The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-23

the colored men are experts in driving
spikes, and Assistant Chief Engineer Nor
rIs CHALLENGES any road to proance Two Two
men who will drive as many spikes per
hour as will the two alluded 10.
H C. Townsend, general passenger agent
OF the Missouri Pacific. and several of his
travelling passenger agents-Coke Alexan-
der being one of them-is this week gong
over the lines and visiting terminals on
official business. He takes these trips with
subordinate officials twice a year. ana mas
found them to be profitable in many ways
r. F. soule. station master of the Toledo
& Ohio Central at Columbus. has been ap-
pace of f. a. Weber. the Seventn-day
Adventist. who refused to run his train on
Saturdays Mr.. Soule's. place as station
master has been filed by Robert Clark,
Michigan Central.
Foreclosure proceedings have been, be-
gun by the no ders of the consolidated
mortgage bonds of the Louisville, New Al
bany q Chicago. and in the natural course
of events these bondholders would take the
property Still, an Eastern financial paper
says there are some indications that the
road Will fall into the hands OF a syndicate
whose personnel is as yet unknown.
On both sides of the Ohio river. in West
Virginia and Ohio, IMMENSE crops of apples
have been harvested. and in West Vir-
ginia alone along the river banks are 100000
barrels CT apples to be shipped. 1t is stated
that should the river continue as low as
now the shipments will have to be made
by rail, which will give the Panhandle and
Chesapeake & Ohio plenty of freight.
One of the ~shrewdest things which has
been done since r. =. F.. Peirce became re-
ceiver of the Toledo. St. Louis & Kansas
City was encouraging parties along the
line who had allowed their elevators to be-
come almost useless to repair them or
build new ones. With the immense grain
crops on the line this season the elevators
have been valuable adjuncts to the busi-
ness of the road.
r. 3. Jones. general agent of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific freight department,
is IN the city. He states that the general
grain movement on their lines is the largest
of any fall since 1892. The company has
and is now loading an average of five hun
dred cars with grain daily. Present indi-
cations are thai this rush of business will
continue for some weeks.
A. Gallow ~, superintendent of the Gin
cinnati and indianapolis divisions of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines, has
jurisdiction of c. r. Vorhis of
the Cincinnati division, has been extended
to cover. the indianapolis division, and the
jurisdiction of Chief Train Dispatcher Hoff-
man, of the indianapolis division, has been
extended to cover the Cincinnati division.
The Pennsylvania inspection party yes
terday made the run from Louisville to
L~ogansport. To-day they will inspect the
line from Logansport to Cincinnati. The
party travels on three special trains, each
one running an observation car with open
end ahead of the locomotive. That the
track inspection may be thorough, the
speed of the train is not over twenty miles
an hour. 1t is estimated that the expenses
OF the trip will be $1,000, or about $500 a day.
Unless there is a decline in the price of
grain railroad men express the opinion
that the advance in grain rates, to be made
by the shippers. Usually with the closing
of navigation the rail lines advance rates.
AS the lines carrying grain via Galveston
and New Orleans have all they can handle
at those ports, the Xport business by the
Southern ports does not cut as important
a figure as it did sixty or even thirty days