The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-04
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Joseph Ramsey, general manager of the
Wabash, will be in the city to-day.
II. w. Deane, conductor on the Vandalia
is SO i'll that it is not expected he will re-
cover.
The passenger department of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio has ISSUED a novel and con-
venient calendar for 1888
II. c. .Graybill, traffic manager OF the In
dianapolis stock yards and BELT road has
gone to West Baden springs.
The passenger department of the Lake
Shore has issued a novel ticket envelope in
the form of small mail pouch.
1t is stated that the Chicago. Burlington
81 Quincy will this year earn over per
cent. on its stock, after paying all other
obligations
There are to-day forty five more men en-
Ployed IN the shops of the Lake Erie &
Western at Peru than at any other time in
the past ten years.
The directors of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois have declared the usual quarterly
dividend of IL per cent. on the preferred
stock, payable Jan. g.
Since Wednesday morning Western lines
have delivered at the Indianapolis stock
yards G04 carloads of live stock, largely
hogs.
In November there were handled at the
Union Station 40,545 pieces of baggage,
against IS. $50 pieces in November last year
an Increase this year of 2,5l5 pieces.
w, r. Zulich, general utility man of the
Railway Officials and Employees Associa-
ton, yesterday left for a trip over Texas
roads, where the association has large
membership.
Estimated gross earnings of the Rock ISL
and system for the month of November
were $l,644,731, an increase over the esti-
mated earnings of the same month last
year of $443,095
John e. Turner, district passenger agent
OF the Northern Pacific at this point who
has been seriously i'll for some weeks with
typhoid fever, is improving, but is still con-
fined to his room.
Frank Wade, city passenger agent of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton 81 Dayton at this
point will succeed Walter Nichols pro-
NOTED, as travelling passenger agent of the
u, ii. d ID. lines.
In November the Panhandle forwarded
east from the Indianapolis stock yards 292
carloads of cattle, 362 carloads of hogs
(double-deck cars) and SO carloads of
horses, total OF 752 carloads of live stock.
The Joint Traffic Association has fixed
the rate of one and third fare the round
trip for students between trunk lines and
Western termini of the Central Passenger
Association points account of the holi-
days.
Superintendent Zion yesterday notified
the roads running into the Union Station
that the system TO supply cars with water
was now ready Tor use. IL cost the Union
Railway Company 500 to furnish such
service.
The spark arrester invented by J. Snow
den, OF Pittsburg, has been tested for sew
eral weeks on locomotives of the Baltimore
IL OHIO with the most gratifying results,
and it will be adopted generally on the B.
& o. lines.
The interchangeable mileage book. since
modined, general passenger agents say is
giving satisfaction to the travelling public
and it is certainly increasing the revenues
of the roads and driving ticket scalpers out
of business.
The citizens of North Manchester are
very much in earnest TO secure the Fort
Wayne, F1ndlay & Western road when ex-
tended through their place. The road as
originally located passed through North
Manchester.
Capt. Charles A. Taylor, traffic manager
of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Poto-
mac, well-known freight official, is so ill
that but little hope is entertained of his
recovery. He is suffering from a compli-
cation of diseases. and is gradually wasting
away.
The Western roads have agreed on the
rates for the holidays They will be one
and one-third fare where the rate is cents
per mile and where it is over cents per
mile the rates will be one and a fifth. The
tickets will have a final return limit of
Jan. T.
A few days ago the Pennsylvania Com
pany placed on Trains and TO- running
bined ladies' car and smoking car and so
popular is II proving that +. A. Ford, gem
erai passenger agent of the lines SAYS
more will be built to be used on other di-
visions
The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad re-
organization plan, while progressing in the
hands of the committee, is not yet COM
lished in dispatches from Toledo to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. Reorge nization in
terestS stated yesterday that while the plan
was going forward, there was no authority