The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-08

being received and the shipments east were
very heavy. Indications are for a neavy
business.
The division superintendent and master
mechanics of the Big Four yesterday held
rooms of J. Q. Van Wrinkle, general super
intendent.
John Roura. who has been yardmaster of
the Toledo, St Louis * Kansas City at
DelphOs, o., has resigned to accept a posi-
ton on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas in
train service.
Authorities in Southern Railway Company
matters intimate that there Is no truth in
the rumor that the Southern railway people
are seeking to secure control Of the Balti-
more d Ohio lines
r. s. Brown, district passenger agent of
the Baltimore 81 Ohio Southwestern, is con-
fined to his home at Louisville with frac-
ture of the right leg, the result Of a fall
on an icy pavement.
A. II. Thorp has been appointed assistant
TO the general manager of the Ohio River
road and purchasing agent of the COM
pany. and j. b. Hopper has been appointed
train master of the road
y coach carrying fifty insane persons
from the West en- route to Washington
came in over the Big Four from ST. Louis
last night and was turned over 20 the
Chesapeake * Ohio at Cincinnati.
There is the best of authority for stating
that s. NJ. FELTON, has no idea of retiring
cent road to accept the same position on the
Baltimore & Ohio or any other road.
A second division of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers was organized at
Columbus, o., on sunday 1t will be known
as Scioto Valley Division. No. Y. The old
division is named the Little Miami, No. 3D.
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
has taken off its famous Atlanta Exposition
flyer, il having served the special purpose
for which it was put on. These trains have
left record which competitors have not
yet excelled.
Engine So on the Vandalia. hauling train
NO ~ consisting of eight cars, left Terre
Haute forty-three minutes late and ar
rived at indianapolis but twenty minutes
that 1T makes the run worthy of note.
Samuel Irwin. master car builder of the
Missouri. Kansas IL Texas, on Sunday night
fell dead from apopleXy. He carried life
years Mr.. Irwin was with The Pullman
Company, and was we'll known throughout
the West.
1t is stated that J. s. Goodrich. superin-
tendent of the Illinois division of the Wa
bash line. will soon retire. but whether he
will take service with General Manager
Hays on the Grand Trunk or with General
Manager McGuigham on the Great North
ern is not known.
1t is stated that the division of the Lake
Erie & Western road between Indianapolis
and Peru pays the handsomest net earnings
of any seventy-three miles of main line in
largely local and its passenger business
especially profitable.
The board of managers of the Joint Traf-
fic Association continued its session in New
York yesterday When an adjournment
was taken until to-day Secretary Holt said
that the business before The meeting was
not completed and that until IL was nothing
would be given out for publication.
Thomas Lawes. who on the first of the
year left the Big Four mechanical enSi-
neer to become superintendent of motive
power of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois.
has offered good positions to some G. the
men who are under William GarStang, SUI
perintendent of motive power OF ghe Fig
Four.
The Lake Erie & Western has purchased
several hundred thousand ties which are
being shipped from Cairo. On Monday the
Illinois Central turned fifteen carloads over
TO the Lake Erie q Western at blooming
sand of these ties are to be distributed be-
tween Peoria and Lafayette.
The taxpayers of Huntington. Ind, are
opposing the voting of aid to the projected
Indiana Central on the ground that the
subsidy, so 600. is exorbitant. They argue
that the township gave $1,000 10 the Chicago
a. Erie and got good shops. and that the
new road will not be worth one-fifth as
much to Huntington as was the Chicago x
Erie.
J. Crossley, for many years a cons
ductor for the Pullman Company. running
between st. Louis and New York, was in
the city yesterday the guest of Superinten-
dent Leyton. Mr.. CrossleY some years ago
retired to engage in business and is row
division MANAGER of the Lggett AZ Myers
Tobacco Company. He has become quite
wealthy.
At the State Line station of the Chicago
& Western Indiana preparations are being
made for the erection of one of the largest
tower systems in the country. the plant to
cost $4,000. From it will be manipulated
inter.ocking switches. controlling trains of
the Chicago & Erie. the Chicago & Calumet
rrrni,a ol n oh no
Nickel-plate. the Hammond & Blue Island
and the Chicago * Western Indiana.
The louisville Transfer Company, in
which II. c. knippenberg and some atiier
Indianapolitans are Interested, will hold its
annual meeting at Louisville to-day. One
year ago J. T.. Moran, who had been many
years with Frank Bird, was elected presi-
dent and general manager OF Il IS COM
pany, and he has made an excellent record.
1t is now said to be one of the best equipped
and paying transfer lines in the country.
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago in
1895 laid on the main line .042 tons of new
steel rail. weighing sixty-seven pounds to
the yard: on the Indianapolis division 1913
tons, weighing seventy-five pounds to the
yard. and $500 tons of the light steel rail
taken up was laid on the Bedford * Boom
field branch. Including new sidetrackS at
indianapolis. eleven miles of new siding was
laid. During the year 211, 20o new ties were
put under it's tracks and 9,527 carloads of
gravel ballast distributed
General passenger agents of the Central
Traffic Association lines met in Chicago
yesterday. and it was expected that they
would take some action regarding the flu
ture of the association. All action .on that
and the meeting transacted nothing beyond
routine business, the chief features of
which were that it was decided to make the
same charges for the transportation of BIZ
cycles and baby carriages are made by
the Western roads. The future of the asso-
citation will be taken up to-day.