The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-20
Personal. LccaI and General Notes.


The Big Four on Wednesday carried sixty
sisters from st. Marys of the Woods TO
Chicago, furnishing two cars for the party.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company will
beautify the many rock cuts on the Plus
burg division with ivy and Virginia creep
erS.
The Pittsburg Fort Wayne & Chicago has
sold several OF its light locomotives OF the
Glass ~ pattern to road in west Vlr-
ginia.
C. G. Sankey. agent of the Pennsylvania
Company at New Castle, Pa, on Wednes-
day completed his thirty-third year IN that
position.
Freight crews on the Louisville division of
the Pennsylvania lines are now making pet
ter pay than at any time since 1892, so heaVy
is traffic.
On Tuesday the Monon run an excursion
off its main line to Michigan City; The
train was run in two sections, hauling
twenty-one coaches and carrying l,609 peo-
pie.
Next Monday the Pennsylvania Company
louisville division) and the. Louisville q
Nashville will run a special from this city
for the Nashville centennial Tor 50 the
round trip, limit five days
Section men on the indianapolis & Vim
cennes are sowing hollyhock seed along the
line and about depots' ana by Two years the
from now they will be an ornament TO the
line and about the stations.
The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee
81 ST Paul last week showed an increase
over the second week in August, 1895, of
being xDSb,S94,
week but one in the history of the road.
AIl-rail rates on flour and grain products
between st. Paul and Minneapolis and New
York will be advanced to 2212 cents per 100
pounds Sept. l. This is an advance OF .
cents per 100 pounds from the present tarl1
figure.
The freight men have reported to the eff
feet that ocean rates have ceased TO nave
an advancing tendency, and that with the
arrival Of the large number OF vessels TO
transport grain there will be break in
rates.
George Lowell. general superintendent of
the Monon, was in the city yesterday. He
says every locomotive and car which the
company can command is now in service,
and on every hand there Is evidence Oh u Dig
fall business.
C. f. Perkins, division freight agent of the
Pennsylvania Companys {. q L. DIVISION,
has been granted an indefinite leave OF alb
sence, and while away his duties will de-
volve on II. f. Lowry as acting division
freight agent.
The West Shore is steadily becoming
Central The equipment of the West Shore
is being transformed to the same style as
that of the New York Central in painting,
lettering and general construction.
It is intimated that the coming annual
report of M. +. ingalls,, president of the
Chesapeake & Ohio, will show a very hope
full tone for this property, which has so
rapidly come to the front as trunk line,
especially as part of an export line.
AS soon as improvements now in progress
are completed the Pennsylvania Company
proposes to put on a train which will make
two hours and thirty minutes quicker than
the fastest train is now scheduled
On Wednesday the Vandalia turned over
to the Panhandle ten gondola cars, sixty
feet in length, and on each car was an cleo
trio car shipped from st. Louis to Pittsburg;
Last week the St. Louis car works shipped
a lot of cars to Atlantic coast points.
Engine 12O, which during the time of the
worlds fair made such remarkable runs
with fast trains between Indianapolis and
Louisville making a record which has new
er been excelled, is now in the switching
service at Louisville and Is numbered $40.
Vice President Oppenheim, OF the Chicago
Great Western, is authority for the asser-
ton that the holders of preferred A stock
of this company will receive a dividend
this year, and that the holders of all pre-
ferred stock will be receiving dividends in
the not distant future.
w. S. Brand, superintendent of the Geor-
gia Railroad, has been indicted by the
grand jury of De Kalb county, Georgia, for
violation of the state law in the running
of freight trains on Sunday The offenses
are alleged to have been committed on Feb.
l, ii and Il, this year.
c. c.. Waldo, general manager of the Gin
cnnati Hamilton &, Dayton lines, is home
from his vacation, and in fine trim for bust
ness, which he finds 40 be very heavy on
the c., H. e. D. lines The heavy movement
OF grain to Toledo and Detroit is offsetting
the light coal traffic.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton yes
terady took out of Indianapolis on it's At
lantic City excursion lO4 people which was
certainly a creditable number when it is
taken into consideration that this is the
fifth Atlantic City excursion run from In
dianapolis this season.
Several new postal cars have lust been
built by the Pennsylvania Company, which
are to be put on to run between S.. Louis
and Pittsburg over the Vandalia anG Pan
handle. In their construction a number of
cOnVenienceS have been introduced which
the postal clerks will appreciate.
Representatives of Southern roads are al
ready in the Northern field looking for bus
mess the coming fall and winter to pleasure
resorts of the Southern States. One OF their
number says they look for an unprecedented
increase in that class of business row that
the times have begun to improve.
Active work on the tunnel of the Great
Northern Railroad in the Cascade mount
aims commenced Friday. The tunnel win
feet wide and twenty-three feet high. 1t
will cost $20G0,000 and require two years in
building. 1t will reduce the ascent by one
thousand feet.
Homer Jones, a passenger conductor on
the the Southern Railway, running be-
tween Atlanta and Greenville S. c.. this
States government for $3.50 as a reward for
capturing a postal-car robber. The capture
occurred nine months ago, and the check
was surprise to its receiver
The ticket brokers of Cleveland have late
ly been doing considerable business in the
way Of gathering individual passengers in
parties OF ten or more ana thus securing
reduced rates by purchasing party tickets.
Now some of the roads which are not
pleased with the scalpers methods have
put a stop to the practice.
On Oct. ] the Baltimore & Ohio will put
on an additional train each way between
Washington and New York. in competition
with the Congressional and Federal Express
trains run by the Pennsylvania. Meantime
the Pennsylvania will make some changes
in the character of the equipment Of it's
train, which will doubtless increase their
popularity.
The Erie Railroad Company extended an
invitation to its freight officials. agents
etc. and to the out-of-town merchants now
in New York city, TO make q tour Of the
New York harbor on Wednesday. The OBJ
ject of the excursion was to give the mer-
chants an idea of the extraordinary facili-
ties the harbor affords for the handling of
large quantities of freight
Competitors are giving f. a. Ford. gen
eral passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg, considerable
trouble over the Panhandles differential
and the Lake Shore the Michigan Central
and the Baltimore & Ohio have petitioned
tNr nr.Sfdf nte 10 get the frt itf
grant a rehearing on the award Mr.. Ford