The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-08

rived IN Denver yesterday from Omaha for
the purpose of postponing the sale of the
Denver Pacific branch of the Union Pacific
Railway, which was to occur to-day. The
sale will be postponed until Dec. 20 the in
tention being to delay the disposition of the
Denver branch until after the four Kansas
Drahches OF the system have been sold.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
w. T. Roth has been appointed agent of
the Panhandle at Tuscarawas, vice c. E.
Riser, resigned.
The Wabash lines earned in October 81
$4,000, against 81 0S4 ITO in October 1896, and
against 81, 31S, 1888 in October, 1896
{. II. Crane, recently appointed travelling
freight agent of the Big Four, will make
MS headquarters at Buffalo, N. Y
The Big Four proper handled at this
point last week 7S7 more loaded cars than
IN the corresponding week last year
Josiah Owen resigned last week as a
passenger conductor on the Maine Central
after service of forty-fiVe years with that
company.
For the month of October the receipts of
the Denver q Rio Grande were $685. $780, an
increase of $54,7 700 over the same month
last year, or III per cent.
On Thursday 1.4I2 loaded cars passed
through Denni.on over the Panhandle, and
on the Pittsburg division that day 220O
loaded cars were handled.
The Pennsylvania lines have handled since
Jan. a total of 17,177.92S tons of coal and
COKE which was 1,463, S35 more tons than
in the corresponding ten months of 1896.
Rumor has it that J. ]. Hill, president of
the Great Northern, is arranging affairs
so as to secure control of the Oregon I'm
provement Company's lines at the coming
foreclosure sale.
f.. s. Merriam, who has been identified
many years with the Baltimore & Ohio, of
late years in the capacity of advertising
agent has resigned and is succeeded by w.
t.. Loves, promoted.
The official report of Joseph Averll, yard
al q Ito I, fr %sx,f IL.
that in October 1858 loaded cars were
handled at indianapolis, 5,761 being received
and 4917 forwarded west.
The agent of the Pennsylvania lines at
Fort Waynes states that the local business
at that point is fully 20 per cent. in excess
or that of the corresponding period last
year, and each month shows an improve
ment.
Frank Ferry, formerly locomotive en-
gineer on the Grand Rapids & Indiana,
later master mechanic of the Louisville, ST.
Louis & Texas, was buried yesterday at
Henderson, KY, he dying from the effects
Of a paralytic stroke.
Charles Kloene, engineer and j. J. Evans,
fireman of switching Engine 531 at the Lo-
scalded with steam from the safety plug in
the crown sheet blowing out. The injuries
OF the fireman were the most serious, and
1T is feared that they will prove fatal
The new equipment that G. G. Waldo,
general manager of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton, has contracted for with the
Barney q smith Company Is to be the most
complete in every respect ever built at the
works. When completed it will be placed
in service between Cincinnati and Detroit.
On Nov. IA the Panhandle, in connection
with the Ohio river road, will commence
running solid trains between Pittsburg and
Parkersburg via Wheeling The inter
change OF traffic has become so heavy and
the business so good between the points
named as to justify taking this advance
step.
When General Manager Evans, of the
Maine Central, finds that the trains are not
making time he gets into the cab, makes
personal study of the cause and usually
finds remedy. Mr.. Evans was for some
years on Western lines, where time cuts an
important ngure with transportation de-
partmentS.
The freight business of the Monon is
showing more Improvement at this point
proportonately than that of any other of
the Indianapolis lines, its increase over the
corresponding period last year being fully
30 per cent. The purchasing of Independent
terminal facilities has proved a wise move
on the part of Vice President McDoel
1t is stated that the relations between the
roads doing business between Chicago and
the Ohio river points are the most friendly
been arranged satisfactorily to all lines in
terested, and they now disagree only on
what trains to take off to further cut down
the expenses of the passenger train service.
and each road still hold it's share of the
business.
A freight bureau has been established at
Detrolt and John l.. Moore has been ap-
pointed It's general manager. Mr.. Moore
Tor years held important positions on the
indiana, Bloomington q Western and later
on the Big Four lines The bureau will he
gin operations at once. President Ingalls,
Receiver Pierce, William NJ. Greene and
Governor Bushnell Endorsed his application
for the position.
Commencing with to-day there is to be
triple daily mail service over the Louisville
division of the PENNSYLVANIA lines between
indianapolis and Louisville, Trains and
iraIxr
Perrine and Sheridan have been assigned
TO the route. Mr. Perrine has Just com
pleted his fourteenth year in the railway
postal service and this is the first time he
has had entirely day runs.
j.. Fred Adams, a well-known contractor.
olea at Baltimore on Friday of a compli-
house of the Baltimore & Ohio and those
OF the Northern Central at Baltimore were
puilt by him, and the depot of the Balti-
freight depot of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton d Baltimore at Philadelphia were de-
signed and built under his supervision.
Edward r, Bacon. president of the Balti-
more IL Ohio Southwestern, who has re-
Gently returned from Europe, was on Thurs
day and Friday in Baltimore in consultation
with the receivers Of the Baltimore & Ohio,
which is reviving the consolidation scheme
talk. Mr. Bacon came to Cincinnati on
Saturday and will this week, with other
inspect the Baltimore &, Ohio
Southwestern lines.
General Manager Stevens, of the. Chesa-
neake & Ohio denies that the accident to
their fast train was caused by the track
spreading. AT the point of the derailment
the track is in perfect condition. The acct
dent is attributed to a broken truck under
the engine. There have been but five deaths
from the accident, and those of passengers
who were travelling in the Second-class car
1t is thought that Engineer Duke will re-
cover Only the express and combination
car were so broken to not be worth re-
building.
The new Pittsburg engine No. 129 on Fri
day hauled forty-four loaded cars up the
steepest grade on the Chicago & Eastern
illinois without any seeming extra eXertion.
These engines are being watched by master
menchanics and superintendent of motive
power, and II they perform as expected 1t
will be great credit to Superintendent of
though weighing 174.O00 pounds, the engine
is so loaded upon the driving wheels as
not to be too heavy for the track or bridges
and trestles on the road.
1t seems that the firm of j. p Morgan e.
Co, New York bankers and railroad organ
iZers. have taken the bit in their teeth in
the matter of the consolidated mortgage of
are looked for in the not dis
tant future. The Morgans. with Brown
Brothers q Co., and the Barring & Magoun
Company, have begun solicitation of the de-
post of bonds under the consolidated mort
gage with view of the protection of their
as a circular they are about to
send out Tuts it.
senger aren't of the Southern Railway at
Louisville, has received advices that the
quarantine regulations Of the South have
been sufficiently relaxed so that regular
train service has been resumed on the Queen
& Crescent line between Chattanooga and