The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-02


-Four ferry service across Lake Michigan
open all winter. Sunday morning ninety
eight cars were at Benton Harbor, ready
to be taken South. The hundreds of cars
of wheat handled from Wisconsin and the
Dakotas, across the lake, were shipped to
Liverpool from Philadelphia The new win
ter time table will go into effect next Sun
day. The changes on his two divisions will
be very slight. He does not believe that the
Big -Four will pay any attention to the
new gas belt electric railway which is be-
Ing paralleled from Anderson to Marion He
thinks it will create a traffic of it's own
and will not injure the regular traffic.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The board of directors of the Pennsylva-
MIA road yesterday declared a semi-annual
dividend of 2,s per cent.
M. e. Ingalls,, president of the Big Four
expects TO leave this evening for New York,
to be absent several days.
Harry Thompson, for several years past
assistant ticket agent of the Michigan Cen
tral, yesterday retired from that position
The Ohio Falls car works, at Jefferson
Vile, Ind, are building one hundred venti-
lated box cars and one hundred stock cars
for the Queen & Crescent.
In the month of October there were ham
died on the Big Four system 100 AGA loaded
crease this year of 0,S27 loaded cars.
Charles e.. Thompson, for several years
assistant ticket agent of the Pennsylvania
lines at Chicago, and a very popular Young
man, was buried yesterday at Chicago.
On Nov. Is w. F. Roger, agent of the
Peoria & Eastern at Charlottesville, will
sever his connection with the road to go to
Salt Lake City to accept position on the
Oregon Short line.
The wareroom at Mccoy, on the Big Four,
which was used as passenger and freight
depot, has been burned, and the station has
been closed, its business not justifying the
building of a new depot.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has
under contemplation making considerable
of oil n~
things building a new passenger station and
erecting a new freight depot.
The Big Four lines proper earned in Oc-
tober, 1885, 81, Is, 900, and J. @. Van Wrinkle,
general superintendent, is confident the
earnings of October this year will run fully
$4,000 ahead of October, 1896.
Daniel Donough, general ticket agent at
the Union Station, says the receipts from
sales of tickets in October were handsomely
in excess of those of September, and 35 per
cent. by actual comparison ahead of Octo-
Der, 1896.
p. B. Prince, who has been connected with
the legal department of the Pennsylvania
Tor twenty-five years. lately as chief law
clerk, was yesterday promoted to be assist
am to the general solicitor of the company,
James A. Logan.
William Garstang, superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big Four lines, last even
ing went to Cincinnati to confer with Pres
ident ingalls, in reference to increasing the
power of the company by building some
heavy freight locomotives.
eral agent of the Big Four at this point
shows that in October there were loaded
and unloaded at the company's city freight
depotS 1887 cars, against 6,120 in October
1885, an increase this year of 1,20S cars.
j. D. Laying, general manager of the West
Shore road, and vice president of the Big
ton Of president of the Fitchburg road, and
1t is now believed that Mr. Goldman, acting
president, will be elected to the position.
President Charles Lanier, of the Pittsburg
VIVA ara frnr, xrrAf aI.
Pennsylvania Company leases the Fort
Wayne road, will tomorrow, with num-
of the property, reaching Chicago on Fri
day.
AT the annual meeting of the Maine Cen
tral ex-General Manager Payson Tucker
will retire from the directory. The death of
George NJ Pullman makes two vacancies
for the stockholders to fill One of the d.
rectors under the laws Of the State, must
be Maine man.
At midnight Sunday the Colorado Midland
Railway became an Independent system,
freed from the services and control of the
without the slightest ripple in the current
of business, practically the same officers as
before having control.
In the last few days a number of engin-
GERS who went out on the Debs strike have
been examined to re-enter the employ of
the Wabash lines: Under the ruling of SUI
perintendent of Motive Power Barnes they
enter the service as new men, and must
await chances of promotion.
The official report of Colonel Oran Perry
general agent of the Pennsylvania lines at
this point shows that in October there were
handled at the city freight depots of the
company Al ,s54, 1893 pounds of freight, repre-
senting ABA cars, against II 500 423 pounds in
October, 1885, representing 692 cars
The Colorado Midland was yesterday re-
organized as the Colorado Midland Railway
Company, and George w. Ristine was elect
B. A. Sands vice president, L. G.. Cannon
assistant to the president and controller,
and H. G. Rogers general solicitor.
The interchangeable mileage has now been
57S books have been sold. When it is taken
into consideration that n large number Of
travelling statesmen had the old style of mile
age to use up before purchasing the new
book, the exhibit is certainly very favor
able.
The Missouri Pacific has lust placed an
order for 1000 more large box cars and
twenty-five new locomotives. Traffic over
its entire system is now the heaviest since
the lines were opened for business, and its
earnings for last month, it is stated will
exceed those of any month in the roads his
tory.
The impression now is that the Toledo. ST
Louis & Kansas City will be ordered by the
courts to be sold on foreclosure within the
next sixty days, that it will be bid in by
B. F. Peirce, who has handled the property
so we'll since appointed receiver, will be
unanimously elected president
The Cincinnati lines ran the first Sunday
exclusion at the 81 round-trip rate, Indian
apolis to Cincinnati, on Sunday, April %,
and since that date the Big Four and the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton have alter
nately each Sunday run such an excursion.
The official figures show that each mas run
fourteen excursion trains, and the Big -Four
has carried from Indianapolis 9,1S8 excur-
sionists; the Cincinnati, Hamilton e. Day
ton, 9,349 excurSionitStS.
The Chicago division of the Panhandle
lines is now doing the heaviest north bound
business in its history. The Indianapolis &
Vincennes is daily turning over to the Pan
handle to go north seventy more car
loads of coal from mines on the l. &, V.
The shipments of coal over the 1. & V. last
week were the largest since coal operations
were commenced on its line, and on Satur-
day night there were 200 carloads of coal to
come east which the company had not pow
er to haul
Owing to numerous complaints from off,
Gals of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago, the Humane Society of Allegheny
end Pittsburg has started crusade against
parents sending children to the yards to
pick coal from the tracks. The children are
a great annoyance to the yard men, and are
in constant danger of being killed by the
shifting engines constantly running along
the tracks. To remedy the evil it is pro-
posed to prosecute the parents of the chill
dren, and in so doing make a test case.
The tWelYe-wneeled locomotives which the