The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-23

tend the line to this city,
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Since the LIST Of October the Wabash has
hauled from Peru, Ind. oil wells 240 tank
cars of oil, or 10000 barrels.
1t is stated that there is no possibility of
the holdings of the late George NJ Pullman
in the Pullman stock company being sold.
1t is stated that the Wabash is having an
engine built Weighing 100 tons. forty tons
more than any locomtive now in service on
the road
The Wabash will tomorrow take off it's
sunday local trains between Fort Wayne
ana Toledo until the spring time table takes
effect again.
Superintendent Fargo, of the American
Express Company and Local Agent Brown
left yesterday for the north on a hunting
and fishing expedition.
The directors of the Queen & Crescent
nave reorganized re-eecting Samuel Fell
ton as president, A. Telford as secretary
and Charles Patton as treasurer.
The new interchangeable mileage in
Western Passenger Association territory
will not be placed on sale Nov l, the time
having been postponed to Nov. Is.
The Baltimore & Ohio is figuring on
shortening its running time between Cincin-
natl and Pittsburg, corning nearer making
the time of the Pennsyl yania lines.
The Chicago & Alton, which was brought
before the Western Passenger Association
on the charge of dealing with scalpeTs, was
on Wednesday acquitted of the charge
c. II. Jackson has been appointed travel
ing freight agent of the Big Four with
headquarters at Pittsburg. He will as we'll
represent the West Shore in that territory.
F. r. Laying, commercial agent of the
Big -Four and the Peoria & Eastern lines
at Pittsburg, has resigned account of
i'll health, and is succeeded by e. r. Laying,
son of the retiring official.
Il. j. Hammond who for some wears has
been agent Of the Pennsylvania at Midway,
Pa, has been appointed freight cashier of
the Panhandle lines at Columbus O., sue
CeeQlnR i W. Y. PQnndcfopa rpSiopp6
]. D. Laying, vice president of the Big
-Four, is expected West in a day or two and
will go over portions of the Big Tc-r sys-
tenn, as is his custom ever f4ll TO see
what improvements are making Mr. Laying
is an expert on roadbeds
A special train on the Erie road bearing
President Thomas, Vice President Merrill
and other officials of the road did some
very fast running yesterday covering the
122 miles between Huntington, Ind, and
Hammond Ind, in lit minutes.
The Panhandle will in few days COM
plete the work Of reducing the grades on
the Chicago division at Leroy and Hebron,
and viii employ the trackmen and con-
struction trains in cutting down the four
miles of grade extending west from Rush.
4. Legion, local superintendent of the
Pullman company, accompanied by his
wife: left for. Chicago last night to attend
the funeral of the late president of the COM
pany. Mr.. Legion IS one of the Oldest in
time of service of the Pullman Company,
and Mr.. Pullman was his warm personal
friend.
While the management of the Peoria &
Eastern has been expanding money quite
literally on the western division and
brought the track to an excellent standard,
considerable has been done in the last few
months on the eastern division, and it is
time since opened for business.
The Evansville e Terre Haute has an
echo of the flood OF last spring, in which
the wreck at Hazelton occurred. Mrs. Han
nah Sullivan has brought suit against the
company for $4,000. She claims that her
land, which was once fertile, has been made
barren waste by the rush of waters.
which deposited millions upon millions of
feet of sand upon it.
Car ferry barges viii probably begin to
run between. Sandusky, O., and Detroit,
Mich, next Monday The barges are now
them, and their bows fitted to the slips to
which they are to run. Each has capac-
probably ten hours to make the run be-
tween the two towns or day for a round
trip.
Traffic with the Chicago. Burlington &
Inmates. For sixteen days this month the
road has handled 81, 1876 cars, including 10000
cent. over last year. AT the present rate
the October traffic will be 10000 cars the
largest on record. Gross earnings for Octo-
Der are estimated to exceed 81 $1,000, an in
crease of 100000 over last year.
John c. Noyes, for many years a West
ern railroad man.. was buried in Newbury-
port, Mass, on Thursday IN the sixties
Mr.. Noyes was general freight agent of the
Indianapolis e. st. Louis; in 1875 he accepted
similar position on the Vandalia, and two
years later returned to the Indianapolis q
ST. Louis. In The late eighties he was APP
pointed general manager of the Merchants
Despatch and held that position until 1894,
when he retired on account Of i'll health.
The Lake Erie 6, Western, with the intro
duction Of the bicycle, announced that 1t
would carry wheels free, but at the owners
risk, not assuming any responsibility by
nhnpyinn &c orr (NGnArQl
Passenger Agent DAILY has found that this
plan has worked very satisfactorily. 1t is
noticeable that number Of other roads
that have been charging for carrying
wheels, checking them as baggage have
given notice that they will, Nov !, adopt
the plan of the Lake Erie & Western.
NJ. L. Dunn, of New Franklin Mo-, con-
nected with the Missouri, Kansas 81 Texas
transportation department, has invented
fruit, stock and coal car in one car, and it
is so arranged that its present equipment
can he easily changed The agent al ST.
Louis can load this car a box for
Texas the Texas agent can return the car
loaded with stock; the St Louis agent can
load it for a mining. station with miscel-
laneous freights and it can be returned
loaded with coal.
The meeting at Chicago yesterday of the
executive committee of the western Pas
senger Association was not able to accom-
plish much looking toward the withdrawal
of the excessive commissions being paid
on Colorado and north Pacific coast bust
HtSS. OOIHe Oh the TOduS llal were SAP6Cl-
ed to send in word of their intentions had
not replied, and it was found necessary to
adjourn the meeting until to-day when it
is thought that there will be much better
prospect of getting the roads together and
of Withdrawing the commissions.
On the recent inspection General Manager
Loree, of the Pennsylvania lines west,
passed over so large a mileage of the
Southwestern system that he will not go
over it again, but let the division superin-
tendents do the inspection and say who is
entitled to the premiums for the best track.
Next Tuesday Mr.. Loree will leave with
Chief Engineer Rodd for an inspection of
4. Miller, general superintendent OF the
southwestern system will accompany the
inspection party over the Northwestern
lines. r
Tt is less than three weeks since the ex-
ecutive officers of the Western roads met
and declared that rates between st. Paul
and Minneapolis and Chicago should at
tanned. The trouble is now as bad as ever
and In fact, the decentralization has never
been done away with 1t was reported to
the executive committee OF the Western
Passenger Association yesterday that the
market at st. Paul is stocked with tickets
that are being sold to Chicago at $3.50 under
the tariff rates and that proportional cuts
are being made to Kansas CITY and Omaha.
II. +. Cost general freight agent of the
Big -Four, spent Yesterday in the city in
conference With local freight men and ship
pers Mr.. Cost says he IS confident that of
of rates. and that all the lines in this ter
ritory are behaving themselves in this mat
ter, the handsome earnings OF late bearing
him out in the assertion. SO far as the
Big -Four is concerned, he says. II is merely
q question OF equipment. Next month the
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