The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-09

Lead the New York Central and the Lake
between New York and Chicago.
II S. Esterbrook general agent of the
Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City, secured
letters patent a combination steel car
which is attracting a good deal of atten-
ton, SO many special features has it.
s 5. Whitehead will on Oct Is. take al9
the position of traffic manager of the Chi,
cago Hammond & Western, a new and
important Chicago line just being COM
pleted, connecting a number of roads
The Erie Railroad Company win establish
a great transfer station at Youngstown,
o., to handle all freight between chicago
and New York. introducing facilities that
will insure the prompt movement or
freights.
d. l. Roberts, general passenger agent of
the Erie, who recently underwent an opera
liz for appendicitis, is CIV consiqeren cu-
CT danger, bat it viii be two months before
he will resume his official duties Mean
time ID. w. Cooke, assistant general pas
senger agent, is in charge
Engine 158, one of the large Schenectady
locomotives, yesterday hauled Train 70, en-
the Vandalia, from St. Louis to Indianap-
Oils coming in here three minutes ahead
of time: This is the second run by TINS
engine between the points named. and 1T
was accomplished without difficulty.
The Union Railway Company yesterday
compromised with j. Leonard, the section
man who was injured in June, 1s93, when
on a handcar, by paying him $1,000 lie
sued for $4,000. and the case was to come
up in the Court of Common Pleas at
Greenfield, Hancock county, yesterday
So much improvement has there been in
the character of the railway employees VINO
handle money of the companies that the
American Guarantee Association. which q
few years ago charged an employe $lo0 Tor
furnishing bond TO the road OF Sl0oo }iow
II finishes as good a bond at "a per Sl,oVd
E. O. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four lines. over MS own
signature denies the rumor that he Is to
says that he has official authority for say
ing that A. j. Smith is not to retire from
his present position with the Lake Shore
The increase in business of the Balti-
more & Ohio road under the recelVershlp
has led TO the establishment Of better facli-
tiles for handling freights at Chicago and
several other terminal points. Figures snow i,
an average increase at Chicago over the
corresponding period last year OF l,oVo TONS
a week.
special corps of officials of the New
York Central is going over the entlfe SSST
tenn inspecting the various departments,
with view of ascertaining where there
These officials make no REMOVALS them
selves, but report to the general ofilces at
New York.
The fight between President Hoffman. o.
dent of the Mercantile Trust company;
will not stop on any result the annual
meeting may bring forth. In TINS collnec-
ton it should be said that control OF me
Seahoard & Roanoke carries With 1t con-
troll of the entire system
Surveyors of the Chicago & Alton have
for several weeks Deen lOcalliiS d itiIe oe@
tween Washington and the Tazewell shore
of the Illinois river, and have settled on
the best line for the extension OF {he
Dwight branch, which is part or the plan
for the Chicago & Alton securing an indie
PENDENT road into Peoria
The directory Of the Minneapolis &
ST. Louis has been greatly strengthened
ident of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford, J: E searles. treasurer-of the
American Sugar Refining Company, and
f. H. Davis. assistant treasurer of the
Southern Pacific, members of the board
All important stations the New York
Central are supplied with lnvaIid chairs Iiaa1s
trains and conveyances. a SICK person VINO
is travelling on one of its trains and
wishes to be transferred to carriage on
the arrival of the train at the destination
has only to inform the conductor ana ne
telegraphs ahead what is wanted ana an
attendant is at the station with the chair.
Parties have secured the right of way
between Toledo and Detroit for a new
railroad located between the Michigan
Central and the Lake Shore 1t is stated
that the road will be built and operated
in the interests of a southern railway
which wishes to be independent OF the
syndicate owning the Cincinnati, Hamilton
q Dayton has some interest IN the enter
prise.
Freight traffic with the Panhandle has of
late increased handsomely. In the thirty
six hours ending Monday midnight the
read as shown by the official records nam
division During that period loo carloads
of live stock were delivered at Plttsburg
nv the Panhandle from the West ana the
Pittsburg Fort Wayne q chicago road
made heavy deliveries of freight at Plus
burg.
The mileage book is again being used
on as large a scale as ever, the taking up
of books not held by rightful purchasers
having ceased 70 a large extent Yesterday
one of the brokers had a. good supply OF
mileage books calling for transportation
over every road leaving indianapolis, IN
latter are handled with much caution, SO
apt are the L.. e. & w. CONDUCTORS 10
take them up if not held by the persons
whose names they bear.
An engineer yesterday. in speaking OF
the locomotives which were exhibited at
the worlds fair and then SoId 10 the fdl.-
roads. said they were fine ess-parade en-
pines but for service have in nearly eV-
erv case proven failures, which IS attr1Du-
fed TO the fact that they were bullt nastAy
The one purchased by the Cincinnati, HAM
ilton & Dayton has been compietely re-
Vandalia, and similar reports are Rea arc
about the performance of others OF the
locomotives then exhibited.
For wears the Grand Trunk has had al
most monopoly on the shipment OF horses
from Chicago markets to Buffalo. NOW the
nart if not the bulk of that business guar
anteeing the horse train TO make the run
from Chicago to Buffalo in nineteen hours
and TO be on time every day. For some
W eks the Lake Shore has been running a
fast horse train, and 1t mas mace SO Soou
renewed efforts in that direction, is likely
tc get the bulk of that trathc. IT often re-
n,,ireS two trains day to handle the bust
ness the Lake Shore gets in that line