The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-08


week a total of AS cars, 3ss being loaded:
a decrease of ten loaded cars as compared
with the preceding week.
The Bee-line division of the Big Four last
week renewed its olden time volume of
business. handling 1851 loaded and 655
empty cars at Indianapolis
The VandaIia handled at Indianapolis last
week 2,4s6 cars 1913 being loaded, the road
bringing in LII and forwarding 13l loaded
cars. OF the inbound business 153 cars were
loaded with stock.
Only twice in its history has the Indiana,
Decatur & Western handled more loaded
cars at this point that last week, receiving
and forwarding 62S loaded cars. Superin-
tendent Graves says the road would have
eclipsed all former records could IL have
Personal, Local and General Notes.
VI. E. Ingalls,. president of the Big. Four
lines. will go to New York this evening to
be absent several days.
Samuel Carr, of Boston. it is stated. IS to
be the president of the Oregon Short-line
and the Utah Northern.
The Lake Erie & Western earned in jan
uary s25l. $40 against 1901 go in January,
1885, and against .2S9 in 1885.
Samuel Wilkes has been appointed local
representative of the Georgia Railroad at
Atlanta, vice ]. w. Kirkland, resigned
Games Gouran. form arlv chief clerk Of the
Empire fast freight line NJ i'eoria. has been
appointed agent of the line at that point.
f. A. Nash, general agent of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul at Chicago, spent
Sunday in the city, the guest of friends.
The Wabash last week filled all the ice
houses on the eastern division with pure
ice, twelve inches thick. cut near Peru, Ind.
The Indianapolis * VinceneS last week
brought in 59S carloads of coal. the heaviest
shipments in any week of the last seven
yea :.
The Mexican National is sending out with
its calendar for 1897 a map printed in the
colors of Mexico, the United States and
Ireland.
H. A Dunn, assistant auditor of the
Santa Fe, has resigned to accept the posi-
ton of auditor of the Central road Of Geor-
gia, vice Nj. Horne, resigned.
Fred Tristan who has represented the
Wabash at Pittsburg, it is stated will soon
be transferred to st. Louis and given
much more important position.
The Joint Traffic Association has ruled
that on Feb 10 the second-class fare for
hitherto authorized, should be Cancelled
Trsfiic on the Big Four on Friday and
Saturday was so heavy that every engine
IF Tie company in working order was put
in service, the first time in army months.
n Galloway, superintendent of the Indi-
anopois & Cincinnati division of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton line, who has
been i'll several days, expects to-day TO be
out again.
p j. Gilbert was last week elected rolling
stock Inspector of the Mahoning & S1enago
Valley Car-service Association. In 1883 he
was carrying spikes for section boss on
the Erie road
The Vanderbilt people have notified the
friends of the Nickel-plate that they need
not expect a dividend on the preferred stock
next month. In March, 1896, the road paid
"A per cent. dividend.
Miss Jennie Smith, the Baltimore &
OhiO's railroad evangelist, has of late been
holding religious services at South Cumber
land, and sixty railroad men In the last
three weeks have professed conversion.
Chief Train Dispatcher Matson who last
week closed his service on the Erie TO be-
come master OF transportation OF the new
Carnegie road was kindly remembered by
his associate employees with appropriate
presents.
The superintendent of the motive power
of the Baltimore & Ohio is making a re-
distribution of the passenger engines, plac-
ing the heavier on the mountainous divi-
sions and the light ones on the more level
divisions.
The Wabash earned in January $685., III. a
decrease compared with January. 1896,
of Sl4i,744. 1t is stated that the Wabash
places much of its decrease in earnings on
the inroads on local business which the
Toledo, st. Louis Il Kansas City is making.
A Western engineer who is tired of hear
ing the claims made by different roads of
fast time with passenger trains and fast
freight trains says he can show a correct
record where engine he running
pulled loaded freight train 6l.5 miles an
hour.
The Pennsylvania Glass / engines with
so satisfactorily that this style will prob
ably be adopted generally on those lines.
They are proving to be the fastest the most
powerful and easiest riding locomotive the
company has yet built.
An agreement has been entered into be-
tween the Canadian Express Company and
the Grand Trunk road TO have the express
messenger act as baggagemaster when
trains are run through sparsely settled dis
tricts. The experiment is now being tried
on a number of their trains.
The removal of the shops of the West
Shore road from Frankfort to West AL
bany throws 265 men out of work. many OF
whom have homes at Frankfort. The loco
motive plant cannot be removed from
Frankfort, owing to the consideration the
town gave the road to locate them there
The rumor is again current that the Gin
cinnat, Jackson * Mackinaw, the Ohio
Southern and the Lima Northern are to be
Lake Erie & Western. II is stated that the
Brice people are about to make a move
which will be a surprise to railroad circles.
George Royal. known by railroad men
from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast, is
dying of paralysis at his home in Oak Park
Ill. Mr.. Royal was largely instrumental in
* Quincy strike in 1855 and had much TO
do with the adjustment of the Debs strike
in 1894
The Trunk Line and Central Traffic Asso-
citation committees. at their meeting last
roads in making uniform rule under
which corpses should be checked as bag
gage and will continue to require first
class, unlimited ticket for the transporta-
ton of body.
Four locomotives of the Cincinnati, Ham
iton * Dayton and two of the indiana, De-
catur * Western are now in the shops of
the latter company rebuilding, and the
shops are being run full-handed In the
car department. CINCINNATI, Hamilton &
Dayton coaches are being rebuilt at the
rate of eight a month.
The Wabash has commenced using coal
screenings on many of its passenger and
freight engines where fast time is not re-
quired, so satisfactory have been the results
from using screened coal its switching
engines. 1t is stated that the company. in
the last nine months, has saved $7 900
through the of this less expensive
grade OF coal.
The Big Four has just completed the Sec
ond engine built at the Bellefontaine shops
The locomotive is known No. 129, and is
intended to handle any passenger train on
the system, excepting the heavy through
passenger trains. The driving wheels are
sixty-twO inches in diameter. The other Ill
mansions are follows: Cylinders, Is by "A
inches; number of tubes, 194; total heating
surface, los square feet; weight of engine,