The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-24


the Pullman Company is now delivering
four hundred new cars to that company.
Sept. 1 has been fixed as the Unite at
which bonds of the Peoria, Decatur &
Evansville will be received under the re-
organization plan which has been agreed
upon by a majority of the security holders
Engine 10 came out of the Indiana. De-
catur & Western shops yesterday rebuilt
in a. manner highly creditable to the shops
1t will be used in hauling the cape Horn
express between Indianapolis and Roach
dale.
The West Shore is sending hundreds of
cars into this section to be loaded with
grain for export. The facilities of the COM
pany at the seaboard are very convenient
and enable the company to handle grain
expeditiOusly.
An official Of the Indianapolis & Vim
oennes states that the passenger business
Of the line, which is chiefly local, has IN
creased 10 per cent. since the money Tor
the wheat oats and corn crops has begun
to be distributed.
The gross earnings of the Chicago q
Northwestern system for July were $z,Sfi'-
0l3, an increase of $3.50 over it!6. For the
two months from June /, the gross earnings
were s., S5S. $40, an increase of $1,0G over the
corresponding period OF 1886
p A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
lines, returned yesterday afternoon from
Wisconsin, where he had been. spending
two weeks fishing and hunting, and TOOK
the evening train for Plttsburg
Western roads have been authorized to
make the same selling dates and the same
return limits on tickets for merchants
September as have been announced by the
Central Traffic Association lines.
Last week one of the Brooks locomotives
on the Monon hauled the day express vesti-
buled train from Indianapolis to Chicago in
four hours and twenty minutes, making the
regular stops, and the engineer says he dlu
not press the engine to its best speed.
It is claimed that on no road in the
foreign
fast freight lines and of private companies
handled as on the Big Four. Last month
cars of 268 foreign companies, fast freight
lines and private companies were handled
on the Big Four
A movement has been started to connect
Denver with the Black Hills region OF
South Dakota by railroad. The Chicago
Burlington & Quincy is said to be behind
the enterprise, and has surveyors IN tne
field locating q line between New CaSIle
and Lead City, S. D.
The ten mogul engines the Illinois Cen
tral has ordered from the Brooks locomo-
tive works will have 19x26-inch cylinders
56-inch driving wheels, and weight, without
tank and empty, 10000 pounds, which IS
a good weight for road of as light grades
as the Illinois Central.
Heavy shipments of corn are looked for
the next two weeks in anticipation of the
advance of cents per one hundred pounds
on corn rates to the seaboard, which takes
effect Sept. 6. Yesterday there were loud
calls for cars to load with corn at stations
on the lines west Of here.
The Big Four has secured the cream of
the G. A. r. business in the territory its
lines strike, it fortunately being the, most
direct line for Buffalo from the South
west. II. NJ. Bronson, assistant general
passenger agent accompanied the Official
staff last evening to Buffalo
e. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg and
the Vandalia, will inaugurate the weekly
tourist car line service between PittSburg
and San Francisco, in connection WIN the
Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul and the
Chicago & Rock Island, Oct. l.
The Big Four on Saturday handled on its
system 5937 loaded cars, coming within
three of being the largest movement in any
one day in the history Of the lines. On
the Peoria & Eastern, which is very
heavy movement for that line.
One of the smoothest riding tracks spn the
Lake Erie q Western system is said to
be between Peru and Michigan City. 1t has
been laid with a heavier steel rail, and
thickly cross-tied, and the soil on which
the ties rest is of such character that
it makes d very solid yet pliable founda-
ton.
Trainmaster David, of the Big Four,
states that in the twenty-four hours ending
at a. m. to-day the company would turn
over to the Lake Shore at Cleveland SIX
teen special trains, averaging nine cars to
the train, OF veterans and their frlends en-
route to Buffalo to attend the G. A. r. en-
campment.
The Jackson & Sharp Company, at VIII
mington, Del. has received an order for
the building of five first-class sleeping cars
for the Argentine Great Western Railway
Company, of South America. In their con-
struction the cars will be partly on the
Pullman and partly on the Mann system.
The trucks will be of five feet six inch
gauge. ,
Fortune seems to be in favor of the re-
ceiver of the Vandala lines, as not in years
has the main line or the Michigan division
done a heavier business than OF late, ana
those in a position to know say that the
business has not been carried at as good
rates in some years as at present; Inc
business the Michigan division is doing is
in the nature of a surprise.
The Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville is
making an excellent beginning this fiscal
year Since July l the road has earned
$421. 745, against 1851 .9S2 in the CORRESPONDING
period of 1896. and against $4l4,52S in the
corresponding period of 1895. AT its present
rate of earnings it will be able to pay dlVi-
dends on it's preferred stock before the first
year after it's reorganization expires.
The grain deliveries of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton at Toledo this month
for August and a considerable per cent. of
the shipments are off the Indianapolis di-
vision and the Indiana, Decatur q western
Fortunately the power OF the road In the
last year has been greatly improved and
now but few roads of the same mileage are
better provided than is the c., H. K d.
with locomotives.
Joseph Ramsey vice president and gem
eral manager of the Wabash lines, was In
the CITY for q few hours yesterday on his
return from New York to st. Louis. Mr.
Ramsey takes a cheerful view of the bust
ness outlook for the railroads. The earn
ings of the Wabash are now very salts
factory and never in the history of the
road has it been operated on g more
economical or more business-like basis
One point that General Manager Ramsey
dwells on is the increase or loaded cars
handled per train as a result of improve
rOadhPd and equipment.