The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-11
Personal, Local and General Notes.

cent rate as at a rate 3 cents per 100
pounds lower.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Traffic Manager Guilford, of the New
York Central, is so i'll that he has gone to
the mountains for a rest.
In the month of August 10 carloads of
live stock Were shipped from indianapolis
over the Panhandle east.
C. E. Schaff, general manager. and E. o.
Mccormick, passenger traffic manager of
the Big Four, will be in the city to-day.
Roger Perry, who for over thirty years
dalia at the Indianapolis yards. has retired.
Vice President Wood and General Man
ager Loree. of the Pennsylvania Company,
are on a Western trip going over the sew
eral divisions.
John E. Britt. travelling freight agent of
the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa, has resigned
to accept a similar position with the Trad
ers Dispatch
j. a. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria & Eastern line, who has been on an
inspection trip for four days of this week,
returned yesterday.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern yes
terday began to operate it's own dining
cars. The company has employed H. Por-
ter as superintendent OF the service.
The Railway and Station Agent appears
in a new dress. 1t is now a monthly peri
odical, but there is some talk of making
it a weekly organ of the fraternities.
The Baltimore & Ohio has fitted up some
camp trains which carry large gangs of
men and stand on side tracks during the
night. The men eat and sleep in these cars.
The detectives of the Western Passenger
Association have discovered that some of
the association lines are quietly working
with scalpers, and there is trouble over
the discovery.
The Louisville Evansville & ST I.cui.
earned in August S143, 063. against $140,l67 in
August, 1895, and against $13l.5f5 in 1894.
which speaks well for the management of
Receiver Jarvis.
The sale of the Detroit, Lansing & North
ern system, which includes three corpora
tons, will occur Oct. 20 The sale will
foreclose all Enortga ges and reorgan1za-
ton will follow.
The Railroad Telegrapher organ of the
brotherhood of Photographers, states that at
no time in its history has the membership
been as large. 1t is steadily increasing,
and its financial condition is satisfactory.
District Passenger Agent Turner, of the
Northern PACIFIC, and wife will accompany
which. Sept Is, will start from Mem
phis for trip through Yellowstone Park.
D. G. Edwards. passenger traffic man
ager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton. and Frank Reed, general passenger
agent of the Monon, are preparing line OF
round-trip tickets between Cincinnati and
Chicago reading via Roachdale.
The c.. c., c. & ST. l.; earned in the
fourth week of August $4o4.S27,. against
and against S4lS,339 in 1894. In August the
road earned $1ll9,001, against 81, z9z, z94 IN
August 1925, and against $12l6,078 in 1894.
The moving of the vandadlia yards
the river has been temporarily deferred.
The intention is to use the yards on West
sssigni ls some 1 of the tracks for loading
and unloading cars for local industries.
The Omaha division of the brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen is determined to
secure the next convention of the Brother
hood in that city. Peoria, Ill., is making
active fight to secure it. but being the
headquarters of the organization 1t is not
as likely to succeed as is some outside city.
The order of the New York Central to
conductors and trainmen that they are re-
quired to have clean shaVen races and to
clothes before going TO their trains. has
been reissued. Some of the trainmen had
come to the conclusion that it was a dead
letter and had become needless.
Ford Wood, general freight agent of the
Peoria & Eastern, and the several fast
freight men who went to Buffalo to attend
the funeral Of the late George B. sherman,
general manager of the Vanderbilt fast
freight lines. returned yesterday. The
funeral was largely attended. freight off,
Gals from most of the Eastern and West
ern railroad centers being present.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Toledo. ST. Louis & Kansas City
was held in Toledo on Wednesday and the
following directors We're elected: Frank
In roJn s ToISa o. uR Maptn l. croTe To
ledo. O.; James l. Laidshaw New York;
James p. Kneeland, New York There was
no change in the officers of the road.
1t is probable that the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton will erect frame building
to be used temporarily as Il freight depot
at this point Since their depot was burned
they have occupied the old Bee cline freight
depot on South Alabama street, paying
$500 a month for 1t. but the Big Four peo-
pie are anxious to have IL vacated SO that
they can tear down the old buildings and
construct local yards for handling freghts
received and shipped by carloads. greatly
increasing their facilities for handling local
freightS.
effect on the Indianapo division of the
I AlEanV e which
cuts down the running time of four of its
trains considerably between Indianapolis
and Chicago. two of the trains making ii
fifty minutes quicker than on the present
schedule and fifteen minutes quicker than
the new schedule of the Big Four. The
running time OF the a m train from In
dianapois will be shortened thirty minutes
that Of the 3:35 p. m. train fifty minutes
and OF the night train thirty-fve minutes
The afternoon train will make the run from
indianapolis to Chicago in four hours and
fifteen minutes. In addition to this the
Roaehdale line will have a through car in
both directions between Cincinnati and
Chicago. Going west it now leaves Indian
apolis at noon, reaching Chicago at $50
p. M; coming east ii wifi leave Chicago
at II 80 and connect with train SO for
Cincinnati. which leaves indianapolis at
a:45 D. m. over the G.. II. & ID. This train
will have four cars from here hauling the
Vandalia parlor car from st. Louis.
MANY a liver howls from the aIkaloids OF