The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-21

ISOLATION rules and will on Thanksgiving
day make a rate of one fare for the round
trip between all stations on the line.
The Cincinnati Hamilton a. Dayton Is
| hauling from the Toledo docks large guam
| titles of ore. The steamer Italia on Thurs
day landed 210l tons of ore on the c.. II.
a ID. dock, shipped from Ashland. Wis.
The fast train on the Monon, which
makes the run between Indianapolis and
Chicago in four hours and forty-fiye min,
uteS, has now been on three months and
but twice has 1t failed to make the time
The Big Four would be doing fully as
| much business at the present time as last
year had it the cars to handle the bust
ness offered. The company yesterday was
eighty cars short of filling its Indianapolis
orders.
The indianapolis & vincennes is enjoy
ing quite a boom in business. On Thurs
day the road brought in 140 carloads of
grain. coal and live stock. the heaviest in
bound business of any day in many
months.
A third track on the New York Central
for freight service. making it a five-track
road. is now being agitated. Such an i'm
provement was talked of several years
ago. but was abandoned. and IL is believed
that this time il will end in talk.
Ii is stated that George Gould has been
s srying to secure the service of John d.
Pacific, as general traffic manager of all
the Gould lines. Mr. Stubs I'm his present
position receives $4,000 salary per annum.
John G.. Williams. ex-vice president and
general manager of the Vandalia. has sent
announcement cards to his friends in Terre
Haute' statlne that he mas removed from
lished a law office in rooms I'm the Indiana
Trust building.
Thomas Johnson, chief engineer of the
Pennsylvania lines west yesterday COM
pleted the inspection of bridges on the
southwestern system and returned to
Pittsburg. He found most of the bridges
in excellent condition none needing extern
sive improvements.
Harry Crawford jr.. vice president of
the Chicago * Southeastern is i'm the city.
He has fully recovered his health. He
states that the road is now making the
best earnings i'm its history. and would do
much better il the company had cars to
move the business Offered
A fast stock train on the Santa Fe on
Tuesday last made the run from Pueblo.
Col. TO Kansas City. 635 miles in twenty
one hours and twenty-seven minutes which
was the fastest run ever made in this
country with a train of heavy tonnage
Its average speed was thirty miles an hour
when moving.
The Pennsylvania Company is spending
good deal of money on the Cleveland *
Pittsburg division. Among other things a
snrysy 70 hs on been S for dono
Chicago at Rochester. and, the coming
summer. twenty-six miles of double track
will be completed on the &. d r. division.
The managers of the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation have given notice that all app,ica-
tons for diiferentials must be in before
Dec. /. The Pennsylvania, the Big Four.
& Ohio Southwestern have made applica-
lions for further differentials between new
points or a change of existing differentials
In mentioning fast runs OF late on West
ern lines that OF the Chicago * Northwest
ern April -. 1891. from Council Bluffs to
Chicago. with the Jay Gould party was
overlooked. The 4S5 $40 miles was covered
in nine hours. the average speed of the
| train being 1892 miles per hour This
record has not yet been broken west OF
Chicago.
The Big Four's white city special covers
| the SOC miles from Cincinnati to Chicago
| in exa ctly eight hours. while the kncker-
booker covers the 80 miles from St. Louis
! 10 Muncie in seven hours and forty-eight
minutes which includes In the first case Il
ten-minute dead stop at indianapolis and
with the knickerbocker fifteen minutes of
dead time at Indianapolis
The Queen & Crescent trains are making
some good records. Since Oct the New
| Orleans and Florida limited. south bound
| arrived "a terminals on time forty times
only late three times. No. arrived in Gin
| cnnati. north bound. on time thirty-nne
times. late four times. Nos. and 8 of the
! G.. q G. special made the same record as
| Nos | and 3 while Trains 4 and were
late but twice. All told. the trains We're
| on time 295 times and late twenty-six times.
The schedule of seniority of engineers
| on the Michigan division of the Big Four
| has been adjusted satisfactorily. There
are forty-seven engine men on that d.
vision. In the order of seniority T.. q. Tay-
Tor ranks as the Oldest engineer in time
/ OF service. he commencing Jan. IL. 1873.
| Quite number have been running since
! the early eighties About three-fourths OF
the number were on this division when I'M
f, der the management of Norman Beck 81.
/ In awarding the aeniorage IL was found
/ that six men were promoted 10 be en-
Gineer On the same day. and one took his