The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-04

and w. S. Wellock travelling auditor. Both
were promoted from the auditors office.
J. Pierpont Morgan is now on his way
home from Europe. With his return it is
expected an early reorganization of the Co
lumbus & Hooking Valley will be effected.
Passenger officials of Southern lines re-
port that the winter resort hotels are nearly
empty. The winter season, they say, was
short, but while it lasted the patronage was
excellent.
E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines West, has gone to
California to return with Mrs. Ford, who
has been spending several months on the
Pacific coast.
The pay car of Paymaster Horton of the
Big -Four lines, will come out of the shops
to-day rebuilt and is one of the most COM
plete and convenient pay cars running over
indianapolis lines.
George Bradbury, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Lake Erie & Western
ana otner Brice lines, VIII arrive IN the
remain most of the week.
II the citizens of North Manchester
Will vote $4,000 subsidy to the Erie
Railway Company, President Thomas has
agreed to change the main line so as to
take in North Manchester.
In the month of March the official report
of General Agent Fraser shows that there
were loaded and unloaded at the city
freight depots of the Big Four 1905 cars,
490 more than in March, 1897.
1t is stated that L. Ford, formerly division
superintendent of the Georgia Central road,
is to be appointed superintendent of the
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific division or
the Cincinnati, New Orleans q Texas.
G. N. Knight, assistant general passenger
agent of the Georgia & Alabama road, has
been transferred to St. Paul, Mimi, to look
after the company's interests in that sec
ton, especially it's colonization interests.
The through tourist car service from
Pittsburg has not proven the success eX-
| nd in he cd nc - nTxyiH a
around has been disappointing, and many
of the lines will doubtless be discontinued.
The Pennsylvania lines have been given
the contract to carry the members of the
naval reserve to New York from st. Paul,
Duluth, Milwaukee and Chicago, moving
them at different times on its regular
trains.
The vandala last week came nearer ham
ding its usual volume of business at this
city than did any other road, bringing IN
lbs loaded cars and forwarding west LOLA
OF the inbound movement, 172 cars were
loaded with live stock.
The Wabash has closed a contract by
which it is to haul twelve hundred car
loads of meat monthly to Eastern points for
one of the Kansas City dressed meat
houses. 1t is to be supplied at the rate of
forty carloads per day.
w. F. Beardsley, master mechanic of the
Allegheny shops of the Pennsylvania lines
has had his jurisdiction extended to cover
the Erie & Ashtabula division. I. A. Kirch-
err has been appointed assistant master me-
chanie of the Allegheny shops.
Master Mechanic Lawler, of the Big Four
shops at Brightwood claims that he has
the best arranged repair tracks and yard
will hold $50 cars, and the supply house is
in the center of the repair yards.
About the middle of this week General
Manager Loree, of the Pennsylvania lines
west of Pittsburg, and John F. Miller, gen.
eral superintendent of the Southwestern
| system will start on an inspection Of the
lines which suffered from the late high
waters.
| The syndicate owning the Toledo North
| western has decided to push it on toward
Toledo; =, me extension Is now graded be-
| tween Charlotte and Albion, and contract
| mas been let to grade a line between Albion
and Homer. From Homer to Toledo the
| distance is but eighty-seven miles
The citizens of Greenfield are urging the
| Panhandle to build a new depot there, feel
| ing that they are entitled to such inn
provement, Greenfield, according to its pop
| ulation, furnishing more freight business
| and passenger traffic than any other point
| on the line between Indianapolis and Co
| lumbuS.
| Cleveland will be opened this morning in
| the Colonial Arcade e. O. Mccormick
| passenger traffic manager of the Big Four,
| was in Cleveland on Saturday looking after
| the removal. and it is said the Big Four
| will have an office which will excite the
| envy of it's competitors at that point.
r, The Wabash reports gross earnings for
| February of $952.Sl2, an increase of $50 952
as compared with the same month of last
| year, and net 1854 ,054, a decrease of SO $50.
! For the eight months ending Feb % the
| gross earnings were So 70S,037, an increase
| of $86, 062 as compared with the correspond
| ing period of last year, and net ST. 700,S69 an
| increase of 1923, i29.
| Freight traffic is so heavy on the Chi
| Cago division of the Big -Four that on Sat
| urday two of the heavy freight engines on
| the ST. Louis division were transferred to
| the Chicago division, which every side
| track was full of loaded cars awaiting the
going down Of the river at Cincinnati so
! that the business could be transferred to
| the Chesapeake & Ohio.
| The merchants of Boston gave a banquet
! on Thursday night to Fl. B. Tindall, the
retiring foreign freight agent of the Boston
| as general manager of the Merchants Dis
| patch Transportation Company. II. M
ager of the Boston & Albany succeeds Mr.
| Ilndall as foreign freight agent.
| Contrary to expectations. the Southern
| Indiana Railway will carry its business in
| connection with the Big Four rather than
| the Pennsylvania lines. Arrangements have
| been made whereby the interchange bust
ness of the roads will be done at Westport,
| town on the Michigan division of the Big
! Four lines, and when the Big Four spring
| time card is issued the Southern Indiana
| will be shown as one of it's close connec-
! items The Big -Four will probably haul a
| coach for Cincinnati each way daily with
cut transfer of passengers over their lines.
The Edgemoor Bridge Company, of Will
mington, Del, which has the contract to
build new bridge on the Panhandle at
Temperanceville, is about to perform one
of the greatest engineering feats in the his
tory of Pittsburg railroads. 1t will build
an immense plate girder span over 40
feet long on temporary foundation along
side of the old deck bridge, and when all is
ready the old structure will be moved off
| the piers and the new span slid liz without
delaying trains. Over 220 trains pass over
this bridge every day, and calculations had
to be made as not to interfere with the
tremendous traffic, Arrangements will be
made to begin moving the spans on some
Sunday after the through trains have
passed. and the bridge builders say that in
steel girder plate span will be put in place
and the old span removed. 1t will be a
greater feat than that accomplished short
time ago near Philadelphia.
WELLMAN'S EXPEDITION.