The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-12

1897. Of $30l s9S
w. d. Wilson. general agent of the Lack
awanna fast freight line, is so ill as to con-
fine him to his room.
The Indianapolis Maennerchor Yesterday
arranged for an excursion to Louisville
June over the Pennsylvania line.
The Monon will on Sunday run excursion
trains to indianapolis from Michigan City
and from Hammond on the main line.
On Tuesday forty-seven years ago the
construction of the Terre Haute & Indian
apolis road, now the Vandalia, was begun.
In the last twelve months 1900 tons of
new steel rails, weighing eighty pounds to
the yard, have been laid on the Panhandle
lines.
II. r. Wood has assumed the duties of
secretary and treasurer of the Chicago &
Alton the position the directors elected him
to on May 4.
Francis b. Clarke. general traffic manager
of the Northern Pacific. is said to be the
man who will succeed W. ii. Newman on
the Great Northern.
The passenger representatives of the In
dianapolis lines at this point were yesterday
called to Cincinnati for a conference with
their superior officers.
A. Galloway, superintendent of the Gin
einnati. Hamilton g. Dayton, was in the city
yesterday. much improved in health as a
result of his Southern trip.
George Nickson, train dispatcher on the
Chicago e. Eastern Illinois, has resigned to
go with the Northern Pacific. w. +. Brown
succeeds him on the Chicago & Eastern IL
linois. W
The Vandala on Monday hauled two
trains loaded with live stock from st.
Louis to Terre Haute, seventeen cars to
the train, in five hours and ten minutes;
distance 16S miles.
Daniel Janowitz, formerly district passen-
ger agent of the Northern Pacific at this
point, now representing the Wisconsin Gen.
trail in Baltimore. is raising Il company or
artillery in Baltimore
1t is stated that the Wabash is laying
its new eighty-pounds-to-th steel rails
at the rate of ten miles a day on different
parts of the system. preparatory to the in
PRODUCTION of its faster train service.
w. E. Conklyn representing the pas
senger department of the Chesapeake a.
Ohio; G. A; Baird: the southern hallway
and G.. f. Benjamin, of the Canadian Pa
cific, are in the city on official business.
The Queen 6, Crescent has notified freight
agents here that 1t Will require prepay
load shipments of live stock forwarded
from and through Cincinnati to Southern
points.
The net earnings of the Monon lines in
over March, 1897. and this increase causes
some of the financial papers to speak in
complimentary terms of the present man
agement.
handle now haul fifty-one loaded cars
between I.ogansport and Chicago. and it is
believed that the new. Glass HI engine will
haul seventy-five to eighty loaded cars be-
tween these points.
The freight traffic on the Michigan di-
vision of the Big Four is now at its maxi
oher oe eeg The o
April was so per cent. 1t is officially stated,
in excess of that of April, 1897.
A few years ago the roads doing business
cago and Omaha paid SIS in commissions on
tickets sold at Indianapolis and Chicago;
row II ticket agent or scalper gets 90
cents he thinks himself fortunate.
future contemplates putting in service in
hauling the heavier express trains between
indianapolis and Columbus two of the
Class l. engines which are making such fine
speed records on lines east of Pittsburg.
The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City
earned in the first week of May 1894. an
increase over the corresponding week of 1897
of 81 ,316 Since July the road has earned
s1,92S, 155, an increase over the correspond
ing period of the preceding year of $17,S35
1t is stated that H. S. Hickey. agent of
the Big Four at Danville, Ind. will succeed
w. E. A. Kellum as travelling passenger
agent on the Michigan division. Mr. KEEL
lum goes at once to Texas to represent the
Big Four, with headquarters at San An
tonic.
The freight earnings of the Louisville e.
Nashville are now the largest in the history
of the company. The last week in April
of April. 1897, and for the entire year the
freight earnings are largely I'm excess of 1892
and 1893.
Frederick H. Stevens president of the
Brooks locomotive works, has presented
the railroad mems branch of the Young
Mems Christian Association at Dunkirk the
Horatio G. Brooks homestead, in that city.
valued at S150000. 1t is to be used as hos
pital, free library and clubhouse.
The representatives of the coal carrying
roads of the Ohio. West Virginia and Pitts
burg districts held meeting in Cleveland
on Tuesday and decided to advance coal
rates to Detroit and other Michigan points
10 to 10 per cent. Action was taken looking
to the maintenance of the new rates
The Bee-lne division of the Big Four is
hauling more live stock and dressed meats
east than at any previous period and max
ing almost passenger-train time with these
ties at Cleveland who formerly bought at
Chicago are now large buyers on the In
dianapolis market.
Passenger Traffic Manager Martin, Of the
Baltimore & Ohio. is disposed to boast of
the excellent record the B. & 0. is max
ing as to arrivals atNterminals on time
provement is noticeable: and the improve
ment to the equipment has kept pace with
the better time made
The address of M. E. ingalls,. president of
commissioners, now assembled in Washing
ton, ID. c., is said to have been one of the
ablest presentations of the situation with
railroads and their future prospects that
has been made. 1t will be published in full
with the proceedings of the convention.
w; O. Chase, the new general superin-
IenuenI Oh the wagner 1dldce Gar OOIIl-
pany, on Tuesday had division and district
superintendent, eighteen in number. to-
gether at Buffalo to discuss the business
situation and to suggest any new ideas in
the building and operating of the Wagner
cars. The compartment cars this company
is now building are of exquisite design.
The large freight engines recently put in
service on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
which were built on specifications of Super
intendent Of Motive Power I. A. Lawes,
are making fine records now that they are
in good working order. One of them on
Tuesday hauled a train weighing 6.510,OO0
pounds from Danville to Chicago. In the
train were fifty-five of the company's new
coal cars, of forty tons capacity, loaded
The engine and tank weigh 26S,000 pounds,
and is the heaviest freight engine which
runs into Chicago.
The executive officers of the transconti-
mental roads met in Chicago yesterday for
the purpose of considering the situation in
passenger rates and incidentally the differ
trouble between the American roads and the
Canadian Pacific. Nothing was done in the
matter, Cor at the last minute the Canadian
Pacific sent word that it would not be rep
resented at the meeting, and the other roads
were compelled to hold their discussion
the differentials should be discontinued on
freight business as well as on the passenger
traffic
The Wabash has disturbed its friendly re-
lations with the Eastern trunk lines by an
Eouncing that 1t intends to extend its free
chair-car service to Buffalo with the put
ting on of its new trains. The free chair
have never furnished their patrons, and it is
a question with passenger officials whether
il is good policy TO do so, as in so doing
the chair car is made as public as the gem