The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-16
Personal, Local and General Notes


news in connection with the matter.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
General Manager Pomeroy, of the White
line, is in the city on official business.
T. o. Hearn was yesterday appointed
roadmaster of the Monon between La
fayette and Chicago, succeeding M. Nc
Conahay.
The Cleveland Canton & Southern has
closed its shops on account of the miners,
strike to curtail expenses While the road
has no coal traffic.
Some of the railroad managers have is
sued orders TO the effect that the companyS
stationery, stamps, etc., must be used only
for the companys purposes.
The authority of G. H. Waldo, car cervice
superintendent of the Cincinnati Hamilton
& Dayton lines, has been extended over the
Indiana, Decatur q Western.
S. NJ. FELTON,, receiver of the Queen e
Crescent and of the Columbus, Sandusky
& Hooking Valley, spent Tuesday in Co
lumbus, and on Wednesday started East
Freight Officials Libbe, of the Iowa Cen
trail, Campbell, of the Cotton Belt, and
Rump, of the Wabash are in the city All
report the outlook for business steadily i'm
proving.
j. J. Turner, vice president and general
manager of the Vandalia, returned from
Pittsburg yesterday. His family joined him
in this city and went to st. Louis, his head
quarters.
r. NJ. Fraser, for many years general
freight agent of the Baltimore IL Ohio
Southwestern. has retired from railroad life
and gone into the brokerage business at
Cincinnati.
c. N Smith, who represents the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST Paul in this territory,
was in the city yesterday. This was his
first visit in several months, he having been
seriously i'll for some time.
The special train over the Big Four, car
rying the Epworth League, on Tuesday
night made the run from Cincinnati to
Cleveland, 263 miles, in six hours, there
being twelve cars in the train.
1t is believed by the officials of roads
in this and adjoining States that handle the
ers will benefit the roads in rate matters, as
well as the miners, before 1t ends.
The lease the Chicago, Hammond &
Western has made with the, Pennsylvania
Company, securing an entrance to Chicago,
will be of great value to this new belt line,
so many industries does it furnish switch
ing facilities
The improvements in the way of a new
union station and charging the yards at
Dayton will cost the three roads interested
the Big Four, the Pennsylvania and the
Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton-in round
numbers 100000.
W. A Moody. manager of the Alabama
Car-service Association, which embraces
twelve roads, expresses the opinion that
within the next twelve months the iron and
coal traffic of these Southern roads will in
crease 100 per cent.
The special over the Lake Erie & West
ern which, day or two ago, carried r. T.
apolis to Plymouth covered the 1l6 miles
IN two hours and fifty minutes, which is
good run for this road.
The State officials of West Virginia have
just completed an inspection of the rail-
roads in that State and speak in very COM
pimentary terms of their physical condi-
ton Especially is that of the Chesapeake
& Ohio highly commended.
Train 90 over the Pennsylvania, yester-
day was run in two sections to accommo-
date the Atlantic City travellers. 1t was ex-
pected to run the train in four sections
east of Columbus. Up to noon yesterday
twenty-one sleeping cars had been filled.
on July one of the S4-inch driving wheel
locomotives of the Camden q Atlantic road
tic City, 55l2 miles, in 81 minutes. The train
consisted of a combination car. three pas
senger cars and one Pullman parlor car.
NJ: H. Shea, of Youngstown, O., general
chairman of the board of adjustment of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
and very interesting speaker is visiting
some of the divisions and delivering adj
dresses. On Sunday he was in Huntington,
Ind.
The Peoria & Eastern has got the foun-
dalton in at Urbana for the new round
house and the new shops. About So, 900
has been expended General Manager Bar
nard says on the Improvement AS bust
ness begins to improve the work will be
pushed more vigorously.
The advance in immigrant rates from the
seaboard to Western points has again been
postponed. The Joint Traffic Association
mas II very 0iHcuiJ TO DTlnS all the trunk
lines into the new agreement, which would
advance the rate from New York to Chi
cago 81 and to other Western points in the
usual proportion.
Urbana, O., carried the matter Of plac-
ing ftagmen at railroad crossings of that
town to such extent that the companies
appealed to r. S. Kaylor, railroad commits
sioner of Ohio, for relief and after a per-
sonal investigation he decided that the
services of quite q number of these flag
men were unnecessary.
The freight department of the New York
New Haven & Hartford has notified In
dianapolis lines that they are experiencing
a good deal of trouble in collecting from
consignees charges for icing refrigerator
cars, and notice is given not to advance
hereafter, to shippers or connecting lines,
any charges of this character.
While Western lines are carrying thou
sands of people on Sunday excursions such
excursions are not popular in New England.
The Sheepscot Echo of Maine is authority
for the statement that not d single passen-
& Quebec Railroad on the Sunday excursion
train run by that company. 1t is likely
that the wicked railroad VIII make no fur
Their attempt to allure good citizens of that
section of the State from the religious quiz
etude of their homes on the Lords day.
Chief Engineer Hall of the Chicago, In
dianapolis * st. Louis, was in the city
yesterday. He states that the work of re-
ducing the grade on the Indianapolis diVi-
sion from ffty-six feet 10 the mile TO TWEEN
ty-siX feet for a distance of three miles at
Rensselaer,, was completed yesterday, and
work is progressing brskly in taking out
the four curves at Lowell. At Cedar lake
the work of reducing the grade for several
miles from fifty-three feet to the mile to
twenty-sx feet is we'll advanced. This
week thirty miles of new steel is being dis
tributed between Monon and Chicago.
1t is certainly fortunate for the steel-rail
mills, the locomotive and ear works that
the court has given the receivers of the
Baltimore & Ohio authority to carry out
their contracts for the purchase of material
and equipment. The Pullman car works
gets three thousand box cars to build, the
Michigan Peninsula Car Company five gon-
dola cars the South Baltimore car works
$50 coal cars and the Baldwin locomotive
works five passenger and twenty freight To-
cOmotiVes, and the Pittsburg locomotive
works fifteen locomotives. These consider
able orders will insure a large amount of
work at the establishments named and help
in bringing about the business revival.
The Big Four has under consideration a
system of physical examination of en-
ployes and the matter win come up at the
meeting in ST. Joseph, Mich, July p. The
plan Is a suggestion of Chief Surgeon Fora
and meets with the approval of General
Manager Schaff and General Superinterd-
ent Van Wrinkle. and. ii docs not carry
with il increased expense, doubtless Will
meet the approval of President Ingalls, The
plan is 10 have every appli ant for posi-
ton pass a strict physical examination as
would be required from an applicant for life
insurance. it is said by the officers of the
company that men who are physically dis
abled secure employment in the service for
which they are not fit. Thus a man with
constitutional disease gets slightly hurt,