The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-29


soon find your revenues amply suthcient 10
meet all your legal wants. Stick to your
pam OF scent e n eGof fa ana eveTy
where and we'll beat you 70 stan0Stlli
before we quit. ALFRED CLARK.
indianapolis, lily %.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Peoria & Eastern earned in June
gross, 1326l1.49: operating expenses were
$95, 561.20, and net earnings 6,llO29.
Employees of the Big Four on the Chicago
division are this week being examined for
| color blindness and defective hearing.
On Sunday, Aug. s, the Monon will run
an excursion from Frankfort and points
| north to Chicago at 81 for the round trip.
The Big Four lines proper earned in the
third week of July $40 264.O4, an increase
over the corresponding week or 1886 OF
81, S96.43
The Terre Haute Car Works Company
has increased the force of men and in
| creased the number of hours of work from
eight to ten.
On Monday the Chesapeake & Ohio, as
shown by official reports, delivered at GIN
cinnati 469 carloads of coal from the West
Virginia mines
It is said that the June statement of the
Chicago, Burlington e. Quincy, to be issued
in a day or two will show an increase in
gross earnings of $15o,OOo over June 1896.
The office of A. ]. O'Reily, of the Monon,
in the Board Of Trade building, has under
gone a general cleaning up and repainting,
and presents a more inviting appearance.
Fifteen to twenty freight trains per day
are now handled on the Michigan division
of the Big Four, partly due to the increased
business a result of opening the ferry
service.
Western and Southwestern roads are
making active preparations to avoid a car
famine in connection with the movement
| of the crops, which on all sides are re-
ported very abundant.
The Chesapeake & Ohio earned in the
third week of July $216,3 45, an Increase over
the corresponding week of 1896 of $23 795.
President ingalls, says the increase for July
will be about 10 per cent. over July, 1885,
Yesterday afternoon V. 7. Malott, re-
ceiver; j. ]. Turner vice president and
general manager; z. A. Ford, general pas
senger agent, and II. l. Miller, superintend-
ent of the Vandalia, started on an inspec-
ton trip.
The Wabash is operating it's fast freight
service between Now York and st. Louis.
1t is not fast that of the Big Four,
but the freight reaches st, Louis at good
morning hour, SO that the faster service
is not really necessary.
Although only month has passed since
through to Buffalo, the company's business
has, shown remarkable increase, and It IS
through train each way.
The Chicago Indianapolis &. Louisville
earned in the third week of July $75642, an
increase over the corresponding week of
1896 of $2l 549 This large increase is in some
measure due to the heavy coal traffic the
road is handling and the increased ship
mentS or stone from the Bed1ord QuarrleS.
The Peoria & Eastern will establish fast
freight service between Springfield and Pc
oria, making the run from Springfield to
Indianapolis in seven ard one-half hours,
or at an average speed of twenty miles an
hour, and between Indianapolis and Peoria
the average speed will be twenty-five miles
an hour.
The Pennsylvania Company is purchasing
considerable property at Cincinnati with
view Of greatly improving it's terminal ia
clities, not only for freight traffic but for
passenger business. Before many years the
passengers of the Pennsylvania lines VIII
be carried within one square of the heart of
Cincinnati.
The Christian Endeavor PEOPLE are re-
turning slowly from the West That the
Pullman Company is short of ears to ham
die its increased business of late. There
were $50 Pullman cars held for some time
at San Francisco, and a large number are
still held there in preference to bringing
them back empty.
The new plan which goes into effect Aug.
l ON the Chicago Great Western, doing
away with division superintendent, is not
an experiment. The Chicago & Alton has
has worked satisfactorily. The idea orig
mated with General Superintendent Gray
of the Chicago q Alton.
NJ E. ingalls,. president of the Big Four
when asked who he thought would be the
| successor to D: w Caldwell as president
of the Lake Shore, said he believed it
would be S. R. Galloway, of the Nickel
plate, but the matter would not likely be
settled until the Vanderbilt people returned
from their summer trips.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton is
grain for Toledo and Detroit at points on
the Indianapolis division. AT Arlington on
| Tuesday eighteen cars We're loaded with
wheat and corn; at GwynnVille thirteen
cars and at Morristown and other points
| several cars are being loaded daily.
The will of John E. Davidson, late third
vice president of the Pennsylvania Com
pany, probated at Pittsburg on Mon
day. The estate is valued at $4,000 and his
son is appointed administrator. The will
| gives the entire estate to his son, after CIV
| ing $40 600 to each of his two sisters The
wife of Mr.. Davidson died two years ago.
| 1t is not surprising that the Chicago lines
are demanding some change in the matter
of differentials to offset the business done
by way of st. Louis. "A man living in the
territory west of Omaha or Kansas City
can go 20 New York via St Louis instead
| of Chicago, and not only make quicker time
| but save 81 under the present conditions.
| The Pennsylvania has under considera-
ton the building of an extension to Ocean
| City, Md. Two routes are being corsid-
| ered-one from Showells and the other
| from Friendship Both points are on the
| Dela ware, Maryland & Virginia division.
| The engineers report that by either route
the road could be built at comparatively
small cost.
On Monday there were star ding on side
tracks Of the Big Four, between Cincinnati
| and Greensburg, over two hundred car
| loads of coal awaiting power to haul it
northward. The Big Four is trying to pre-
vent any delay in hauling its regular bust
ness, which accounts for the accumulation
of cars loaded with coal, which can be
hauled at any time.
The Railroad Gazette says: Receiver
FELTON,, of the Cincinnati New Orleans
& Texas Pacific, who comes out with some
thing new nearly every week, has notified
his employees that the Railway Officials
and Employers Accident Association, of
Indianapolis, will issue policies of insur-
ance upon the conductors, engineers, fire.
men, brakemen bridge carpenters, signal
men. yardrnen and foremen in his employ
at the regular rate of the association, and
that the road will. until further notice, pro-
vide 45 per cent of the premium as long as
the employe remains in its service. This
would seem to be a very simple arrange
mont, and, if the rates are reasonable,
highly commendable, as far as it goes
Thomas c. Janney, a member of the en-
cheering staff of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad has resigned and started for
Alaska where he will make surveys for the
proposed railroad to the Klondike gold re-
gions Mr.. Janney left Baltimore Sunday
afternoon and his work Will be for a, syn
dictate represented by Mr.. w. a. Pratt who
was for long time connected with the en-
gineering department of the Baltimore &
charge of the Philadelphia division and re-
signed that post to become president of a
college at Newark, Del. He is also city en-
gineer for Wilmington. Del. Mr.. Janney
has been assistant engineer at Locust
Point in the extensive terminal improve
ments being made there By the Baltimore
& Ohio.
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