The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-26

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more 4 Ohio, s.sG: Grand ii' Trunk i 5'ssa Nick
81 Plate, 4Sos; Erie, s7ss; Big FouT LOST
articles in tons: Flour. 7,1O4; grain and mill
s stnffs e 2sS provisions. Lard etc, etc: sssl
lumber, 5,io6; miscellaneous, 1,394
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The directors of the Fort Wayne & jack
son have declared a dividend Of 2ss per
cent, payable March /.
John Lazarus, traffic manager of the In
dianapolis. Decatur e. Western, yesterday
returned from New York.
ST. Louis e. Kansas City, is in the city,
and will return to Toledo on Thursday.
Frank Reed, general passenger agent of
the M0non, has gone to Florida for q two
weeks stay. His wife accompanied him.
The Tuscola accommodation train yester-
day commenced leaving the Union station
for the west at 3:25 p. M, instead of 3:40-
j. r. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria & Eastern, will leave for New York
this evening, to be absent a week or more.
d. Parmalee, ticket agent of the Monon
day called to Grenada, Miss, on account Of
the supposed fatal illness of his mother
In the suit of the Central Trust Company.
OF New York vs.. the Texas Trunk railroad,
the United States court at Dallas, Tex. has
ordered foreclosure of mortgage and the
sale of the road
At the indianapolis, Decatur & Western
X,
commenced the building of twenty stock
cars All the engines of the road are being
put in excellent repair.
The Pennsylvania Company is preparing
plans for one thousand gondola. cars. the
awards for building which will be made in
March. The. cars are for service on the
lines west of Pittshurg.
]. g.. Egan, for six years past assistant
general solicitor of the Santa Fe, will. on
March /, retire, and be succeeded by Robert
the practice Of law at Chicago
In the week ending Feb. % 1895 cars
were transferred over the Belt road, and
stock. This Was 1oi fewer cars handled at
the stock yards than in the preceding week.
James Charlton, general passenger agent
of the Chicago e. Altca, passed through the
cinnati. At indianapolis he was joined by
District Passenger Agents Bowes and Perry.
The Joliet steel rail mills win resume OPP
erations March ], the company, the tonnage,
the billet and converter department men
having come to an agreement. When the
mills shut down two thousand men were en-
ployed.
The Pullman car works are increasing
their force with each week orders come
in. Last week among the orders received
was one from the Southern Pacific to build
eighteen passenger coaches and five hundred
iox cars.
Judgment has been entered in the Com
favor of the Ann Arbor railroad against
the Michigan Central for terminal and track
facilities furnished the Michigan Central in
that city.
Henry Fox, on March 1. becomes super
intendent of the Kansas and Nebraska d.
vision of the Chicago & Rock Island, and
Charles Jones, promoted from chief train
dispatcher.
The Union car works at Depew. N. Y,
are putting up additional buildings and
when completed the work Of building $50
cars under roof can be going at the
same time. One Of the buildings will be 100
feet long by 126 feet in width.
A. A. jackson, who recently resigned as
superintendent of the New York & New
England, Is lying seriously i'll at his home
near Boston suffering from heart troubles.
He is a veteran in railroad service. be-
ginning his railroad career forty years ago.
Loren Packard, one of the best-known
master car builders in this country, :, died at
some seven weeks. He had been master car
builder OF the New York Central for eleven
years, going to that road from the Balti-
more & Ohio.
T. V. Burrows, formerly superintendent of
the Indianapolis & St. Louis. but more re-
Company WV. who has been Visiting friends in
this city for a. couple Of days has returned
to Greenwich. o., his present home. He has
fully recovered his health.
The local Passenger Association held a
special meeting yesterday and fixed rates
for the gatherings OF the Order OF the
Eastern ssg Gana d s of
fish Rite convocation, agreeing on rates
and one-third for the round trip.
One of the favorable features for business
with the Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City
is that 1t is well provided with switching
facilities at the more important points on
every industry is reached by switches. and
at all points in the gas belt the same re-
mark will apply.
The passenger earnings of the Monon lines
for the third week of February were SILL
165 10, an increase over the corresponding
week of 1894 of Sl.s29.6o freight earnings,
81 iv,nr hi @,f
The passenger earnings of the Monon are
now leading all former years, the worlds
fair year excepted.
John Wise. passenger conductor, who suf-
fered broken arm and other injuries in
the Vandala wreck few weeks ago, was
out Yesterday for the first time He
taken off his arm and that he Is doing
nicely. but 1t will be month or more before
he can resume service with his train
Newell Sanders, president of the Indianap-
oils, Bloomington & Bedford, is confident
that the road will be built as soon as the
panv Keeps f intact. The projected road en-
tends from Indianapolis to Bedford. eighty
miles, and subsidies amounting to $4,000 II.
cash have been voted and ~ per cent. or
the right Of way secured.
The New York & New Haven has put on
Sunday night train from New York TO
ws ss put ,as. on to ace accommodate students Of
Yale University who live in New York. The
father tho Of tp OF me s trip II
run four weeks and he has not been called
on to put up any money yet.
r. b. +. Peirce, receiver of the Toledo, St.
Louis e. Kansas City, is being called upon
by lines crossing this road to join in erect
ing interloclzing plants. but he pleads power
ty Some of the roads will probably erect
such improvements, hoping that the time
will come when the T., st. l.. X. c. will
be in shape at least to help pay the expense
Nof their operation, which is quite an item.
Last night William Garstang. superintend.
ent of motive power of the Big -Four. and
several of the master mechanics witnessed
a field and range test of signal lamps test
ing several different makes in the presence
of the representatives of the lamps. Full
sets of railway signals, lamps and lanterns
were submitted for testing. and 1T proved
an interesting and valuable test of such
apparatus.
President Hoffman of the Seaboard Air
Line denies that his company is negotlat-
ing for the Meanphis & Charleston railroad,
II is up for sale. He admits, however. that
the strained relations between the Seaboard
Air Line and the Southern railroad was
caused by the boycott recently declared
against the former by the Southern Rail-
road & Steamship Association.
So much is being said about engines which
make fast runs and do good work that ii
has aroused the Evansville & Terre Haute
people. and they are boasting of the time
their Baldwin engines, 81, % and %, are
making when train is late. In hauling
the Southern express they have often made