The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-08


provements the roads are making in this
direction and the starting up Of SO many
of the Northern car works is giving the
roads sot.t tn of the Ohio river quite a boom
In business.
In March there were loaded at stations on
the Big Four system 1852 cars; the road
received from connections IS, 40 loaded cars,
making a total of 63, 1872. an increase over
March, 1895, of 5,T73 cars.
w. w: Finley will on Wednesday assume
the duties of chairman of the southern
also have charge of the Southern Railway
and Steamship Association after May l.
The following Is a statement of cars
handled in Big Four freight houses at In
dianapolis during March: Loaded. 4,229; I'M
loaded, 3.572; total, 7,s01. The highest num-
Der handled on any one day was 33 March
Extensive in improvements hive been made
to the shops of the BaItimore & Ohio South
western at Washington. Ind. Among other
and the shops were lighted by electricity
Saturday night for the first time.
indications are that the N. ". P & O..
Will get out of it's financial troubles. Ar
engagements have been made to exchange
its $1,000, 600 of prior lien bonds, drawing 9
per cent. interest, for an equal amount of
Az per cent. bonds, payable in forty years.
Panhandle conductors ave been advised
by, General Manager Woods in honoring pos
tai photograph commissions the rule APP
plies only to such as are held by clerks
on pennsylvania lines and not to commits
sions held by clerks in postal cars run
ming on other roads.
Passenger officials of indianapolis lines
have been asked by A. J. Smith, secretary
Of the General Passenger Agents Associa>
ton to vote on whether they will concur
in the terms adopted by the association of
car accounting officials, to be applied to
various kinds of transportation.
There is a good deal of rivalry on time
between the fast freight lines on west
bound business, and the Merchants Dis
o ordisn last aralin Week sIk ha deliV VeaheR = CARLOAD carllel ref Of
freights started from New York city at 1890
p. m. April 3, in indianapolis at 10 "a. m.
April 6.
Terre Haute, Chester &c Olney road will
be m ed next week. 1t is stated that
to build the road if the right Of way is
secured and no trouble is ooked for in
getting that so great is the enthusiasm
for It's construction.
NJ. T. Fitzpatrick, who has been with
the Union Pacific fifteen years as general
road master of the central branch, has re-
the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis, ne
to hays charge Of the road betTeen Kan 1I
was formerly on the Wabash.
A date will be agreed on this week for
a meeting for the reorganization or the
ton. Every road Interested has expressed
a desire to have the association reorgan>
lied and it is believed that no trouble win
be experienced in drawing up an agree
ment which all will readily sign.
About the LIST of May the New York Cen
trail will open a new line to Montreal, via
will cross the st. Lawrence river on the
Canadian Pacific bridge. in full view of the
Lachine rapids, and will go into the Wind
sor-street station of the Canadian Pacific
railway, in the very heart of the city.
On Saturday Indianapolis Division No. II,
of the Brotherhood of En-
Fletcher, the engineer killed a short time
ago in a wreck on the Indianapolis, Deca-
tur q Western, 5000 on an insurance policy
ne carried With the BrOtherlOOQ. Fl MIR.
Fletcher was one of the oldest members in
the local organization.
The following is a list of the officers of
the Chicago, Indiana & Eastern railway, as
elected at the stockholders meeting. held
Saturday in Paramount: President, M. Fl.
AlbeTger of Chicago; vice president, Wiley
G. Chiles; treasurer, George n. Catterson,
of Indianapolis; directors, Hon. Claude
Matthews, Thomas H. Noonan, John e.
In March there were handled on the In
dianapolis division of the Cincinnati, Ham,
i Ito fa q Dayton sryi, ~ ~ passenger IS. Train 81;
a. H. handled during the month LIZA pas
sengers, or an average of 55.5 per day. The
in January, when it was put on. its
average number of passengers daily was
tfirty-six: in February it was ass and in
March 55.5.
made on the Panhandle by Train 6, the
east-bound express. The train, which con-
ty minutes late, and made the run from
Wheeling Junction to Pittsburg, forty-two
miles, in ~fifty-ive minutes. The train was
who are acquainted with the road between
Steubenville and PittSburg can fully appre-
ciate what this run means. No wild or
in, but the time was made steadily up and
down hill, the fastest time being made be-
tween Bulger Summit and Willow Grove,
where for some distance a mile a minute
was maintained.