The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-11

racine, just returned TO Omdnd from new
York. says the reorganization committee
will buy in the road and that S. II. H.
Clark will be president He adds that the
contract which the Oregon Short-line COM
mttee submitted for traffic has been re-
jected.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Baltimore & Ohio has a genuine
freight blockade at Fairport o.
The New York Central earned in seDtem--
Der 81 4S3, 919, against So, 96S, 492 in 1896, and
against $3,973263 in 1895.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul is
building six boxcars per day at its shops
in addition to its repair work.
The directors Of the Lake Erie & Western,
at their meeting in New York, reelected the
old officers for the coming year.
Last week 10000 shares of the stock of
the Pennsylvania were sold, II is stated,
to New York parties as a permanent invest
ment.
The Big Four on Saturday night had nine
ty carloads of cotton at East St. Louis to
come East, and the business has but just
set in.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company, it
is stated, will build a link forty miles in
length to connect Reading and Lancas-
ter Pa.
Mr. Frank Finney. city contracting agent
of the Big Four, returned on Saturday from
st. Louis, whittier he went on business
trip for the road.
of the Order of Railway Photographers, is
now auditing the books of a number of
lodges in this and adjoining States.
]. w. Knapp, superintendent of the Noun
tain division of the Chesapeake & Ohio, is
visiting old-time friends on the line of the
Wabash, where he began railroading
President futile, of the Boston & Maine
road, has issued a statement denying the
published report of a pending change in the
management and control of the property.
Freight traffic on the Wabash is heavy
beyond precedent and as result freight en-
gines are seldom housed and passenger en-
gines are being pressed into freight service.
The Ohio Falls car works. at Jeffersonville,
last week declared a second dividend this
year of per cent. on its preferred stock,
and will pay at least per cent. the present
year.
c. HI. Chappel. vice president and general
manager of the Chicago & Alton, who, with
his wife, has been at Poland Springs for
some weeks, have reached Boston en- route
home.
The Cleveland, Canton & Southern is ar
ranging to build an extensive coal-loading
plant at Cleveland. By this plan coal is
transferred from cars to vessels for cent
per ton.
Charles S. Norris, trustee, on Saturday re-
leased from the Tippecanoe county records
S2S00,00O of mortgages given by the old In
dianapolis, Lafayette & Cincinnati Railway
Company now the Big -Four, many years
ago
division of the Big Four states that there is
scarcely a mandatory on this line of road
which is not running full time and has or
ders ahead enough to keep them busy until
spring.
All the fuel for locomotives used on the
Big Four system in September was from
mines on the Chesapeake q Ohio, and after
paying the extra freight the use of this
coal made a saving over that Of the coal
heretofore used on the Big Four.
The Big -Four Gazette publishes the Irish
dialect "F1nnigin to Flanagan as the
work of an unknown railroad man of St.
Louis The verses were written by S. w.
Gillian newspaper man of Richmond,
Ind, and were originally published in Life,
of New York.
1t is said that should the Union Pacific
become the property of the reorganization
committee, +. w. Winter will doubtless he
elected president of the new company. so
well acquainted is he with the situation in
the Northwest and other territory the Union
Pacific strikes.
The election Of Charles NJ. Hays, formerly
general manager of the Wabash, to be presi-
dent of the Chicago 81 Grand Trunk and of
every road in Michigan going to make up
the Grand Trunk system, is looked upon in
railroad circles highly complimentary TO
Mr. Hays.
The passenger department of the Pennsyl-
vania is getting up tour to the battle
fields of Gettysburg Luray Caverns and
Washington from the New England States
Oct. 22 and 30 and New York State Oct.
% and 20. The detailed itinerary covers all
expenses from the beginning of the trip to
its ending. In each case the party will be in
charge of one of the company's tourist
agents.
j. X. Cavanaugh, car-service Superintend-
ent of the Big -Four, has Just returned from
an extended Western and Northern trip, and
says the railways have but just begun to
get to the edge of business The grain and
produce movement has but just set in.
Farmers, he says, have been holding back
their grain and produce for better prices,
and he thinks it will begin to move just at
the time when the roads will most need the
business to keep up their present favorable
exhibits.
The new Camden Station Of the B. & o.
Railroad was opened for business yesterday.
1t is practically an extension of the old
Camden station, which was built in 1857,
principal passenger depot of the B. & o. in
Baltimore. The increase of business neces-
stated the erection of train shed $50 feet
long and 50 feet wide, with five tracks for
the use of the local and suburban trains.
This shed is constructed alongside of the
the Baltimore Belt tunnel, and in the center
of this cut has been erected a train shed
$50 feet long and AZ feet wide for the ex
elusive use of the Royal Blue-line trains
between Washington, Baltimore, Philadel-
phia and New York. These trains have
hitherto backed into and out of Camden
Station, but under the new arrangement
will make but one stop at Camden. The
passenger trains will be pulled through the
tunnel by the ninety-hve-ton electric mo-
that tunnel. New waiting rooms, restaurant,
ticket Offices etc, have been constructed,
and altogether the new station is very roomy
and exceedingly convenient. The improve
ments cost in the neighborhood of 100000
The old station will be used for freight.