The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-19

this month, including Sundays handled an
average of 5,007 loaded cars per day.
The Ohio Falls car works are now very
busy building both passenger and freight
equipment. largely for Southern lines.
John Elliott, the Vandalia conductor who
was killed accidentally last Friday, carried
a policy for $1,000 with the order of Railway
Conductors.
The Big Four people expect to get 10000
tons more of new heavy steel rail in their
track between Indianapolis and st. Louis
before winter sets in.
Last week, in one day, the Columbus &
Hooking Valley delivered to lake vessels g.,
2lS tons of coal, it being transferred by
Brown hosting machine
Last week the Indianapolis & Vncennes
hauled from the coal mines on its line 572
carloads of COAL the heaviest for many
months in any one week.
The stockholders Of the Cincinnati, San
dusky q Cleveland, operated by the Big
Four, viii. on Nov. /, receive semi-an-
nual dividend of per cent.
The Cincinanti, Hamilton & Dayton in
Wado at 5 head WIN yesefday left Toedo
for an inspection of the main line.
The general managers and general SUI
perintendents of the roads constituting the
Union Railway Companys operating de-
partment will hold their regular monthly
meeting to-day
Yesterday Frank Sladden succeeded r. c.
Longacre, promoted to division freight
agent of the Erie, as chief clerk of the
general freight department of the Erie lines
west of Salamanca.
Wells, French & Co. are building one
hundred refrigerator cars for the Santa Fe,
which are said to be an Improvement on
any cars of this class yet built in the way
of storing and keeping ice.
On Sunday last the Big Four, on different
rate Sunday excursions, and all were well
patronized, that from Indianapolis to Cincin-
natl carrying 1872 excursionists.
The Central Vermont is about to be re-
l. L.-, xrAfo
in the reorganization. The Central Vermont
turns over to the Grand Trunk annually
million dollars worth of business.
On the later train yesterday Harry Fuller,
d Ohio, and ID. b. Martin, passenger traffic
manager of the Baltimore & Ohio, passed
through the city en- route to ST. Louis.
o. v. Eaton, of San Francisco, represent
ing the passenger department of the South
ern Pacific, was in the city yesterday. He
states that California passenger men are
looking for large Pacific coast travel the
coming winter
The general passenger agents were much
disappointed that General Passenger Agent
Wood, of the Pennsylvania road, who was
St. Louis, was taken so i'll en- route that
he had to return to Philadelphia.
One of the finest trains that ever passed
through the Union Station was the special
of the Pennsylvania road, yesterday morn
ing, carrying the general passenger agents
to st. Louis The entire distance the train
made a very high speed record.
now 50 arge that at e on its
stock are predicted. The track of the road
has been put in good condition and rates
are being maintained. The road never ham
died as large tonnage as this fall
George Burns. private secretary Of Gen.
eral Manager Ramsey, of the Wabash, and
general fuel agent, was in the city yester,,
hardly be doing any better than at the
present time. Every engine and car fit for
service is kept on the move
The street fairs at different points in this
State and Illinois have been quite rev.
enue Garner to the railroads On three
successive days last week the Big -Four
took several thousand people eacn day 10
the street fair at Nation, ILL., 1t is esti-
mated that on one day the railways car
ried 10000 people to that town
The estimated gross earnings OF the Bal
tinore & Ohio for September, 1897, as com
pared with September, 1886, when the Har-
risonburg branch, now cut off. was part
of the system were 81. 319,065 an increase of
$26,1S4. The Harrisonburg branch IN sep
tember 1896, earned $15.2S253 making
legitimate increase for September, 1897, or
$41, 1853.
The Brooks locomotive works have Sc
cured the order to build twenty ten-wheel
freight engines for the Lake Shore road.
The engine proper will weigh 10S,OO0 pounds,
which, on the Lake Shore road, will haul
as many loaded cars as an engine weighing
10000 pounds on a majority or roads. The
engines will have II by 24-inch cylinders
and 56-inch driving wheels.
An official of the Big Four remarked yes
terday he could not see what train the Big
Four could take off between Cincinnati and
Chicago either way to advantage, as every
train run is a good paying train the year
round, and the only way any change could
be made would be to make the fast express
train do more local work between stations
and this would not satisfy business men.
The complaint of Mortimer Hendricks of
New York city, against the Manhattan
Railway Company, alleging that its direct
ors had unlawfully paid out FUNDS Id;s OF the
gregating $4,000 COG, and asking that an in
vestigation be made of the affairs OF the
company for period of six years. was dis
missed by the New York railroad commits
sion yesterday.
At the meeting last week of the Peoria,
Decatur & Evansville first mortgage At
lantic Trust Company certificate holders
the plan of reorganization was submitted
by the first mortgage bondholders commit
tee and unanimously adopted. Present lndi,
on its feet and reorganized on basis which
will enable it to pay operating expenses and
fixed charges.
A leading official of the Joint Traffic As
ISOLATION denied yesterday that whatever
the decision of the United States Supreme
Court as to the legality of its agreement
may be, it will proceed to wind up its al
fairs and go out of business This official
who speaks by authority, declared that the
association offices will be retained in New
York in any event If only as bureau of
information and general assistance to the
roads east of Chicago.
Under the former management the phys
ical condition of the Iowa Central was al
lowed to deteriorate, as was its equipment,
but under the now more aggressive man
agement it's earnings are increasing hand
someiy, and 1t is said that, without embar-
rassment, the company can begin the eX-
tensive improvements required to place the
property on line with its competitors. The
net earnings of the road the first two
months of it's fiscal year increased $75,654.
The Sunset Limited" the vestibule linn
tied train, composed Of gentleman's library,
smoking and buffet car, ladies' parlor OBJ
serVatiOn and library car, Pullman cOmpart-
ment and drawing room sleeping cars and
dining car which, during the past two win
ter seasons, has been operated on fast time
between New Orleans and Los Angeles and
San Francisco will begin semi-weekly serv-
ice between Chicago and Los Angeles and
San Francisco to-day.
East-bound freight shipments from Chi
cago for the week ending Oct. IA amounted
to 81 1876 tons, against 46167 the previous
week Give days., and 51,520 last year, d.
hardle 9,93S tons; Michigan Central 1881;
Wabash. 5.771: Lake Shore, 9,I51; Fort
WAYNE 5 403 Baltimore & Ohio, 4O26 Grand
Trunk S,024; Nickel-plate, 5625; Erie. 6753:
Big Four, 4,5S3 The lake lines carried Isl, 900
tons.
The Terre Haute & Indianapolis Railroad
filed a bill in the Federal Court at Chicago
yesterday against the Peoria & Pekin Union
Railroad Company for an injunction to re-
strain prosecution of suits for rentals in the
State court at Peoria. The suit arises from
an old dispute over the rentral of tracks of
the Peoria & Pekin Union Railroad the
Union Depot in Peoria being used by the
purchased by the Terre Haute & Indianapo-
lis road.