The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-17

of the Pennsylvania Company Thursday.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
r. e. Smith on Monday became the SUI
perintendent of the motive power of the
Atlantic Coast line
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie. a Lake Shore
interest. has declared a dividend or . per
cent, payable March i.
w. A. Arid has assumed the duties of
master mechanic of the Grand Trunk, vice
+. /. Wanklyn, resigned.
John Lame, of the Union Depot force
who has been confined at home with heart
trouble for some days, was yesterday bet
ter.
OF 129 roads which make financial reports
90 show losses aggregating S2,543,lOl in the
month of January, as compared with Janu-
airy, 1896.
c. P. Cory, formerly contracting agent
of the Michigan Central. has accepted the
position of general agent of the Graham d
Morton Transportation Company.
ID. F. Jack, third vice president of the
plant system, has been placed in charge Of
the freight traffic of the entire system,
with headquarters at Savannah. Ga.
w. w. Peabody, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Baltimore K Ohio
Southwestern. was in the city last evening
en- route from Peoria to Cincinnati
F. r. Drake receiver of the Cincinnati
Jackson & Mackinaw, returned from New
the board will be effected within thirty
days.
s Snyder. who for twenty-five years was
an engineer on the Grand Rapids q lndi-
ana was buried yesterday at Fort Wayne.
About three years ago he retired from rai,-
reading.
Under the new time schedule of the Santa
Fe passenger can leave indianapolis via
st. Louis and cover the distance between
this city and Los Angeles In three days,
four hours and thirty-five minutes.
w ]. C. Kenyon, general freight agent
of the Chicago. Burlington a Northern,
aCfrr eara1
eral passenger agent, Will temporarily look
after the duties of the position vacated.
w. II. Fisher. general passenger agent of
the Columbus & Hooking Valley, has is
ing the company's new line from Detroit
TO Jersey City via Washington and Baiti-
more.
The lines i'm the Central Passenger Com
mittee will meet on Feb. % in Chicago TO
consider the division of second-claSS buSl-
ness between Chicago and New York as
was recommended by the Central Traffic
Association Committee.
Within the last two weeks contracts have
been placed with the Ilnnois Steel Company
to be filled this year for $5,OOOOOO worth of
new steel rails. and many of the orders We e
given as in the case OF the Nandalia, for
twice the original amount II desired
The veterans in service on the Pittsburg.
Fort Wayne & Chicago have organized,
electing Anthony kelker president. j. w.
Orr secretary and Samuel kelker treasurer,
and a committee has been selected to ar
range for reunion at an early day.
The Big Four has six of the compound
gines in service. These engines weigh 1885,
$50 pounds and haul thirty-five TO forty cars
from Indianapolis TO kankakee without
trouble. and as many over the ST. Louis
division.
The Louisville & Nashville is unfortunate
i'm the placing of its contracts for steel rails.
In the early winter il made contract for
$1,000 tons at S2i ton. Carnegie made Il
h hut "A English
which secured the contract but afterward
turned il over TO Carnegie and then claims
to have made a profit.
The suit brought by Henry Willard
against the Northern Pacific AZ Manitoba
Railway Company for an accounting as to
the disposition of bonds belonging to the
road W 1rth between A.000000 and $1,000 900
has been discontinued The terms of the
settlement are not known.
The Wabash has no reason to complain of
light business as compared with its COM
at near its maximum. The road is hauling
east daily from 325 TO $50 loaded cars. and
on Sunday 1t reached 316 loaded cars east
bound. AS with other roads, its west
bound business Is disappointing.
General Manager Green of the Baltimore
a. Ohio. has instructed division superin-
tendentS that hereafter on all excursion
trains there must be two conductors, one
to collect the tickets and the other TO look
after the running of the train. This is done
as a precautionary measure against acct
dents. The inauguration train over the
road will be run with two conductors.
John Brown. an ex-Panhandle engineer
died at Logansport on Monday from sec
ond stroke of paralysis He made himself
quite prominent during the strike of 1873,
giving up his position, and since that time
has travelled good deal, but never has
run a locomotive. One of the singular
things connected with that strike is that
no engineer on the Panhandle who left his
engine has found employment in the run
ming of locomotive.
There was a wreck on the Belt road yes
terday afternoon, and for three hours the
Union tracks were used for the through
freights which usually are run over the
of the Belt road was fully demonstrated, as.
while IL was not the busiest time of day
had the Belt road been open for traffic. the
trains which were thrown on TO the Union
tracks kept the streets blockaded much OF
the time some of the trains hauling from
thirty-flve 10 forty cars.
A call has been issued for meeting OF
the Chicago-St Paul lines To be held i'm
Chicago on Friday OF this week. The cd
question of the division of traffic will come
up for discussion and the conduct of the
Paul will also be investigated. A PROPOSE
ton looking 10 the division OF transatlantic
business among the roads will also be con-
sidered. and the matter of the proposed
agreement with the 500 line and the Can
adian Pacific east-bOund business will
also be taken up.
The manipulation of tickets has grown
to be such an evil with the larger roads
that they are making more effort to dis
cover these Irregularities and 10 punish
the offenders. General Passenger Agent
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