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

Goshen.
V. T. Malott, receiver of the vandalia
lines. is expected home from the East to-
morrow.
On Sunday sixty-four through freight
trains were handled between Columbus and
Pittsburg
On Sunday there were handled on the
Baltimore q Ohio lines TWENTY-FIVE theatre
cal troupes, with total of $50 people.
The work of laying mains to supply cars
standing in the Union Station train sheds
with water was commenced yesterday.
It is noted that the earnings of the Balti-
more & Ohio for October were the largest
ever made in any one month by that road.
NJ. w. Mansfield, superintendent of the
Indianapolis & Vincennes, who has been in
Pittsburg this week, is expected home to-
day.
DR.. Davis. chief surgeon of the Monon
was in the city yesterday looking after
some matters in which the Monon is in
terested.
]. e. Turner. district passenger agent of
the Northern Pacific, who is i'll with ty-
phoid fever, was reported as some better
yesterday.
s. r. Galloway, president Of the. Lake
Shore and the Nickel-plate, has returned
from New York to his headquarters at
Cleveland.
The Pennsylvania lines have twice the
freight equipment of the average railway
system and yet are now short of all kinds
of cars to fill orders.
The new turntable of the Peoria & East
ern at Urbana, III. is completed, and also
the stone foundation for the new shops and
roundhouse at that point.
w. e. Barnhart has accepted the position
of special agent on the Kansas CITY, Pitts
burg & Gulf. He will look after the mail
ser ,ice on the lines, make contracts, ETC.
j. A. Cartwright, trainmaster on the
Michigan division of the Big Four has gone
to Texas to look after some private bust
ness. He will be absent couple of weeks.
George Rockwell, assistant general pas
Cf PENNSYLVANIA lines
with headquarters at Cincinnati, was in the
city yesterday looking after some personal
matters.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton is
now handling on its system the largest
freight tonnage in its history. Its coal
traffic is immense, and trains are run daily
in eight to ten sections.
The passenger department of the Chicago
Burlington & Quincy has issued hand
scmely illustrated folder showing routes,
fares and distances from points on its lines
TO the Klondike gold fields
Kirk Stevens, one of the Oldest engineers
on the Wabash in time of service, has left
that road to take a similar position on the
Southern California, hoping that his health
will improve in that climate.
Norman Beckley. formerly general man
aeer of the Cincinnati, Wabash & Mich
igan, now part of the Big Four system,
was in the city yesterday for conference
with General Superintendent Van Wrinkle
The operators on the Indianapolis 81 Vim
cennes are shipping one hundred or more
carloads Of coal per day, ar would hIdnd SNIP
cars per day is a good business for the
mines on the |. & V.
The New York Central on Monday con-
tracted with the Schenectady locomotive
works for ten hard-coal burning locomotives
for suburban service. The works, on
previous order, are building fifteen loco
motives for the freight service of the COM
pany.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe, is au-
thority for the statement that the company
will make some radical changes as to IT'S
shops, distributing the mechanlcaI work
now being done at Topeka to other prom
inent and more convenient points on the
system.
The Wabash passenger department will in
few days send out calendars for 1898
which. it is stated, will be the most at
tractive of any yet issued by this road
which is saying good deal, as the Wabash
talent in this direction.
1t is believed that Daniel Lamont, vice
president of the Northern Pacific, VIII,
within two months, succeed President Hill
as head of the Northern Pacific. The opin-
ion is based on the tone of messages when
passed between Lamont and Hill while the
former was in Idaho recently.
Robert Delahay, of Kansas City travelling
auditor of the Rock Island, died suddenly
yesterday at Smith Center, Kan, from
hemorrhage of the stomach. He was Wen
known in Kansas, and formerly lived at
Leavenworth. He was brother-ln-laW or
Ex-Governor Thomas Osborne.
Edgar Beckley. formerly general .passen-
ger agent of the Cincinnati, Wabash &
Michigan has a suit pending against the
Pullman and the Wagner Car Companies
for the adoption in part OF device Tor
closed Vestibule cars. which was invented
by Mr.. Becllley and patented by him.
A representative of the Union Pacific re-
organization committee denies dlspatch
from Omaha asserting that the committee
had given out a statement that it would not
bid for the Kansas Pacific branch nor APP
pear at the forthcoming foreclosure sale,
and that the ROAD would IN all PROFANITY
go to the Chicago q Alton.
James Smith who several months ago
was notified by the auditor of the Big Four
that his services would no longer be needed
division, has been renstated, and to-day
will begin service. Mr.. Smith at the time
of his dismissal had been on the road TWEEN
ty-nine years, and ranked as one OF the
most popular conductors on the Big Four
system.
Barney, Smith & Co., at the Dayton car
works. are building two trains for the chi
cago. Milwaukee & ST. Paul which are to
excel, it is claimed, the two trains the Pull
man Company built recently for the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy, beng the most
complete and elegant ever built at the Pull
man works The Chicago, Milwaukee q st.
Paul trains will be ready for delivery in
about six weeks.
At Purdue the newly designed Strong au-
tomato balance engine is being tested, and
it is claimed has merit. 1t will be remem-
bered that the first Strong engine built was
plans, Out proven d ldIuIS, VI AStu
not sufficient good points to insure the de-
sign being adopted The first engine OF TINS
sort was run for some weeks on the en-
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton line.
The shops of the Indiana, Decatur &
Western are being run to their fullest
capacity. There are now four engines OF
the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton being
rebuilt at these shops; one passenger, one
freight and two switching engines, and
seven coaches are undergoing general re-
pairs in addition to large amount OF work
being done on freight equipment
Charles w. Reiff, traveling, passenger
Norfolk and the Pennsylvania roads, died
on Monday night at his home in Philadel-
nhia from typhoid fever, aged thirty-nine
years Mr. Reiff has been in the service
of the two companies for nearly twenty
years He was the inventor and patentee
of the one-thouSand-m mileage DOCKS
used by the Pennsylvania and other ROADS.
Commissioner Goddard, of the Trunk Line
Association denies the truth or reports
about wholesale rate cutting among the
roads in the association. The situation at
this time is much better than 1t was TWO
months ago in regard to east-bound rates,
mitted however that there is still much
to be desired but believed that the Joint
Traffic Association could be depended upon
to unravel the present tangle.
United States Senator Shelby M. Cullom,
chairman of the Senate committee on inter-
state commerce, has prepared report on
ticket scalping. he result of which, he says,
will be TO send the bill for the prohibition
of ticket scalping through with rush as
soon as Congress meets Senator Culiom
position on the question is very important.
AS chairman of the committee which has
potent influence on the fate of the meas
ilre Now that he has come out decidedly