The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-27
vincennes. Ind, Aug. &c.


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Vincennes. Ind, Aug. &C.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Pennsylvania will on Sunday run an
excursion TO Madison at SIPS the round
trip.
Giant McCreery was five times at bat
yesterday and got five hits, two of them
doubles.
On Sunday the Wabash had seventeen
passenger trains into Buffalo, hauling l42
coaches, chair cars and sleepers.
Officials of the Santa Fe say that for Au-
gust 1t Will show an increase in gross earn
ings this year over August, 1886, of at least
100000
County fairs this fall are being SO well
attended that passenger and transportation
officials look for large attendance at the
state fairs.
William j. SAKE. the new contracting
agent of the Lehigh e. Wabash Dispatch
with headquarters at st. Louis, assumed his
duties yesterday.
The Peoria & Eastern has a steam shoyel
at work at Mackinaw and four CONSTRUCTION
trains distributing ballast between indian
apOliS and Pekin.
The Columbus & Hooking Valley, during
the miners strike, has come nearer main
tanning it's earnings than any other Of the
Ohio coal roads.
The Indiana Car-servfce Association, at
the present rate, will handle more loaded
it was established.
George r. Blanchard, commissioner of the
to ProctorVille, VT, to bury his mother
who died on Monday.
Fl. G. Pershing, formerly a telegraph oper-
ator on the Panhandle, and brother OF Ed
ward Pershing, Panhandle conductor, died
at Denver on Monday.
Orders for much new work at the shops
of the Pennsylvania road at Altoona and
Juniata have been received and thousands
Of workmen are rejoicing.
The business of Train Al over the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton is now heavy
enough to justify the company in putting
on another day coach between 1ndianapo-
lis and Cincinnati.
NJ E. Ingalls,. president of the Big Four
will arrive in the city this evening. To-
day he will inspect the road from Cleveland
to Indianapolis, and tomorrow he Will IN
spect the st. Louis division.
During the recent heavy passenger bust
ness over the Wabash the section men were
instructed to go over each section of their
divisions after each train had passed, to
see that the track was safe and clear.
The prospects that the miners at the coal
mines on the Chicago &, Eastern Illinois will
soon resume work are so good that the
company has in the last day or two placed
$50 coal cars on side tracks at Clinton.
S. L. Pontius, trainman on the Big
Four, has been paid s., 200 by the Brother
hood of Trainmen for the loss of three
fingers in an accident which was the
amount of the insurance in the policy he
held
The Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City
earned in the third week of August $52,l44
an increase over the corresponding week OF
1896 of $346.74. The first three weeks of this
month an increase is shown this year of
$13,525.94
One of the special trains of the Lake
Shore, carrying the G. A. r. travellers, was
run between Cleveland and Buffalo in
twenty-seven sections, fourteen of which
were turned over to the Lake Shore by the
Big Four
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois has
little trouble on its hands as a result OF
the learning of the road by five new vie EN-
that some of the older and most expert
enced men should have been promoted.
The picnic of the employees of the In
diana, Decatur q Western and their friends,
at Russellville, on Wednesday, was a very
pleasant affair Eleven coaches were run
from the eastern end of the road and seven
from the western end, the cars being
crowded.
On Sept / A. G. Wells. general superin-
tendent of the Santa FEES Pacific lines,
will remove to Los Angeles as his perma-
nent headquarters. Mr.. Wells left the Big
-Four on account of poor health. He now
weighs over two hundred pounds and is in
perfect health.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie, Vanderbilt
line has let the contract for a freight house
in Pittsburg to cost $250,000 and il is
claimed it will be the most complete and
one of the largest in this country. The
company is also preparing plans for a fine
passenger station at Pittsburg.
Frederic Mertsheimer,. master mechanic
of the Kansas City division of the Union
Pacific has resigned to take the position
of superintendent of motive power of the
Kansas city, Pittsburg & Gulf. Jospeh
Roberts, foreman Of shops, succeeds MI.
Mertsheimer on the Union Pacific.
Sept 6 the Milwaukee & ST. Paul, in con-
nection with the Rock Island, will estab-
lish a through first-class sleeping-car line
between Chicago and Denver. This will
give the St. Paul an outlet into the trans
missouri country. Such a service was estab-
lished once before, but was a failure.
Daniel Donough general ticket agent at
the Union Station, expresses the opinion
that he will not be obliged to increase his
clerical force with the placing on sale of
the new mileage, as many OF the traV t,
statesmen have parts of old books, and there
will be no rush on the LIST of September
to purchase the new mileage.
The story of a combination between the
Great Northern, the Chicago Great West
ern the Northern Pacific and the Wis
consin Central is again in circulation.
Chicago officials place little credence
in the renewed rumors, for the rea-
son that such a combine would be en-
tirely unnecessary, as the roads mentioned
are and always have been as closely con-
nected in a traffic way as they could be
were they owned by the same interests.
The Pennsylvania having built some of
the largest and most powerful passenger
engines for it's mountain divisions, viii
build number of monster freight loco
motives. The new engine will be OF the
consolidated type, with four pairs or drlVlng
wheels connected, pony truck, and will
weigh ,ninety-ssix tons. They are expected
of the mountains. The boilers will be sew
enty-two inches in diameter, twenty-four
feet in length will contain 318 fiues and
carry 2i9 pounds of steam. The naked
boiler will weigh AZ 40 pounds.
w w. Richardson, district passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines, with head
quarters at Indianapolis, has made new
departure in the matter of special advertis-
ing by using photographed pictures of
trains, stations and points of interest on
the Western lines. He has had photographs
made of several points of interest on the
Madison division of the Southwestern sys-
tenn and some Of the views are a surprise
to those who have seen them There are
photographs Of cuts and views through the
Madison hill, the approaches to the river
and number Of points OF interest are
shown some Of the cuts and landscapes
eoualing those which some persons would
go miles to see. The view of Clifty Falls
and of Ianier's Forge are strikingly inter-
esting Mr.. Richardson is collecting pho
tographs of stations and points of interest
ali over the Southwestern system with a
view of publishing them in book form for