The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-26

Personal. Local and General Notes.
The outside ticket offices will close at
III a m. to-day.
C. s Crane. general passenger agent of
the Wabash, Is on an Eastern trip.
Harry Miller, general superintendent of
the Vandalia lines, is so i'll as 10 be con-
fined TO his home.
H.. z. Plant. who was reelected president
of the Southern Express Company on Tues
day. has held that position thirty-four
years.
The Pittsburg locomotive works are SO
crowded with orders that they are working
full time in all departments with a maxi
mum force.
The Panhandle has become very friendly
to the Chicago & Southeastern and is
placing a good many empty cars with 1t
to load with grain.
1t is stated that the Cincinnati. Hamil-
ton q Dayton has closed a deal by which
il secures control of the Hamilton & Linz
denwald Electric road.
James Redmond. for several years super
~intendent of the shops of the Missouri Pa
cihc at Kansas City, died on Tuesday night.
He leaves a wife and seven children.
For the first time in three years the To-
ledo q Ohio Central has all its locomotives
mt for service employed, IN some cases US
ing one crew for day trains and another,
with the same locomotive, on night trains.
The Joint Traffic Association is not
pleased that the Joint Passenger Commit
tee has offered a one-cent-a-mile rate to
the C.. A. r. for its encampment at Buffalo
next year, and the matter will be further
considered.
Z. II. r. Green, president of the Texas
Midland, has completed arrangements for
building a branch siXty-fve miles in length
from Ennis to Waco, Tex. This will give
the Texas Midland a through line from
Paris TO Waco.
f. Yungman has been appointed chief
clerk of the advertising department of the
Pennsylvania, vice D.. y. Bell, who has
gone to New England as general agent
Of thn Gn for "a T1GGanOar
ness is concerned.
The Toledo. Ann Arbor & Northern Mich1-
gan has been obliged TO increase its yard
room capacity at Toledo, so much has Its
handled, to and from connections at that
point, LOO loaded cars.
Receiver Malott, of the Vandalia lines.
has his offices fitted up appropriately in
the Majestic building. and in adjoining
rooms are found +. r. barlow, his gen
eral agent, and G. r. Peddle, purchasing
agent of the company.
D.. T. McCabe. general freight agent of
the Pennsylvania lines, has for two weeks
been visiting agents or the system, inter-
viewing them concerning the outlook. for
business and seeing that they are well in
formed as to rates, etc.
Four just east of its freight depots were
completed yesterday. Each has a capacity
for forty-fve cars. and with the tracks be-
fore laid in the depot yards over $50 cars
can be placed at one time.
1t is now definitely settled that the Butler
q Pfttsburg, the P~ittsburg. Shenango *
Lake Erie and the Carnegie lines in the
M~onongahela valley will be consolidated
and made a very important system of that
part of the State of Pennsylvania.
An impression prevails that the Big -Four
sy ullcate Is quietly at work 70 get a route
by which it can get into Hamilton, o., for
business, and that the Cincinnati. Hamilton
& Dayton is determined to prevent the ac-
complishment of the Big Four's plans.
Engine 81. now used for switching pur-
poses in the Lake Erie & Western yards.
has been in service thirty-eight years.
Under the Macy administration 1t was
known as No. 10 and was run for over
twenty-five years by Andrew Smith, now
deceased.
At present two thousand men And en-
ployment at Baltimore in helping to handle
the cars and unloading their contents in
important fast freight line and road in the
country is represented on side tracks Of
the B. & o. at Baltimore.
Passenger Traffic Manager Edwards, Of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton * Dayton, has
issued a circular TO the effect that the Chi
cago & Southeastern will honor mileage
tickets of the c.. II. q ID. on that line, but
the mileage tickets of the Chicago & South
eastern will not be honored ON the c., IL.
& ID. lines.
The light has set in earnestly between
the roads which handle the business be-
tween Chicago and st. Louis, and it is
stated that the Chicago & Alton will put
in track tanks so that their locomotives
can take water when running and will put
on a siyty-mile-an-hour train between the
two cities, making but two stops between
Chicago and st. Louis.
Engine No. 81. on the vandalia, hauled
Train 20, consisting OF eight cars, from
Fillmore to a standstill in the Union Sta
ton. indianapolis, in twenty-eight min
utes. made a stop at the Belt road and
slowed down in the city limits. Engineer
Daley claims that he covered the twen-
weight miles. actual running time in
twenty-five minutes and forty-five seconds.
1t is stated officially that the passenger
revenue of the Big Four at indianapolis
makes a more favorable exhibit for Octo-
Der. proportionately, than any other point
on the system, and thus far in November
the receipts at the town office are con-
The sales of the Big Four at this point
on Monday made it one Of the big days
of the year.
The Wabash has created the position of
appointed II. II. Purcell TO the position.
Mr.. Purcell was formerly with the Mich
igan Central at Detroit. but the last five
years has travelled for the Wabash as it's
succeeds Mr.. Purcell in that position. He
has been chief clerk in the assistant gen.
eral freight agents office.
The Illinois Central Railroad Company
has contracted for a further lot of 1000 box
cars, making i'm all 1880 freight cars. pur-
chased during 1886. TIL earnings have been
Sucn as 10 justify, II not require. the Dur-
chase of additional equipment. During the
recent years of depression the company has
purchased in 1893 2.531 freight cars. in 1894
T6 and in 1885 1900. The company also
bought in 1893 fifty-Seven locomotives, in
1894 nineteen. in 1895 thirty-seven and in
1896 forty.
1t is stated that among business men in
the country towns a marked opposition to
making a 2-cents-a-mile rate is s~pringing
up. In Lebanon ii has gone SO far that
the business men have. it is said. selected
a committee to visit Sylvester Titus, who
is TO represent Boone county in the next
Legislature. and request him to vote
against such a proposition. Mr.. Titus was
elected representative by the Popocratic
party and is said TO be a strong advocate
of the low rate.
ID. A. Rice, agent of the Big Four at
Lebanon, Is quoted as saying that in the
twenty or more years he has held the
position he has never seen in so short a
time so marked a revival in business with
the Big Four as since The election of Nc
twelve TO fifteen cars a day with grain
and hay. and would load more could the
company furnish them, and the increase in
passenger business is as marked as in
freight traffic.
o. w. Beckwith, VINO recently left Kan
sion of the Big -Four. to take a similar
position on the Cincinnati and Sandusky
divisions of the Big Four, under Division
Superintendent English, will return to
Kankakee as trainmaster and be sue
ceeded by a brother of General Manager
Schaff. Trainmaster Quinn, of the Cairo
division. will be promoted to superintend-
ent, vice Bayley. who gees to the ST. Louis
on the Cairo division, it is understood,
will be abolished.
Passenger men of the Eastern lines are
severe In their on d. G.. Cd