The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-05

the shipments to sea board points,
j. J. Turner. vice president and general
manager of the Vandalia lines, passed
through the CITY yesterday en- route TO Phil
adelphia. He was accompanied by his wife.
Edward Bowlby, one of the veteran engi-
neers on the Big -Four lines, who has been
Ill with typhoid fever has so nearly recov-
cred that he expects to resume work in
two weeks.
The official report of the Norfolk & West
ern for october shows the remarkable in
crease ase in IN net earnings over October 1896,
OF $780,, 1858, against $S6,2S2 last year, gain
this year of 315 per cent.
AS. the ticket collectors on the Wabash
gre being fitted out with new winter uni
eral Manager Ramsey has decided to make
the arrangement permanent one.
w. c. Arp, superintendent of motive pow
er of the Vandalia lines, who is having
comes over daily from Terre Haute to be
treated by one of the Indianapolis ply
Sicians.
Seldom has the insurance department of
been called on to pay so many benefits as
IN october, the disbursements aggregating
$4,000. Six of these benefits were for en-
g1neers killed in accidents.
The big Corlfss stationary engine, the
largest ever constructed, and the one used
to drive the machinery in the large hall at
the worlds fair, now furnishes power for
the Pullman works, at Pullman, and is
much admired by visitors
A. e. Robbins formerly with the Vanda-
LA, now superintendent of the Buffalo di-
vision of the Wabash, has been spending
two or three days with former friends on
the Vandalia line and looking after the con-
dition Of farm he owns in Illinois.
The pay rolls of the Indianapolis lines fol-
October, it is stated, will be the largest In
any month in the history of the roads.
This in the face of the fact that on some
of the roads a 10-per-cent reduction in
wages has been made, as compared with
1892.
President Stillwell and General Manager
Gillian, of the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
Gulf have just returned from a weeks stay
at Port Arthur, where the company is ex-
pending $250,00O in improvements. They re-
port work on Sabine pass channel progress
ing rapidly.
Peru, Ind, has become one of the most
active and profitable towns on the Wabash
system. On Tuesday there were fully one
hundred oil-tank cars on side tracks at that
point to be loaded, the product of scores of
oil wells being empued into the tanks for
shipment.
The new tunnel on the Pittsburg division
of the Baltimore & Ohio at Falls Cut will
be completed this month, and on Dec.
trains will begin running through It, 1t is
stated that the tunnel is a model piece of
railway underground work, with double
tracks through it.
If the Pennsylvania does not, in Novem-
Der and December, earn a cent more than
last year, its net earnings UP to the pres
made applicable to dividends but for the
extreme conservatism of the officers who
handle the finances of the road.
On the Pennsylvania system many engi-
neers who had been put back to firing two
years ago when freight business dwindled
have in the last two months been advanced
to their former positions, and freight con-
ductors who had been put back to break
ing are again in charge of trains.
George II. Gunnip, representing the Santa
Fe; A. G. Sherman, representing the Union
Pacific; r. McC. Smith. representing the
r1T717 raInlr md lox ont
ing the National Despatch, operating over
the Cincinnati. Hamilton q Dayton and
Grand Trunk, were in the city last evening.
The friends of M. B. Cutter, formerly with
the Baltimore & Ohio, are gratifed that he
has secured so important position on the
Lehigh Valley road as that of master of
of l. 400 miles of road to look after, giving
him ample opportunity to display his abil
ity.
The Salt Lake & Ogden Company. has
elected Simon Bamberger president, vice G.
K. Bannister. Mr.. Bannister was elected
vice president. E. w. Duncan treasurer and
to perform the duties of general manager or
the property.
Railway companies no longer stand spon-
sOrS in any way for debts which may be
contracted by men in their employ, and the
results have been quite satisfactory. 1t has
made the men more economical, and they
are learning to make one months pay last
until the next pay day, in some cases lay
ing by a little money each month Tor
rainy day.
The Chicago Great Western road has inn
proved it's service between Chicago and
Dubuque and between Chicago and Kan
sas City by putting on faster trains. A
change has also been made in the time of
the train between Chicago and st. Paul, 1t
leaving Chicago one hour earlier in the
evening than heretofore. These changes will
be effective next Sunday.
It is reported that at meeting of the
directors of the ST. Louis & San Francisco
road held in New York yesterday arrange
ments were made to acquire control or the
Blair line, otherwise known as the Kansas
CITY, Osceola & Southern Railroad. This
line runs from Kansas City to Osceola, a
distance of III miles and by building spur
the Frisco could connect with 1t and there
by secure an entrance into Kansas City.
The Toledo, ST. Louis & Kansas City
earned in October $225. 510.49, an increase
over October, 1896, of 81, is. That any in
crease is shown is in the nature OF sur
prise, as the statement is compared with
the best business month in the history or
the Clover-leaf line Since July 1 the road
has earned 1888, 92S.51, an increase over the
corresponding four months of 1896 OF
$42,631.16.
The American Society of Civil Engineers,
of which a number of indianapolis railroad
men are members, will on Nov. "A formal
ly open their new society building, No. 220
Fifty-seventh street, New York. The build
ing has been erected for the use of the So
ciety and is provided with all modern i'm
provements The opening exercises VIII be
held in the auditorium at $3.50 D. m, to be
followed in the evening by banquet and
dance.
A dispatch from Buluwayo says that the
newly constructed Buluwayo railway was
formally opened yesterday in the presence
of Sir Alfred Miner, governor of Cape
Colony ard high commissioner OF South
Africa, aid large aSSemblage of South
African officials, railway magnates and
capitalists. Cecil Rhodes, owing to illness,
was unable to be present at the ceremony
but his name and that of Mr.. Chamberlain
were cheered with the greatest enthusiasm.
The sale of the Kansas Pacific branch of
the Union Pacific Railway under the gov
eminent foreclosure set for yesterday in
Topeka, was postponed till Thursday Dec.
16 w. d. Cornish, of st. Paul special
master was present, and at II O'Clock APP
peared at the depot of the Union Pacific.
There were bidders present and none
was expected. Mr.. Cornish, anticipated,
simply and formally announced that, under
the authority of the court, he adjourned
the SALE
The Michigan division of the Vandalia
lir es is now doing the largest business since
constructed. VIM. r. McKeen, former pres
ident OF the Vandalia lines, watches with
more than ordinary interest the develop
ment of this division, as it was on his ad .
vice that the stockholders of the Terre
Haute g. Indianapolis decided to take con-
troll of the property. 1t is now developing,
ard it is said that other roads are ready 10
take it if the Pennsylvania Company should
choose to relinquish it's grip on it.
The Pennsylvania lines have been expert
menting with the plan of paying freight
handlers the tonnage basis instead Of by
the hour. They are paid by the ar for
the class of work that cannot be paid for