The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-18


passenger earnings show an increase over
! August, 1896 of S. 1860. Last week showed
the pest business of any week in the his
| tory of the road
Oscar Murray. receiver and other officials
| of the Baltimore & Ohio road who have for
/ two weeks been on an inspection of the
nnes terminals, etc, were in Cleveland
! yesterday
! tral Tor August We're $450000 in excess of
/ August. 1896, and the officials say that in
SeptenDer an increase of over half mil
lion dollars Will be shown.
S. K. Galloway, president Of the Lake
| Shore, and still of the Nickel-plate. is this
week in New York and it is expected his
successor as president of the Nickel-plate
| VIII be announced in q day or two.
The Evansville & Terre TIaute earned
] the frst week in September $2i1l2. an in
;, crease over the corresponding week Of 1896
/ OF S3,0S The Evansville 4 Indianapolis
: earned So'964, an increase over last year OF
! A message was received yesterday stating
/ that Frederick O'Connor for years train
/ dispatcher on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne x
chicago, who recently went to Las Vegas.
n. NJ, Tor his health, can live but a day or
The entire floating debt of the Missouri
Pacific, which exceeds 81. 100000 is now held
| by Russell Sage, and he expects to receive
/ that sum within sixty days so handsome
! mas Deen the increase in earnings with the
| lines OF late
One of the vandalia's Schenectady build
| Of locomotives on Thursday made up thir-
| ty-three minutes of lost time with train
| No. Z, which is the fastest scheduled train
on the Vandalia between Indianapolis and
| St. Louis.
! Joseph u. Crawford, consulting engineer
! OF the Japanese government, residing in
Philadelphia, has received instructions to
purchase 5000 tons of sixty-pounds-to-the-
! yard steel rails, 1900 tons of fish plates
| bolts. etc, and thirty more locomotives.
! 1t is stated that the Indiana & Illinois
| Southern, which for years has been looked
! upon as property of little value, has of
late surprised the management by its hand
some earnings. The Illinois Central fur
nishes the road with cars to move the bust
| ness.
intendents of the roads centering here will
! hold their regular monthly meeting on
tuesday; number of subjects OF impor-
| lance which have been neglected through
| the summer months viii come up to be act
ed upon.
The employees. on the middle division of
! the Pennsylvania who have been in service
twenty-one Years held their first annual
meeting at Harrisburg on Wednesday, 1t
includes in its membership all classes of
employees who are veterans in service of the
company.
The Monon. after several experiences in
| years past, yesterday made the running of
state fair trains between the city and the
| fair grounds profitable. Trains We're run
every half hour hauling well-filled coaches.
and the Unbound trains, after 5 p. m, were
heavily loaded.
!
coming under the control of the Woodford
| syndicate, has earned a sum sufficient to
pay its operating expenses and interest on
its bonds, so the syndicate has not yet lost
on the investment, and the property is
now more valuable than when they pur-
| chased it.
Those informed in the matter believe
that when the improvements the Chesa-
peake q Ohio is making at Newport News
and its steamship lines are all in operation
more grain Will be shipped for export via
| Newport News than by any other of the
| Eastern seaboard export points, including
| even Baltimore.
Receiver FELTON,, of the Queen & Crescent.
| has just made public his annual report for
| the year ending June 80, showing earnings
| to have been $3,44O506; expenses, 81, 343, 1S1;
| net earnings, M,O07 325. The report makes
| suggestions and in closing intimates that
| this will be his last annual report as re-
| ceiver of the road.
The Big Four Bee-Iine division is RAPIDLY
regainng its old time popularity with stock
| shippers. The fast time is quite an item
in securing this business. 1t is not an I'M
common thing to haul a stock train from
| indianapolis to Cleveland in eleven hours
which until the last four years was the
passenger time schedule.
After Oct. / the coal traffic department
| of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern will
| be abolished and the business of that de-
| partment will be looked after in the general
| freight agents department. 1t is under
stood that " ": Peabody jr., will sue
coed G. II. Goodrich, who recently retired
| as assistant general freight agent
|
Peoria 4 Eastern, has returned from Chi
| cago, where he attended the meeting of the
| Central Freight Association, at which it
| was agreed that after Oct rates should
! be strictly maintained in Central Traffic
| Association territory. 1t is believed that
traffic is now SO heavy and promises to be
| for some months, that rates will be restored
| and held
| Passengers are in some instances using
/ rubber stamp facsimies of their sigma
| lures in signing the mileage strip on the
| Interchangeable nd
! commissioners check of the mileage ex-
| change train ticket. Agents are instructed
| to see that the passengers sign the strip
| with pen and ink, and conductors that COM
| missioner's check is signed with indehble
| pencil. They must not accept rubber stamp
| facsimile as signature under any circum-
| stances.
President Samuel Thomas, of the Chi
| cago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railroad
! Company, said yesterday that a dispatch
| from Cincinnati, stating that the stock
| holders have authorized the sale of 81 900
of the stock of the company, is incorrect.
| The stock referred to, it is said, was pro-
vided for in the reorganization and was to
| have been distributed among the holders
of the s per cent. bonds had they scaled
their bonds. Failing to accept this propo-
| sition, the stock remains in the company's
| treasury
Handsomely engraved invitations are be-
| ing distributed among the general passen-
| ger and ticket agents of the country by
| the Pennsylvania Company, requesting the
| recipients to ride on fine special train
which that road will run to st. Louis when
| the American Association of General Pas
senger and Ticket Agents meets there. This
| train will leave New York on the evening
of Oct II and is due in St. Louis on the
afternoon of Oct Is. The big convention
| begins work Oct 10.
When g railroad company starts to lay
| 300 or 400 miles of new S5-pound steel rails,
! as the Baltimore & Ohio is doing, it costs
| money for ties, spikes, splice bars, etc. The
| B. q 0. has adopted certain track stand
ards. and, according to the book, it takes
| 1887 tons OF S5-pound rail for one mile of
| track. Ties are laid twenty-four inches
| from center to center making 2640 per
mile Four spikes per tie calls for thirty
| Kegs, or 10. 800 spikes. weighing 5000 pounds
| In each mile of 3O-foot rail are 352 complete
| JOINTS, requiring 704 spnce bars and 140S
| bolts. The B. & O. uses what is known as
| the continuous rail joint splice bar. which
| IS supposed to prevent low joints, the bane
| of trackman's life.
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