The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-10

Courthouse last night ana the proposed
Vincennes & New Albany Railroad was
discussed. Speeches were made by Mayor
Green, Col Albert Il. Boone, Gen. j. G.
Williams and other capitalists and pro-
meters. 1t is proposed to make the line
part of the Black Diamond system.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
The earnings of the New York Central
for August were $456219 in excess of those
of August. 1896.
NJ. E. ingalls,, president OF the Big Four,
IS expected home tomorrow from hot
Springs, w. Va.
On Sept. 16 and II the Monon will run a
special train from Frankfort and points
this side for persons who wish to attend
the state fair.
1t is pay day to-day on the Belt road
and at the Union Station and the pay roll
is getting up to good times figures, being
for August, $l4562.
II. G.. Stiles general agent of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton lines. will, on
Sept. 10, complete the twenty ninth year OF
service with that system of roads.
An anglo-German syndicate, including
the Rothschilds, it is announced in London,
has offered the Brazilian government
900 for the Central Railroad of Brazil.
The one thousand box cars that President
Ingalls, has contracted for for the Big -Four
and the same number for the Chesapeake
q Ohio are to be delivered within ninety
days.
1t is stated on good authority that E. F.
will not leave that company to accept serv-
ice with the Armour Transportation Com
pany.
The Lake Erie e. Western Yesterday
Dayton eleven coaches loaded with eX-
cursionists to the Soldiers Home, at Day
ton, o.
Quails are reported unusually abundant in
southern Michigan, and daily the Cincin-
natl Hamilton g. Dayton is carrying large
parties of hunters and fishermen to that
section.
There has been such an Increase of late
in the local freight business that at the city
freight depotS more men have been en-
ployed, and working over time is again not
unusual.
Buffalo ticket scalpers locating at Indian
apols has instilled new life into the bust
ness. The new offices have placed criers at
their doors on the sidewalks, and the other
scalpers have followed suit.
The business of the Michigan division of
the Big Four is now so heavy that twenty
eight regular crews are now employed in
the train service, and all are making full
time, and in some cases extra time.
On Sunday the Peoria & Eastern will run
an excursion train to this city from Cham
paign and points this side. The Big Four
will run one from Indianapolis to Lafay-
cite, and one from Cincinnati to Indian
apolis.
1t is stated that there is some truth in
the report that dividing the Lake Shore
road between Buffalo and Chicago into
three divisions is contemplated, making
Cleveland and Butler, Ind, the division
points
The directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul road have decided to declare
the regular semi-annual dividend of per
cent and an extra dividend of l per cent;
A dividend of 312 per cent. on the preferred
stock was also declared.
w. f. Bent, a veteran in service on the
Chicago & Rock Island and secretary of
the vice president of the road, is at the
Brown Santarium for treatment He re-
a n a
yond parallel and limited to cars.
The new depot of the Wabash at Attica is
completed. and was opened yesterday for
business by Agent Gilbert. The building is
a very neat structure, and when its sur
roundingS are put in order will he one OF
the most attractive on the Wabash lines.
A. L. Mohler, who has been elected presi-
dent of the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company, was for many years general
manager of the Minneapolis & St Louis.
a. S. Heiselhaeh. of New York, has been
elected as chairman of the executive COM
mittee of the company
The report turned in by Conductor Nc
Clintock, of Train H. west bound oyer the
st. Louis division Of the Big Four, for
gers to go through to st. Louis, and 1853 for
local points, making a total of 217 pas
sengers on the train when 1T left Indian
apolis.
Mail Train H. over the Panhandle, is
scheduled between Pittsburg and Indian
apolis at forty-two miles an hour but 1t
day hauling ten cars one of the Class p
engines made up between Pittsburg and
Columbus on this fast time one hour and
ten minutes.
Some of the local agents and conductors
on passenger trains are not yet familiar
with the use of the new mileage book. and
general passenger agents on such lines nave
sent notices to representatives OF the roads
that if there is any feature of this mileage
that is not understood they should consult
the passenger department at once.
.1.1f- II l.
twenty-fourth year of service on what is
now the Michigan City division of the Lake
Erie & Western. He commenced on the
road when 1t was known as the lndian-
apolis, Peru & Chicago and his father vas
its Superintendent. For the last nine years
he has run a passenger engine.
Daniel Donough. general ticket agent at
the Union Station, expresses surprise over
the manner the new mileage is being pur-
chased. Many Of the travelling statesmen
are turning in their old books for the in
Interchangeable mileage, which is good over
thirty-two roads and therefore very con-
venient mileage to have instead of mileage
books over the different roads
A. Galloway superintendent of the In
dianapolis and Cincinnati division of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton, was in the
city yesterday. He says every car and To-
connective the company owns fit for service
is in use, even their coal cars for the road
is again hauling seVenty-nve TO one hundred
carloads of coal north to the lakes daily,
it being shipped from Louisville and Gin
cinnati
In August the Big Four handled on its
Michigan division 1921 passengers, the
largest number in any one month in many
years except on the occasion of the q. A.
r. encampment at Louisville. The first day
of September there were handled on this
division $500 passenger, against 4,4B the
first day of July this year. This, Superin-
tendent Blizzard says, shows what the IN
crease in passenger business on that d1-
vision has been Of late.
The annual meeting of the Chicago
Great Western road was held yesterday.
The term of three directors expired, but all
three We're reelected to succeed them
of the road are set forth in the annual re-
port as follows: Freight earnings $3,549o10,
an increase of 1914; passenger earnings,
1898, 1872 a decrease of $39. 473; gross earnings,
81 csc $50, a decrease of $2S96l; operating
expenses. $3,4275S7, an increase of $1lL30;
net earnings, 81 253, 271, decrease of $lf6,206.
1t is intimated that the heavy business
the Decline division Of the Big -Four is
doing is due to the fact that the Lake
Shore and New York Central people
thought that President ingalls, was running
the Chesapeake q Ohio via Newport News
business too strong and asked for little
more business for the Vanderbilt lines
north There is now a large elevator at
Cleveland which enables the Western lines
to handle grain at that point without con-
gestion as has been the case in former
years when there is a rush Of grain east
ward.
The statement that the through line over
the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton and
Monon between Chicago and indianapolis
was established by Charles Rockwell at
present general traffic manager of the
Monon Is a mistake. 1T was put on by
Samuel Stevenson when general passenger
agent of the c., H. & D., and William