The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-03
Personal, Local and General Notes.

July, 1892. 5,732. In July this year the
roads handled at this point 3,404 more load
ed cars than in June OF this year.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
NJ. w. Mansfield, superintendent Of the
1ndianapoIs q Xineennes, returned yester-
L. S. Blair has been appointed general
agent of the passenger department of the
Rio Grande Western, with headquarters at
Butte, Mont.
Business has increased so with the Big
-Four that yesterday General .Yardmaster
Hicks put on two additional switch engines
and crews at this point.
Travel to Eastern pleasure resorts was
so heavy last night that the Big Four was
obliged TO put q second sleeping car on
the knlckerbocker express. on the through
car from st. Louis every berth was taken.
Ocean rates on freights in the last ten
days have advanced 3 cents per LOO POUNDS,
and the steamship companies decline TO
name the rates for September, which leads
local freight men to expect further ad-
Vances.
Division Superintendents Houghton, Hig-
gins and ingalls,, of the Big -Four, who
have been East for a couple of weeks ex-
aiming some of the devices recently in
reduced in the way of electric power, re-
turned to their respective headquarters yes
terday.
The Wabash is cutting down it's local
freight service to curtail the consumption
of coal, running the local freight one way
on one day and returning the next. rms Is
very unfortunate, as the shippers of grain
from points on the line demand prompt
service.
The White special of the Big Four, rum
ming between Cincinnati and Chicago, has
become fully as popular a train as the
famous Knickerbocker, and one of the of1-
Gals OF the road says ii has become about
as good paying d train per mile run as the
kntckerbOcker.
The Burlington road has decided to in
crease its service between Chicago and Den
yer by a new passenger train, which Will
leave Chicago daily at $50 D. m. The equip
ment will be entirely new throughout, the
cars being built with wide veStibuleS and
steel platforms.
official of the Fort Worth & Rio Grande
state that the acreage of cotton IN the
territory tributary to that road is 30 per
cent. greater than in 1893, when the road
made its largest earnings, and as this years
crop is excellent the earnings bid fair to
exceed all former exhibits.
The largest interlocking switch tower in
the United States has just been completed
at Dalton. the junction of the Panhandle,
the Chicago q Eastern Illinois, the Calumet
terminal and the Chicago, Hammond d
Western roads. It has seventy-seVen levers
for the handling of switches.
Prosperity seems to have come to the
medium classes of indianapolis, says, a pas
senger man. on Sunday over LOO Indian
apolitans found 81 to go on some one OF The
doilar-round-trip excursions, over seven
hundred going to Cincinnati and over nVe
hundred to Lake MaXinkuckee,
The management of the Evansville &
Terre Haute is g%ratified over the heavy
business the line is doing and the earnings
those of the fall of 1886 that it will, it is
thought, more than overcome the losses
from the flood a few months ago.
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas people
have notified the Galveston, Houston &
Texas Company. its leased line to the gull,
that the latter must take immediate steps
to improve It's terminal facilities at Gal
weston, they now being enirely inadequate
to handle the business of the M, X. 4 I.
Newton Haight. aged afty-nine, travel
ing passenger agent for the Union Pacltlc
Railroad. and a widely known railroad man,
died at st. Louis yesterday. He saw serV--
ice in a Michigan regiment during the civil
war, and acted as provost marshal of Char
lotte, N. c., during the last days of that
contest. The remains will be taken to Jack
son, Mich, to-day.
H. M. Bronson, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big -Four; W. w. Richard
son, district passenger agent OF the Penn,
sylvania lines and the Vandalia, and
George Hayler, district passenger agent OF
the Monon and the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton at this point, all state that passen-
ger business at Indianapolis was the largest
July business in several years.
An official Of the Ohio & Mississippi states
that the roads freight business is now the
heaviest in several years, and promises to
increase for some time to come. He thought
that one week from now the Company will
be unable to furnish the cars wanted on it's
line at way stations 10 say nothil ( Il Out
terminal business. Ire passenger BUSINESS
is Disappointing, bit is improving.
The passenger business of the Vandalia
to Lake Maxinkuckee this season has been
the largest thus far since the pleasure re-
sort was opened to the public. The Penn
sylvania yesterday received a sleeping car
to carry the members Of the Wheelmen's
League who go TO Philadelphia A stream
err the length of the car was fastened on
each side bearing the words, indianapolis
to have the l. A. w. in 1888"
The Indiana & Illinois Southern is said
to be doing a good business, the Illinois
Central furnishing needed equipment above
what the company owns, The crops along
| the line are unusually large and the corn
crop promising. The last few years a
good deal of stock has been raised along
its business in that line is increasing.
The Big -Four yesterday put on two con-
struction trains which were taken Off q
month ago to distribute gravel ballast be-
tween Cincinnati and Lawrenceburg juno
ton. In several places depressions in the
track are being raised, and SO heavy is
traffic over this twenty-five miles of road
that it is necessary to heavily ballast the
track to keep 1t in order in wet weather..
The Illinois Central put into effect yester-
day its export rate of 10 cents on corn to
New Orleans. The rate is put into effect in
pursuance of the policy of the Illinois Cen
trail, which IS determined to make New.
Orleans one of the leading export ports in
the country. 1t mas announced that II Wll
meet any rate via New Orleans that the
Eastern roads see tit to make to the AT
lantic seaboard.
James B. Clark, cook on the private cars
of the Santa Fe, is said TO be the best cook
in the service and has travelled over the
largest mileage oA any COph III the CouillIS y.
Ho has been a cook on private cars seven
teen years-siX years with the Pennsyl-
vania Company, six years with the ProYi-
dence Steamship Company, later on the
New York Central, leaving that road eigh-
teen months ago TO so on the Santa Fe.
p. A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
lines, is elated over the handsome earnings
this division is now making. The north
bound freight traffic of the road is the
heaviest in it's history. The fast-freight
service nut on q few weeks ago has proved
a decided success. and the local passenger
business of the road, which is a very impor-
tant item, is increasing in a marked
manner.
At Nashville, Tenn, yesterday, before
Chancellor Cook, the Nashville, Chattanooga
q st. Louis Railway dismissed the Injunction
bill it had filed some weeks ago against w. S..
& Co. and fourteen other ticket
scalpers. The case had been argued and
to deliver his decision, when the attorney
for the road asked permission to dismiss
the bill, stating a suit had been brought in
the Federal Court involving the same is
sues.
The Big Four people are urging the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton a. Dayton 20 take. some
/ definite action as to the erection or d new
city freight depot at this point. Tbs Big
-Four people are anxious 10 tear down the
old Decline freight Gepots and utilize the
ground in laying out a system of tracks
for the benefit of the Indianapolis patrons
of the roads who handle bulk fret2hts
largely. The Big -Four proposes To nave the
most conVeaient loading and unloading
bulk tracks in the countrr.
Taylor Game back.