The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28


cars, 1,72S being loaded, q decrease as COM
pared with the week ending Sept 20 of 81;
loaded cars.
The Vandalia handled at indianapolis last
week 2,233 cars, 1928 being loaded, in
crease over the preceding week of forty-six
loaded cars. OF those brought in 145 Were
loaded with live stock. The east-bound busi-
ness of the road largely exceeds its west
bound business. One thousand and eighty
seven loaded cars were brought in, against
al forwarded.
The Big Four lines proper received and
forwarded at Indianapolis in the week end
ing Sept. q 1859 cars. 1866 being loaded,
a decrease as compared with the preceding
week of thirty-four loaded cars. The Bee
line division showed an increase of 245 load
ed cars, the Cincinnati division a decrease
OF ~ loaded cars, the Chicago division an
increase of eighty-seven loaded cars and
the St. Louis division decrease of eighty
nine loaded cars.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Michigan Central has set aside $3.50, 900
to be expended in new shop buildings at
jackson Junction.
Eastern to Whiting Ind, win be com
pleted by the middle of October
The receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio
last week awarded contracts for the build
ing of ten large freight lighters to cost $780,
600 for use in New York harbor.
The .through-car service over the Van
dalia line between St. Louis and Mackinaw
was discontinued Yesterday until the sum-
mer pleasure travel again sets in
Assistant General Manager Wainwright;
and declined the position of general man
ager of the Canadian government roads.
J.. w. Gore who has been agent of the
has resigned on account of i'll health and
will spend a year in travelling in the
South.
The general passenger agents of ST. Louis
have Planned to handsomely entertain the
Travelling Passenger Agents Association
which begins its annual convention III that
city tomorrow.
F.. E. Lewis, of the Baltimore & Ohio
has been elected president of the Associa-
ton of Disabled Employees, an organiza-
ton which, though young, is doing vast
amount of good
John Irwin, for many years with the
train dispatching department of the Wa
Dasn nnes, mas oeen appointed tralnInaSter
from Toronto to Brocxville.
Patrick White, after running a locom6-
tive tor twenty-five years on the New
York Central, has gone to the West Shore
as a passenger conductor of a local train
between Newark and Buffalo.
The Lake Erie & Western earned in the
third week of September $64, &c. decrease
of $685. as compared with the correspond
ing week of 1895. Since Jan. l the road has
earned $2,445,199, a decrease this year of
S34 asa.
The Wabash lines to-day put in effect
rate of II cents per one hundred pounds
on grain shipped from Kansas City to To-
ledo in order to protect its interests as
against competition via Chicago and the
South.
The proposition submitted to Western
lines to reduce hard coal rates to $3.50 per
ton, from Chicago to Missouri river points.
has been defeated, at least until there is
another meeting of the Western Freight
Association.
B. Courtlander has been appointed dis
trict passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
lines for the Baltimore district, succeeding
the late S. D. Kennedy. Mr.. Courtlander
has been in the Long Branch district as
district passenger agent.
The tonnage carried by the transconti-
900 tons less than in the corresponding
period of 1895 and 10000 tons less than in
1894 The decreased shipments the last two
months were uue to the lighter shipments
of fruits.
1t is stated that s. B. FIeoter, superin-
tendent of the Michigan division of the
coed f. D. Hustled superintendent of
the Cincinnati division. 1t has not been
decided who will go to the Dayton &
Michigan division.
The special train which carried the COM
mercial travellers of Peoria over the Big
forty-two miles an hour. 1t left Indian
apolis twenty-seven minutes late and ar
rived at Crestline twenty minutes ahead
of it's scheduled time
The Boston e. Maine will build large shops
at Concord, N. II. The foundations are
now being, put in, and it is proposed to
them the model shops of the country Elec-
tricity will be used in several parts of the
plant for power as well lighting.
The first eight months of this wear the
gross earnings of the Santa Fe lines in
creased over the corresponding period Of
1895 $220, 593 and through economies intro
same period last year 81, 452, 789. The road
was, operated at ST. 1876 less expense than
in the first eight months of 1895
A few months ago the Erie introduced on
its system long runs for train crews and
locomotives. One was from Jersey CITY TO
susquehanna, and the company has decid-
n60n inc dfco
trous TO the motive power, because it can
not be given the care it should receive
vision.
General Passenger Agent Scull, of the
Baltimore & Ohio, denies that there is any
friction between the B. q O. and the Penn
sylvania lines. They have simply asked for
a differential between New York and Pitts
burg and Philadelphia and Pittsburg. and
Will accept whatever the decision of the
Joint Traffic Association may be in the
matter.
Colonel Joseph B. Hill. who. UP to year
or SO ago, was assistant general manager of
the Vandalia died at his home in ST Louis
J Yesterday. Colonel Hill was well known in
this, city and all over the country in rail-
read circles He was an uncle of Dr. w
b. Calvin and S. X. Fletcher of this city
The funeral will take place tomorrow in
st. Louis
Vice President Murray. of the Baltimore
d Ohio states that the system is now do
ing more business than at any time in it's
history. In the yards at Cumberland there
are often 1000 loaded cars to be forwarded
east or west, ana Notwithstanding the inn
provement in the company's power they
are unable to move the traffic as promptly
as they would like to.
Notwithstanding all the hard names the |
Joint Traffic Associate has been called
by Chicago and St. Louis papers the feel
ing grows daily that only through SINH |
lar organization can harmony between |
W eStern lines be restored and tariffs main
tanned. and that the sooner the roads take |
such step the better for the security !
holders and the employees.
The fight between the Southern railway |
and the Seaboard Airline is bringing to |
light some interesting figures. The surplus |
of the Southern railway for the /!
year ending June 30 1896. were S1l9 per /
mile; those of the Seaboard AIRLINE Slge
The earnings of the Southern railway from |
July to Sept. Z this year decreased $192 $50.
those of the Seaboard Airline Increased |
Sill 495.
The Monon.s new vestibuled train made |
is first round trip yesterday and attract |
ed much attention along me line and at |
terminals, it is one of the handsomest |
trains ever run out of Chicago. For the I
day service the Monon furnishes one COM
plete train, and the Cincinnati Hamilton /
< Dayton the other to run between Gin |
cinnau and Chicago. The c. H. d D. will |
now get out train equal in elegance and |
comfort with that put out by the Monon |
The general passenger agents are more |
than ordinarily interested in the present |
political campaign. For weeks they had !
which would make their finan- |
cial exhibit even as favorable through /
the fall months last year The cam
pajgn Is proving q very handsome tre3a slll.y |