The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-18

6eFsohai, Local ana OeHeral notes.
The Rogers locomotive works have secured
the contract to build eighteen locomotives
fer the Mobile q Ohio.
II. Covert, of the auditing department of
the Pennsylvania Company at Pittsburg,
was in the city yesterday on official bust
ness
II. NJ Bronson, assistant general passen-
ger. agent of the Big Four lines, left last
night for st. Louis and other Western
points on official business.
Lindsay Beam. formerly with the Big
-Four at this point, now with the Cotton
Belt road, has been spending a few days
with friends here and at Cincinnati.
Phe Dickson Manufacturing Company, of
building and will at once commence the
building of eight locomotives for the Santa
F'e lines.
The report that the Baltimore & Ohio has
contracted for 5000 more cars arises from
the fact that ii has increased the order
with the Pullman Company from $500 to
5000 cars.
]. b. Lee, late chief clerk of the Trans
continental Freight Association has taken a
position in the office of the Big Four tariff
department, a position he is fitted for by
large experience.
c. p. Walker has been appointed purchas-
ing agent and assistant to the general man.
ager of the Indiana & Illinois Southern,
and Il. f. Robinson assistant engineer with
headquarters at Sullivan, Ind.
Robert Fl. Gardner, aged ninety years,
died at Hagerstown, Md, on Saturday. He
was for forty years foreman in the shops
or the Pennsylvania at Altoona, where his
remains will be buried to-day.
Kingan & Co., of this city, are having
their full line of two hundred or more re-
frigerator cars reprinted a bright orange
color and handsomely lettered Kingan q
Co., pork products, Indianapolis.
The rumor comes from ST Louis that E.
A. Peck, general superintendent OF the st.
Louis q Iron Mountain, is to resign. The
gentleman giving the information says the
rumor seems to have some foundation.
The net earnings of the Toledo, Peoria &
Western for the first ten months of its
present fiscal year were SlS6,663, against
1924 12S in the corresponding period of 1896,
and against $lS65N in the corresponding
period of 1895.
1t is stated that the Baltimore & Ohio is
fully 100 per cent. ahead in its percentage
of west bound business; still, a competitor
admits that this unusual increase may be
due to the extraordinary efforts made to at
tract to that line all kinds of shipments
Orders have been issued to the effect that
on the Pittsburg division of the Panhan-
die seventy loaded cars shall be the max
imum in any one train, instead of fifty
two, as heretofore, the heavier locomo-
tives permitting of such change on that
division.
r. B. Jones, general agent representing
the freight department of the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific, is in the city. He
in business has been shown IN the last
few weeks, and he thinks with the promising
crops the situation is Frightening.
Col. VIM. Shaw, district passenger agent
of the Chicago, Burlington q Quincy, is
in the city Like officials OF others OF the
big Western lines, he is making good
fight for California business at the low
rates which the Christian Endeavor Assoc
citation and its friends are to have next
month to San Francisco.
No finer trains arrive and depart at the
Union Station than those of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton q Dayton and the Monon, and
it is stated by persons who are informed
in the matter that there are no roads In
the country that have expended more, ac-
cording to their mileage, than have these
companies on their power and passenger
equipment in the last two years.
The statement published in an Eastern
paper two weeks ago that railroad men are
being hired on railroads Of China and Japan
has caused a rush to the Chinese and Jap
anese consulates in New York and Phila-
delphia. More than one thousand applied
in New York last week who had been work
ing on American railways. All have been
disappointed to learn that the report was
unfounded.
The recent acquisitions of the Illinois Cen
trail, the Chesapeake & Ohio Southwestern
and the Cairo Short-line are of more i'm
portance to the Illinois Central than one
at glance might think. Chief among the
advantages is that it secures an entrance
into ST. Louis and direct connection over
it's own lines between Louisville and New
Orleans and between st. Louis and Men,
phis and New Orleans.
Under the summer time schedule of the
Vandalia, which took effect yesterday,
Train 20 makes the run from ST. Louis to
Indianapolis fifteen minutes quicker than
under the former schedule, and Train Il
makes the run from Indianapolis to st.
Louis twenty minutes quicker IN both
cases leaving the terminals named at the
old scheduled hour but arriving at term
inals, respectively, fifteen and twenty min
utes earlier than under the winter schedule.
There is no little stir among the trunk
lines over q report that certain railroads,
the Baltimore az Ohio in particular, have
been cutting rates on West-bound business,
and it has been arranged for President De-
pew, of the New York Central, and Presi-
dent Thomson, of the pennsylvania, to
confer with Receivers CoWan and Murray
regarding the allegations as soon as they
return from their Western inspection trips
and endeavor to Straighten out the matter.
After a test Of two weeks the motive
power department of the Vandalia is much
pleased with the results of running the
heavy freight engines through between In
dianapolis and ST. Louis. Not only is there
a saving of fuel, but it is proving an eco
nomical change generally and enables the
company to run a freight train from In
dianapolis to ST. Louis an hour or more
quicker than when there were two changes
in locomotives, or three used in making
the trip.
The Western lines have agreed to make
the rate for Christian EndeaVor business to
San Francisco $50 from Chicago to San
Francisco, and 500 from St. Louis to San
Francisco, and the understanding now is
that the rate from Indianapolis to San
francisco VIII De 3Zt.0U, OF poo IOI the IOdlANl
trip Persons who travel on these rates
will be furnished with the ticket one way
only and when returning on the proper
credentials will be furnished ticket TO re-
turn on at the same rate.
The railways of Massachusetts, according
to the recent reports of its railway comInlS-
sioners, last year earned $l5,S45 per mile
and are capitalized at $50, 900 per mile. The
average passenger rate in Massachusetts
is 1.79 cents per mile the average freight
rate 1.28 cents per ton per mile. In MaSsachu-
setts the passenger business yields more
revenue to the roads than does their freight
traffic. Last year the average rate OF dfVl-
dend on the total capital stock was 549 per
cent. exactly the average in that State for
ten years past.
Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, has
made complaint to the lnterstate-com--
merce Commission of discrimination against
Sioux Falls, in that State, on the part or
the railroads entering the city. He charged
that the roads would not give the same
rates TO and from the Pacific coast that are
given on the same classes of freight TO and
from Duluth and other points farther east,
Notwithstanding the distance to Sioux Falls
is many hundred miles less. Among the
articles which ne claimed were especially
Disseminated against were oatmeal, pack
ing-house products, fruits and canned
goods. The commission agreed to lnVestl-
gate the charges.
of the chief themes of conversation when
the members of the Brotherhood OF Loco
motive Engineers meet in tIeir halls or at
some terminal but the tone OF their con-
yersation is much different from that pre-
vailing a month ago. The more the engi-
neers study the matter the more inclined
are they to look with favor on the change.
Lewis Thomas. one of the prominent men
in the local brotherhood, said yesterday:
THE men are beginning to like the plan
~, oi,r road if iuSureS them the best