The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-27

pe1lOQ III 1876. F1XeQ interest charges IOr
this period ahead of the preferred stock
amount to S159, $50, a surplus for the pre-
ferred stock of $56,S59 Four per cent on the
preferred stock outstanding only calls for
$25, $50 for these two months
Personal, Local and General Notes.
President Porter, of the Chicago & East
ern Illinois, is spending the week at the
Nashville exposition.
Frank Robbins. until recently Southern
passenger agent of the Big Four, was
buried at Louisville. KY, yesterday
An official of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy states that the gross earnings of
this month will be fully $1,0O0,OO0 in excess
of those of October, 1896
The Vandalia has in the last eighteen
months sold fifteen of its light engines,
built in the days when the Terre Haute
and Indianapolis business required only
light engines.
The first three weeks of this month the
loaded-car movement over the Big Four
lines proper was just 20 per cent. heavier
than the corresponding twenty-one days of
October, 1885,
Il. o. Mccormick, passenger traffic man.
ager Of the Big Four lines, who is to be
married Tomorrow, WILL. on his wedding
trip visit Quebec and other points of in
terest in that section.
John f. Miller, general superintendent of
the pennsylvania Southwes tern system is
this week, with General Manager Loree, in
specting the lines in the Northwestern sys-
tenn of the Pennsylvania.
1t is stated that the Lake Shore has I'M
der contemplation the putting on of four
new .yestibuie trains complete between
New York and Chicago which will surpaSs
any in elegance now on that road.
The Detroit & Lima Northern, a Brice
line, has filed at Detroit mortgage for the
issue of 2,0O,0O0 of bonds the money to be
used in securing right of way and acquiring
suitable terminal facilities at Detroit
Commissioner Donald, of the Central Pas
senger Association, has advised that it is
optional with the purchaser of the new in
Interchangeable mileage whether he signs
the mileage strip with pen and ink or an
indellible pencil
r. j. Reece. now in service on the Fitch
burg road, is visiting friends in the western
part or the State. Mr.. Reece was on the
illinois Midland when r. G. Hervey was
its president, and with l.. Genni5 when re-
cedver of that road.
The meeting of the lines of the Western
Passenger Association with the Union Pa
cine over the question of the withdrawal
OF commissions on north Pacific coast BUSH
ness and kindred matters has been set for
Thursday of this week.
AS time goes on superintendents OF mo-
tive power are less inclined to the advis-
ability OF extremely long runs for locomo-
ttves. The engines in such service too
often get out of order in some part. such
as the air brakes, hot boxes, etc.
The stockholders of the Big Four will
hold their annual meeting at Cincinnati to-
day. Most of the voting will be done by
proxy The annual report of President IN
gals will be presented. Its essential parts
have already been printed in the papers.
President Galloway of the Lake Shore
Railway said yesterday that his company
would fight to the end the 2-cent mileage
bill enacted by the Michigan Legislature.
lie declares that it is unconstitutional, and
that the Legislature has transcribed its
powers.
Charles w. Smith yesterday succeeded F.
H. Houghton as agent of the Traders Dis
MOI rh Of (rn14r hue
tracing agent of the Columbus Sandusky
* Hooking. MIR. Houghton goes to Pittsburg
to represent the Nickel-plate fast freight
line.
The Chicago Stock Yards Company has
more than $l000,O00 in cash in it's treasury
and will pay for the hammond Belt road out
of its treasury and issue no securities 1t
is stated that the Chicago stock yards have
since incorporated.
w. c. Arp, superintendent of motive pow
er of the Vandalia lines, who has been
confined to the house for eight weeks with
visit his office for short time. He is ar
ranging his affairs to spend a month at
Hot Springs, Ark.
The traffic managers of the Ohio coal
roads find themselves unable to agree on
maintenance of uniform rates for coal
shipments from the mines to Detroit and
other Michigan points, and the whole mat
ter has been turned over to the court of
highest appeal, the eXecutice officers.
Visitors to the office of o. p. McCarty.
general passenger agent of the Baltimore
q Ohio southwestern, will find ID. II. Town
send at the desk as his chief clerk he TAX
ing charge yesterday. The selection of Mr.
Townsend for that position meets with the
hearty approval OF the passenger frater-
nifty.
Parker NJ Seymour. contracting freight
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio lines at Co
lumbus, o., win retire from that position
Nov. 1, and as an economical measure the
position Will be abolished. On the first
of next month fully one dozen freight So
licitors on the Baltimore & Ohio are to be
dropped.
The interchangeable mileage ticket bu-
reau of the Western Passenger Association
held a short meeting in Chicago yesterday
for the purpose of settling some routine
matters prior to putting their tickets on
the market. 1t has been settled that the
tickets will be placed on sale by the middle
of next month.
In accordance with the provisions of a
resolution adopted by the managers Of the
Joint Traffic Association the reconsignment
of east-bound shipments Of California fruits
shall be permissible under such terms and
conditions as the individual railway COM
pan1es parties to the Joint Traffic Associa-
ton may establish.
Greensburg has become very important
point on the Cincinnati division of the Big
-Four. The company is extending it's side
tracks at that point and when the new
yard is completed there will be about six
miles of side track 1T Greensburg, and
for quite a distance so constructed as to
answer as double track.
The Big Four is negotiating with Barney.
Smith q Co. for two new parlor cars and
a new dining car. OF the latter the COM
pany has no extra car, but as soon as this
is In service the other dining cars on the
Big -Four are to be placed in the shops for
a general overhauing. The new equipment
viii be of the highest standard.
The Big Four is delivering eight carloads
of steel rails, shipped from Johnstown, Pa.
to the Union Traction Company which is to
build the electric line from Marion to An
derson, and seVenty-ole carloads more are
now coming over the Panhandle for this
line. Everything is IN readiness to lay the
track between Anderson and Alexandria
The Wabash management has for the
present given up the idea of purchasing
Some Will be built at their own shops, as
usual every year, and those built at their
shops under the plans and specifications
of superintendent of Motive Power Barnes
have proven to be very superior locomo-
tives.
tenn for the month of September were
81, 065l79. an increase of $lS2.30l over the
same month of last year For the three
months of the fiscal year to Sept. 80 che
net earnings of the system have been
81, 451. 217. an increase of seq, CSC over the
corresponding period of the preceding fiscal
year.
An attempt was made at Evansville to
garnshee the wages of Mace Boyd, en-
ployed on the Evansville x Terre Haute,
on a claim for $25. The proceedings were
filed under the new legislative enactment
titled to exemption. The court held that the
law was unconstitutional and the proceed
ngs failed.
Frank Wade. city passenger agent Of the