The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-05
personnI. Locnl and GeneraI Notes


Charles Stilz. general ticket agent at the
Union Station, is in St. Louis for couple
of days
The Monon excursion to Chicago Sunday
was a success. the road carrying l,l23 people
on the two trains.
The Ohio Falls car works at Jefferson
VILE are building cars for the Cincinnati,
Portsmouth & Virginia.
j. D. McInnis general agent of the Lack
awanna line at Kansas City, is spending
a couple of days in the CITY,
The Wabash earned in the last week of
September $39S,073, an increase over the cor
responding week of 1897 of SlS.752
There were shipped from the Indianapolis
stock yards over the Panhandle in Septem-
Der 633 carloads of live stock for Eastern
markets
In the month of August there were 1S2
train accidents in the United states, IN
which forty-three persons were killed and
251 injured.
Nine auditors of the roads comprising the
Union Railway Company were in the city
yesterday to examine the Union Station
ticket office
The Indiana, Decatur e. Western, on it's
short train between indianapolis and Roach
dale last month handled an average of for
ty-seven passengers day.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy was
gross earnings and the first eight months
of the year on 625 per cent
Edward Reagan. the fireman SO badly in
Jured in the explosion of Wabash engine
last week, is improving, and the hospital
surgeons say he will recover.
Within the last ninety days 952 carloads
of broken stone for street improvements
at indianapolis have been shipped from the
stone quarries near Greencastle. Ind.
Harry Crawford. president of the Chicago
& southeastern, represents the parties who
are opposing the foreclosure sale and re-
organization of the Baltimore & Ohio.
H. Seymour. the new auditor of the De-
troit & Lima Northern has removed the
offices from Detroit to Lima, o., taxing
with him clerical force of several men.
President Hill, of the Great Northern. ar
rived in New York yesterday, and new de-
yeopments in the case of the Baltimore &
Ohio are expected before the week closes.
Bert Wright. Harry Chapman David
Reynolds, Charles Goddard and John Fitz-
gerald, firemen on the Vandalia, have been
promoted to engineers. dating from Oct. 8.
w. T. Mccullough who has for some
years been in official positions on the West
Shore road has been appointed general
nanager of the Norfolk, Virginia Beach &
Southern.
waukee & st. Paul road for the month of
September amounted 10 50, 500, ISL, an increase
OF SiSzSl5 over the figures for the same
NJ. W. Mansfield superintendent of the
indianapolis Vincennes, and the division
superintendents of the Pennsylvania lines
were In Pittsburg yesterday in conference
with General Manager Loree.
The Baltimore & Ohio is doing a good
deal of work on its line in Ohio and Indiana
IN the way OF putting in new sidings, plac-
ing new. towers at water stations and re-
pairing bridges and stations
a. NJ. Tucker, well known in Indiana rail-
way circles, who for many years was iden-
uiied with the Erie lines, going TO the Erie
from the Lake Shore is lying seriously iii
at the home of his daughter in Detroit
Hiram II. Patrick, who thirty-five wears
ago was an engineer on the state line dfvi-
sion OF the Panhandle now an engineer on
the Louisville & Nashville, has been visit
ing friends in this city and in Logansport.
Prior TO 1875 the rate ON block coal from
brazil TO indianapolis was 81 per ton; it
was then reduced TO 80 cents and the rate
now Is 45 cents. In 1875 the coal cars carried
pounds.
The TOLEDO. 81. Louis & Kansas City
over September 1897. of 1852 Since July
the road has earned S6l4.194. an Increase
Of sl0.592. - 49,
Cesar Rodney, agent of the Vandalia at
indianapolis states that in the thirty years
ne has been connected with the road he
mas never known i to do as heavy a local