The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-28

insurance was not correct. He leaves &c
her but little over one-half that sum-
Stock and securities of the Big Four and
the chesapeake d Ohio are daily improving
III price. The preferred stock OF the Big
-Four has advanced 50 per share the present
week
James Pitteway. employed by the Penn
SyINanla lines at Pittsburg, has resigned 10
become associate editor of the brotherhood
OF hallway Trainmens Journal, published
at Peoria.
1t is said on good authority that the
Pennsylvania Will establish an agency at
Salt Lake City to look after both passenger
and freight traffic for its st. Louis and
Chicago lines.
Ford Wood, general freight agent of the
Peoria d Eastern. states that on the line
zoo to 223 cars are being loaded daily with
corn and oats while the shipments of
wheat are still light.
The Wabash has completed modern
depot at Attica. This company is charging
its shops at Fort Wayne and will do a
shops in the future.
The old Bee-line yards at Brightwood
were Yesterday, blockaded with loaded
freight cars, and at p. m every freight
ana rs loaded cars re mained
The gross earnings of the Milwaukee &
81: Paul system for the month of July were
81, 1888; operating expenses, $l,563, $50. and
net earnings, $949 S37. The net earnings are
an Increase of $12S974 over last year.
The Terre Haute & Peoria division of the
Wandalia is surprising the management
with the business that is springing up on its
line. On no division of the Vandalia system
Is the demand for cars larger or more i'm
perative.
r. w. Boltz, for several years commercial
agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee q St. Paul
at Cleveland, has been appointed division
freight and passenger agent of. that road,
with headquarters at Sioux City, effective
Sept. l.
The annual report Of President ingalls,,
OF the Chesapeake & Ohio, for the year
IN gross earnings over the preceding year
or $4SI .45l; in net earnings an increase this
year of $163, 435.
For the letter carriers convention to be
held in San Francisco the Union Pacific has
announced round-trip rate Of $50 from the
Missouri river and $3.50 from Chicago
tickets will be on sale at Chicago Aug. 80,
limited to Sept. 80
add half dozen of the highest type of
locomotives to it's power using oil for fuel
should the experiment superintendent of
Motive Power Garstang is making prove
the success expected.
For two weeks past the Pennsylvania has
nightly been bringing in from Louisville
shipped to Indiana and Illinois to be fat
tened, there being a great demand for this
description of cattle.
NJ w. Mansfield superintendent of the
Indianapolis d Vincehnes, who was as
signed to special duty, has for ten days
past been going over the Southwestern sys-
tenn fulfilling the mission assigned him. He
is expected home this evening.
The Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City has
been testing an electric headlight and it's
use prevented probably an ugly wreck one
night last week. The management has de-
cided to equip all its passenger engines
which haul fast trains with the electric
headlight.
Thomas C. Peck has rendered his resigna-
ton as rate clerk in the office of General
Passenger Agent Fisher of the Columbus
q Hooking Valley, and will go to California
to spend the winter. 1t is understood that
A. s. Miller, Of Cleveland, will succeed Mr..
Peck on the G. & FL ".
The highest type OF passenger engine on
the Big -Four lines weighs 126,000 pounds
that is, the engine proper, and has seven
type OF passenger engine on the PennSyl-
vania lines weighs 1877 900 pounds and has
driving wheels eighty inches in diameter.
r. G. Copeland, a passenger conductor,
the Wabash road near Missouri civ Ia ct
June, and who read his obituary in a num-
Der of papers on Thursday came out of the
Wabash Hospital at MOberly apparently as
work.
The work of remodeling the New York
Central station at New York city has been
structure will be entirely rebuilt and the
building increased in height from three to
six stories. The estimated cost of the i'm
proVement IS 100000, and it is to be COM
pleted within six months.
John Lewis, Union Station master, said
last evening that the business done in the
train sheds at Indianapolis this month,
when the Sunday excursion business is in
Guided, would exceed any month since the
Union Station was opened, both in number
OF coaches handled and in number of pas
sengers that arrived and departed.
Minister DENLY, of China, in d dispatch
70 the state Department, says that the
Russian Manchurian Railway will pass at
some considerable distance to the north of
Kirtn. He says 1t is also rumored that
line line, of railway will be constructed shortly
the transportation Of material.
The officers of the Chicago &, Northwest
ern road are sending out blank proxy votes
to stockholders to record their votes for
or against the proposition for the North
western Company to purchase the Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha road
which, in traffic sense, has been a part
OF the Northwestern system for several
years.
Jere Baxter, president of the Tennessee
Central Railway Company, and w. ]. Tot
ten, representative of the Carnegie Steel
Company of Pittsburg. have closed a con-
tract for $400 900 worth of steel rails and
fittings, to be used in the construction of
begin in about six weeks. Contractors for
building bridges and laying track are now
at Nashville filing bids.
The Baltimore & Ohio, like other roads.
has been carrying bicycles free, but would
not give a check for them Now D. B.
Martin, passenger traffic manager, an
nOunceS that the company will not only
carry bicycles free but will give checks for
them. The new arrangement goes into
effect Sept. l, and will cover the Baltimore
& Ohio proper and its entire system and
immediate connections.
j. w. King paymaster on the Missouri
Pacific. has returned from his monthly trip.
He says he never saw such crops or the
people in better spirits. Colonel King has
been paymaster on the Missouri Pacific
twenty-five years, and during that time has
Travelled IN the car he now uses and has
never met with an accident. He recently
computed the money he had paid out in the
twenty-five years and the sum exceeded
S66 600 600
The Kansas City Pittsburg & Gulf has
announced that after Sept. it will reduce
rates on packing house products from Kan
sas City to Shreveport, Monroe, Alexandria
and Boyce. La, from az cents to 81 cents
per one ne hundred pounds in carloads, and
from Kansas City to TeXarkana, Ark from
10 to 40 cents. This disturbs the Texas
packing house rate situation, as many
points are based upon Texarkana and
Shreveport.
INTERCHANGEABLE MILEAGE.