The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-15


p. F. Cost, general freight agent of the
Big -Four, has gone to New York to attend
a meeting of fast freight line officials.
William Buchanan, superintendent of
has been in service on that road fifty years.
c. E. Schaff, general manager of the Big
Four, was in the city last evening, return
ing from visit over the St Louis division.
d. G.. Edwards passenger traffic man
ager of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton, has gone TO New York to be absent
week.
M. Cronin, one of the oldest of the passen-
ger. conductors on the Indianapolis & Vim
cennes, has been relieved. Reasons not
given.
The Big Four line proper earned in the
first week of December 1922, 06S.S1, an in
crease over the corresponding week of 1896
of S24, 412.32
Passenger conductors, under the new
rules of the Evansville & Terre Haute, now
double the road daily between Terre' Haute
and Evansville.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers legislative board will convene in Co
lumbus, o.. Jan. IL, to consider legislation
desired by that organization
An Eastern financial paper states that the
directors of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, chi
cago & st. Louis will declare dividend of
Ia per cent, payable Jan. To-
Evansville & Terre Haute, has been pro-
NOTED to be foreman of engines on the
road, vice E. Lewis. resigned.
William Daley, who on Saturday was
run over by a switching engine in the yard
of the Grand Trunk, at Battle Creek, Mich,
began rairoading on the Wabash.
Business is so heavy on the Pittsburg &
Lake Erie that General Manager Beach has
given up his trip to Europe, which it was
stated by a Pittsburg paper he was to make.
George B. Perry, son of A. D. Perry, dis
trict passenger agent Of the Chicago sl q Al
Vile, Evansville g. st. Louis, at HartWell,
Ind.
The Pennsylvania road has fixed upon
Jan. and 27, Feb. is and March 19 as the
dates to run their Golden Gate excursions.
Two will be run via indianapolis and st.
Louis.
The Monon is turning ten to fifteen car
leads of Bedford stone over to the Wabash
daily at Lafayette to be hauled to Fort
Wayne to be used in the construction of the
Allen county courthouse
Ladoga, Ind, is now night telegraph
Office and all passenger trains make plat
form stops Previously trains had been
stopping for the crossing only This change
is quite convenient Tor ALL
George w Bliss, of the general offices of
the Southern Railway in Washington, has
been appointed to represent the 1 Toaq on
with headquarters in Boston.
A movement is on foot to build a belt
road at Detroit extending from West De-
troit to Trenton, suburb The prime NOV
ers in, the enterprise are said to be the
Wabash and Grand Trunk roads.
L. G. Cannon. controller and assistant to
President Ristine of the Colorado Midland,
who has been visiting in the city several
days, will to-day leave for his headquarters,
stopping one day at Michigan City.
The directors of the Indianapolis Stock
Yards and Belt road yesterday held their
monthly meeting, and 1t was decided to de
fer action In the resumption of paying divi-
dends on the common stock until later.
The Chicago & Rock Island has severed
it's connection with the A. Phillips Com
pany. and the coming year will run It's own
personally conducted excursions from BoS-
ton and Chicago to California points and
Oregon.
1t is stated that had the Monon the equip
ment it really needs, it would show an in
crease largely in excess of what 1t does now
in earnings from week to week In no line
of traffic has it the cars to move the DuSl-
ness offered.
One hundred and thirty-one railways
earned in November, as computed by the
ayer November 1856 Of The in
crease for eleven months of this year with
the same roads was $50, S54, 2S2
Should closer traffic relations be estab-
Peoria & Eastern it would not be surprising.
Could the Iowa Central be secured by the
owners Of the Peoria & Eastern 1t would be
a good investment for both interests.
Colonel William Hunter city passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines at Column
bus, o., yesterday celebrated the fftieth
anniversary of his birth Mr.. Hunter be-
gan service with the lines of the, old steu-
benville & Indiana Central, July ", 1881
1t is stated that December will be the
record breaking month in movement OF
loaded cars on the middle division of the
Pennsylvania, over 5000 cars being handled
daily on this division, several hundred per
day more than in any former December.
President Stillwell, of the Kansas City,
Pittsburg & Gulf, states that they will not
stop when their line reaches Quincy, ILL.,,
but will push on to Peoria, where they can
make satisfactory arrangements to get
from Peoria to Chicago over existing lines.
Edward Croke. formerly ticket broker,
has been appointed passenger agent OF the
cial said yesterday that the best way to get
rid Of ticket scalperS, If they were so
troublesome, is to give them good positions.
1t is stated that the Southwestern system
of the Pennsylvania lines, under the allot-
ment programme for various portions of the
system, will receive eleven engines for fast
freight service similar to the nve placed
in service on the Panhandle lines this year.
The Chicago & Rock Island is said to be
the best equipped of any of the Northwest
ern lines. During the depressed time it re-
duced it's dividends and kept its rolling stock
in good repair, and that is why it has sutfi-
cient equipment to meet the large demand
upon it this fall
George Fl. Smith, late with the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton, to-day takes charge as
general passenger agent or the New orleans
&. Northeastern, and A. L. Barnett, VINO
has been both general passenger and freight
agent will give his entire attention to the
freight traffic of the road.
There is considerable complaint at local
stations on the line of the Panhandle that
they cannot get cars as promptly, as they
should to ship grain and live stock, places
like Chicago and Indianapolis being given
better show in the matter of getting cars
than are the local stations.
1t is stated that the Wabash Railway
Company has placed an order with the
Schenectady locomotive works for nve
heavy passenger engines of the same type
as Nos Ill and liz on the Mon0n, Which
are looked upon as among the best loco
motives run on Western lines.
Passenger rates are in a bad way at Kan
sas City, and the association lines are
greatly troubled thereby. 1t is said that
extensive deals have been made with
brokers' and that the local administration
has not been as prompt in dealing with the
trouble as it might have been. 1t is SAID
that cut rates can be had in almost any di-
rection from Kansas City
The lines of the Western Passenger Asso-
citation were to have met in st. Louis this
week but the meeting has been adjourned
because of the impossibilty of some of the
representatives of the Kansas City roads
sion on the Pittsburg. Denver & Gulf, and
will not return before the end OF the week.
The meeting will be held next week.
The Lake Shore Lehigh Valley fast freight
line MANAGEMENT announces that it will, be-
ginning to-day, put in force a daily service
from New York city. Jersey City and
Brooklyn to the city of indianapolis: This
to be loaded at the cities above named, OK
clusively with package freight for Indian
apols The time v hich Will be consumed In
moving this car between these cities will be
forty-eight hours.
Terre Haute Gazette: III. I. Miller, super
intendent of the main line Of the Nandalia,
has lust completed q report or the loss GUS
ta;,<.sd ~ tl,a Vandalia during the big