The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-29
Personal. Local and General Notes.

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Pennsylyania. road VIII take place
in Philadelphia March 10.
The regular monthly meeting of the Cen
trail Passenger Committee will be held in
Chicago next Wednesday.
The Chesapeake & Ohio earned in the.
third week of February s179,422, against
Sl55. 347 in the corresponding week Of 1855.
The Western passenger men have aban-
doned the proposed trip to Hot Springs,
Ark, and will hold their meeting In st.
Louis.
Several of the heavy .nogul freight en-
gines of the Chicago & Erie have been
transferred to the. N, V. p. & y. division
of the Erie system.
The Lake Erie & Western earned i'm the
third week 1of this crnonth $685. against
1851 in the same week of 1895, and against
S7,O72 in the corresponding week OF 1884.
The stockholders of the. Cincinnati, Rich
mond Fort Wayne will hold their an
nual meeting In Richmond Ind, April 2. 10
elect eleven directors for the ensuing year.
The Pennsylvania now has in use be-
tween Tyrone and Altoona four main
tracks. Passenger trains run on tracks
Nos. / and 2, and freight trains on Nos. 3
and 4. ena
The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & ST.
Louis will on Monday break ground for
new passenger depot at London, o., to cost
5000. 1t will be constructed of stone and
pressed brick.
NJ. W. Mansfield. superintendent of the
Indianapolis & Vincennes, who went to
Pittsburg to attend a meeting of the mo-
tive power men of the Pennsylvania lines,
returned yesterday n
William Clemments, one of the oldest and
most popular passenger conductors on the
Big Four's Chicago. division, yesterday
received notice that the company would no
longer need his services.
W. A. Widhack. auditor of the Lake
Erie & Western, last evening went to Cleve-
land to look after the auditors department
of the Cleveland. Akron & Columbus. which
noxx grlnQrVSinn
Presidents ingalls, of the Big Four, Led
yard of the Michigan Central. Caldwell of
the Lake Shore, Galloway OF the Nickel
plate. and Woodford OF the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton are in New York.
On March / Albert Scheer, for eleven
years past clerk of the agent of the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern at Jefferson
vile. Ind. will become agent. vice L. Il.
Lewis, promoted "a TO Q. more important
agency.
The latest statistics show that i'm January
100000 bushels of corn for export were
shipped via New Orleans, agaissst $4,000
bushels via New York, and for the first
half of February the exhibit was fully as
favorable for New Orleans
The Pittsburg e. Lake Erie. a Lake Shore
interest, is saiaetos De the best provided
with power. compared with its mileage. of
any line west of the mountains. Within the
last sixty days it has added ten heavy
freight locomotives to its power.
A. c. Wells formerly superintendent of
now general manager of the Atlantic & Pa
cific, when in the former position was
thought to be consumptve and weighed but
125 pounds. The California climate so
agrees with him that on last Monday he
weighed IT'S pounds
There is excellent authority for saying
that Joseph W. Sherwood has been appoint
ed division superintendent OF the To,edo, st.
Louis & Kansas City only that he may
learn the road. and that In due time Gen.
eral Superintendent Mills will be made gen.
eral manager and Mr.. Sherwood promoted
to general superintendent
The net earnings of the Atchison system
for the month of January were 1896, $685. an
increase of $2s4. 351 over the same month
of last year. The net earnings of the sys-
TEN for the seven months of the fiscal year
to Jan 81 were s4274, $50, a decrease of
spending period of the previous fiscal year.
The Vanderbilt lines will run into James
town, y. Y, having decided 10 build loop
from the Dunl1irk, Allegheny Valley &. Pitts
burg, at Falcon, to connect with the James
town * Lake Erie in jamestown. Work will
be begun at once with two hundred men,
with the intention of completing it in time
run through trains from the Lake Shore
10 Chautauqua during the assembly's session.
All the roads running into New Orleans
have formed themselves into a passenger
association for the maintenance of rates.
The parties to the agreement which will
go into effect on March i are the Illinois
Central the Southern Pacific. the Louis
Vile & Nashville, Texas & Pacific and the
Queen K Crescent The agreement calls
for fine for every infraction of its pro-
visions.
w. A. Cook. an old newspaper man. now
advertising agent of the Cincinnati. Hamil-
Of the summer resorts reached by the c.,
II. 4 y. lines. The book Will be made In