The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-02-11

to the rate war
The New York Central earned in January
SS.ISssi2; decrease as compared with jan
uary, 1896, of 1898 02i.
The management of the Chicago & South
eastern has. since the first of the month,
disbursed among the employees 5000.
A United States dredge will probably be
sent TO Benton Harbor to do some work this
summer In improving the harbor II that
point.
On the Wabash dining cars gas has been
substituted for coal for cooking purposes
and on the cafe cars especially it is proving
a success.
In January the Indiana Car-service AS
ISOLATION handled 14,205 cars, the lightest
months business since the association was
established.
On Feb. 10 ]. A. Miller will become pur-
chasing agent of the Toledo & Ann Arbor
road, vice F. S. Chandler. resigned to go
10 California.
George L. Lang. who for many years was
a train dispatcher on the Panhandle. now
residing in Boston. is visiting friends on
the line of the road.
Gross earnings of the Chicago. Milwaukee
d ST Paul for the first week in February
were s52s,l4, against $521. S4l for the cOrre
81, 1928.
Train dispatchers on the Baltimore &
Ohio are hereafter to be given one day of
each month to ride over their respective
divisions and thus familiarize themselves
with all its minutae.
graph of the Chesapeake q Ohio and an
electrician of considerable note, was buried
yesterday at Richmond, Va. He died of
cancerous throat disease.
It is intimated in a quarter which gives
the statement something of an official char
acter that j. w. Sherwood will soon be
promoted to be general superintendent of
the Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City.
S. c. Baxter. cashier of the Big Four
at the city freight depot for seven years,
has has resigned to go TO CALIFORNIA to join
Meek succeeds Mr. Baxter as cashier.
Feb. 10 A. L. Van Antwerp will become
traf1c manager of the Mexican Railway
and II. Lawton assistant general freight
agent The office of Eastern traffic man
ager in New York city will be abolished.
The holders of Union Pacific sinking fund
Fights at a meeting yesterday voted. with
few dissenters TO accept the terms of the
plan TO exchange IS per cent in new tours
and 100 per cent in new preferred stock.
j. w. Greneen, trainmaster of the In
dianapolis division of the Panhandle lines,
who has been in Hot Springs for month,
Is beginning to improve and expects by
March 1 to be we'll enough TO return home.
The New York Central is sending some
of its palace horse cars to Indianapolis to
be loaded with horses, and this week two
carloads of fine horses for export have
been shipped over the Big Four in this class
or cars.
Charles N Haskell OF New York. who is
at the head of the syndicate which built
the Lima Northern, states that the pro-
jected Dayton & Northern will be built this
season. connecting with the Ohio Central at
Jackson Center.
Frederick Garstang, of the Bic Four city
freight depot offices. has bee'i appointed
CONTRACTING freight agent OF tne Wnite me
appointed live stock agent of the Big -Four
at Indianapolis.
The Cincinnati Hamilton e. Dayton is
encouraging passenger traffic on its Delphos
branch by putting on some or the best
coaches and good locomotives. Each year
shows an Improvement in passenger trafnc
on that division.
Wisconsin Central. yesterday, with his fam
lily. passed through the city On route TO
Palm Beach, Fla. Mr.. Price is Dro9en in
health and the company insisted on his TAX
ing months rest.
j. A. Barnard. general freight agent. and
j. T. Odell. assistant general freight agent
C. A. Chambers has been appointed the
general freight agent and T.. w. Heiner the
assistant general freight agent.
A committee has been organized TO inves-
tigate the affairs of the wheeling a. Lake
Erie. In eight years the stock and bonded
debt has been increased, it is stated, 80
100000. with no corresponding increase in
assets reported TO the stockholders.
j. ]. Dingan has been appointed general
agent of the Louisville & Nashville at
Louisville succeeding w. n. Culp. Il. r.
ing agent and j. III. Barrickman succeeds
Mr.. Williams as travelling freight agent for
the L. * n.
committee has been formed in the in
terests of Atlantic & Pacific (western di-
vision) income bondholders. who request
payment of s1.25 per bond deposited with the
American Loan and Trust Company of Bos-
ton or Manhattan Trust Company or New
York before March 10.
George l.. Forester has been appointed
travelling freight agent OF the Illinois, In
diana a. Iowa road vice W. r.. Ward, who
resigned TO take the agency of the Cen
trail States Despatch at Chicago. Mr.. For
ester until lately has been general agent OF
the c., b. * q. at Hannibal. Mo.
T. Laws. superintendent of motive power
of the Chicago a. Eastern Illinois, will |
make a careful test of coal used by weight, |
and measure the water. oil. etc, used when
one of their largest engines is at its best
performance. The test will show the actual |
cost of running an engine per mile.
With the retirement of IL Crawford the |
position of division operator on fhe Pitts |
burg & Lake Erie has been abolished end
all reports go to the chief train dspa cher. |
General Superintendent Beach is ihtroGuc- |
ing number of changes o1 the "oad look
ing to more economical management.
For the annual meeting of the Christian
Endeavor Union of Indiana at Richmond,
Feb. 1928. the Big Four will sell on Feb.
%. % and % excursion round-trip tickets |
via routes over which one-way tickets are
regularly issued limited TO continuous pas
sage each way, with hnal return limit
March l, at one and one-third lowest one
The Toledo. ST. Louis & Kansas City
earned III the nISl Wtth u tOau WI Stf,-
1916 an increase over the corresp )nding
week of 1896 of $ll.7402. Receiver PIERCE
says If the company can, for the next five
months. hold it's own With last year, the
earnings for the year ending June -. 1887,
will largely exceed those of any year in
the roads existence
The gross receipts from traffic of the Illi-
nos Central for the month of January are
estima ted at 81. Sl6.lO1 an estimated decrease
of $l04.522. The gross receipts from traffic
for the six months ended Dec. II, 1896 were
81. 45l SSS n decrease of sl16.01 from the
period of 1895. The net earn
ings of the road for the same six months
were $34i9,6i7, decrease or SIe6,0S9.
II is believed that in the end the new line
of the Baltimore * Ohio between Baltimore
and Chicago. in connection with the Gin
cinnati Hamilton & Dayton and the Monon,
will be a popular and profitable line; 1t will
enable the Baltimore x Ohio, at least, to
act very Independently with the Central
Ohio. which of late has been disposed to
crowd the former in insisting on the inn
mediate payment of interest due
John CT. Williams. formey general solic-
itor and then general manager OF tie Van
daia lines, has the reports CT the Ierre
Haute * Indianapolis road and its lines for
eighteen years in one volume, All the re-
marks of President McKeen from year TO
year make interesting reading, as those
were the years OF prosperity with the com
pany. The bad luck seems to have set In
with 1895. The present managers gre rep |
ing that this year will end its misfortunes.
The meaning of the withdrawal of the |
Big Four from the st. Louis committee is |
thought to be that the road Will resume |
doing east-bound business out of St. Louis. |
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