The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-11

The Wabash has two extra gangs lay
ing steel rail, each laying a half mile a
day.
On Thursday 7,547 cars were handled on
the Big -Four system proper, 5,7S7 being
loaded.
Ford Wood, assistant freight agent of the
Big -Four, yesterday returned from an East
ern business trip.
The Panhandle is taking advantage of the
mild weather and getting in a good deal Of
new heavy steel rail between Pittsburg and
Columbus.
The Chesapeake & Ohio has applied for
membership in the interchangeable mileage
bureau, to protect itself in it's Washington
and Baltimore business.
j. S. Stevens, master of transportation
OF the Wabash, has decided to locate in
California and has rendered his resignation.
The office will be abolished.
The Big -Four has ordered two new trains,
vesubuled and provided with the latest i'm
provements, to place in service in the
spring between Cincinnati and Chicago.
John G.. James, formerly assistant gem
eral freight agent of the Lake Shore who
few months ago went to Pueblo, Col.
for his health. died there on Thursday.
A. L. Mills, general superintendent and
subordinate officials of the Toledo st.
Louis q Kansas City spent this week in
spectlng the property including shops and
depots.
L. w. Campbell, general agent of the
Great Northern Railway, is in the city. He
states that this season the Great Northern
has handled on its lines 75,O0OOOO bushels of
wheat
The passenger earnings of the Northern
Pacific for November were 1876 per cent. in
excess of those of November, 1896, and the
freight earnings 40.2 per cent. in excess of
last year.
L. T. Bradstreet, of Rowley, Mass. has
invented a new car seat which can be read
lily converted from an ordinary seat to a
comfortable resting couch. The change can
be made in a few seconds.
of the Vandalia, has obtained leave of
absence for three months and will spend
the time in Denver, hoping to benefit his
health by change of climate.
The Pittsburg Bessemer & Lake Erie has
placed an order for 800 cars, constructed of
steel, and the Pittsburg & Lake Erie has
placed an order for fifty, contemplating or
dering more in the near future
The receiver of the Columbus & Hooking
Valley has placed an order for five hun
dred cars, part of the order going to Bar
ney o. Smith, Dayton, and the others to
the Michigan Peninsular car works.
NJ. E. ingalls,, president of the Big Four
and the Chesapeake & Ohio, who has been
at Hot Springs several days, will to-day
meet the heads of departments of the G.
q .. at Clifton Forge for a conference.
The night express on the Big Four on
Tuesday left Indianapolis for Chicago one
hour and dfty-one minutes late and reached
Chicago but fifteen minutes late, making
the faSteSt run ever made between the two
points with as heavy train.
The net earnings of the Monon for No
vember were SlSS,36S, an increase of $50, It's
over the same month of last year. The net
earnings of the road for the last four
months were $le9036, an increase of $145, 634
over the same period of last year.
f. NJ. Pierson. assistant grand chief of
the Order of Railway photographers, is in
the indian Territory establishing divisions
OF the order. He says he has been in Texas,
and that business with the roads wherever
he goes is heavy beyond precedent.
ioly hn La
freight department of the Louisville &
Nashville in this territory, is in the city
He reports that all guarantees are lifted
and the L. q n. is getting large tonnage
of freight from the North for Southern
points.
Canniff general manager of the Lake
Shore, is TO be elected president of the
Nickel-plate. Mr.. Canniff stands high in
the estimation OF w. X. Vanderbilt, who is
chairman OF the board OF directors of the
Nickel-plate.
The mechanical department Of the Big
-Four has prepared plans for some furniture
cars fifty feet in length, with a view of
having nfty such ears built. This class of
traffic on the Big Four lines is large, and
the company, in good times with furniture
manufacturers, is troubled to furnish cars.
Passenger men state that the business
between Cincinnati and Chicago, Louisville
and Chicago and Indianapolis and Chicago
is beginning TO reach the volume of that
prior to the worlds far at Chicago
Through sleeping cars are nightly well
filled. and double the number of tickets sold
that there was even one year ago.
A Union Station official yesterday re-
marked that it was somewhat singular that,
when. there We're rooms in the Union Sta
ton empty, the roads composing the Union
pense OF such associations as the Weighing
and inspection Bureau, the local freight as
ISOLATION and other offices which might adj