The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-30
PersonaI. Local and GeneraI Notes.


Personal, Local and General Notes.
Local railroad shops are now employing
more men and working more hours than at
any time since 1888
William Garstang superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big Four lines, Is resting
in West Virginia for a few days.
Both of the st. Louis lines next week
make a rate of one fare for the round trip
to the St. Louis exposition and fair
r. B. F. PIERCE, receiver of the Toledo,
st. Louis e. Kansas City road, left for To-
ledO last night to be absent for the week
Indications are that the Lake Shore road
is TO get control of the Eel River road, over
which the Wabash has had SO much iti-
cation.
At the present rate the Wabash line will,
this year, earn in the neighbOrhood of $l,OOO :
0O0 additional to its operating expenses ana
fixed charges.
On Tuesday the roads centering at Terre
Haute carried to that city over six thou
Patchen and Star Pointer.
S. III. H. Clarke president and receiver
of the Union Pacific, is so much improved
in health that he will go TO Omaha on the
1st of October TO resume his usual uutieS.
Joseph Averill, general yardmaster of the
Vandalia at this point, states that they are
handling at the Indianapolis yards so per
cent. more loaded cars than in September,
1896.
Net earnings of 134 roads are given by
the Financial Chronicle as showing in July
this year an increase of 81, 60o0O0 over July,
1885, being an increase this year of 1905 per
cent.
s. NJ FELTON,, receiver of the Columbus,
Sandusky & Hooking road, is strengthening
out it's affairs, making repairs to track ana
repairing equipment, and soon will have 1t
a first-clasS road.
John Swan, ex-postnaster of Allegheny
City, who died last Sunday, planned and
built the shops of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago road at Fort Wayne, and
Ia Ter ch " three OHIO
Edward Eckert, press agent of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton x Dayton road, who has
made an excellent record in that position,
is so i'll that he has decided to spend a few
weeks in Arizona, hoping to be benefited in
health.
The new large freight engines of the Van
dalia are hauling eight to ten more loaded
cars over the road than did the largest OF
the older engines on the road, and at but
slightly increased cost per train and that
in fuel alone.
w. S. Lincoln, chief engineer of the Wa
bash lines now ranks as one of the Oldest
men in time of service on Western lines
Thomas Morris, assistant chief engineer Of
the Big Four, is another man whose serv-
ice dates back in the sixties.
Governor Jones' of Arkansas, is dealing
with st. Louis syndicate in an endeaVor
to get a road built across the State, using
state convicts in its construction the ST
Louis parties to take the road at $10,5O0 per
mile when completed and then TO equip it,
There are nineteen roads between Chi
cago and the Missouri river which nave
adopted new interchangeable mileage SIM
liar to that of the Central Passenger As
ISOLATION, which has thirty-tWo roads that
have adopted the interchangeable mileage.
The new traffic alliance between the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St Paul and the Chi
cago Rock Island & Pacific roads has gone
into effect, and on Oct. the tourist car
route over the two lines, the Colorado Mid
land and Southern Pacific, will be estab-
lished
VNaS+arO COR vorlxs ara now hui1dinp 0A0
cars for the Baltimore & Ohio. LOCO cars
for the Chesapeake & Ohio, 1000 for the
the Canadian Pacific 800 for the Southern
Railway, 1000 for the Kansas City, Pitts
burg & Gulf road and 600 for the Mobile &
Ohio road.
w n. McDoel, vice president and general
manager, Charles Rockwell, traffic mana
ger, George Lowell, general superintendent,
and Charles Hall, chief engineer of the Chi
cago, Indianapolis & Louisville road (Mo-
nom are this week inspecting the entire
lines and will probably go over the Indian
apolis division to-day
The statement of the Lehigh Valley Rail-
road Company for. August shows gross
earnings of $2011, ia; net earnings. $685., $40,
an Increase of STE, 691 compared with Au-
gust, 1896. For the nine months ended
Aug. 81 net earnings were 81, S93 sos, an in
crease of 1920 1863 compared with the CORE
spending period of 1896
The Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis
Railroad Company are king steps to make
point. They will at once put in fourteen
miles of side track, and have asked the au-
thorities of Rosedale to vacate certain
streets to give ground on which TO erect
new shops and roundhouse.
D. N Martin, passenger traffic manager
of the Baltimore & Ohio road has inau-
glIrated the holding of monthly meetings
Of all passenger officials on the system. The
first one was held yesterday at Plttsburg
and was attended by 0. p. McCarty, who,
on Oct. l. became general passenger agent
Ia la1t q
The eastern division of the Peoria &
Eastern road has been put in excellent ply
steal condition. The rail is practically new
and new ties have been put in by the thou
sand; bridges have been rebuilt. many tres
ties filled several new water stations built,
the depots generally repaired and neatly
painted and the line reballasted with gravel
General Freight Agent Palmer, of the
Iowa Central road, was in the city yester-
day on official business. He states that
over the entire Iowa Central system crops
this season have been very abundant the
corn crop to be harvested is one of the
heaviest ever known on the line and bust
ness generally, he says, is at high tide in
that section
On Sunday last nearly four thousand peo~
Pile were hanuied on the Big Four at sun
day excursion rates, against less than four
hundred on the corresponding sunday In
1856 and 1t is expected that next Sunday
fully six thousand people will be handled on
the system. The Big Four will have one
dollar round-trip excursion to Indianapolis
from Terre Haute.
So satisfactory were the results of run
ming Sunday excursions over the Big Four
and the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton
lines in September, that the passenger OIL
Gals have decided TO continue them through
October. On Sunday next the Big Four will
run a. one dollar round trip excursion to
Cincinnati and the Cincinnati Hamilton d
DAYTON one from Cincinnati to Indianapolis
The Indiana, Decatur 81 Western will run
one on the same date from Indianapolis to
Decatur.
The fast freights put on a few months
ago by the Big Four, the Panhandle and
the Vandalia are making their scheduled
time fully as regularly as are the passenger
trains and merchants express much salts
faction over the prOmptness with which
goods are handled. Shipments from Boston
and New York are being delivered in forty
eight hours better time than was the case
a few years ago. Much of this increased
speed is owing to the fact that representa-
tives of the lines keep tab on the move
ment of cars, seeing to it that there are no
delays at such points as Buffalo, Sala-
manca and Pittsburg.
President Thomas of the Chicago, Indian
apolis &, Louisville road (Monon). has made
public his monthly statement for July, the
first month after the reorganizatio on was per-
fected, and it shows the following results:
July 1897. 1896. Increase.
Gross ......... 2s4 $252,S50 $50 444
EXP ses and taxes 1854 174.3S5 % 2S9
Third week Sept. 74,l5l $500 1850
From July 1........ M3,2E 612,966 1402Sl
The ten days test of hauling long trains
on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
road between Fort Wayne and Chicago was
disappointing. 1t was proposed 10 haul one
between these points. On Monday one of
these long trains was wrecked. Train 70,
west bound with seventy-eight loaded cars,
running thirty miles an hour, piled half the