The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-12

west will become members of the South
western Association if the Pttsburg & Gulf
remains on the outside, and this may mean
that there will be no association.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
For four weeks in succession the Panhan-
die has led in east-bound tonnage out OF
Chicago.
The general officers of. the Lake Erie &
Western for three days past have been in
specting the lines.
r. B. F. PIERCE. receiver of the Toledo.
St Louis & Kansas City, has gone to
Omaha to be absent until Monday.
j. M. Chesborough has been appointed
Northern passenger agent of the Queen &
Crescent, with headquarters at Detroit.
]. v. Stanberry. general agent of the
| Traders Dispatch at this point, will to-day
bury his only son, who was nine years OF
age
Vice Presidents McCrea and Woods. of the
Pennsylvania, for a couple of days past
| have been inspecting the Grand Rapids d
| Indiana, accompanied by General Manager
Hughart.
The Pennsylvania lines are now taking
most of the glucose out of Peoria, having
met the part rail and. water route rates
| which its competitors all rail out of Peoria
| declined to do.
At the shops of the Erie Railway at Hunt
| ington, Ind. at noon double quartet OF the
employees entertain their associates, and as
| all are fine singers the hour is passed IN
! very pleasant manner.
On the state railways in Germany the
carriages are painted according to the col
ors of the tickets of their respective classes.
First-cass carriages painted yellow,
! second-class green and third-class white.
W. j. Laird. travelling freight agent Of
He states that the employees are embrace
| ing the offers of President Stillwell to pur-
| chase stock and become interested In the
| cOmpanyS success.
William Gibson, general superintendent Of
| the Baltimore & Ohio lines, has moved his
| family from Cincinnati to Pittsbure. Mr..
!. ~oI,tn al A T,fInn
| who was chief clerk for M. B. Cutter, Mr..
| GibSon'S predecessor.
w. II. McDoel, vice president and George
| Lowell general SUPERINTENDENT Of the
| Monon lines yesterday visited the shops at
| Lafayette to note how matters were NOV
| ing and to advise as to further contem-
| plated improvements.
| Train IL, on the Big Four, on Wednesday
| left Cincinnati fifty-seven minutes late and
| reached Chicago two minutes ahead of its
schedule time, making the White Special
| Special haulS but three.
Train 90 on the Vandalia. yesterday came
| over from Greencastle In forty-two minutes
from start to standstill in the Union Station;
| distance, thirty-nine miles. There were
eight cars in the train and q stop was
made at the Belt crossing.
The first week in November the Missouri,
| Kansas & Texas handled the largest num-
| Der of loaded cars OF any one week since
the road was opened for business, It exceed
| ing the loaded-car movement OF the corre-
| spending week of 1896 90 per cent.
| The new cars the Pullman Company is
| building for the Big -Four are so perfect In
| construction of trucks, boxes, etc. that
| they can be put into service as full loaded
! cars turned out of the shops without dam
ger from hot boxes or any other derect
| The Toledo, ST. Louis & Kansas City
| earned in the first week of November $780,
| 944 So an increase over the corresponding
week Of 1895 of 81 ,44S57 Since July ! the
| the corresponding period OF 1886 or $44'Oi4.f3.
| On Oct % ard % joint meeting of the
| Central and Western Association or Car
| Service Officials will be held with the East
| ern Association at Buffalo. NJ Y. A number
! of important subjects relating to the prompt
| movement Of cars are to come up Tor con-
| sideration.
| The fact that the Monon contemplates
| taking off its Sunday day train between
Louisville and Chicago has revived the
| charge that the Monon works for through
business caring but little for it's local traffic:
| The Sunday trains did good deal or local
| work and enabled friends to visit each other
| who are unable to do SO on week days.
The conference of passenger agents of the
| Southwestern lines, in session at st. Louis
| for the past few days, has revised and COM
| pleted the articles of agreement OF the new
| passenger association. and the agreement
| will take effect soon as signed, when
| will not be later than Dee. /. A set of rules
| to govern the officials and employees Will be
made to suit the agreement
| The business of the Ohio coal companies
| and of the coal-carrying roads of that state,
| It is stated authoritatiyely, exceeds anything
| in the history of the two interests This is
| partly due to the low stage of water in the
! Ohio river and the delay of strikers in other
| districts in returning to work. The ONO
| coal roads are getting better rates ana max
ing more money than ever before.
The shops station and surroundings of the
| Big Four at Wabash, it is said, present the
| most Clearly and inviting appearance OF
any shops or grounds on that system me
! shops are new, and everything apout tns slI
| and busy appearance. Grass platS, num-
| erous trees. shrubs and plants OF choice
varieties are in part things which attract
attention.
| The Pennsylvania Company has just
| issued a dainty monogram of the Pennsyl-
| vania limited. 1t is illustrated by reproduc-
| lions of photographs of actual scenes in the
| train when running fifty miles an hour
| Every phase of q passengers life on trip
by an expert photographer and incidents
| connected with the running of the train are
set out in an interesting manner.
Oscar c. Murray receiver of the Balti-
more & Ohio, has returned from his vaca-
| ton and is spending few days in Ctncin-
natl comforting with the officials OF the Bal
matters. The business of the latter has
greatly increased since the policy dictated
| in the main by Mr.. Murray has been car
ried out, and the earnings of the road this
| the largest in it's history
: W. F. NJ Goss professor of experimental
engineering and director of the engineering
laboratory at Purdue University, writes
! that they are expecting lecture next week
! by j. T. Brooks, vice president of the Penn
| sylvania Company on Problems in the
! Management Of Railway Systems and on
| Nov % M. e. Ingalls, will lecture before the
! students his subject being Railways,
! Their Past Present and Future" Both
lectures will be open to the public.
/ Those well informed have but little faith
| in the report that the Wabash will allow
| it's ninety miles of road between Toledo and
! New Haven Ind, to be sold to satisfy the
judgment and costs. amounting to S552 900,
! and build an Independent line from Toleuo
to connect with its Detroit division. The
| at least 100000 and the talk of S. c.
| Reynolds, a director of the Wabash is
| taken with a good deal of allowance.
Joseph Taylor, secretary of the Michigan
| Peninsular Car Company has resigned Mr..
| Taylor is considered to have been the lead
! ing figure in the building up of the Michigan
car works and In the Michigan Peninsular
| Car Company since the $S,0O0.OO0 consolda-
| ton of the two concerns tve years ago.
! Mr.. Taylor had a tive-year contract with
| the corpora ton, which recently expired, and
which he was not asked to renew. Gen
| eral Manager McGregor and his son, the
| superintendent recently resigned under
similar circumstances.
A Big Four official. in commenting on the
report that the Big Four was to enlarge
| its shops at Delaware o., and increase the
| force to four hundred men, said ii was
| evidently a roundhouse rumor. as he had
! heard nothing of such a move, and were
J such a thing contemplated probabl ne
| would have heard something about it before
| much progress had been made He thought
| that whenever any important change is
to-. Cw4a ant in CHI