The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-13

CSlVer lOT lLe IOIedO, 81 Louis & Kansas
City Railroad. was filed in the office of the
makes the following financial statement:
Cash on hand Oct. l. $129 S.; receipts,
$360,2H14; disbursements, 1901, 342.41; cash
on hand Nov ], $1S2, $685.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Erie Railway Company is arranging
to place representative in Terre Haute
The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton and
the Monon Will adopt the winter time
schedule Nov rs.
L. f. Loree. general manager of the
Pennsylvania lines west, is spending a few
days in the East.
The pennsylvania and the Vanderbilt
lines will put their winter schedule in effect
on Sunday, Nov. II.
Mrs. Mary Orner yesterday completed her
sixteenth year in charge Of the package
department at the Union Station.
- Frank Finney, contracting agent of the
Big -Four lines at this point, yesterday re-
turned from his bridal trip of two weeks.
More California tickets have been sold al
ready this month in Indianapolis than in
the month or November and part of De-
cember last year.
j.. 3. Braden has been appointed superin-
tendent OF motive power of the Wheeling &
Lake Erie. Mr.. Braden was formerly loco
motive foreman at the Panhandle shops.
b. +. Hargrave, who committed suicide
at Dayton on Thursday was f." some
years agent of the Big Four eve tne CleVe-
land, Sandusky q Columbus al Dayton.
A wel-known railway official who has
Just returned from a trip over the Union
racine declares that the property is in bet
ter physical condition than ever before.
J. Fl. Gould has resigned as chief inspector
OF the Joint Inspection Association at Kan
saS City to accept a more important posi-
ton on the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf.
G. A. Baird who has just retired as
Northwestern passenger agent of the Queen
d Crescent with headquarters at Detroit,
q Tl1nn iva
the Southern Railway.
Ninety-five per cent. of the stockholders
of the Pennsy lvania receive their dividends
in checks, and 81 100000 of the dividends
holding nearly so per cent. of the stock.
J, H. Barrickson, representing the Louis
Vile q Nashville, is in the city. He states
that the yellow fever scare is rapidly dying
out, and both passenger and freight bust
ness are improving with the Southern
roads
One of the local commission merchants
yest erday ordered from the Big Four two
hundred cars to ship potatoes in from Mich
igan and Wisconsin points, to be furnished
as fast as the car-service department can
do so. D#N
In the month of October the membership
of the Pennsylvania Companys Voluntary
Relief Department west of Pittsburg in
creased 1872, sixty-seVen of the number be-
ing on Pennsylvania lines in the Indian
apols dis lrict.
c. L. Gardner trainmaster of the Column
bus Sandusky & Hooking has retired and
is succeeded by w. b. Blanton, who comes
from the Queen & Crescent. Mr. Gardner
had been with the Hooking road eight
years, commencing as train dispatcher.
DR.. j. H. Talbot medical examiner of the
indianapolis divisionf.of the Pennsylvania
Voluntary Relief Department, will leave for
the East to-day on his annual vacation of
two weeks; DR.: e T, Tucker. Of Logaans
bolt while he is absent.
Old cars of the Baltimore & Ohio South
western of light capacity are being sent to
the Ohio Falls car works to be dismantled.-
A train OF forty-five cars went there on
Thursday. Any Of the iron work which will
do to use in repairing cars of more modern
date will be so utilized.
Train No. yesterday was run from Pitts
burg to st. Louis in two sections. When
the train left Columbus each had nine cars
to the train. Every day makes it apparent
are needed to haul the. through trains be-
tween Pittsburg and indianapolis.
Nov 80 VIM. C. Bullitt, who has been
traffic manager Of the Norfolk & Western,
on the road. There are but few better
known freight officials in the South or
North than Mr. Bullitt He has had under
consideration sending in his resignation for
some months.
The Monon has deferred becoming mem
Der OF the interchangeable Mileage Bureau
until the winter time schedule takes effect.
from this 1T would seem that the MOnon
doubts the sincerity of some of it's COM
petitors in their efforts to bring about har-
mony by lengthening the time schedules of
some of their trains.
An amendment has been made to the
agreement of the Western Passenger ASSo-
citation to the effect that the auditing COM
mittee shall consist of five of the chief
auditing officers of roads in the association
not more than one officer to be from any
one road. The members of the committee
are to be elected for one year.
An official Of the Pennsylvania Company
stated yesterday that he thought every man
who was dropped when the depressed times
struck the country on the Panhandle lines
was now re-emplOyed by that company; at
least he knew that every one that applied
and had good record was readily taken
back in any of the departments.
It is stated that in case the Panhandle
ton as 1t is at present, and causes its COM
petitors to improve their service, the Penn
sylvanla Company will make changes sim
liar to those proposed by the other lines
and place the Panhandle in the rank of
first-class road as Pittsburg and Chicago
line.
The Meadow Lawn Farm, near Nation,
H., which z. M. Arthur, grand chief of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers, pur-
chased in trust for the benefit of the broth
erhood, contains 250 acres of choice ground.
The farm was sold at auction and brought
Sl7,45O Suitable buildings are to be erected
on 1t. and 1T is to be made a home for de-
pendent engineers, their widows and or
phans.
]. r. Walsh, the Chicago capitalist, who
with others, recently purchased the Evans
Vile az Richmond, now the Indiana South
ern, We're yesterday in Bedford inspecting
the stone quarries and the Bedford Belt
road, in which Mr. Walsh is the largest
o ner. 1t is said that Mr.. Walsh is very
indignant that it should even be intimated
that the Pennsylvania Company was behind
the rebuilding and extension of the Indiana
Southern. He says his friends and himself
can carry out the programme proposed
without help from any other railroad cor
poration.
The Detroit e Northern a Brice syndicate
nne, mas arranged TO acquire from the Lake
Shore It's line extending from Dundee, Mich.
to Trenton, Mich, twenty miles long
miles of Detroit. BY building this ten-mle
extension from Trenton to Detroit the line
will be completed. This will be done at
once. The arrangements for the purchase
OF the Lake Shore line were completed on
Thursday at conference at the Grand
Central Depot, New York. In order to es
tablish harmonious relations between the
new and old lines, it was agreed that the
Detroit q Lima Northern tracks might be
laid across those of the other two railways
The officials of the Detroit & Lima North
ern Company say that in view of direct ac-
cess TO terminals by their road their route
from Toledo to Detroit will be shorter than
that of the Lake Shore and only q trifie
longer than that of the Michigan Central.
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Hughes to BE Taken to Edinburg.
Detectives Kinney and Thornton yester-
day arrested Harry Hughes, of Edinburg.
on charge of being fugitive. Hughes is
wanted at home for larceny. He is we'll
known to the indianapolis police, and when
the local department was asked 10 arrest