The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-08
Personal, Local and General Note,

Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Lake Erie & Western earned in No
vember $215,6S3 against $240,5H in November,
The Wabash earned in November $1O61.-
$50. 1889.
The indianapolis & vincennes hauled
from mines on Its line in November Q 422
carloads of coal
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois earned in
November $404 AS, an increase over Novem-
Der, 1886, of $4,000.
The Vandalia lines for November show
an increase in gross earnings over Novem-
Der last year of $5S,560
H. M. Bronson. assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four, has gone to CHI
cago on official business.
John F. Miller, general superintendent of
was in the city yesterday.
c. d. Law, superintendent of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, returned
from Colorado on Monday.
The Peoria. & Eastern on it's western di-
vision was yesterday ZOO cars short of fill
ing its orders at local stations.
G. H. Rockwell, traffic manager of the
Monon, is making a trip over the line and
VIII probably be in indianapolis to-day.
w. w. Mansfield, superintendent Of the
Indianapolis & Vincennes, who has been in
Pittsburg several days, viii return to-day.
Gross earnings of the Illinois Central for
the month Of November were $2,534,427 an
last year.
II. Butcher has been appointed agent of
the Vandalla at Lucerne, vice j. G. Cor
nell, transferred to the telegraph Office at
Plymouth, Ind.
j. A. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria & Eastern, will go to Cincinnati this
morning to attend banquet to be given
this evening by Mrs. Nj. Z. Ingalls,.
II. H. Porter, chairman of the executive
board of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
was in Cincinnati yesterday and will to-day
be in Indianapolis on official business.
The Chicago G. West Michigan uses gates
on all its passenger cars and requires pas
sengers desiring TO use their trains to show
their tickets when entering the coaches.
When the Wabash gets it's new steel rail
in between Danville, ILL.,, and Toledo, the
running time of its fast trains will be re-
duced another hour between those points.
John Riley. superintendent of the Peoria
& Eastern, has for the last two years prac-
ticed the Brown system of discipline, and
the results have, he says, been highly salts
factory
Train Master Connolly. of the Peoria C
Eastern, who has been very i'll with typhoid
fever, and who was thought TO be much
better last week, had relapse and his re-
coVery is now in doubt.
At no point on the Big Four system have
as handsome gains been shown in revenue,
both from passenger and freight business,
compared with former years, as at Indian
apolis, the last four months.
The directors of the Chicago & North
quarterly dividend of Ia per cent. on the
preferred stock and the regular semi-annual
dividend on the common stock of 2h per
cent.
Chief Engineer Hall, of the Monon, has
completed plans for a six-stali roadhouse at
Bedford. The stone traffic of the road at
this point is such that a good deal of power
is required to do the work and to make up
trains.
H. l.. Peck, chief clerk at the Big Four
city freight depots, accompanied by his
wife. will go to Los Angeles Cal. to visit
his father, Thomas Peck, who formerly re-
sided in Indianapolis, and who is row in
poor health.
In November there were loaded and UNI
loaded at the Big Four city freight depots,
as shown by the official report Of Henry
Fraser, general agent, 6907 cars, an increase
of 1,121 cars over the number handled in
November, 1886.
Business on the Michigan division of the
Big -Four is so heavy that the company is
putting in longer and additional side tracks.
The road is now running three trains
where 1t did one before the extension TO
Benton Harbor was completed.
The citizens of Brazil, Ind. are not
pleased with the new time schedule of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois for it's through
service. claiming that it would be better
for the road to give Brazil more attention
and the business OF Terre Haute less
Tho Indianapolis Car and Foundry Com
pany is building one hundred cars for the
Chicago q Alton Terminal Company, and
has several contracts for a smaller number
Of cars. The company is now employing
large force in repairing line and private
company cars.
An Eastern financial paper states that
some change is near at hand with the To-
ledo, St. Louis q Kansas City and ex-
presseA the opinion that the first mortgage
bondholders will be placed in active con-
troll OF the property. The litigation record
of this road eclipses that Of any other rail-