The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-22

! contfact Tor his new $1,000 residence IN
| Ierre Haute with Contractor Mitchell. TWO
Indianapolis contractors were among the
| bidders.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific this
month resumed the paying of the employees
! by pay cars going over the lines. After
paying by check for five years the company
found that the pay Car gave much better
| satisfaction.
The selection of a president of the Nickel
plate to relieve S. r. Galloway Of the re-
| sponsiDllity is still undecided, but matters
move along as well as usual. Mr. Gallo
way IS also president of the Lake Shore
| ana the Pittsburg & Lake Erie.
II IS stated that the situation with the
fitchburg road is improving. Both freight
| ana passenger business are highly satisfac-
! tory at present, and the charges of crook
! edness in some departments are shown to
nave been somewhat exaggerated
John F Cooper. foreman of the shops of
| the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City. at
Erankfort, and at one time with the Lake
! ERIE d Western, was buried yesterday at
frankfort. He was for twelve years SUI
perintendent OF the Lafayette car works.
| On but few roads in the country do the
| tram crews make the money per month
that the men on the indianapolis Belt road
| 40 who do the transferring from yard to
| yard. The day men get $27S per day, the
night men S2.S6, and can be at home when
| off duty.
Hereafter Train al. on the Cincinnati.
Hamilton e. Dayton, leaving Indianapolis
| at 245 p. M, will haul another coach. Pas
| sengers who take that train will have
fore the Indiana, Decatur & Western COR
| nection arrives.
The present week the Panhandle has Civ
en- employment to fourteen additional fire.
men TO take the place of firemen who have
been promoted to engineers. Traffic is so
heavy that there are now no locomotives
standing in roundhouses on the Pennsyl-
vania lines West
Wabash train crews, 1t is stated are in
dlgnant that the general superintendent,
IN issuing orders that they secure their
hqG q fho hot Of tr1ao r.Jo
noted that these suits must be purchased
irom certain firms in Chicago, Toledo or
ST Louis, naming the firms
The Big Four will on Sunday next RIM
cheap excursion to Chicago from Lafayette
ana points on its line north and also one
from Cincinnati and Louisville to Indian
day excursion business unless the weather
III November is unusually fine.
A line from o. p. McCarty, recently APP
pointed general passenger agent of the Bal
timore & Ohio Southwestern, states that he
mad recovered from his recent illness and
would be at his post to-day Mr.. McCarty
ner experience with the road to aid him in
the selection of good men as assistants
The statement of the Panhandle for Sep
tember, when analysed, shows an increase
IN earnings applicable to dividends of near
t ~ ~ per oo cent when compared with Sep
tenioef 1885 me hrst nine months in this
year the Panhandle lines earned fixed
charges, 4 per cent. on the preferred stock
and Sept. 80 had over 100000 in excess of
the sum required.
The executive committee of the Western
Passenger Association held a meeting at
Chicago yesterday for the purpose of get
ting the large commissions that the West
ern roads have been paying in west-bound
business scaled down somewhat The meet
ing did not accomplish anything, owing to
the absence of two or three lines whose
presence was desirable.
gentleman who was with the Penn
sylVanla inspection party when it was an
nounced that George M. Pullman was dead
INN sod xtyff1
announcement, as only Thursday of last
week Mr.. Pullman was with the party all
DAY ana showed them with great pride
through the town of Pullman. He then an
peared to be in excellent health
Nearly all of the roads running out of Chi
cago, and particularly those to the East
are nnding difficulty in caring for their per-
ishable freight 1t has become very seri-
Gus problem where to find sufficient cars
Tor the heavy movement of this class Of
freight, and some of the roads have been
compelled to decline to handle the goods
for lack of transportation facilities.
Nick Dodson, of the vandalia is about
the Terre Haute q Indianapolis. The first
TWO years, when he was train boy he re-
celved $40 a month for cleaning the oil
privilege of selling pies and cakes on the
Trans, newspapers not then being sold on
trains. He was a fireman for several years
and in 1865 was given an engine to run
The Union Pacific has officially notified
it's representative in this city, Mr. T. c.
w aLace, that the sale OF through tickets
to points on and via the o. r. q NJ Com
pany, in connection with the former line
has been resumed and that through trains
will run from Chicago to Portland the
same as heretofore The through service
via Sacramento to Portland will, however
be continued.
The scarcity of cars on Ohio Michigan,
Illinois and Indiana roads is being felt more
seriously as the miscellaneous freights and
the fall crops other than grain begin to
move The Vanderbilt people, it is stated
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orders to move other than grain freights
The demand is for furniture cars, live stock
cars and cars to transport cabbage onions
potatoes and other fall crops.
1t is stated that w. H. McDoel. vice pres
ident and general manager of the Chicago
Indianapolis & Louisville, is opposed to the
o. southeastern, fearing that it will be an
elephant OF the hands of the Monon. but
Harry C1awford, president of the Chicago
earnestness President Thomas. of the
Monon, to take THE road off his hands
The railroad superintendents of bridges
ana buildings who have been in session at
Denver for the past three days, finished
their labors yesterday, choosing Richmond
Va, for their next meeting place and eject
ing the following officers for the ensuing
year. W. g. Berg president: T. r Cum.
min, first vice president; A. S. MarkIey sec
ond vice president; c. Inman, third vice
pdresiaent; :. Z; Maitland, fourth vice pres
ldent; >. f. Patterson, secretary; w M.
Thompson, treasurer; George J. Bishop
chairman of the executive committee
From remarks by members of the Penn
sylFahla inspection party it is evident that
they returned East with a much better
opinion of the Michigan division Of the
Nandalia than they had heretofore enter
tanned, both as to the business ii is now
DONG and that in prospect. When the Nc
Aeen syndicate secured cOnotrOl of the
Michigan division it was thought to be
very shrewd move, and if the Fennsylvania
people want to get rid of il there are par
tles II Is stated who would readily step
IN ana assume its obligations and oper-
ate it.
President Miller, Of the Chicago, Milwau-
TO newspaper reporter that the business
Improvement before noted still continues
Inc grain movement, however. is showing
E. material falling off, ana is now less than
IL was last year. In the first two weeks of
october there has been decrease in this
Kind of freight of 1850 loaded cars. The
whole car movement, however shows
gam or 1870 cars in the same period and on
all lines the west-bound business is show
ing good improvement. October, as is usual
every year, should be a month of heavy
earnings.
The trunk lines have notified the lines in
the western Passenger Association that the
requirements Of the latter regarding the
the trunk lines on business passing through
Mississippi river gateways other than ST.
Louis cannot be complied with at present
The increase demanded by the trunk lines
on business not passing through ST Louis
was in each instance s. and the lines of the
Western Passenger Asso ciation demanded
that all the gateways should be on the same