The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-08

carried tonnage as 1OHOWS. MlcnlSdH CeH-
trail, 5119; Wabash, 5033: Lake Shore, 5,404;
more & Ohio, 4,e92: Grand Trunk, 1892;
Nickel-plate. 5,475; Erie, 800; Big, Four,
2S03. Shipments were made up of the fol-
lowing articles in tons: Flour and mill
stuffs, 2.4S7; grain, 1857 cured meats, lard,
etc, 1896; dressed beef, 1oll3; miscel-
faneous, 8,344. Lake shipments for the week
were 1886 tons.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
D. f. Jack has been appointed freight
traffic manager of the lines III the Plant
system.
The Columbus & Hooking Valley earned
gross, in May $3.50. 296. so, an increase in
May, 1896 of $3,7S449
John Lazarus, traffic manager of the In
diana, Decatur 6, Western, has gone to Gin
cinnau on official business.
The Michigan Peninsular Car Company,
at Detroit, Is building some double-hopper
steel coal and ore cars with 100000 pounds
carrying capacity.
w. H. Winfield. commercial agent OF. the
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf, has been
promoted to assistant general freight
agent with headquarters at Texarkana-
The rate clerks of all the lines in the Cen
trail Traffic Association will to-day meet
here to adjust passenger rates and complete
the rate sheet for the Christian Endeavor
business.
The Illinois Central proposes to spend
S25OOOO at Louisville in depots and ter
minals providing the City Council closes
some streets on which the improvements
are to be made.
M. D. Woodford. Of New York. president
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines;
arrived in Cincinnati yesterday. He is called
West by the illness of his wife, who is
visiting friends there
Superintendent of Rolling Stock Cory, of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton x Dayton, is pre-
pairing plans for new private car for Pres
ident Woodford, to take the place of the
one burned few months ago.
In the week ending June :. there were
- ~ for cd no Ralt 7 IS n aye
against 14,504 in the corresponding week of
1896. and last week lBelt-road engines han
died at the stockyards 1899 carloads of live
stock. s,.
Freight circles are considerably disturbed
over a report that the Pennsylvania lines
have cut the rate on glucose, at Peoria. 10
cents per hundred pounds to New York. A
competing line claims to- have proof to that
effect.
w. H. McDoel, vice president and general
manager Of the G., |, L., has of late
transacting business from that point, and
as a result his health has been greatly i'm
proved.
The Monon is getting into shape to handle
a large amount of stone from the Bedford
quarries. One of the officials says the out
look for this class of business has not been
as promising in three years past as at
present.
The much better patronage the excursion
business is receiving this year when COM
pared with that of last year leads passen-
classes have more money to travel on than
last year.
S. p Bush, superintendent of motive pow
er of the Pennsylvania Southwest system,
has, accompanied by his wife, gone to Bos-
ton, and will next week return to Old Point
Comfort to attend the meeting of the
master mechanics and master car builders
Chief Engineer Wilson, of the Cincinnati
Hamilton d Dayton, was in the city yester
day. 1t is understood that the c., II. &, ID.
people are about ready to move in the cree
ton Of ynNx nj f1xaicr OF 1ic
point, their business suffering from the in
convenience they experience in handling
their business.
The oculist who has been examining the
eyes of trainmen on the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton has found quite a num-
Der deficient in eyesight and unfit for the
company will. so far is possible, find them
positions in other departments where per-
feet eyesight is not so important
The secretary of the navy has ordered
one or more representative ships of the
White Squadron to be at Old Point Com
fort during the week beginning with June
Is, the purpose being to afford an oppor-
tunity for an inspection of the machinery
of the war ships by the railway master
mechanics, who are to hold their annual
convention there.
Passenger earnings of lines running into
St. Louis for the last week in May this year
did not make favorable exhibit as in
the last week of May, 1896 The cyclone of
May 81 1896, led to the running into ST.
Louis of a large number of excursion trains
the Toledo st. Louis e. Kansas City alone
earning from that source over $1,000 more
than the earnings of the last week in May
this year.
The Sunday excursions from Indianapolis
proper were successful. The Monon, at the
81 round-trip rate to Cedar Lake, carried
from Indianapolis proper 326 excursionists
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton at the
81 round-trip rate, had 654 for Cincinnati;
the Big Four. at it's 81 round-trip rate for
Chicago, carried 318 excursionists, and on
its A;50 round-trip rate to Louisville, car
ried GIG excursionists.
1t is now year since the Big Four estab-
lished it's west-bound freight service New
York to- ST. Louis, delivering goods in In
dianapolis forty-four hours after time of
shipment and in st. Louis 1ifty-six hours
after, and strange as it may seem, no
through passenger train on the Big Four
has run nearer the schedule time than has
this fast freight, which often consists of
two sections OF thirty loaded cars each.
Under the receivership the Vandalia is
running along with its old-time smoothness
new engines are coming in very con-
veniently for handling the passenger and
freight business to advantage, and with
this each week of late, a much healthier
volume of business is being moved. The
economies introduced have not seemingly
unfavorably affected the service in any line
The friction over the appointment of an
agent of the American Express Company
at Terre Haute in place of r. Benjamin.
appointed postmaster, has been overcome
by the promotion of the chief clerk of Mr.
Benjamin. instead of the man named Dy
General Superintendent Hughes or Division
Superintendent Fargo. All men proposed for
the position were good men, but on the rec
ommendation of Mr.. Benjamin his chief
clerk was promoted.
]. r. Cavanagh, car-service superintend-
ent of the Big -Four, states that the outlook
for the Big -Four doing a heavy freight bust
ness Tor some time to come could hardly be
better. For two weeks past over five thou
sand loaded cars have been handled daily
on the system, and inquiry for cars yester-
day showed that this number would be used
at least for some days to come. He says
the business is confined to no one special
line of freight but there is a general i'm
provement in all lines.
S. NJ FELTON,, receiver of the Cincinnati,
New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad
filed suit in the United States Court at
Cincinnati yesterday to recover $113, 069 80
from the city OF Cincinnati and the trus-
tees of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad.
The claim is for money which Receiver
FELTON,. under an order of court, expended
from his fund for repairing and replacing
bridges on the Southern road. The suit was
filed by an order of the court which was
made on application of creditors of the
plaintiff road. The petition alleged that the
bridges repaired and replaced were out of
order when the Cincinnati, New Orleans &
Texas Pacific Company leased the Southern
ROAD.
Company to Go to WinOna.
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