The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-04


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right here for the interchangeable mileage
ticket RAILROADER-
indianapolis. Oct 2
Personal, Local and General Notes.
In September the Bio Four handled on its
TENDER 1886.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf road
will erect at Port Arthur a large warehouse
costing $4,000.
The Big Four proper handled at Indian
apolis on the four divisions last week II, SS4
cars, 1876 being loaded.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul is
building in its shops 1000 cars, turning them
out at the rate Of ten day.
w. c. Duncan, OF the Big -Four, to-day
goes to the Toledo. St. Louis & Kansas
City as passenger conductor.
In September the Big -Four carried $751; 665
passengers, against $40 go in September,
1896, an increase this year Of 66,9O5.
The Wabash, which has just placed an or
place another order for a similar number.
The treasurer of the Sells & Forepaugh
show paid the Wabash, for hauling their
trains from Peru to Pittsfield, Ill, $1,000 in
silver.
T.. w. Gelwick, for many years with the
philadelphia & Reading, has been APP
pointed Excursion agent of the Pennsyl-
vania.
7. n, Ely, chief Of motive power of the
the judges OF machinery at the Nashville
exposition.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern has
adopted the plan of selling the employees
halt-rate tickets instead OF giving passes
over the line.
H. B.. Furlong has been appointed New
england contracting agent of the National
Despatch fast freight line with headquar-
terS at Boston.
The Pennsylvania and the Wabash have
taken off the line of sleepers between De-
troit and Louisville, They win be restored
with the spring time table.
Rev. M. L. Haines, of the First Presby-
terian Church, yesterday addressed the
railroad branch of the Young Mems Chris
ton Association at Brightwood.
A. $. Weston, assistant general road mas
ter OF the New York Central, has been APP
pointed roadmaster of the Rome Water
town & Ogdensburg, vice ]. ID. Schultz, re-
signed
On account of the yellow fever scare, the
Southern Pacific has decided not to run it's
Sunset limited from New Orleans this sea-
son, but will make Chicago its eastern ter
minal.
w. c. Bully has been appointed master me-
chanic of the Wabash shops at Decatur, Ill.
He is succeeded as foreman Of the Wabash
shops at Delray, Mich, by Herbert X. Mudd
who was educated at Purdue University.
w. Z. loves who is at the head of the adj
vertising bureau of the Baltimore q Ohio
is sending out the October number of the
Book Of the Royal Blue which is repete
with good things and very artistic in its
Typography.
on Friday one of the express trains on the
Erie was hauled from Youngstown to New
burg, Slxty-one miles, in sixty minutes, max
ing one stop and for portion of the dis
lance the engine climbed a grade of sixty
six feet to the mile.
The Chesapeake & Ohio has adopted the
INTERCHANGEABLE mileage ticket, issued by
makes the ticket good from Chicago to
Washington over the Big Four and the
Chesapeake q Ohio.
The current number Of the Railway Maya
zine, published in New York. contains a
good picture of Samuel r. Galloway and a
sketch of his railroad life. This number is
known as the prosperity number and is
full of good reading matter.
The Sunday excursion business yesterday
was the heaviest of any such occasion this
season. The several trains brought in, in
addition to the regular equipment which is
handled on Sunday, nearly one hundred ex-
ira coaches crowded to their capacity.
The Central Ohio controlled by the Balti-
more * Ohio, has a claim for unpaid rem
tails against the Baltimore & Ohio aggre-
eating million dollars, and on Oct Is the
stockholders of the Ohio Central will meet
to take some action about the matter
Joseph Wood, third vice president of the
his Western hunting trip, and on Friday was
carried on a special train from Chicago to
Crestline, 2S0 miles, in five hours and fifty
minutes, time taken for stops to be de-
Quoted.
The estimated earnings of the entire sys-
TEN of the Chicago, Rock Island 4 Pacific
Railway Company, both east and west of
the Missouri river, for the month of Sep
TENDER, 1897, are 1907 69l, an increase as
compared with the estimated earnings in
September, 1896, of $344, 023.
1t is stated that New York capitalists are
large purchasers of stock of the Penusyl-
vania. At present the control of the road
is held in Philadelphia, but the large buy
ing of the stock in New York leads to the
belief that New York parties are anxious to
have a voice in the management
So pleased were the employees on the Illi-
aois Central who are stockholders with
their free ride to attend the late annual
meeting that the practice will be continued.
For many years, on the Old Colony road,
most of its stockholders living on the line
have been given such a free ride to Boston.
1t is stated that a majority of the stock
held by syndicate of i've people, of which
M. ID. Woodford, president of the road,
corporation, and at present is one of the
best managed railroad properties of the
West.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad reports
gross earnings for August of 81 ,0O6, 40S an in
crease of $144,15O as compared with the same
month of last year, and net $346, 240, an in
crease of $43056. For the two months ending
Aug 81 the gross earnings were $l964, LOS, an
increase of $261, 1877 as compared with the cor
responding period of last year, and net $685.,
631, an increase of $S1,9l7
Passenger Conductors Huber and Watson,
of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, were dis
missed last week without any reason being
assigned. They were promoted six months
ago, succeeding two of four conductors who
were dismissed. There is a good deal of feel
ing among the conductors on the road over
the frequency with which men are dis
charged without any cause being assigned.
The Pennsylvania Company has ordered
plans prepared for a new union station at
Washington, D. c. When completed the
Chesapeake q Ohio and the Southern Rail-
way trains will run into it. 1t Will be con-
structed on such q scale al to be credit to
the road and to the capital of the United
States In it's construction it will be so ar
ranged that the electric lines can occupy
a portion of the building.
Following are few railroad returns for
August:
Gross Inc Net Inc.
PennsvIyania ............... SS25, 400 $574, 400
Burlington ................... $3.50 5i4'zl6
Chesapeake & Ohio 144,loO 800
Lehigh Valley ............... oi9,446 l5o.3S0
Canadian Pacific ............ .....- 1Sy, 546
st. Paul ..........s..'.'.s.s..' 6to'oo1
Reading ....s..-......,..s..... o9o'051 ~ 80
Wabash ..............-...... oo'15I
ST. Joe & Grand Island..... 1885 33,S9S
Erie ..................'-...' 79f,lAo AVV'oi'
The operating department of the Burling-
ton Railway is figuring on an eleven-hour
mail train between Chicago and Kansas
City The fastest time between Chicago and
Kansas City is now made by the Santa Re
mail train, which leaves Chicago at 2:30
O'clock every morning and reaches Kansas