The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-24
PersonaI, Local and General Notes.

ana hence the compliments asked for time.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
George Lowell, general superintendent of
the Monon lines was in the city yesterday.
y. T. Hanrahan, vice president of the
Illinois Central, has returned from his Eu-
ropean trip.
Trains from the West are now bringing
home large numbers of the Christian En-
deavor people
The executive, officers, of the Queen &
Crescent have this week made thorough
inspection Of the lines.
The net earnings of the Lake Erie &
Western for May show decrease, as COM
pared with May, 1896, of SlO,27l.
R. b. F. PIERCE, receiver of the Toledo,
ST. Louis & Kansas City. has gone to Put
IN Bay to spend Sunday with his daughter.
]. Q. Van Wrinkle general superintendent
or the Big Four lines, will leave for New
York this evening, to be absent several
days.
In the last five days the Big -Four has de-
livered to the j. w. Jones q Co. sugar
warehouse in this city ffty-two carloads of
sugar.
Plans are being prepared by the Balti-
more & Ohio engineering department Tor
new passenger station at Cleveland, to cost
$100, COO
1t is reported that the chief factor delay
ing the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville re-
organization is the question of management
OF the new company.
Alfred Walter the new president of the
rectors have the last three days been in
specting the property.
Passenger Conductor Camp, running on
the pennsylvania line between Louisville
ana Chicago, has been notified that MS
services are no longer needed.
The directors of the Illinois Central have
declared the regular 242 per cent DIVIDEND,
payable Sept. /. The transfer book OF the
company will close on Aug. g.
]. T. Slater, auditor, has been appointed
traffic manager of the freight and passen-
ger business of the Chattanooga Southern,
and G. w. Chapman succeeds him as audi
tor.
Since the Big Four put on the Knicker-
booker express, leaving st. Louis for New
York at noon, the through business of the
road to the seaboard has increased fully 100
per cent.
Engine u, just rebuilt at the shops of the
Belt Railroad Company. was put in service
yesterday. In rebuilding, steam and air
brakes and a number OF late improvements
were added.
The Monon people are so we'll pleased
with the two large passenger engines the
company recently received from the Brooks
locomotive works that they will probably
order two more of the same type.
The Western roads have agreed to notify
the North Pacific coast roads that they
will require proportions pro rata on bust
ness from San Francisco in connection with
the Christian EndeaVor convention
The shipments of Kingan & Co. are
heavier than in any former summer in the
history of this establishment the shipments
of provisions and dressed meats ranging
from thirty to thirty-t1Ve carloads per day.
The City Council of Logansport has
granted the Panhandle the privilege OF
crossing some of it's streets, and the com
pany will make extensive improvements TO
its yards. Trackage to accommodate the
passenger as well as freight service VIII be
provided.
President James P Edoff, of the Call
fornia Liquor Dealers Protective AsSocla-
ton, is coming East to confer with the
officials of the Santa Fe Railway. AN effort
is to be made to have set aside the rule
forbidding employees to enter saloons either
while on off duty.
AS yet no Indianapolis line, except the
Lake Erie & Western, has been oblged
to cut down it's freight service on account
of a scarcity of coal. Most of the lines have
supplies Of fuel sufficient to keep them for
several weeks, it is stated by one who has
lOked into the matter
The local Touring mills, which for sew
eral months have shipped but little flour,
are now shipping thirty carloads per day,
and have number of large export orders
The business is divided between the Big
Four, the Pennsylvania and the CINCINNATI,
Hamilton & Dayton lines.
Railway managers are somewhat puzzled
to know what they viii do when the MIN,
ers' strike is over, as the shipments or coal
will be so heavy as to make 1t difficult 10
handle it readily and move the crops ana
miscellaneous freights which Will nave TO
be handled in the next few weeks.
T. H Lee, for many years general road
master of the Rio Grande Western, was
buried at Salt Lake on Thursday. An en-
CINE on which he was riding was deralled
and he was caught in such manner as TO
cut his body in two Mr. Lee was at one
time on the Wabash as division foreman OF
track.
Despite all denials the impression pre-
walls that the time is not far distant when
the holders of the securities of the Balti-
more * Ohio will get together and agree on
plan of reorganization ana that Wneh
reorganized the Baltimore q OHIO south
western will be a component part OF the
road in fact.
One of the local freight agents was yes
terday asked to ascertain what the rate
would be on a box car carrying hfteen men,
provisions needed furniture and mining
tools from Indianapolis to Sltka, Alaska.
The persons asking Tor the information are
in earnest, but prefer that their names
should not be made public.
The picnic of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors at Lafayette tomorrow promises to
be the largest in numbers in the history OF
the organization. The picnic Will pc held
on the Lafayette fair grounds and the mu-
sic will be furnished by Professor Miller's
orchestra. j. A Andregg, J. II. Compton
Fl. NJ Mounts and ]. w. Sligar constitute
the reception committee.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton is
now doing a large north bound business on
the main line in shipments of grain to
Toledo, gathered up on the indianapolis d.
vision, the Indiana, Decatur q Western;
was never before in as good shape to ham
die it's business, 50 per cent. of its power
being in excellent working Oruer
The employees of the Columbus 81 Hooking
Valley will hold a picnic at Buckeye Park
Saturday July 81. superintendent Corners
has given instructions that employees and
their families be carried to the picnic
grounds free Nonemployes will be required
to pay a nominal price, the money to go
into the treasury of the Hooking Valley
Railway Mutual Benefit ASSOCIATION
w. p Walker, freight traffic manager of
the Chesap eake & Ohio, sailed on WedneS-
day for Europe, to be gone six weeks. One
of the objects of his trip is TO still further
improve the steamship service between
Newport News and foreign ports.
Tomorrow there will be nineteen cheap
Sunday excursions run on the Big Four
system-one from Indianapolis to Cincin-
natl one from Indianapolis to Lafayette,
one from the Michigan division to Indian
apolis one from FOrtville and points east
different points two out of Columbus, two
out of Cleveland two out of st. Louis, and
one from Nation to St. Louis. These are
all run in addition to the regular service.
In the case of the Baltimore & Ohio road
the court has already authorized the issue
of $40, 500 receivers certificates, which
are supposed to take priority of these un-
deriving bonds and the receivers have APP
piled for the issue of 81, 345 800 additional
certificates or what they term lease war
rants which are in the nature of receivers
certificates, which we presume VIII be au-
thorized. This will make over $l4, 600 OF
prior lien receivers obligations, an amount
within less than $4, 900 as great as the
entire first mortgage liens on the B. & o.
Railroad.