The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-20


Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Panhandle agency at Epworth
Heights near Cincinnati, has been closed.
The first three months of this fiscal year
the Queen & Crescent lines earned $90S 229
net.
The New York Central people have de-
cided to build a passenger station at AL
bany costing $1,500O00.
The Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling has
the plans for new shops at Lorain COM
pleted and will begin their erection in the
early spring.
The Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling is now
doing the heaviest business at any time
since operated handling daily 500 or more
carloads of coal.
Western freight officials have been mott
fled that Brunswick Me- has been made a
reached as freight station.
1t Is stated that the new elevator of the
Pig Pig -FOUR at Cleveland. o., is worth several
hundreds cars to the lines SO greatly does
IL aid in the transfer of grain.
The members of the c., c.. C. e. st. l..
Mutual Insurance Association will hold
their annual meeting in this city at the
Board of Trade hail at O'Clock this even
ing.
The new passenger engines of the Monon
are performing so satisfactorily that the
mana cement have about decided to order
three more of the some type and dimen-
sions
There could hardly be a better evidence
Of prosperity than in such a road as the
Norfolk & Western being in shape hnan-
clally 10 declare an earned Dividend of 1
per cent
The Monon now has seven construction
trains at work, two cutting down the grade
at Cedar Lake and five distributing gravel
ballast north and south OF Lafayette on the
main line.
The net earnings of the Panhandle are
now exceeding those of the corresponding
period last year 8 per cent. and the re-
as satisfactory.
G. f: Schaff, general manager, and Geo.
Nv. kittredge, chief engineer of the Big
-Four lines, were in the city yesterday look
ing over terminals, and last evening went
on to st. Louis.
The Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western
Railroad Company, which recently secured
control OF dockaSe at Milwaukee, will begin
to operate its ferry line between Milwaukee
and Muskegon on Dec. l.
The monthly meeting of general man
ayers and general superintendent yester-
DAY at the Union Station lasted but thirty
minutes. and nothing but the approving of
a number of bills was done.
An ugly case Of humps prevented o. p
McCarty, general passenger agent of the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, being in
attendance at the annual meeting of the
general passenger agents in ST. Louis
The official figures show that the fast
trains of the Pennsylvania, the Vandalia
and the Big Four east-bound are carrying
70 per cent more people than in October
last year, and WeSt-bound fully so per cent
more.
Dr. Talbert, medical examiner Of the
pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg Vol
untary Relief Association yesterday went
to Cleveland to attend a meeting of the
medical examiners on the entire systems
west.
Crawford Fairbanks, who is one of the
directors of the Monon is nreine the
& Southeastern, and advocating that it
then be extended from Brazil to Terre
Haute
Henry E. Gross. general Eastern passen-
ger agent of the Chicago & Northwestern
Will after Dec. 1 have the title of general
eastern agent of both the freight and pas
New York.
Passenger Official Matz of the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific Wells, of the Chesa-
peake q Ohio, and La Toilette of the Pc
oria q Eastern are in the city on official
business. All report travel very heavy over
their respective lines.
From the tenor of the remarks of D. b.
Martin, passenger traffic manager of the
Baltimore & Ohio lines, the passenger de-
partment VIII again issue the old style of
mileage book, good on the Baltimore & Ohio
ana the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
John 2. Green, first vice president of the
pennsylvania, who for many years has
been on the inspection trips saws that in
his extensive travels he has not seen a
union passenger station which, all things
considered, met his idea of what one should
be as that at Indianapolis
An official of a competing east-bound
road out of St Louis is so cruel as to say
that the reason the Toledo. ST Louis &
Kansas City has agreed to maintain rates
Is that II is the only condition on which
Eastern lines will allow their cars to go on
the Glover Leaf for business.
An Anderson paper says that while the
Indiana Midland, now the Chicago e. South
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career, the time will come should natural
gas fail and coal be substituted that this
Would be th great road for Anderson, it
After thorough test the Cincinnati.
Hamilton & Dayton people find that their
new motor composite car and engine is open
TO some improvements, and the motor car
will be sent to the Baldwin locomotive
works to make such changes as are neces-
sary.
The Peoria & Eastern is getting its road
bed between indianapolis and Peoria in fine
shape for winter service. For several weeks
several construction trains have been dis
trlbuting gravel, and much of the ballast
mas already been placed under the track
me western division of the Peoria q East
ern can no longer be spoken of as being a
mud roadbed.
The interchange of traffic between the
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton and the
Indiana, Decatur d Western is now largely
in excess of any former period and with
each week is increasing. Long trains of
C., H. & D. cars are daily being sent to
the l., d. & w. to be loaded for points on
the C. H. & d. system, largely for Toledo
and Detroit.
The lndianapolitans who are building the
G., l. q r. road are pushing construction
wora: between Fairmoul}, and Converse,
and by the last of November will have the
track laid between those points The road
is to be completed from Paramount to
Muncie. Peru, Ind, which once voted a
$4,000 subsidy to the enterprise is now try
ing to revive the interest in favor Of the
project which received a black eve during
the time of the depression in business
Present indications are that Edward r.
Bacon will remain as president of the Bal
timore & Ohio Southwestern Since the
rumOr that he was to be succeeded by
Oscar Murray there has been a decided
change in the financial situation OF the Bal
tinIore q Ohio proper, and it is hardly prob
able that the b. & o. will cut so large a
swath as had been planned in managing the
Baltimore a. Ohio Southwestern. At least a
consolidation of the two is farther off ap-
parently than had been supposed
The new engines of the Chicago & East
ern Illinois are expected to begin to ar
rive next week. The boilers will have $50
hues, and the engines will have steel cabs
1t mas been discovered that neither of the
round houses at Chicago. Momence or ST
Elmo mas doors large enough to admit Of
their being housed. and the company will
shelterlng these monsters, which are guar
anteed to haul SeVenty-fiVe loaded cars
over the road from Terre Haute to Chicago
The maintenance of way department of
the Michigan division now has one of the
best engineering corps of any division Of
that line to enter the employ of the depart
ment is Mr.. Mortimer Frank, of Chicago.
a recent graduate of the Massachusetts m
stitute of Technology and civil engineer