The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-21

Louis and Kansas City divisions. The meet
i lI are secret At the session YESTERDAY ai
ing of railway freight equipment was sub
mitted and discussed, and papers on dis
cipline and other railway subjects read.
The delegates spent the afternoon in steam
rides and sightseeing. The election of
officers is scheduled for to-day. An effort
is being made to include the Detroit Asso-
citation, which has never been identified
with the central organization.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
e. F. Cost, general freight agent of the
Big -Four lines has gone to New York on
official business
The Monon's new engine, IL. yesterday
hauled the fast express from W9stiald TO
Indianapolis, twenty miles, in eighteen MN
uteS.
1t is stated that the passenger car mile
age of the transcontinental lines for July
will be the largest of any month in their
history.
District Superintendent Miller. of Cleve-
land, and Cook, of Cincinnati of the Wag-
ner Palace Car Company, were in the city
yesterday official business
Business has so improved on the Michi-
gan division of the Big -Four that several
of the companys heaviest freight locomo-
tiVeS have been transferred to that dlVl-
sion.
The roads from the South are, bringing
watermelons daily. Never before have the
shipments been as large III JAY as TINS
year.
D. 4. Calkins, general baggage agSnt Of
the Big -Four lines Is a II the cit CITY on o N
service forty years, commencing en- the
Decline in 1857.
Engine 81, on the Big Four, frank Fat
terson engineer on Sunday hauled eleven
cars filed with excursionIsts from Wabash
to Benton Harbor, l13 miles, in three nclrs
and ten minutes.
w. D. Holiday, assistant general freight
nYIiC &C
gone East accompanied by his family. He
will return in ten days, but VIII leave MS
family in the East.
S. C. Clark. the ly-apponted repre-
sentative Of the freight department of the
Chicago q Alton, was in the city yesterday
acquainting himself with the railroad fra
ternity and shippers.
The managers of the roads in the Union
Railway Company held their regular
monthly meeting yesterday: The attend
ance was small and no business of impor-
lance was transacted.
Thus far the Niagara Falls excursions
have not been as literally patronized as in
former years, Notwithstanding a longer
limit is given. The rate, however, is 81,
higher than in years prior to 1896.
In the week ending July II traffic on the
Evansville & Terre Haute was the heaviest
of any week in the last fifteen years. An
average of twelve freight trains of TWEEN
ty-eight cars to the train was sent cut
of Evansville per day.
c. w. Gallgan has been appointed gem
eral freight agent of the st. Louis Chi
cago 6. st. Paul. Mr.. Galligan was formerly
with the Big Four at Terre Haute. T.. A.
Williams has been appointed assistant gen
eral freight agent of the road.
John f. Miller. general superintendent of
the Southwestern system of the Pennsyl-
Vania lines spent yesterday in the city.
Mr.. Miller says business is improving all
over the system the last few days. and he
looks for several weeks of heavier traffic
than has been handled of late.
OF
Ketcham & Co.. of this city, shipped to
Boston a lot of iron structural work for
buildings, and at noon Saturday it was
ready for delivery in Boston. The ship
ment was made by the White line, and
collapsed all former records in time made by
freight east-bound from Indianapolis to
Boston.
The old buildings on the ground pur-
chased by the Pennsylvania Company frcm
the Sinker-Davis Company are now all va
Gated and the work of tearing them down
will soon be commenced, but The erection
of the new freight depot cannot proceed
until the company is grant ed the privilege
of laying additional tracks across Delaware
street
The Croker special last week made the
run from Ogden to San Francisco but three
minutes quicker than did the Willard spe-
cial recently. There have been three of
these fast runs on the Southern Pacific.
The Palmer special covered the 1913 miles in
"a hours and minutes the Willard special
in 2S hours and % minutes and the Crocker
special in % hours and % minutes.
The nineteenth semi-annual statement of
the secretary of the Railroad Mems Build
ing and Savings Association shows that on
July l. 1897, the association had loans out
amounting to $557, 569. At, and that the earn
ings of the association for the six months
ending with June 30 We're $26 2S9 40; The
running stock of the company is $685., 347 40;
paid up stock, $lS8, 800; July dividend, $22,0 oil
NJ f. ingalls,, president of the Big Four,
has returned to his headquarters. He eX
presses himself as not much alarmed over
the miners strike and its results. On the
line of the Chesapeake & Ohio they ere
now taking out about one thousand car
loads of coal daily, part of which goes
the rate of five hundred carloads per day.
The Knickerbocker express, over the Big
-Four, seems to be steadily increasing in
popularity with the travelling public. For
the last three months. although hauling a
through Wagner palace sleeping car fl en-
st Louis and one from indianapolis to New
York, seldom in this time has mere been
an unoccupied berth, and this is causing
some complaint at Anderson Muncie and
other cities on the line between here and
Cleveland To insure berths they must be
engaged ahead.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois is filing
for record in the different counties through
which its lines pass in Indiana and llli-
nois a contract between the company and
the Central Trust Company of New York,
limiting the issue of bonds by the company
made under mortgage in November, 1897, to
$50, 900 000 including So, 900 600 reserved bonds
TO be used for redemption of bonds out
standing at the time of execution of the
mortgage to the trust company. The mort
gage is TO be recorded in twenty-eignt
counties in this State and Illinois.
The Lake Shore Company is building
what is called the Standard caboose 1t will
be quite an improvement on the caboose
now in use on this road. The idea of the
new caboose will be a radical change in the
cupola, which will be built wider than the
caboose so as to enable the conductor,
whose place while riding is in the cupola,
to look down the side of the train where
before he would have to swing himself out
on the platform to do They also con-
template putting an air brake in the ca
boose so that the conductor is at liberty TO
stop the train if he SO wishes. This will