The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14

rentals, against a net average earning Ca
pacity of $~f,693.29S during the last i've
years.
The October number of the Firemen's
Magazine is out. 1t contains a fulI report
or the late convention at Galveston, Tex,
and considerable space is given to the ad-
dress Of E. V. Debs-
H. C. Diehl. of Buffalo. n, Y, general
manager Of the interstate Dispatch IS In IN
Erie & Western officials, over which road
the line works out of this territory.
c. w. Eel. district passenger agent of the
Queen & Crescent, is in the city looking
after the winter tourist business, which he
thinks will be heavy this season if a sound
money man is elected President next
month.
S. P. Bush. superintendent of, motive
power of the Pennsylvania lines south
months hunt in the Dakotas. General Man
ager Loree yesterday went 20 Chicago to
meet him.
The conspicuous success of the Baltimore
& Ohio in securing competitive business
has attracted the attention of the Joint
Traffic Association. and it is not unlikely
that the subject may be formally consid-
cred by that board.
r. c. Hoffman, president of the Sea-
board Airline, says he has given four years
Of unceasing care to the interests of that
company at great cost to himself. and re-
ceived for his services but $4,000 a year,
not s37. 500, as has been reported.
The special freight train which runs be-
tween Indianapolis and st. Louis over the
Vandalia was hauled from indianapolis to
St. Louis. 249 miles, on Sunday in seven
hours and forty-nine minutes. This is the
fastest time ever made over the Vandalia
with a freight train.
Robert Nelson, general superintendent OF
the Philadelphia & Erie and the Northern
Central divisions of the Pennsylvania lines,
died yesterday at Williamsport, Pa, aged
sixty years; He had been connected with
the Pennsylvania lines in al official capac-
fty over thirty years.
There is a boom in freight traffic on the
Michigan division of the Big -Four. and the
to prevent an accumulation Of freight at
Benton Harbor. Most of the freight con-
SiStS of flour, salt and lumber turned over
to the Big Four by lake craft.
AS expected, Judge Kicks has finally
granted the request of the respondents in
the case of the Continental Trust Company
City for an extension of time to take re-
buttal Under the ruling the time
of closing testimony is extended to Dec. i.
In the month of September 746 carloads
of live stock were forwarded from this
point to Eastern markets over the Pan
handle lines. Stock shipped from Indianap-
oils at 8 p. M. is delivered the second morn
ing in Jersey City at 3 o'clock under the
new time of the fast Keystone express
stock train.
John G, Williams. late vice president and
general manage of the Vandalia, will
move from Terre Haute to Indianapolis
after the election. Mr.. williams will re-
up some years ago when he added to his
duties as general counsel of the Vandalia
IChSS ~ NASC pACoidCiL Gin 5CICl Gil q
ager.
George Coppell, chairman Of the reor-
ganization committee OF the Wisconsin Cen
trail, says that a plan is about perfected
for its reorganization. The Manitowoc
branch, which is to connect with the Flint
Pere Marquette lake steamers for trans
porting loaded cars across the lake, is near
ly completed, which viii avoid the breaking
of bulk over that line.
The noon train over the Vandalia and
Pennsylvania from st. Louis, put on a few
months ago. has become ~remunerative, and
although put on as an experiment, 1t will
be continued on the present schedule
feet of the spring time table its running
between ST. Louis and Jersey City win
be cut down another hour.
All Of the Western roads have been asked
by the Mobile & Ohio to join with it in a
series of home-seekers' excursions that it
proposes to run during the coming year.
The rate for these excursions will be one
fare for the round trip, plus 81, and the
return limit will be twenty-one days. The
ter at their meeting this week.
A. S. Catherwood, for some years a pas
senger conductor on the Monon. died yes
residing for some time on account of ill
Although he has never been a we'll
man since injured in the wreck ON the
Monon in 1892 at Broad Ripple, the imme-
diate cause of death was consumption. His
will be brought to Greeneastle for
division of the Order of Railway Con-
The Cincinnati, Lebanon d Northern rail-
way, recently purchased by the Pennsylva-
MIA Company, yesterday reelected the old
except Ralph Peters, whose place
was filled by James McCrea- The board
consists of: George Hafer, Joseph Wood,
John E. Davidson, j. t. Brears, 5. NJ.
James McCrea, F. c. Weir. Joseph
Wood was elected secretary; Ralph Peters,
assistant secretary; t. H. 3. Mcknight,
of P~ittsburg, treasurer. Clay Rockwell was
auditor and Ralph Peters SUI
The Knickerbocker Express of the Big
-Four has now been on two years. For the
distance run it is the fastest train in this
ountry and no train has been more free
from accident. Between Indianapolis and
New York city this train has eighty miles
to run than the fast trains of the
Pennsylvania, yet it covers the distance
between the two points five minutes quick
err. Not only is its speed very fast over
the Big Four between St. Louis and Cleve-
land, but after reaching Cleveland 1T is run
on the fast time of the Lake Shore and
New York Central limited.
The Russian Minister of Railroads., Prince
the first public man to make the
trip from st. Petersburg over the new ST.
berian railroad, arrived In Chicago yester-
day. He is engaged in a tour of inspection
of the railroads in the United States. He
as a boy came to this country and worked
in American shops, and on his return to
Russia was promoted gradually until he
became a member of the imperial Cabinet.
He was entertained yesterday at the Chi
Club and was given a dinner last
evening at the Auditorium. From Chicago
goes to Cincinnati and thence to Pitts
burg, Philadelphia and New York, sailing
for Europe on Nov. 1.