The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-06

1 PLATE 22l
citation: third. the chairman of the meeting
| to appoint a committee OF three TO estimate
| the amount # damage TO each car"
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Oscar Murray. vice president of tho Balti-
more & Ohio. was in Cleveland yesterday.
| William Green, general manager Of the
| Baltimore & Ohio, is taking few days rest
at his home in Cincinnati.
= General Manager Wilson, of the Yves,
| Shore fast freight line, who is on western
| trip, was in the city yesterday
| The contract for remodeling the Union Sta
| tion at Columbus O., has been let. The inn
| provement will cost about 100000.
In the sixty days the fast rain service has
has it reached Toledo late. and ST Louis but
| twice.
Colonel Hill. general superintendent of the
Lake Erie & Western, yesterday left on his
| private car for a trip over the L. e. & W..
proper.
| F. NJ. Wilkinson. general passenger ard
| freight agent of the Cincinnati & Muskin-
| gum Valley. Is spending two or three days
| in the city.
| George r. Gunnip, general agent of the
| passenger department Of the Santa Fe lines
| for Indiana and Ohio. is In the city on OH
| cial business.
The Pennsylvania lines brought west In
| May larger number Of immigrants than IN
any May for several years, many Of them
| The test of a smokeless engine which the
| Queen & Crescent has been making for some
| weeks Is so satisfactory tnat 1t is TO be IN
| troduced in its passenger service.
| D. B. Robinson vice president OF the Atch-
| ison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company.
| has accepted the presidency of the St Louis
| & San Francisco Railway Company.
| Daniel Donough, general ticket agent or
| the Union Railway Company, and family.
will leave tomorrow for Salt Lake City. Mr..
| Donough will be absent but few days.
earnsa Ths ToeSs n Nav s. Lss nenesse 0sz oysr
| May. 1895. of s7.596.16. Since July the road
| has earned s., SIS, ,s5S77. an increase over last
| year of S39.34S.V.
| lines, desires the heads OF departments 10
make further retrenchment wherever 1t can
be done without interfering with prompt
movement of business.
| The Illinois Central has established COM
| mercial agency at Pittsburg, transferring r.
Doul from Louisville to that city. 7. n.
Harwood Will REPRESENT the lines at Cincin-
The Baltimore Ohio Southwestern
| earned In May s46l.s46.. a decrease as COM
pared with May 1885 Of ss2s g., The he Chicago
| crease over May, 1895, of $2S.loO
L John L. Evans has been appointed acting
| general freight agent of the Cleveland a.
pu'ta at Cleveland. nI' vice r. K. Rogers. who re-
| tires from that position June 8.
| C. e. Lambert. general passenger agent of
the West Shore has published a very at. .
| for the season of 1896. The reading matter
and Illustrations are entirely new.
| Americus Wheedon. who for many years
| vile, Madison & Indianapolis, now passenger
! agent Of the Louisville Southern, is spending
day two with friends in this city
| An official of the Indianapolis & viscennes
| says one of the singular features about the
| business of that road is that for three sue
cessive years its passenger earnings have
shown about 10 per cent. increase with each
year.
| John p. Ramsey. formerly engineer OF
maintenance OF way on the Cincinnati Ham
ilton q Dayton. on June Assumed duties of
| that character on the new railroad building
| from FL Paso, Tex, $50 miles south into
| Mexico.
The Baltimore & Ohio management is cut
| ting down expenses and procuring the more
| modern devices TO take the place of manual
| labor the late management of the B. q.
having been much behind the times2in that
| direction.
| The official report OF George Rockwell
! district passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
and Vandalia lines at this point SHOWS that
side oftices of the two roads for May were
| si,5l2 In excess of those of May. 1895.
The Pennsylvania Company, operating the
| fare of the families who were injured in the
| tornado and aiding the families OF those who
| were killed. The Vandaiia suffered more
than any other st. Louis road in that re-
spect.
| One Of the early improvements the Pan
| handle people will make on the Indianapolis
| division will be the putting in OF an inter-
| locking and signal plant at Cambridge City.
| The fast trains can then run from Indian
| apolis to Richmond sixty-nine miles. without
| stop.
| The PENNSYLVANIA lines now make the run
! between Louisville, KY, and Pittsburg twen-
| ty minutes quicker than do the lines via
Cincinnati. The through sleeping car put on
| few months ago between Louisville and
| Pittsburg via Indianapolis has become re-
| munerative.
| j. II. Green. who on June retired as trav-
| cling passenger agent of the Wabash in
Michigan. had the misfortune to lose one OF
| mis- legs. He examining the lock OF his
/ gun. when 1t went off, so badly tearing the
flesh of his limb that the surgeons were
compelled 10 ampuiate it. nr
| A Class engine, James Schultz, engineer.
| left indianapolis, day or two ago, one hour
and reached Columbus on its fast. schedule
! but thirty-three minutes lare. The sixty
nine miles from indianapolis to Richmond
! were run in sixty-six minutes.
| IT Is stated that In the Pennsylvania sys-
! tenn there are now $500 miles of double track.
| a large per cent. of IL laid with e'ghty-pound-
| to-the-yard rail. The cost OF the steel rail
sS sss7s per m mile S for for the % single track The
| standard number OF ties on the Pennsylvania
lines is 2.464 per mile.
| OF the South Jersey, announces that the
| name selected for their fast train Is Century
| FLYER. There were over ten thousand names
| sent in for the train. seventeen persons send
| ing ia the one selected, but the $50 was
| awarded TO a. L. Ware. of Cape May. who
| first sent in the name accepted.
| William Garstang. superintendent OF mo-
| tive power of the Big Four, has instructed
| HIS master mechanics the several divi-
| s!ons 10 watch coal consumption. keeping a
/ record similar TO that OF the Pennsylvania
| lines. Probably In the near future the Big
| Four will pay premiums 10 the engineer and
| firemen who make the best coal saving rec
| ord
| The stone traffic OF the Louisville. New AL
! bany & Chicago from the Bedford quarrifs
Is again reaching heavy tonnage. anl. this
! branch OF business promises we'll the re-
| maipder of the season. The indianapolis &