The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-27
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Reports of Two receivers.

earnings - SHOWN.
Reports of Two Receivers.
Receiver Jarvis, of the Louisville, Evans
vile & st. Louis Railroad, filed his report
with Clerk Butler, of the Federal Court
yesterday The report shows that on April
l the cash on hand was $74 465.S1; total re-
ceipts, 1921 ,905.60; total disbursements, SILL
April 80.
The receiver of the New Albany Railroad
Company also filed a report. The monthly
earnings were $2,379.2S; disbursements, ST.
S14.59. and balance on hand at the end of
the month of S564.69.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Big Four has postponed the time Of
the taking effect of its summer time
schedule until June 6.
S. Z. Thomas formerly of this city, now
agent of the Big Four at Wabash, is in the
city attending the Masonic gathering.
1t is stated that Frank Wilson, travelling
passenger agent of the Baltimore d ONO.
with headquarters at Newark, o., is to be
retired June l,
l. f. Day has resigned as chairman of
the Southwestern Traffic Association and
on June l becomes general manager OF the
Minneapolis & st. Louis road.
The Barnum & Bailey show comes onto
the Big Four lines next week. 1t is carried
on three trains, made up of fifty-eight cars
most of them seventy feet in length.
The shipments of stone from Bedford
quarries are now averaging forty carloads
a day, a considerable per cent. of the stone
going to New York and New England.
Officers of the recently organized Rail-
way Agents Association are perfecting ar
rangements for the first annual convention
to be held at Cleveland Aug. II, Is and 49,
P. ]. Flynn, of Denver has been placed in
charge of the Colorado Passenger Associa-
ton, an adjunct of the Western Passenger
Association, his headquarters to be at Den-
yer.
w. H. McDoel, vice president and general
manager of the c., l. & l.. (Monon), has or
late spent considerable of his time at West
Baden Springs and has much improved
in health as a result.
Five hundred tons of new steel rail have
been distributed this week on the Indian
apois & Vincennes line, and will be put In
the track at once. A good deal is doing in
ballasting on the /. & V.
The specials over the Big -Four carrying
the st. Louis and Chicago Commercial
Clubs to Cincinnati passed through the city
last evening on time, there being five Pull
man cars in each special train.
A. A. Zion, superintendent of the Union
Railway Company, who has been in New
York three weeks looking after some ltl-
cation in which the Union Railway IS the
defendant, will return this evening.
d. r. Peck formerly of this city, but
recently with the Erie Dispatch has been
appointed travelling freight agent of the
Northern Steamship Company he is a a
brother of T. G. Peck, of the Columbus 81
Hooking Valley road.
The Chicago, Indianapolis and Baltimore
sleeping car line put on a few months ago
has done so we'll that the service will prop
ably be extended to New York over the
Monon, the Cincinnati, Hamilton Day.
ton and Baltimore & Ohio lines.
The Car Inspectors Protective Association
is hereafter to be known as the Car IN
of America. The association will hold its
next meeting in Toledo, and is said to al
ready have d membership or several nun
bred.
Traffic Manager Lazarus, of the Indiana
Decatur & Western, states that the road
is experiencing quite boom in business
side tracks rapidly Since Monday morn
ing 246 carloads of grain have been loaded
on the line, largely from wagon deliveries
at way stations.
With each year the handling of fruits by
railways increases in Importance, and as
the business is carried at good rates it is
looked after closely, The business Is con on
fined to no one part of the country. On
Monday there arrived at Boston forty car
loads of strawberries shipped from North
Carolina and Maryland.
There is a feature in the passenger serv-
ice on the Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City
road which has not yet been introduced on
any other Western line; that is, of having
a buffet connected with an ordinary Gay
coach 50 that not a train is run over the
road on which a passenger cannot get a
simple meal at small cost
A short time ago the Baltimore d Ohio
Southwestern contracted with the Ohio
Falls car works to build six hundred freight
cars and soon after countermanded the or
der, but on Monday gave instructions that
the works build two hundred of the cars.
The building of more depends on the turn
business takes with the road.
The Detroit & Northern line bids fair to
he an ugly competitor of some of the old
est established Detroit lines 1t will run
three trains each way between Springfield,
O., and Detroit and one of the trains each
the run as quick as either of its com
petitors within thirty minutes, and II is
putting on fine equipment at the start
President ingalls,, of the Big -Four, since
view of ma tiers, but still thinks it wise for
railway arrangements to keep close to the
shore as regards expenses. Fortunately,
the physical condition of the property IS at
its best, and if ordinary repairs are kept
up neither the equipment nor the roadbed
will suffer through the economies required.
There is considerab BILE rivalry in progress
between the lines doing business between
Southern and Northern cities In the time
of freights, and ii has led to running some
of the fruit and vegetable trains over the
Illinois Central the Chicago Eastern
Illinois, the Monon, the Big Four and the
Pennsylvania lines on a schedule on which
but a few years ago only passenger trains
were scheduled.
Prof c. A. Waldo, of Purdue University
has prepared an instructive lecture on the
great bridges and railway structures OF the
world, illustrating his remarks with str1k-
ing stereopticon views of such structures
In his lecture he also illustrates the fea-
lures of the locomotive uepdI IileHl u tHe
institution. Mr.. Waldo is brother or Z. u
Waldo, general manager of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton a. Dayton lines.
IT is stated that since the Knickerbocker
was put on between st. Louis and New
York the through passenger business or the
Big Four by this route has increased ruby
100 per cent. The New York Central peo-
pie admit that there has never been a
through train put on which so soon became
a popular train as has this. 1t hauls one
sleeping car and often two between st.
Louis and New York and one between In
dianapolis and New York, and seldom IS
there night that all the lower berths and
frequently the upper ones are not occu-
pied. 49,, ,4a oo,,
fidence in the early return of business pros
Derity by its decision to open the summer
campaign with a magnificent new 4mlted
train from Chicago TO New YORK II VIII
have in effect the famous North Shore
limited east bound, but with improved
eouipment. and it will run through from
Chicago to New York in twenty-foIr
hours. Leaving Chicago about noon II VIII
afford opportunity for the business men
leaving and arrive in New York the next
day before close of banking hours.
The new boats which the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company is putting into service
between Jersey City and TWenty-third
street New York, are said to be marYelS
of the boat builders art, being constructed
throughout of the best material ana on the
most approved plans. The station at the
New York terminus is said TO be the most
complete structure of its kind ever erected
i'm this country The trip on one of these
ferry boats from Jersey City to the foot or
T'Wentv-third street is made in fifteen min
utes In making the trip all the wharVes OF
the great transatlantic steamship lines and
view and the river presenting an animated
scene of marine activity. The new boats