The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-21

rates via New Orleans. but it persists in
doing so. A rate war may be the final re-
suit of the controversy.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
L. G. Johnson. superintendent of the wag-
ner Palace Car Company. is in the city on
official business.
At the Union Railway Station, st. Louis.
an average of one thousand passenger cars
are handled daily.
William Musson. general manager Of the
Nickel-plate fast freight line, is in the city
on official business.
After March 10 the limit of homeseekers'
excursion tickets will be twenty-one in
stead of thirty-one days.
Huntington township, Huntington county.
yesterday voted $4,000 dollars subsidy to the
proposed Indiana Central railroad. Total
vote, 1,S46; majority, 26.
A gentleman from Peru, Ind.y states that
r. A. Gould, superintendent or the Eastern
division of the Wabash, is thought now
practically out OF LANCER.
Fort Wayne is to have a belt road con-
Meeting all its railways with the leading
manufactures of that. city. A surveying
corps is now locating the line.
The Wabash lines. in the second week of
February. earned $13,367, an increase over
the corresponding week of 1895 of SlS,313.
Since July the lines show an increase OF
$S27,62s.
Superintendent Mansfield says that at the
AOdl Hlilt VII l4lO N
road they are now loading ninety to one
hundred cars a day, against fifty to sixty
ten days ago.
Notwithstanding the falling off in business
with the Panhandle lines in January as COM
pared with November and December, the
roads last month earned s1,226, 544.S7. an in
crease over January, 1895, of $l1S.7 3S.
J. F.. Orndorff, formerly of this city, has
peake & Ohio. with headquarters at Rich
mond. Va. Mr.. Orndorff was formerly with
the Big Four, leaving it in 1890 to accept a
position on the c. & O.
1t is stated that in the last few years
there has been expended on the Chicago d
Northwestern roadbed and its equipment
nearly $780, 600, O0. for which no new securi-
ties were issued, the improvements being
paid for out of the earnings.
A. b. Newell, superintendent of the Lake
Shore road, son of the late John Newell,
who underwent an operation at a hospital in
last accountsI was thought 10 be getting
along satisfactorily, although very weak.
The Empire State express has now been
running west bound nearly five years and
east bound four years. and, although its
average speed is 80 miles an hour. 1t has
never met with any serious accident, and
very seldom arrives at either terminal late.
The new passenger engines of the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern are in every
respect of the same type as Engines zoo
and POI of the Big Four, which, since July
last. have made such remarkable records
in hauling heavy trains between Cleveland
and Bellefontaine. o..
The Nickel-plate has six new passenger
engines now in service, and four more to
come. The operating department has aban-
doned the practice of double growing its
passenger locomotives since it secured more
power, and hereafter one engine will be as
signed to one engineer.
Commencing with March l the Erie lines
will charge for carrying bicycles as excess
baggage, and will carry but one wheel for
the same person. The charges will range
from 10 cents to 81, according TO distance.
The Erie was the last of the trunk lines
TO adopt such a measure.
The Railway Telegraphers' Union is in
creasing in membership rapidly, ii is stated,
and now bids fair TO take front rank among
the labor organizations. The present officers
are said to be men of excellent judgment
and disposed to act on all questions which
arise in a businesslike manner.
p. A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
lines, was in the city yesterday. He says
his superiors promise him ten miles of new
steel rail, weighing seventy pounds to the
yard, this summer, and some OF the new
coaches are to come TO this division.
In passenger circles it is thought that the
Central Passenger Committee, an ou~tgrowth
of the Chicago and Ohio River Traffic Asso-
cis ton and the passenger department of the
Central Traffic Association, will be short
lived, and that the business this association
is expected to do will drift under control of
the Joint Traffic Association.
James T.. Sdgue, mecndnlcdl engineer OF
the Schenectady locomotive works, is in
the city. The works are now employing
1000 men and building several locomotives
for the Chicago a. Northwestern, the Chi
cage. st. Paul & Omaha and the Boston x
Albany. He states that the inquiries indi-
! cate that the works will nave a fairly busy
year.
Peoria & Western been SO valuable a feeder
| 10 the Pennsylvania as now. From the Chi
cage. Burlington & Quincy the PENNSYLVANIA
MN hv this nnnnaarinn 10 uartinU "A
large business. and from points on the road
shipments. Of grain have been quite heavy,
the country roads being so frozen that farm
ers can bring grain to the stations.
Four Northwestern roads nave now sig
nified their intention of giving the Grand
Army men all they ask In the way of
limitation of tickets for their annual en-
They are tne Chicago Great Western, the
Wisconsin Central, the Minneapolis < ST.
Louis and the Iowa Central. All the others
will doubtless do the same i'm the end.
In the recent changes in the freight de-
| partment of the Big Four. Ford Wood, as
sistant general freight agent, has Indianapo-
lis included in his territory in addition TO
the Peoria s. Eastern, the jurisdiction of
Mr.. BuchanaO of the east end of the Chi
| cago division. extending only from Cincin-
natl TO the first station east Of indianapolis,
and over the Michigan and Louisville divi-
sions.
E. W. McKenna, formerly superintendent
OF the Jeffersonville, Madison 4 Indian
dDoil-s 10 SIZING IT'S tf
| tire attention 10 the new device for con-
verting worn steel rails into perfect rails
again with but a few pounds loss in weight.
The business, IL is stated, is a very profit
able one, and In volume far exceeds the
excectations to the founders OF the enter
prise. Mr.. McKenna is president of the
company.
Chancellor McGilf filed an opinion. At
Trenton. ". j.. yesterday. filming the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company so for con-
tempt of court. for ignoring a decree OF the
court restraining the company from inter
Irfering with the National Docks Company
In its work of tunneling under the Penn
sylvania tracks in Jersey City. Ii the COM
pany does not respect the Injunction the
Chancellor says he will appoint a committee
of sequestration.
Freight officials yesterday received tele-
grams from various points i'm Illinois and
Indiana stating that the farmers were
bringing in grain in considerable quantities,
and that a decided Improvement in bust
ness was already noticeable. Unless there
is rain soon TO break up the roads they
will be 50 solid that receipts at way STA
| tions will be large and the empty cars
which have been scattered along on side
tracks will be loaded and moving.
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