The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-20
PersonaI, LoeaI and General Notes.


and the missouri Pacific would not be salts
fed TO be ignored as tourist lines and would
as a result cut rates on the regular service.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Illinois Central Railway Company. has
deelared the regular semi-aEnual dividend
of 21a per cent.
e. H. Liembach has been appointed agent
OF the Lake Shore road at Allegan, Mich,
vice l.. D Burton, resigned.
The Milwaukee. Benton Harbor & Column
bus road, it is announced, will be opened
for traInc TO Nappanee by July l.
r. b. f. Peirce, receiver of the Toledo.
st. Louis & Kansas City. left last night for
Toledo, to be absent until Monday
Joseph Richardson, chairman of the
soudtheahs ,tei Passenger Ass9cianon' yes
terday buried his mother at Remove, ia.
The deliveries of fifteen new engines for
the Wabash will begin on Feb. 10. Ten Will
be for freight and FIVE for passenger serv-
d. w. Bull, commercial agent Of the Mo-
bile & Ohio. has been promoted to be super
Lntendent Of the Montgomery division of the
M. & 0. road.
w. II. Seriven, division superintendent of
the Pennsylvania lines west, has gone TO
California for a few weeks stay for the
benefit Of his health
Yesterday there were shipped from the
Indianapolis stock yards train OF sixteen
cars over the Panhandle, carrying tat cat
tie to be exported to London.
The special train which carried the coal
operators of Pittsburg to Chicago on Sun
day night last made the run from Pittsburg
to Cleveland in one hour and thirty minutes
The position of trairmaster on the Ala
bama Great Southern has been abolished,
and Mr. Zook, who filled the position. has
accepted d good position on the Ohio River
road.
w j. Mann, general manager of the new
North Shore Dispatch line, is visiting West
ern railroad centerS and appointing agents
of the line, which will begin operations
Feb. l.
A circular from W. H. Baldwin, president
of the Long Island road, announces the APP
pointment of A. B. Bierck as AUDITOR ana
l.. b. Pairo as superintendent or transpor-
tation.
A report is current that the Pennsylvania
Company is seeking to acquire control OF
meet it with the Michigan division of the
Vandalia.
Frank Thomson. president of the Penn
sylvania lines and party oil Iplend Sc are r.
r. Duval president Of the Florida Central
& Peninsula.
The Indianapolis & vincennes is distribut-
ing $50 carloads of broken stone at the rate
of ten cars a day at bridges and trestles,
to be used as riprap to protect the embank-
ments against high water.
Freight agents of the Pennsylvania. from
Pittsburg, Richmond. Wheeling, Cincinnati
and LoganSport have this week. with Col.
Oran Perry, inspected the city freight depots
of the Big -Four at this point.
Huntsville and Sheffield, Ala, over securing
the new shops which the Southern Railway,
which recently acquired the memphis q
Charleston road, are to bullc.
1t is stated that it is costing the North
western Railroad $4,000 a day to carry on
the fight for the -four traffic from Minneapo-
lis and other Northwest milling points. The
open winter enables the lake lines to make
a vigorous fight
William Garstang, superintendent OF mo-
tive power Of the Big Four, has gone to
tive
works are building six new switching en-
gines for the Big Four, deliveries to COM
mence next month.
In accordance with an order from the gen
erel superintendent of the Plant system, all
the employees of the company from the
highest official down to the lowest ordinary
laborer, are being vaccinated. The system
has over 5000 men employed.
Work on the shops of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton at Lima is being pushed
vigorously. The citizens are arranging for
are started, and have asked President
Woodford and other officials to arrange TO
be present. swoie
Walter Nichols. recently appointed assist
ant general passenger agent of the Clncin-
natl, Hamilton x Dayton, is said by one
of the superior officers to be filling the place
with marked ability He handles the detail
work like a veteran in the passenger service,
which he is
With the promotion of j. c. Stuart to be
general superintendent of the Chicago, St
succeeds him on the Galena division of the
Chicago & Northwestern, and H. W. Battin,
division engineer, succeeds Mr.. Morse on
the Madison division.
The engineers and firemen on the Balti-.
more & Ohio have been complaining Of the
labor in keeping the brass work on their
locomotives polished, and this has resulted
in order TO have all parts of the engines
where brass is used painted black as fast
as the engines come in for repairs.
The December statement of the Voluntary
gnls nf Dnt,r
west of Pittsburg has just been issued. 1t
shows that in December $24 1920 was dis
bursed to 1,1n members, or in case OF death
to their legal representatives,: Since organ
lied, there has been disbursed 81, 9S3, l66.01 in
aid of 90,392 persons.
NJ. w. Mansfield, of the indianapolis &
Vincennes, has asked for three new en-
gines for this road, all to be first class.
The time was when most any locomotive
that had been rebuilt could be palmed off
on this road and be used to advantage, but
it's business is now so heavy that firSt-class
locomotives are required.
George w. Kittredge, chief engineer of the
Big Four, was in the city yesterday. He
said that he had a good deal of work
planned for this year In improving the prop
erty; but how much of it would be done
would be better known after President In
gals had passed upon the plans.
Superintendent Zfon will remove the lunch
stands in the Union Station train sheds
about twenty feet further from the center
oe the gates and construct two new exit
gates where the lunch stands are now To-
Gated. With five exit gates he thinks there
will be no further complaint of trouble in
getting to trains when there is a crowd.
J. Q. Van Wrinkle, general superntend-
ent of the Big -Four lines, has been looking
after train service of the year 1897, and
says he does not believe that there is
other system of roads in the country on
which as many trains are handled that can
show an equally good record as to trains
arriving on scheduled time This statement
will apply to fast freight as well as to the
passenger train service.
A. II. Waggener, district passenger agent
of the Chicago & Northwestern at this
point stated last evening that he was daily
receiving from ten to fifteen letters, largely
from points in this State. asking for infor-
nation as to rates and routes to Alaska.
While he thinks that the number who will
go there this spring has been exaggerated,
he says ne is satisfied that a great many
people will go out of curiosity as well as to
dig gold.
In making a comparison of railway rates
in the United States with those in other
countries the Railway News says that if
the roads in this country had been per-
mtted to charge the same rates as the
government lines in New South Wales the
earnings of the roads in the United States
would have been increaS ed by $342, 942, 600.
The comparison is based on the report of
the commissioner of railways for the prov
ince OF New South Wales ending Sept. 80
last.
In the Circuit Court at Columbus o.,
Russell Boyer, travelling salesman for a
Cleveland dry goods firm, has sued the Big
Four Railroad for $1,000 damages because
he was unable to secure a c. p. A "eX-
change ticket in time to board certain
tram. The ticket agent at Columbus claims