The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-06

plans and Specifications of the Garstang en-
CINE on the Big -Four. An official of the
road sends a report OF several runs re-
Gently made on the Baltimore * Ohio
southwestern between Chillicothe and Gin
cinnati. as follows: Dec. "A. train No. 3.
engine No. %, Engineer Row, regular equip
ment three cas-. Chillicothe 10 Cincinnati.
S1.1 miles. > hours 10 minutes: average. 43.5
miles per hour; run made at night. Dec.
Huffman Chiilicothe TO Cincinnati. 2 hours
IL minutes, usual equipment. A train ran
from Chillicothe to East Norwood in l
average. 1879 miles per hour. Dec. q. train
No. ). engine No. 92. Engineer Huffman.
Chillicothe to Cincinnati. = hours 10
minutes.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
J. j. Turner. vice president and general
manager of the Vandalia. has gone East
for a few days.
Annual passes issued for 1897 over the
Vandalia bear the signature of V. Il. Ma
lott as receiver.
Judge Stevenson Burke denies that he in
tends TO resign as president of the Toledo
* Ohio Central.
The convention of the Order of Railway
Photographers has been called TO be held in
Peoria, on May IL.
j. r. Rishel has been appointed general
agent of the Chicago, Rock Island * Pacific
at Council Bluffs. vice @. II. Denton, re-
signed.
Forty-one car-building works report hav-
ing built, in 1856, for roads in this country
l,ls9 cars. not quite one-half the number
built in 1890.
1t is stated that the lake lines have been
asked TO become members OF the Joint
Traffic Association on the same terms as
the railroads.
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania lines
east and west of Pittsburg Will. for the
year 1896. show a decrease in net earnings
of fully $1,000. 0CO.
Four tracks have been laid at Ottawa
river connecting the tracks nf tho Penn
sylvania, the Toledo & Ann Arbor and the
Michigan Central.
NJ. c.. Irish. superintendent OF the dining
car service of the Wabash lines. has ten
dered his resignation and will be succeeded
by Percy NJ. Myrick.
An official circular gives the title of r. S.
cannon, who has entered the service OF the
Southern Railway. as third vice president
and general manager.
Freight Traffic Manager Sweet. of the
Toledo. st. Louis q Kansas City. has gone
TO New York to attend a meeting of the
officials of the lake lines.
ID. G. Morgan has been appointed agent of
the Indianapolis x Vincenpes at Romano.
vice w. c. Stoker transferred TO Gosport
as assistant agent and operator.
Harry Smith. passenger conductor for
thirty years on the j., NJ. 4 L.. now the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
lines. resigned yesterday on account of i'll
health.
The reorganization committee of the
-
pany has extended the time for deposits
without penalty until Jan. 20. after which
date payment of $40 per bond will be ex-
acted.
A. A. Zion. superintendent of the Union
Railway Company. yesterday suspended
two OF the station men thirty days for Wis
iting saloons too frequently, and dismissed
a third for violation of the rules of the
company.
Train 81 on the Monon. which makes the
run from Chicago to indianapolis in -four
hours and forty minutes, has now been on
four months, and no train on the system
has reached it's destination more regularly
on its scheduled time.
Next Sunday the Big Four will run a spe-
carrying a theatrical troupe of seventy-one
people. The train is scheduled TO make the
run In ten hours. a half hour to be deducted
for dinner at Indianapolis
James Bruce has been appointed chief i'm,
spector Of locomotives and fuel of the Wa
bash. with headquarters at st. Louis. Here
after, under a new order from General Man,
ager Ramsey, road foremen of engines ar,
10 be known as inspectors.
NJ. Il. Pendle. trainmaster of the Southern
division of the Santa Fe, has been ap
pointed acting division superintendent o
20 the 81. Louis & San Francisco as super
intendent of transportation.
ID. II. Bacon. general manager of the In,
diana Car Service Association, says thai
the number of cars handled during thu
year 1896, as published in the Journal. was
correct. but the decrease was but &c.
cars. as compared with 1895.
The Erie Railway Company will do n goo,
deal this year i'm the building of new sta
tons. Among those IL is proposed TO bull,
is a Observation-Disclosures depot at Pas
saiac. n. j., after the plan OF the one jus
contracted for at jamestown, N. Y.
1t is reported that the N~orthwestern Il
about to build connection between its MAR
line and the Ashland division at Oshkosh
Wis. The new line will be about twenty
| roiIaG in lanoth md tho hItifdfnU will com
mence at Allenville, Wis, in the near fu.
ture.
Yesterday was a field day in passenger
business at the Union Station. and the out
side ticket offices report the receipts from
sale of tickets very large. The knicker
booker express left Indianapolis last nigh
with three sleeping ears, with every bertl
taken.
1t is stated that j. r.. Barnes, superin
tendent of motive power of the Wabash
will retire on Feb. l. Mr. Barnes has beel
with the Wabash since 1862. and since ISIS
has been superintendent of motive power
In the last few years he has built at III
eompanys shops several engines which
have made good records.
w. T.. Halstead. general manager of tn,
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western, has az
cepted plans for q handsome building IA
Scranton. Pa; for the railroad branch o
Several hundred railroad men make Scran
ton their home. and a foarishing railroa,
branch has grown UP at that point.
Within a short time a number of change
will take place on the West Shore road
Frank Sleath, trainmaster Of the lines, vii
retire and go 10 London. Eng, 10 tax
charge of an electric railway in the Eng
lish metz opolis. Il. w. Everett. of tn
Eastern division, will succeed Mr.. Sleatf
who i'm turn will be succeeded by w. Nc
Coy. chief train dispatcher.
\ gentleman who is as well informed a
any person in legal or railroad circles a
TO the affairs of the Nandalia said yesteY
day that the columns of matter which hav
been published in some OF the papers cor
corning the length of the receiNership wer
mere speculation. and that thera was not
railroad official. attorney or judge VIII
could with any precision name the humble
of months or years which the receivershi
will cover. as almost daily something come
up TO further complicate bringing about a
early adjustment OF the Company's affair.
w. II. Fisher, general passenger agent {
the Columbus * Hooking Valley. has take
an Independent position on the five-thoI
sand-mile interchangeable mileage questio
and has instructed his conductors 10 tee
out mileage the same as is done I'm n
case of the one-thousand-mile book. disr,
garding all rules of the Central Passengs
Committee concerning the use OF such mile
age. Mr.. Fisher does away with much