The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-07
personaI, Local and General Notes.

week ending Aug. % This is q fair bust
ness for the c., H. & ..
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The city freight depots will be closed to-
day. ard the outside ticket offices will close
at noon.
W. II. Smetten formerly on the wabash.
has been appointed general roadmaster of
the St. Louis & San Francisco.
Employees on the Wheeling & Lake Erie
were last week paid for June service, and
promised the pay for July within twenty
days.
Falls excursion to-day from points on its
line the Joint Traffic Association having
protested
S. B. Liggett secretary of the Pennsyl-
vania Company, accompanied by his fam
ily has gone to New England on a three
weeks vacation.
w. w. Adair, who has been yardmaster
of the Erie at Gallon, o., for many years,
buried at Gallon on Saturday, he be-
ing III but few days.
The Lake Erie & Western yesterday
stepped on the toes of the Big Four by run
ming 81 round-trip excursion from La
fayette to Indianapolis.
Edward Gardner, conductor on the Pan
handle. who. with his family, has been
this week take his train again.
The Fitchburg Railroad Company has
closed its shops at Mechanicsvile, n. Y,
and will have the repair work for this di-
vision done at the Keene N. H.. shops.
Master Mechanic Cleaver, of the Van
dalia, is to retire from that position and
will be succeeded by Nj. Butter of the Eff
fingham shops. which have been closed.
The Nickel-plate has drawn upon it the
censure of the board OF managers of the
Joint Traffic Association by selling tickets
to the ST. Paul @. A. r. encampment be-
fore the time set
E. Phillips, passenger conductor on the
Nickel-plate, has purchased and will occupy
the Central House at Conneaut O., hotel
which is very popular with wheelmen and
travelling statesmen.
The ports of Galveston and New Orleans
Were on Friday relieved from grain block
ade which has been troublesome for some
weeks, so large have been shipments to
those export gateways.
E. NJ. Neel, superintendent of the ST.
Louis division of the Big Four, was last
week married, at Charleston, ILL.,. to Miss
Cora GWynette, and is now on his bridal
trip, yesterday being in New Orleans.
1t will be noticed that most roads the
last week of August show more favorable
earnings than in the preceding weeks of
the month, which is in some measure due
to the fact that the week covers two Sun
days.
H. o. Bond, who for some years was a
division superintendent on the Columbus &
Hooking Valley, has been appointed yard
master Of the Baltimore d Ohio at Graf
ton, w. Va, a very important division
point.
The immense two-story warehouse of the
Baltimore q Ohio at Locust Point, which
weighs, it is estimated. 1,500 tons, is being
moved Us feet to make more dock room
for the b. & Q. 1t is loaded on 1000 pipe
rollers.
A special over the Michigan division OF
the Nandalia lines last Friday covered the
poN in two hours and forty-tWo minutes,
Which for that portion of the Vandalia sys-
tenn is fast running.
The general superintendent of the Wa
bash has issued an order to the effect that
excessive bursts of speed must be stopped
and hereafter The heavy ten-wheel engines
are not 20 be allowed to make any higher
speed than the schedule.
The Toledo & Ohio Central has given no.
tee of its withdrawal from the Central
Passenger Committee, formerly the Central
Traf1lc Association. 1t claims to be dis
satisfied with the rulings of the chairman
OF the Central Passenger Committee.
General Manager Ramsey, of the Wa
bash, must look to his laurels. 1t cost the
Wabash 72.16 per cent. of it's gross earnings
10 operate the road, while the Big Four
under General Manager Schaff, was oper-
ated on 90 per cent. OF its gross earnings.
For some weeks a large force of men he S
been equipping the Lehigh Valley road with
the Han automatic train signal system and
on Saturday the system was put to use be-
tween the end of the double track al Sugar
Notch and as far east as Glen Summit
General Roadmaster Shearer, of the Le-
laying last Thursday, when, with his force,
he laid two miles of track in ten hours
without the aid of a track-laying machine
The rails were laid on the Depew q Tona-
wanda branch.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul has
not made so much noise as some of its COM
petltolS as to the number of passengers it
carried to st. Paul last week, but on one
day it carried into St. Paul, including vet
Grams and visitors to the @. A. r. encamp-
ment, p, l60 passengers.
M. Heartily, who has been in the employ
of the Big -Four and its predecessor, the
Bee-line, at Springfield. O., was on Friday
stricken with paralysis, and cannot re-
cover. He is seventy years old, and has
been with the road since the days John
Brough was its president.
Kansas City has become so important a
point on the Missouri, Kansas e Texas sys-
tenn that the company has appointed f. A.
Headquarters at Kansas civ Recently the
Wabash and the Chicago & Alton placed
a representative with the same title al that
point
The employees of the Panhandle company
located at Xenia have fitted up handsomely
a room in the second story of the main
tenance-ofWay building and formed an as
ISOLATION to meet and discuss weekly or
oftener important questions of the day.
they are most intereS ed in.
The Baltimore & Ohio last week received
the first of its new heavy passenger en-
gines, which are to haul it's express trains
between Philadelphia and Cincinnati. They
weigh seventy tons have three pairs of
drivers. seVenty-nine-inch driving wheel
and We're built at the Baldwin locomotive
works.
The Lake Erie & Western earned in Au-
gust S271,9l3 a decrease, as compared with
August, 1923, of $19,201. The Chicago &
Eastern Illinois earned in the same period
81, go, decrease this year of $165S3: the
Chesapeake q Ohio $S57982, a decrease this
year of S. 1855; the Wabash 81 063 POI, a de-
crease this year, compared with August.
1895. of S210674.
There are six lodges of railroad brother
hood men at Harrisburg, Pa, with over
LOO members. This disproves the state
ment that the Pennsylvania Company will
not allow its employees to be members of
unions, TWO thirds of the railroad men
residing at Harrisburg are in the employ of
the Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania passenger lines had a
very busy time last week CARRYING the
Grand Army of the Republic people, the
delegates 10 the National Democratic con-
vention and the heavy passenger business
west-bound, on account of pleasure resort
in large numbers.
man r. d. Caldwell, of the Western Pas
senger Association, was in the Eastern
cities. but on Friday it was discovered that
he had gone to Europe to labor with the
Atlantic steamship lines to induce them to
modify their rules regarding ticketing i'm
migrant business.
1t is thought that D. G.. Edwards. pas
senger traftic manager of the Cincinnati
Hamilton &c Dayton has acted wisely in
appointing Perry Griffin Northwestern
agent of the road. with headquarters a t
Chicago. so well is Mr.. Griffin informed
concerning the Northwest and the competi-
ton the G., H. q d. has to meet.
Jacob Ritter. who began work in the
shops of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
cage at Fort Wayne in January 1866 was
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