The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-02

Personal, Local and General Notes.
The passenger station of the Big Four
at North Bend was burned early yester-
day morning.
w F. Wilson, general manager of the
West Shore line. who is on a Western trip,
was in the city yesterday.
]. r. Cavanaugh, car service superin-
tendent of the Big Four is confined at home
| by an attack of pneumonia.
William Lamb. chief of the passenger car
| distribution on the Big Four, and wife, re-
turned yesterday from their bridal trip.
The Wabash reports gross earnings for
October .$l,305,010, increase, $2lO.S0l and net
$4SS, 19S increase, Sl13,2 65. Net increase Tor
four months was s2S4O3S.
Oscar Armstrong yesterday took charge
of the city ticket Office of the Big Four at
Lafayette. He has been ticket agent In the
Union Station for some years.
The Panhandle is building new depot at
Hartford, Ind. and has put its own me-
chanics at work on the building, number
of the bridge men now being idle.
In November there were handled on the
Big Four system 1852 loaded cars, against
,529 in November, 1886, an increase for
November this year of 1903 cars.
President Van Horne, of the Canadian
Pacific Railway, says the company has de-
cided to build a road of its own TO Ross-
land, B. c.. pushing the work as rapidly as
possible.
j. A. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria & Eastern, and his chief engineer,
are spending three days on the Western
division, inspecting the road and the shops
| at Urbana.
Charles F. Hammant, who for many
years has run between st. Louis and New
| York via Indianapolis as Pullman CON
| ductor, is very low at st. Louis with
| typhoid fever
Isaac Sdle the oldest engineer in time of
service on the Wabash lines, was buried at
| Toledo on Tuesday. He has been in the
employ of the Wabash forty years, the last
| thirty-five running a locomotive.
1 90 q
| White line, yesterday had conference
| with the representatives of the line in this
/ territory. Among the agents i'll attendance
| was S. d. McLeish, of Evansville.
| The Northern Pacific road under the title
of Key to the Klondike." has issued very
! attractive and instructive folder Much IN
formation is given which will be of interest
/ to any person contemplating going TO the
| klondike region.
| E. O. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
| ager of the Big Four, and F. d. Comstock,
treasurer of the company. were in the city
! yesterday route to Lafayette, Where
| they, with their wives attended the we'd
ding of a brother of Mr.. Mccormick
The business at the stock yards is now
! eclipsing all former records. On Tuesday
| Western lines delivered at the yards 155
carloads of hogs and cattle and yesterday
| ISL carloads. On Tuesday 300 carloads of
stock were handled on the Belt road.
telegram from James Barker. general
| passenger agent of the Missouri, Kansas c1
Texas, states that the company has put on
a line of tourist cars to run between st.
| Louis and Galveston, a new feature IN pas
gulf.
! In November there were handled at the
| city freight depots of the pennsylvania
lines at Indianapolis 36, 522 pounds OF
| freight. representing 1862 cars against 3d.
/ 26T075 pounds representing 1923 cars, in
November, 1896 Increase this year 4,524,44I
pounds.
The Belt Road Company is short Of pow
/ inc n
rent couple of engines from the Big -Four
| or Panhandle. Belt road engines are now
! handling a large number of cars for the
| packing houses, the four large concerns be-
| ing in full operation.
There will be no change in the grain rates
| east from Chicago for some time, the trat-
! tic officials of the Eastern roads having
| failed to reach an agreement. 1t is likely
! that the matter will be taken up at meet
ing of the Eastern lines to be held in New
York within the next ten days.
A. Galloway, superintendent of the Gin
! cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton main line and
Indianapolis division was in the city yes
/ terday for conference with Superintend-
! ent Graves, of the Indiana, Decatur 6.
Western as to handling the interchange of
| business at this point more expeditiously.
John G. Mason, district passenger agent
| of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, has
! been appointed general Southern agent of
| the road, succeeding John Leahey, re-
| signed on account Of III health. John Will
hanson ticket agent at the e., H. q D.
| station at ClnClnnatl, succeeds MT. Mason
| as district passenger agent.
The receipts from the sales of tickets
| over the Big Four lines at Indianapolis for
November. were s41570.30, against $S2, 451: 10
! in November 1896; increase this year 49,,
1920. The increase is the more striking
from the fact that last year there was d
| ticket office near the Union Station, which
| increased the expenses at this point
Col. J. G. Everest. general agent of the
| Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul, and r. c.
Jones, travelling passenger agent of the
| same road, are in the city Mr.. Everest
states that the company expects to put on
it's new trains between Chicago and st.
! Paul by Christmas. and that they will ex-
| eel in completeness and elegance any train
now running.
The manner Samuel FELTON,, receiver of
the Columbus Sandusky & Hooking, is
handling the property is spoken of in very
commendatory terms, While increasing the
economies which have considerably less
that never before was the service salts
| factory as at present.
J. j. Turner, general manager of the Van
dalia line, is in the city. He states that
the traffic of the Vandalia lines was car
| same volume, through the use of the heav-
| Ter freight locomotives as compared with
those in use in October, 1896 and the ex-
| hibit of November will be fully as favor
able to the heavier locomotive.
The Lake Shore and Lehigh Valley Fast
Freight line, operating over the Lehigh
Valley the Lake Shore and the Big -Four
lines, bids fair to be formidable COMPETE
tor of the older fast freight lines, the new
line having made arrangements for daily
service of package freights between New
|, York and Indianapolis. delivering goods al
Indianapolis forty-eight hours after ship
ment.
Ina accordance with the policy of economy
adopted by the receivers of the Baltimore
& Ohio an electric lighting plant has been
installed at Philadelphia for the purpose
of lighting the passenger station yards
freight stations, freight yards, docks,
roundhouses, machine shops, etc. Twice as
many lights are in service now as when the
company purchased the current from local
lighting companies. yet the expenses have
been reduced one-half.
The latest move in the fight of the Sea-
board Airline against it's competitors is
| after Dec. 5, and until further notice, the
Seaboard Airline, in order to meet the ac-
| ton of its competitors, will allow free three
hundred pounds of baggage for each pas
| senger holding full ticket and $50 pounds
| for each half ticket between stations on
! its line. There will be no change in the
! free allowance in checking baggage through
to points beyond the Seaboard Airline"
| Some of the roads of the Western Passen-
| ger Association are in favor of the forma-
| ton of a new and stronger agreement as it
| the present organization is working is not
! sufficiently strong to enable the chairman
/ 10 keep the roads from demoraliZing the
| rates whenever they take a notion Other
| roads are of the belief that there will be
! no need of a new agreement until they have
! secured the membership of the roads that
| are at the present time on the outside of
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