONS
against ss,ss7 for the preceding week and
SIC for the same week of last year. The
roads carried tonnage as follows: Mich
igan Central, 2s22; Wabash. 1925; Lake
Shore. 1898; Fort Wayne 3,79S; Panhandle,
1924; Baltimore & Ohio 500; Grand Trunk
2,oS0; Nickel-plate 1,76S; Erie, 3,515; Big
E9% zz Eor ne iSnna agen ~ and mII stunts
beef, 6,o9s; fiaxseed, ISL; butter, 1903; hides
1,409; lumber 3,946; miscellaneous, 326. To-
amounted to 2ss2, 67o, against s.2sl $50 for
year were 2,41l.2os tons
Superintendent Peck Transferred.
An order was issued yesterday from the
Office eff G. l.. Peck superintendent of the
Richmond division of the Pennsylvania,
transferring N. c. Downing, as engineer
of maintenance of way, to the Vandalia,
to have charge of the division from In
danapolis to st. Louis. r. e. Brown, jr.,
succeeds Mr.. Downing on the Richmond
division, coming from the Pittsburg divis-
ion.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
P. S. Walter to-day becomes superin-
tendent of the car shops Of the Panhandle
lines at Pendleton, near Cincinnati.
J. A. Cavanaugh, superintendent of the
car service of the Big Four. is expected
home to-day lay from 70, St; Paul. where he has
1t. is reported that the Rio Grande rail
road, which now runs from Brownsyille
a direct line to Monterey, Mex.
w. X. Richards an old Panhandle freight
man. to-day takes the general freight
agency of the Pittsburg, Shenango & Lake
Erie, with headquarters at Meadville, Pa.
w. F. Drummer, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Vandalia and the Penn
sylvania lines, with headquarters at ST.
Louis. is here to spend holidays with his
family.
The New Orleans Traffic Association be-
gins business to-day. II is expected that
discriminating rates to certain shippers will
result,
The management of the Chicago & East
eauipping it's main line with a block sys-
tenn similar to that the Illinois Central is
erecting.
The cold weather is proving of great
benefit to the coal roads and it is stated
should 1T continue two months will mean
a large increase of earnings to this class
of roads.
w: r. Buskirk formerly with the Maple
Leaf, to-day takes the position Of wee
Suwanee river road, with headquarters at
Jacksonville. Fla
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas company
has contracted for two thousand freight
cars, to be delivered between now and
May 1. Of the number seven hundred are
to be furniture cars
/. II. Burgoon. formerly general mana
ger of the Terre Haute & Peoria, says
he is pleasantly located at Salt Lake hold
ing the position of general superintendent
of the Utah Central
The management of the Evansville &
Terre Haute will this. week let the con-
tract for one hundred new box of
the most modern build, equipped with air
brakes Janney coupler etc.
Rufus ,Ames,, one of the, engineers left
has invented and patented spring seat
for engineers which breaks the force of
the jar while the locomotive is running
G. A. Cairns has been appointed assist
ant general passenger agent of the Chca-
go Northwestern road, vice, w. B.
Kniskern, promoted to general passenger
agent The appointment is effective to-
day.
A. n. Berry who was recently appointed
is proving very capable man for the place
His first railroad n service was as private
superintendent of the Monon.
u. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg,
who. with his invalid wife, went to Cali
Pacific coast until May l, should his wife's
health improve in that climate.
the laying of the forty-five miles of new
seventy pound to the yard steel rail on
the Indianapolis ma, division Of the Monon This
switches and frogs of the most modern pat
tern
Robert Emmett. who for many. years was
point, Is visiting friends in this city. For
some years past he has been engaged in
offered him a railroad position. He is unde-
cided whether to accept.
The net earnings of the Burlington road
for the month ending Nov. 30 were s254717
decrease of $33S04S from the same month
Of last year. The net earnings of the road
previous year of S1,0S9,030
The Erie has notified all its Western
cease the payment of all excessive commits
sions, in accordance with the agreement
reached at the meeting of the general man
ayers. This was the first notice to be is
sued under the agreement.
The latest schedule shows that 422 pas
the Broad-street station of the Pennsyl-
vania road at Philadelphia, with an average
Of fifty thousand ,, passengers handled per
feet wide and 140 feet high.
ID. I. Roberts, general passenger agent of
enson that it is no longer a member of the
east-bound passenger committee. The road
has been having trouble over the alleged
Irregularities, not conforming to the rules
of the association in the matter.
W. NJ. Grafton, signal engineer of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pttsburg last
week completed an inspection of the South
western system He reports sixty inter-
locking switches and signals the Pan
handle lines, and that the signal system
of the lines was never in better condition.
II. Doyle, telegraph operator at the up
town office of the Vanadalia company, has
invented sounder of a novel character
by which the sound of the instrument he
is operating with is distinctly heard above
that of any other instrument any other
disturbance in the room The device is not
expensive or inconvenient in any respect.
4 general passenger agent remarked yes
terday that he thought the time was near
at hand when one mileage book would be
honored any road in the Central Traffic
Association territory, and another mileage
book good all trunk lines, third good
on all Western lines. a fourth on Southern
lines and a fifth on transcontinental lines.
general freight agent remarked yester-
day that one reason that freight traffic
il showing up SO urfavorabiy the last two
weeks. compared with last year. was that