The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-28

The new cars of the Big Four have a
capacity TO carry seventy bales of cotton
$4,000 pounds.
II. II. Porter, chairman of the executive
committee of the Chicago & Eastern Illi-
nois, was in the city for a short time yes
terday going to Chicago in the afternoon.
c. c.. Riley superintendent of motive
power OF the Baltimore q Ohio Southwest
ern, who has been spending two or three
days with friends here, returned to Cincin-
natl last evening.
The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City
earned in the third week of December $42,-
1852, an III increase over the corresponding
this month is $7444.0S; since July l, $37 1888
Persons who have been looking the mat
ter up state that with the new year there
will be but few official changes. Most of
the roads are well Differed, handling the
business promptly and in an economical
manner.
The foreclosure sale of the Peoria, Deca-
tur a. Evansville seems to be as far off as
ever. The bondholders' committee of the
first mortgage bonds announce that they
viii pay ali interest due now or as 1t be-
comes due.
E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg
expresses the opinion that the move the
Michigan roads have made will not affect
the new interchangeable mileage book as
serioi sly as had been predicted.
Tran IL, on the Big Four, from Cincinnati
to Indianapolis, was SO heavy yesterday
that it was hauled by two locomotives.
The train left Cincinnati twenty-seven min
utes late, and on its fast time arrived at
indianapolis on about it's scheduled time.
M. A. Zook, late of the Southern Rail-
way, has been appointed superintendent Of
maintenance Of way of the Louisville d
st. Louis Airline by Receiver Jarvis. He
will enter on his duties Jam 1. His office
will be removed to Princeton, Ind, from
Louisville.
j. j. Grafton, manager of Grafton's tours
to California, Mexico Alaska, Japan, China
and Europe, was in the city yesterday per-
fecting arrangements with H. NJ. Bronson
assistant general passenger agent of the
Big Four for an excursion next month to
Old Mexico.
w. II. McDoel, vice president and general
manager of the c., l. Il l.. lines, was in
the city yesterday for couple of hours. He
reports everything moving smoothly on the
equipment well employed, and the earnings
are footing up very satisfactory.
The Muskingum Valley division of the
Pennsylvania line passes through the best
farming and stock raising region of Ohio,
and the shipments off of that division are
the largest in the way of fine stock of any
division on the Pennsylvania lines, unless
it be off the Indianapolis Il Vincennes.
The managers of the Joint = 'affic Asso-
citation have approved the trunk line COM
mittee's recommendation that a rate of $3.50
per train mile be authorized for the trip of
the Indiana Retail Lumber Dealers Asso-
citation from indianapolis to New York and
return, on or about Jan. To-
The operators on the Indianapolis 81 Vim
eennes are loading over one hundred cars
with coal daily and it is the most pros
porous times the operatives have known for
some years. The operators on this line have
a large business in supplying railways with
fuel as we'll as shipping good deal of coal
north.
The operators or the Toledo, St Louis e.
Kansas City are loading eighty-fve to nine
W cars with coal per day, about double the
quantity of that one year ago. An official
of the. road says that had the company cars
in proportion with it's power the earnings
would be much more satisfactory than they
now are.
Residents on the line of the Indiana
Southern are elated over the enterprise the
new purchasers of the road. which was for
merly the Richmond & Evansville, are dis
new bridges built and the road equipped
with new locomotives and cars, it will be
of great benefit to the people, and open up
a new outlet for Bedford stone.
Local freight agents have received in
structions that in case a car is so small
that it will not hold the minimum weight
on any freight, such as baskets or bulky
light freights. a second car may be loaded
at the same rate to an entent to make the
shipment on the minimum basis, but in no
case can over two cars be used. This new
order will be appreciated by shippers OF
bulky light goods
East bound freight shipments from Chi
cago for the five days ending Dec. %
amounted to 1886 tons, againest 81 72S the
full week previous and 1854 last year. di-
yided among the different roads as follows:
5O76; Wabash, 6,S27: Lake Shore, S,922; Pan
handle, 1855; Baltimore & Ohio 7772;
Grand Trunk, 1928; Nickel-plate, 1904 Erie,
1926; Big Four, 3,510.
1t is claimed that the Vandalia lines are
now being operated on the smallest per
cent of gross earnings at any time in the
history of the road, Notwithstanding the
improvements the receiver has been making
in the track and roadbed generally. The
new large freight engines the company re-
ceived eighteen months ago are proving
great economizers in the hauling of freight
at a minimum cost
The authorities of Cleveland are planning
to make harbor and river improvements at
that point, but claim they are delayed by
the position the Pennsylvania Company as
sumes in the matter. According to Mayor
McKisson, the Pennsylvania Company is
stubborn refusing to consider any PROPOSE
ton to convey the tract of land the city
wants at the mouth of the river under any
circumstances whatsoever, unless there is
simultaneous adjustment with the city of
all other matters in dispute between the