The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-14

Barnes, John r. Miller and H. II. Hanna.
Joseph Wood takes the place Of the late
George b. Roberts. There were 2S,0'S share5
represented at the meeting; The annual
report of the road was published IN MaTcn
with the reports of other roads controlled
by the pennsylvania
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The election of the advisory board of the
Pennsylvania Voluntary Relief department
will be held May %.
The Wabash will encourage Sunday ex-
cursion business by putting on speclai
trains on some parts of the system.
c. NJ. Foulkes, until recently and for
many years general claim agent OF the
Santa Fe Railroad, died at Topeka, Kan,
yesterday,
The Big Four is rapidly increasing the
number of its cars equipped WIN ar
brakes, automatic couplers and the meal
pin draft rigging.
The Big Four yesterday delivered to one
st. Louis firm twenty-eight carloads of
shoes, the train having been run through
solid from Boston.
George H. Anthony, the newly-appointed
travelling freight agent of the Wisconsin
Central, is in the city acquaintlng himself
with Indianapolis shippers.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, In
in earnings of 500, the first time an increase
has been shown in many months.
With the taking effect of the summer
time schedule on the Baltimore q ono the
thinning any = NASCN N@ 800
cinnati will be shortened one hour.
John Chesborough, general passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern, is on an extended tour through the
Southwest in the interests of the line.
Monon cars with the new title, ."Chicago,
Indianapolis e. Louisville" have begun to
appear. All cars are to be so lettered as
fast as they can be taken into the shops.
The Pullman Car Company is building for
the Baltimore & Ohio some observation
cars TO be hauled on it's best trains between
P1ttsburg and Washington and Wheeling
and Washington.
The Wheeling G Lake Erie has created
the position of road foreman of engines on
that line and appointed II. +. Cunningham
to the position. He is one OF the Oldest en-
gineers on that road.
Frank H.. Pyle, cashier of the Nickel
plate at Fort Wayne for some years, has
ing agent of the Traders Despatch, with
headquarters at Chicago.
OF the twenty-five new engines ordered
for the Baltimore 81 Ohio, twenty are to be
consolidated freight locomotives, and the
other five ten-Wheeled passenger engines in
tended to haul the Royal Blue trains.
d. G. Edwards. passenger traffic manager
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton d Dayton, has
gone to New England for a few days to
further look into the matter of ~equipp1ng
their suburban lines with electric power.
Yesterday afternoon Train 3S, on the
Monon, due at Indianapolis at 4:37, ran from
Monon to Frankfort, ~forty-eight miles, in
one hour. Stops were made at Monticello,
Delphi and ROssville and at railroad cross
ings.
J. B.. Bradep, who has been appointed as
sistant superintendent of motive power of
the Wheeling K Lake Erie, was for some
years in charge of the locomotive depart
ment of the Panhandle shops at Column
bus, 0.
NJ. D. Woodford, president of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton, says: All re-
ports of our fearing the new competition
from the so-called Brice lines is the veriest
nnGnnCn MO n nc ~ ~ n / Or n1f i u n W
direction"
The Panhandle Company will on Sunday
establish passenger train service on its
State Line branch between Logansport and
Effner. For some years the patrons of the
road have been asking for such train serV-
ice on Sunday.
The officials of the Erie lines located at
Buffalo on Wednesday.m moved from offices
they had occupied for thirty-two years to
new offices on Elliott square. The offices
are fitted with furniture manufactured at
the company's shops.
During President Ingalls's absence abroad
not only was his car subjected to a general
o~Verhauling and renovation, but also his
office at Cincinnati, which he will find pro-
vided with new furniture and other things
showing him that he is welcome home.
The directors of the Oregon Short-line
and the Utah Northern Railroad Company
have authorized the issue Of noncumulativ
income bonds, series y, to the amount of
$15,OO0,0 900 in accordance with a plan pro-
posed by the reorganization committee.
The new agreement to take the place of
the Southwestern Freight Association,
which passed out of existence when the
United States Supreme Court rendered it's
decision in the tfanSmiSSOuri case, has been
adopted and will become effective June /.
In April there were handled at the Union
Station train sheds 8, 100 trains, against 3,5T7
trains in April, 1896; increase this year, 143
trains. On the 3,720 trains We're hauled co.
673 cars, against 20, 442 cars in April. 1886;
increase in number of cars this year, 231.
M. f. Ingalls,, president of the Big -Four,
who arrived in New York on Wednesday,
has changed his programme somewhat and
instead of leaving New York for Cincinnati
to-day he will not leave until Saturday and
stop over at Hot Springs, w. Va, two
day,
w. /. Laird, travelling freight agent of the
Chicago Great Western, is in the city. He
states that the company has set aside ST.
roadbed, and there are now fourteen con-
struction trains distributing gravel ballast
on the lines. A large mileage of new
heavy steel rails VIII be laid this season.
Beginning with yesterday the Pennsylva-
mia lines West and the Vandalia transport
bicycles free at owners risk, but will not
check them beyond terminal junction
points. Baby carriages and tricycles will
be checked and forwarded under a charge
of 6 per cent. of the highest tirst-class
limited passenger fare to the destination of
the ticket held by the passenger.
The Kansas City. Fort Scott & Memphis,
of which j. j. Fletcher, a former citizen of
Indianapolis Is trdf1c manager, moves
along through the depressed times very
smoothly. Since Jan. l it shows an in
crease of gross earnings over last year of
SIG, 900. Last year the road paid everything
and had a surplus of $50, $50. This is one of
the Western lines which has never failed in
meeting its fixed charges.
Walter Nichols. travelling passenger agent
from this point for the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton, returned yesterday from a
months trip in Western territory which
gives business to the c., H. q d. lines. He
says he was surprised to see how much
more c~heerfully railroad and business men
at such points as keokuk, Quincy, Hanni-
bal, and towns and cities of that character
talked than they did in March, when he
Nichols, who is old in railroad service, ex-
presses the opinion hat before the close of
this year business will be much improved.
With each day the belief strengthens that
the Carnegie people have made a deal with
the Pennsylvania by which an alliance is
formed which will be of great benefit to
both interests and Will prevent the reducing
of rates to an extent that will affect the
revenues of the Pennsylvania. One OF the
civil engineers on the pennsylvania, in
whom the management nave great conf
dence, has this week been going over the
Pittsburg, Bessemer d LAX Erie road,
travelling the entire distance on foot from
Butler TO Brinton, carefully noting every
detail of construction and is to report at
Philadelphia on Monday.
A mmitt of stockholders and income
bOndholderS of the Atlantic x Pacific Rail
road has commenced proceedings against
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Company, the reorganization committee of
that road, the Atlantic q Pacific Railroad
Company, the st. Louis q San Francisco
Railroad Company, the Union Trust Com
pany. the Mercantile Trust Company. the