The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-14

apoIls last week 10,1lS cars, t,iS5 pelng
preceding week of TAP cars. The loss was
chiefly with the st. Louis division, which
handled at Indianapolis 4S2 fewer loaded
cars than in the previous week.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Lake Erie & Western earned in the
first week of June S6l,714, an increase over
the corresponding week of 1896 of 1865
The Wabash earned in the first week of
June $224, 260, a decrease as compared WITH
the corresponding week last year OF $4,V6o.
For the first time in four years the shops
of the Erie road in Huntington, Ind, are
running full time with about the usual
number of men.
| earned in the first week of June $ll3,246,
an increase over the corresponding week
of 1896 of $4,774
The Wabash, in its through connection
England business from Buffalo over the
West Shore and the Fitchburg.
G. H. Warren, folperly general manager
of the Great Northern Railway, has been
| appointed assistant to President Maxwell,
of the Central Road Of New Jersey.
The Santa Fe last week placed an order
for eight large consolidated locomotives, to
weight 125 tons each. They are to be sent
West for service on the mountain dlVl-
sions.
One of the division superintendent on
the Pennsylvania lines has issued an ordef
forbidding the throwing of rice on the prem
Uses of the company at the departure OF
bridal parties
While the lines east of Chicago are COM
planning of very light passenger business
the lines out of st. Louis and Indianapolis
are doing the heaviest through business OF
any time in years.
No definite action has yet been taken, it
is stated, looking to the Wabash making
| traffic arrangements by which it will gain
| entrance to Indianapolis further than the
present friendly relations.
The earnings of the Pullman Sleeping
car Company for May were $4,000 in excess
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OF fully $1,000 a day in earnings over those
of last year is being shown.
w. Fl. Glenn, agent of the Adams XIX
press Company at Pittsburg for seventeen
years. has been appointed assistant super
intendent of the New York division, with
headquarters at Trenton, N. ].
A large number of delegates to the meet
ing of the Master Car Builders and Master
Mechanics at Old Point Comfort returned
yesterday to their Western homes. There
were nearly 1900 delegates in attendance.
A Boston paper, speaking of the demorali-
cation in west-bound rates at Boston, says:
1T is rarely that the soliciting agent in
this section has shown SO mnch zeal as
now or taken greater latitude in making
rates"
The ten-wheel passenger engines on the
Chicago, Burlington q Quincy, with sixty
nine-inch driving wheels, have thus far
made faster runs than the big Columbian
passenger engine on the Pennsylvania lines
with eighty-four-inch driving wheels.
Isalore CbergfelI died or Saturday after
a few days illness. Mr.. Obergfell for over
thirty-five years had been a clerk in the 4
Panhandle freight Office az this point, and
was greatly respected by his superior Off
GERS for his faithfulness and correctness
in doing business
So much of success has the refunding of
the bonded debt of the Lake Shore and
the New York Central been that it is now
proposed to refund the bonds of the Michi-
gan Central 1t is thought they can readily
be refunded at 3 per cent This road has
$4,000, 600 per cent. bonds which mature
May /, 1902
George H. Daniels, general passenger
agent of the New York Central has, with
other Officials been considering the advisa-
bility of establishing cab service of their
own in New York city, as has the Penn
sylvania and probably before sixty days
the patrons of the New York Central will
have such service.
Fast runs made by trains carrying live
stock and dressed meats over the trunk
lines are being commented on extensively
by papers of other countries as well as by
those al home. The Erie. the Panhandle
and ithe Big Four have recently made runs
which almost equaled in speed those of the
fast passenger trains.
The Baltimore & Ohio, in connection with
the Cleveland Terminal Company. has just
completed a side-dump coal handler for
the purpose of handling more readily and
economically the lake coal that the 3. &
0. delivers at that point 1t is claimed
that this machine is capable of handling
thirty carloads of coal an hour.
Through Wabash train service between
Detroit and Buffalo over the Grand Trunk
Railway was inaugural ted last night, the
Wabash train from Chicago proceeding
through to Buffalo by that route for the
first time. Aboard the first train were sew
eral newspaper men and others from Buff
falo.
Lucius Wakely, general superintendent of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy mis-
souri, river lines), was in the city on Satur-
day. He is now on an extended Eastern
trip. Since Mr.. Wakely has been promoted
remarkable increase in passenger traffic
on the portion of the % system under his
authority The he putting on !, of several new
popularity of the lines.
Engineers eli this Panhandle yesterday
begun to run through between Columbus,
o., and Pittsburg without change. This
apparently is not hard task, compared
with several other long runs which have
been Instituted on the Panhandle lines in
the last few months, but the Pittsburg di-
vision Is much more firing on engineer,
so sharp are the curves and SO steep the
grades, and so many trains are handled on
this division that an@engneer must have
his thoughts strictly on his work.
The report that train crews of the Wa
bash would handle their trains on the
Grand Trunk between Detroit and Buff
falo is not correct, recent developments
showing that the Canadians will prevent
American trainmen running through Can
ada unless the trainmen swear allegiance
to the crown, or sign an agreement to the
effect that they would take up residence
in Canada. The Grand Trunk is strictly an
English road, but proSpers largely by car
rying business which, under present condi-
roads.
1t is reported from Columbus that a secret
system of classification of employees has
been instituted on the Pennsylvania lines,
with q view of determining the exact stand
ing of each employe in the estimation of
the head of the department with which he
is Identified. The plan is to have several
grades into which employees will be placed,
such as A. B, c and D, the skill and habits
of each to determine the value of the serv-
ices of each to the company and to regulate
the class into which each will be placed
on the records. 1t is not the purpose of
the list to determine which employees are
entitled to promotion when such a time
| comes round, as it is to determine which
are the most valuable to the company and
which be most easily dropped in times
of depression When business is good and
there is plenty of work for all there is not
much question as to the relative merits
of different workmen in the unskiled
classes, but when business drops off and
retrtnrhment is ordered, the records will
come into play and settle the fate of those
who have been lax in their duties and who
have not demonstrated to the satisfaction
of the head of the department their right
| to retention.