The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-15
Personal. Local and General Notes.

VIM. H Messenger passenger brakeman
on the Panhandle is thought to be fatally
iii.
J. P. Beckwith has assumed the duties
of traffic manager of the Florida coast
lines.
The Chesapeake & Ohio now has eighty
two miles of double track and 463 miles
of sidings.
John Lazarus traffic manager of the In
diana, Decatur & Western, has gone East,
to be absent ten days.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois directors
have declared a quarterly dividend of IL
per cent. on it's preferred stock, payable
Oct. l.
The chief engineer of the Toledo & Ohio
Central has prepared plans for a new pas
senger station at Toledo, the estimated
cost of which is $4,000.
The coal operators on the line of the
Indianapolis & Vincennes are gradually re-
Stunning operations and VIII this week be
gin to load forty cars per day.
George II. Abbott has been appointed
general passenger agent of the passenger
department of the Union Pacific, with
headquarters at Sioux City, Ia.
The special over the Big Four which car
ried the committee of the National Democ
racy to Louisville last Saturday made the
run in two hours and fifty minutes.
1t is stated that only once in the last
three months have the fast trains of the
Baltimore Ohio, between New York and
Washington, been late in reaching either
end of the line.
bound shipments from Chicago last
week were 61,s46,, against $685. for the pre-
ceding week and 81 90 for the correspond
ing week of last year. Lake shipments
were u5,0SS tons.
w. H. Baldwin, who will. Oct 1, take
vice Austin Corhin. deceased. began rail-
reading with Hon. Charles Francis Adams
on the Union Pacific.
A very superior Pintsch gas plant has
just been completed Camden. n. j.. and
all the passenger trains of the Philadel-
phia & Reading to be equipped for
lighting in this manner.
The Ohio Coal Traffic Association will
meet in Toledo to-day to hear the re-
port of the committee appointed to con-
slider the dispute between the Ohio and
Indiana roads on rate matters, especially
on coal shipped to Michigan points
The net receipts from traffic of the Ili-
nois Central road for the month of July
We're 1926, 316 a decrease of ST. 1883 from the
same month of last year. The gross re-
ceipts for the month of August were esti-
mated at $1,6zS,326 an estimated increase
of $3S, 25s
| Oscar Murray. receiver of the Baltimore
| & Ohio, who has been a two weeks
trip through the West, returned to Balti-
more on Sunday. The effects of his trip
are already shown in the increase of bust
ness of the Baltimore & Ohio at Chicago
and ST. Louis.
| that James Charlton, general passenger
agent of the Chicago 81 Alton, pays more
commissions to scalpers than 10 the ticket
agents of connecting lines, and that the
| boast that he is a great friend to the ticket
| agents is not true.
| The Monon made it's faster time yester-
| day with ease and the engineer SAYS he
| by no means reached the speed he safely
| might have made. There are now nine
| trains each way between Indianapolis and
! Chicago and six of them are scheduled
| on faster time than ever before undertaken
| with regular trains.
| On Saturday engine No 21S of the Gin
! cinnati. Hamilton x Dayton was taken out
| OF the shops of the Indiana, Decatur &
/ Western, thoroughly rebuilt. and yesterday
] engine No. 200 was placed in the shops 10
/ be rebuilt. -Four Cincinnati Hamilton &
| Dayton engines are being rebuilt now at
the l.. d. & w. shops.
| A. A. Zion, superintendent of the Belt
road and Union railway and Union Sta
| ton, has received Instructions to further
| curtaiI expenses. and he has dismissed the
| who We're putting in the new steel
and the men who were distributing ballast