The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-01
Peoria & Eastern freight depot on South
Capital avenue being utilized for a store-.

Peoria & Eastern freight depot on South
Capital avenue being utilized for store
house.
The Wabash company has sent out rep
resentative to look after the locating of
manufactures and offer inducements to get
them TO locate on the line.
l.. Boyd, formerly superintendent Of the
Indianapolis, Decatur & Western. is now
trainmaster on the Southern railway with
headquarters at Columbia, s. c.
A. J. OReily, commercial agent of the
Monon, who has been confined for two
weeks in his room with grip, expects to be
able to resume his usual duties to-day.
ent of the indianapolis, Decatur & West
ern, accompanied by his wife. left last
night for Washington to be absent week.
M. 9. Carral ticket agent for some years
morrow takes the position of general pas
senger agent OF the Cleveland, Lorain &
Wheeling.
Grain rates from Chicago east. it is
stated, are going to smash again: The
near approach of the opening of navigation
causes the all-rail lines to make all the
contracts they can.
On the Chicago division of the Panhen-
die eighteen engineers and Twenty-Five ire
men were awarded premiums for saving of
awards ranging from $3.15 to $3.25.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie has COM
menced the doubling of its track between
is completed the road will be double track
from Pittsburg, Pa, to Youngstown. o.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
service esS arr m James Shields Who has
been in the employ of the company forty
years as stonemason, goes on the pension
list. being honorably retired.
After tomorrow the two divisions of the
N. Y, p. & o. Erie) between Kent, O.,
and Salamanca, n. ", will be consolidated
and placed under Superintendent Belknap:
Mr.. Matson, of the Salamanca division, will
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Corny,a y;sons IL ;s ctofad Shop that not
withstanding the remarkably severe winter,
seldom has there been winter in which
vania and Vanderbilt lines have reached
terminals during winter with such regu-
larity.
The paying of commissions on west-bound
immigration business has broken out afresh
"a for tickets. Boston to Chicago, by all
lines, and Sc commission from Montreal,
Halifax and Portland. 1t will now extend
from Boston to New York, without doubt,
breaking up all the supposed ironclad agree
ments.
master mechanic on the Pennsylvania
lines states that the heavy, coarse whistle
has been in use on the Pennsylvania lines
since 1881, and passengers complain of its
harShnaSs: for this reason the company Is
adopting on all of its passenger locomotives
the smooth chime whistle at considerable
expense.
In the year 1894 Connersville on the Gin,
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton showed the
best earnings of any station on the lines,
terminal stations excepted oxford sold sold
more tickets to passengers, but did a light
freight business. IT freight earnings Con-
nersville. says one of the officials, is shown
to great advantage
The Chicago e. Eastern Illinois has let
the contract for new depot at Hopes
ton, which it is said will be very neat
and suitable building for the purpose and
of a style to be adopted by the company at
other way stations. Plans have been pre-
pared for new depot at Danville, ILL.,,
on the Peoria & Eastern.
A friend of r. W. Burrows formerly
superintendent of the indianapolis & st.
Louis, who had intended to connect himself
with the Lake Erie & Western last Mon
day.. but who was unable to do
count of his health, says his physician
thinks the trouble not of the old type, but
the result of extreme nervousness, and he
hopes in two or three weeks to bring the
patient out in good trim to resume rail-
reading.
An Eastern financial paper says the
Pennsylvania did not duplicate the remark
ond month this year, its net increase of
$23181 for the Eastern lines contrast
ing with $366,S91 net gain in January. The
Western lines. however, sustain the jan
uary increase, net earnings being $3.50, $40
larger in February this year than last. The
whole system shows s276, 700 net increase
for February, and sS94,SS7 net gain for the
two months. a substantial showing.