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

to show that travelling on railroads was
as safe, and. In fact. safer than by any
other mode OF conveyance ON land or sea.
PERSONAL, Local and General Notes.
Samuel cutshall. passenger conductor on
the Wabash, Is reported fatally III
h Haskell & Barker car works. Michi-
gan City,, have resumed operations IN their
wheel foundry with about, seventy-hve men.
Harry Miller. superintendent OF the Van
dalia main line, Is adopting PennsylvanIa
Company methods of discipline ON that
road. sssa
G.. II. Hunt, of st. Louis, contracting
agent at that point for the Merchants
Dispatch, win spend Sunday with friends
In this city.
Panhandle lines Indianapolis divisicn) be-
came members of the Pennsylvania Voiun-
tary Relief Association.
The net earnings of the Chesapeake q
Ohio for the six months ending Dec. 81,
1891, were 1,700,972. an increase over the
corresponding period of 1893 of $500.
The new shops OF the Baltimore & Ohio
and the yards to be built at Cumberland,
Nd, will be the most extensive IN the
country The buildings alone will cover
$4,000 square feet.
touching the 5000 loaded-car movement.
handling. 1920. There has not been a day
this week that the movement dropped be-
low 1900 loaded cars.
Work was resumed at the shops of the
Toledo, st, Louis & Kansas City at Frank
fort, Ind, yesterday. The shop fund al
lowed by the receiver became exhausted two
weeks ago, which caused a temporary shut
down.
A. NJ. Stewart, general live stock agent
of the Erie lines, was in the city yester-
day. He has perfected arrangements by
which the Erie will secure a portion OF the
live stock shipped from the Indianapolis
yards to the East.
The order that passes should not be
honored on the Pennsylvania limited be-
tween st. Louis and New York has been
Withdrawn on the lines west OF pittspurg,
the first section of the Chicago and New
York limited, on which passes have never
been honored.
r. b. F. PIERCE, receiver of the Toledo,
St. Louis & Kansas City, who went East a
few days ago to confer with the owners
SPEND aT Sunday. He stiii has to give the In
dianapolis, Decatur & Western some atten-
ton. but will probably be relieved by Gen
Western, next week.
George Saul, president and general man
ager of the Ohio Southern. claims to have
operated the road in 1894 on AZ per cent. OF
the gross earnings. Sixty-four per cent. is
about the average cost of operating a road,
stances. While operating the road on SO
small a per cent, he claims that the prop
erty has been fully maintained.
The Cincinnati Chamber Of Commerce
yesterday, with great unanimity, adopted
a strong series of resolutions in opposition
to the proposed legislation in Alabama that
will take from the Queen & Crescent route
the Alabama Great Southern railway and
place 1t in another system. Forcible
speeches were made and a committee of
to try to prevent the legislation.
President Ingalls,. of the Big Four, has
| given heads of departments and agents In
structions to look after the industries To-
Gated on the several divisions of the sys-
tenn, and wherever 1T is for the company's
interest to notify Chief Engineer Kittredge
-~l 800 -r< H. 1.fl a ~r;%a 1 n f.D
in length was ordered this week to be put
in at New Castle, Ind, leading to a couple
of manufactures being erected at that
point.
A few weeks ago the Chicago & Alton,
the Big Four and the Vanderbilt lines put
on a fast train between Kansas City and
meats and other perishable goods. This
train is scheduled to make the run In
eighty-two hours. The train is turned over
that company hauls 1T from that point to
Cleveland, o., 44S miles. in twenty-three
| hours and fifteen minutes.
The indianapolis & Vincennes and its
northern connections have not reduced the
rates to Chicago and other northern points
Chicago & Eastern Illinois. but. of course,
will be obliged to do SO If the present con-
ditions between the two roads named con.
per car to the Pennsylvania lines on Goa
shipped from rnipes on the /. & V. road to
Chicago and like northern points.
Inc TdflldQ0le peOple nave Deeb eulOIC-
ing to the letter the rules forbidding en-
ployes visiting saloons. Yesterday Super
intende9t Dariington received a letter from on
rules are being well observed. The en-
ploye wrote that on Monday ne visited a
saloon to get some whisky for his wife,
who was taken suddenly i'll. and he Sc
cured the whisky at the nearest place. TIC
some this might seem trivial, but superin,
tendent Darlington was much g~ratified thai
such an explanation was sent in.
On the Baltimore & Ohio lines it is com
pulsory that employees become members 81
lines it is optional with the empioye .wheth.
er he becomes a member OF the relief de
been in existence six years. The first three
years not more than 40 per cent. of thu
employees We're members of the association
now over 50 per cent. are. which is taker
as evidence by the officials of the roas
that with each year the association. is be
coming more popular with the employees.
The Monon people. will probably taxi
active steps, this spring. looking to secur
ing independent terminals at indianapolis
h officials feels that they suffer in theil
business under the present arrangements
and, had the company a freight depot ant
yards of its own, managed by it's employees
largely increased. These remarks were no
made as a reflection on the Lake Erie &
fSom tne p erssent but METHODS TN ise Of pa handlin nssa Il,
business OF the two roads Jointly at thi
point.
All over the country the press, in com
menting on the recent accident on the Van
dalia, charge it to having greatly increased
the speed of the train. This is a mistake
The time OF the train is now the same be
tween st. Louis and indianapolis that !
has been since put on, five years ago. 1T Il
the new fast limited, which leaves st. Louis
at / D. M, that is the fast train, and 1t
shorter time is largely due to cutting on
several stops which Train 20 now makes
and while the locomotive that hauled Trail
20 is a large W engine, it is tn,
same weight of engine that has been haul
ing the train Ior the last year. when thi
accident occurred the latest information j
that the train was not running over thirt.
miles an hour.
Officers Installed.
The following officers were installed a