The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-27


to be extended at once TO the Mississippi
river.
The Lake Shore on its Pittshurg & Lake
Erie divisions will subject its employees.
for the first time, 10 sight and hearing
tests. and 1t is said there is considerable
anxiety over the matter among the train
crews. many of whom are veterans III serV-
ice on that road.
The Toledo, St Louis & Kansas City
earned in the third week of October
SAT. OF, decrease as compared with the
corresponding week of 1895 of STA Since
July l the road has earned s727. 936. As, an
increase over the corresponding period last
year of SCI, 1880
1t is believed that in the reorganization
of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
the Woodford syndicate, controlling the
Cincinnati, Hamilton d Dayton lines, Will
have so much of the stock and securities
of the Monon- as to give them voice in
it's management.
enter the field of the Duluth & Superior
as an active competitor for the grain-hand-
ling business and if successful much of the
grain raised In Iowa, which now goes
through Chicago elevators for lake ship
ments will be diverted via Omaha.
The Monon is hauling considerable bust
Wabash and the Michigan Central turn
ing the business over to the Wabash at
Delphi; e, For several weeks of, of late each each
from the Indianapolis yards to the Eastern
markets by this route.
One Of the best-paying passenger trains
1
Maine Central, known as the Flying
Yankee. 1t often leaves Bangor for Port
gers, and in the hunting season it carries
daily scores of hunters, having a car con-
structed to safely carry hunting equip
ments.
A Boston financial paper says the bonds
of the Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
are coming in rapidly to the Central Trust
The deposits already exceed s., 100000 dis
tT1buted equally between the three classes
of bonds The same authority says the
large deposits so early indicate substantial
approval of the plan by the real owners
or the securities, especially as the strin-
cult for brokers to make changes in loans
The petition of Edward Kemble and other
grain and flour merchants in Boston to the
Interstate-commerce Commission, asking
for an adjustment of the Boston freight
rates on export grain and domestic grain
receipts on the ground that the present
rates discriminate against grain for domes-
on the part of New York merchants The
same New. York merchants Directing
News having a differential, although nearer
York.
AT the first meeting of the newly elected
board of directors of the Northern Pacific
Hallway Company held in New York yes
terday for the purpose of organization, the
OF the board of directors, Edward d. Ad-
ans, New York; president Edwin w. Win
ter St Paul; vice president, George c.
German Washington, d. c.; controller
John Scott, st. Paul secretary, Charles F.
Coaney, New York; assistant secretary,
George II. Earl, ST Paul; treasurer, Albert
T. Little, New York; assistant treasurer
c. A. Clark, st. Paul.
An official of the Toledo, ST. Louis & Kan
sas City. says the company is having no
trouble in forwarding it's freight or pas
senger business east of Toledo. WORKING
with the Grand Trunk and other independ-
ent roads from Toledo, and the road is do
DTO1tahlR hIISjnaGG Nhnn Dra-
and Receiver Galloway left the road to go
to the Nickel-plate he made report to
said the report showed SIS 600 less than
nothing. Conditions have changed and now
the GO COMPANY par shows earnings from Jan. 1
of the corresponding period last year, an
actual increase of $62, 433.06
The new roundhouse of the Monon, in
most complete in this section There are
larger roundhouses, but none better
equipped 1t is so arranged that by simple
process the boilers can be washed out with
not water and steam on an engine can
pc raised in twenty-five minutes. 1t is so
that natural gas can be turned
on below the CRATE bars, the coal in the
hre box at once becomes ignited and in
a a snort time one of the hottest of fires is
steam, and lighted by natural gas There
are several pieces of new machinery in
ployed, and that are able to do all the light
repair work an engine Or car may need.
John Donovan, in charge of the sta
tlonary engine at the new roundhouse and
Ilsht repair shops of the Monon at this
point. is one of the oldest men in time of
railroad service in the city. His first work
was carrying water for the men employed
IN constructing the Indiana Central the i
work commencing at New Jersey street
y men the shops of the Cincinnati & In
now part of the Big Four were
opened at Dillon street, he was one of the
first men employed. After a time he was
made fireman, and when the war was in
progress he entered the employ of the gov
eminent as an engineer on the Memphis q
charleston. AT the close of the war he
returned TO the Big Four and ran an engine
until the Indianapolis division of the Mo-
non was opened. when he hauled the first
tnrough train between Indianapolis and
Monon over this line