The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-25
Personal, Local and General Notes.

things. would move along much more
smoothly. A MERCHANT.
Indianapolis Dec. 81
Personal, Local and General Notes.
George Lowell, general superintendent of
the Monon lines, was In the city yesterday.
j. A. Barnard general manager of the
Peorla q Eastern, has gone to Cincinnati,
to be absent until Monday.
The city freight depots will be closed to-
day, and no local freights run. Ticket offices
will be kept open until noon
Fl. I. Green. who was recently appointed
Mexican Central, after a short service has
rendered his resignation.
Western lines are taking steps to stop the
abuse OF giving certain number of passes
TO secure parties of immigrants or persons
who attend large gatherings
Local ticket agents state that holiday
travel was 80 to 40 per cent. heavier the
three days preceding Christmas than on the
corresponding days of 1896.
Frank Thomson, president of the Pennsyl-
vania and the lines 1t controls, receives
100000 a year, the largest salary paid any
railroad official in the country
The employees in the. passenger department
of the Columbus e. Hooking Valley have
presented w. II. Fisher, general passenger
agent, with an expensive dress suit case.
The Ohio Southern is building short
branches to undeVeioped coal fields in the
jackson coal district. which will furnish
business for the road for many years to
come. ss4
The gross earnings of the Big Four since
July are $649, 1855 ahead of those of the cor
responding period last year and win show a
further Increase before New Years of fully
$50, COO. 81 ~
r. w. Thompson, whose resignation as
effective Jan. /, has accepted the position
of general excursion agent of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific.
On Thursday Train p on the Panhandle
a in fyrrn lone
one section hauling Seven cars loaded with
oysters-three for St.s Louis three for Chi
cago and one for Indianapolis
The mileage tcketsSwhich the Vanderbilt
trains in Michigan only, the Central Traffic
Association interchangeable mileage being
used on other parts of their lines.
Under the title "A Yuletide Bird of Pas
sage, the Chicago x Northwestern issued
a very attractive little booklet, illustrated,
and replete with information regarding the
service of it's overland limited train.
The New York Central has added a broler
to its buffet car running on the Empire
State express, a new idea III passenger strv-
ice ana meats can now be prepared on the
BUFFET car to satisfy the most fastidious.
Chief Engineer Brown, of the Pennsy-
Vania, has awarded contracts for improving
the main line between Altoona and Gallitzin
amounting to ScO0,OOJ, Pittsburg and New
York contractors securing part of the work.
The Chicago & Alton has contracted for
new steel rails weighing eighty pounds to
the yard to- relay its track between Spring.
field and Anderson This done, the road
Will be new steel of that weight from
Springfield to st. Louis.
The Santa Fe has plenty of cars. but is
short of power Notwithstanding the fact
that the condition of the property has been
so improved as to admit of the freight loco
motives hauling five TO seven more cars per
train than two years ago.
The Hon. c. w. Fairbanks has cut en-
tireIy loose from railway litigation. and
most unfinished bnSinpSS IN
look after is now in charge of f.. Jacoby,
who has been associated with Mr.. Fair
banks for number or years.
Fhe Western Passenger Association lines,
with but two exceptions, have voted to run
no more home-seekers' excursions during
the winter TO points in the West. Northwest
and Southwest, ands it is believed that the
two lines still out will yet concur in the
action. ... 49,
George Gould, president of the Missouri
Pacific, when asked regarding the rumor
that he was to retire and be succeeded by
s. II. III. Clark on March 1, said the item in
the newspaper was the first intimation he
had had that SUCH a change was contem
plated ensi.o0
The gross earnings of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific are now exceeding those
of December, 1896, from $4,000 to $1,000 a
record $2l 500, and the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy is showing daily increases over last
year varying from $1,000 to $4,000.
The members of the railway unions are not
cage & Eastern Illinois because they are
having SO many costly accidents, as they
allege it is due to Diminishing union men to
give room for nonunion tranmen, tho road
having been very bitter against unions
The managers of the. Joint Traffic Assoc
citation have recommended that the rail and
ocean rates published by the association on
May IS and Oct. Is, 1897 from east Missis-
sipp river points via Newport News Va,
to New York, Philadelphia Baltimore Bos-
ton and Providence, be withdrawn on Jan. /.
iuI
the Michigan division of the Big Four
states that the gas belt territory now has
the appearance of the prosperity of few
years ago. Shops and mills are running,
side tracks are full of cars, loading and
unloading, and platforms at stations loaded
with freight. -t*
For two years past the New York Central
has sold continuous-ride ticket on it's
trains from Albany TO Buffalo, and a traV-
eler cannot stop off and wait for another
train at such points as Rochester or SYRIA
the ticket was placed on sale to prevent
scalpers handling it.
The Pennsylvania is building at its Fort
Wayne shops 200 cars especially adapted to
transportation Of potatoes. The cars are
much similar Ia refrigerator
cars, having double sides with sawdust be-
tween, IL being the intention to keep the
cold out, instead of the heat in--the reverse
OF the refrigerator ear.
There were number of foreign line pas
senger and freight officials in the city yes
terday who had come here to spend Christ
mas with friends. OF that number were l..
w. I.andman, general travelling agent of
the Columbus Hooking Valley: a. w.
Central: John II. Barrickman. of the Louis
vile & Nashville; Leon A. Bell of the Plant
system. s.
The Big -Four has recently been securing
options on number of pieces of property
in close proximity to It's passenger station
at Terre Haute ana this leads to a belief
that the company contemplates building a
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