The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-15

thoroughly saturated with oil. 1t is said
that oil also preserves the ties. While moth
ing has been done in regard to the ballast
ing of the road, it is presumed that the
material will be such as will prevent the
collection of dust as far as possible. There
will soon be meeting of the Delaware
River Bridge Company directors to take ac-
tenn will be complete double-track one
from Broad-street Station TO Atlantic City.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Sheen Manufacturing Company is
building fifty new steel cars for the Pitts
burg q Lake Erie.
The average trainload of pay freight on
the Northern Pacific for the year ending
June 80, 1897, was 1S2 tons.
j. B. Hobson has been appointed super
intendent of signals on the Santa Fe sys-
tenn, with headquarters at Topeka, Kan.
The Big Four will on Saturday run an
So the round trip, tickets good to return on
Monday.
John S. Lentz has been appointed assist
ant superintendent of motive power of the
Lehigh Valley, his headquarters to be at
South Bethlehem Pa.
The Pennsylvania inspection party the
first day out made the long run OF 456 miles,
from Philadelphia across the mountains to
Erie, in twelve hours
The laying of thirty miles of new steel
rail-, weighing ninety POUNDS 70 the yaIq,
has just been completed on the Panhandle
from Steubenville westward.
w. X. Gordon has been appointed chief
clerk of the Pittsburg q Lake Erie, and
Ross Smith claim agent, both new posi-
tons, and in both cases promotions.
Charles Mccormack, train dispatcher on
the Chicago e Eastern Illinois, has &C
cepted the position of chief train dispatcher
of the st. Elmo, st. Louis and Rossville
divisions.
The trainmen on the Panhandle will ap-
pear in their new uniforms Oct. %. The
uniforms were made in New York, and
some complaint is heard as to the quality
of the goods.
Two locomotives and considerable of the
passenger and freight equipment of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton is at the In
diana, Decatur IL w Western shops undergoing
general repairs.
Plans are nearing completion looking to
the equipping of United States mail cars
on the more prominent railway lines with
large burglar and dynamite proof safes for
carrying currency.
r. b. Johnson agent of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern at Athens, O., was yes
terday appointed travelling passenger and
freight agent of the road, with headquar-
ters at Springfield, III.
The management of the Evansville e.
Terre Haute has decided to FIJI the big ex-
cavation at HaZelton, made by the flood
of last spring, with clay and then rip-rap
the embankment.
One of the rebuilt engines on the Evans
vile & Terre Haute on Monday night
hauled q train of five cars from Terre
Haute to Evansville, ITO miles, in two hours
and twenty-five minutes.
w. >. winter, cn1et clerk OF ". IL. P0ck,
superintendent OF the Pittsburg division of
the Panhandle, has resigned. Mr.. Whittier
was formerly chief clerk of j. j. Turner,
when on the Panhandle.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton the
Baltimore &, Ohio and the Pennsylvania
lines the last few days have been handling
large numbers of hunters for Michigan
and other Northern States.
The Plant system makes the announce
ment that the Tampa Bay limited express
will be put on Nov Ia, via Gainesville and
Ocala, the popular route of Northern tour
lists to the gulf coast of Florida.
The Big Four, for the last sixty days, has
been forwarding to Cleveland the largest
tonnage of grain in the history of this di-
vision. The new elevator at Cleveland is
proving of great benefit to the road
The earning exhibits of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern are weekly becoming
much more satisfactory. The first week in
October an increase of 81, 615 was shown
over the corresponding week of 1885,
For some tint past the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie has been using 400 coal cars of the
Ohio Southern, but business has now so
improved with the Ohio Southern that it
has asked to have it's cars returned.
Freight traffic is SO heavy on the Penn
Altoona and Harrisburg have been consd-
erably increased and are kept busy day
and night to prevent freight blockade.
William Nichols, travelling passenger
agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Day
ton, will, tomorrow, go to New York for
a few weeks stay to work in the interest of
the c., H. & d. in his old-time field of labor.
e. C. Corkins, agent of the Chicago &,
Eastern Illinois at Hoopeston has been
transferred to st. Anne, and George Ems
ley, agent of the Lake Erie 81 Western,
succeeds Mr.. Corkins as agent at Hopes
ton.
The day express over the Monon and the
Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton, between
Chicago and Cincinnati, via Roachdale, is
now on a paying basis and doing so well
that it is to become permanent arrange
ment.
AS a result of the wreck on the Chicago
e Eastern Illinois at wellington last Tues
day, Engineer Stitt and Brakemen Higgins
and Houston have been discharged. Mr..
Stitt was formerly an engineer on the Big
-Four.
The contract for the erection of shops to
cost $300O00 at Sedala, Mo-, was let on
Wednesday by the Missouri, Kansas 81
Texas Company. Sedalia, on that day, paid
the last installment, $4,000, of its 100000
subsidy.
letter was received from Daniel
Dreamer, chief train dispatcher of the Big
Four, yesterday, in which he states that his
health has improved by his three weeks
stay in Denver, but he will probably go to
San Francisco, as first planned.
w. II. Fisher, general passenger agent of
the Columbus & Hooking Valley has issued
a new form of ticket to be used in connec-
ton with the Interchangeable mileage,
which it is thought will do away with sew
eral of the Objectionable features of the
new mileage book.
Plans are being prepared for a new city
freight depot by the Cincinnati. Hamilton
q Dayton Company work to be begun in
the early spring. The new structure will be
a credit to the road and be so arranged that
Indianapolis shippers and consigneeS can
handle their freights expedtiously.
The passenger department of the Queen
* Crescent has hit upon unique method
of bringing the line into notice publishing
a very creditabe Autograph, in colors, of
the famous historic grounds at Lookout
mountain, Orchard Knob. Missionary Ridge
and Chickamauga, all given in panoramic
view.
Owing to the resumption of business be-
tween the Union Pacific and the Oregon
Short-line the Northwestern road yester-
day announced that it had resumed the run
ming of through cars TO Salt Lake City,
which it had been compelled to stop after
the fight between the two other roads broke
out.
The excursions announced for Sunday
next are numerous on all lines. The Big
Four will run one-dollar round trip to
Cineinnai the Cincinnati Hamilton. Il
Dayton one from Cincinnati here: the Big
Four Will have an excursion from Louis
vile here and expects to handle at Indian
apolis alone forty coach loads of people
For two days the executive officers of the