The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-26
Personal, Local and General Notes.

S. G. Brown, assistant auditor of the
Wisconsin Central, will retire from that
position May !, to engage in commercial
pursuits.
On Saturday next the Monon will run a
cheap excursion to Chicago. Tickets good
on any train going on Saturday and return
ing Sunday night
The chesapeake & Ohio, which quite re-
Gently had 1000 box cars built at the Pull
man works. has contracted for 900 more
OF the same pattern.
The Vandalia will this morning run spe-
cial train to Terre Haute to carry the Odd
Fellows who go there to attend the conven-
ton held in that city to-day.
J. w. Greenen, master of transportation
of the Panhandle lines is able to be about
but is obliged to use. crutches. Aside from
his limbs, his health has much improved.
About thirty per cent. of the gross earn
ings of the Wabash road comes from the
passenger business, 1t having increased, it
is stated, about five per cent, in the last two
years.
Within the last fifteen months the entire
passenger equipment of the Big Four, with
through the shops, renovated in the interior
and reprinted
The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne s. Chicago.
the Lake Shore and the Chicago & Rock
Island will jointly build new passenger
station at Englewood a suburb of Chicago,
at a cost of $4,000.
President ingalls,, of the Big Four, has
given instructions to William Garstang, SUI
perintendent of motive power, to defer let
ting the contract for the four new paSsel-
ger engines for the present.
1t is stated that Toledo. Peoria & West
ern, which is now controlled jointly by the
Pennsylvania Company and the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy. will close its present
fiscal year without deficit
The outer yard of the Vandalia, now that
it's business is so heavy is proving of great
benefit in handling the traffic. One thou
sand cars can now be handled at Indian
apolis as easily as 500 could before these
additional tracks were put in.
President Ashley, of the Wabash. says
that road is now handling freights at the
low cost of Z mills per ton mile He says
increasing the train load, whereby the cost
per mile can be brought to the minimum,
is the secret of successful railroading.
The Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City
increase over the corresponding week Of
1897 of 1886. Since July l the road has
earned $l,S35,S1S, an increase over the cor
s140H. -'' -'
Union Depot officials say they do not re-
member a week in which the trains of all
lines centering here arrived so exactly on
scheduled time as in the week ending April
%, which is taken as evidence that the
roads in all directions are again in good
condition.
The Western roads will, in the near flu
ture, take up the question of making rate
for the transportation of volunteers to the
seat of war. The rate for this work dur
ing the civil war was cents mile, and
there is a general tendency to make this
rate during the present trouble with Spain
Z. o. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four, has given notice that
the checking of baggage on Sunday cheap
excursion tickets must cease. People who
had arranged for their summer trips on
these cheap excursions Will be obliged to
take regular trains or send their baggage
by express.
RIB. F. PIERCE, receiver, A L. Mills, gen.
eral superintendent, and General Roadmas-
ter McCune, of the Toledo, st. Louis & Kan
sas City. will to-day start on an inspection
OF the road and its terminals travelling on
special train. J. w. Sherwood who on May
tendent. will accompany the party.
The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton ex~
poets to get its new car shops at Lima in
operation next week. Much of the repair
done at the Indiana, Decatur d Western
shops will then be done at the c., II. 4 d.
shops. But the rebuilding of c., II. & d.
locomotives will be largely done at the l.,
D. & w. shops, where over forty locomo-
tives have been rebuilt in the last two
years.
Under the method of railroading fifteen
years ago the daily mileage of a freight car
was rated at twenty-five miles per day; five
years later at tnirty miles a DAY; noW S on
erage forty miles a day. The better meth
DDS OF moving cars which have been formu-
lated by the superintendent of car service
and the car service associations have been
the instruments that brought about this
more accelerated movement and ii is be-
lieved that still greater reforms will be
made in this direction.
Without special effort the Erie Railroad
on Sunday established a new record for
speed between New York and Cleveland. The
time of all roads between the two points
was broken by one hour and fifty-one min
utes. A special newspaper train left New
York at $3.50 m and arrived in Cleveland
at 1854 D. m. ,She Wootten pattern OF en-
CINE was used and the train consisted of az
engine and five cars from New York TO JIor-
nellsville and an engine and two cars from
Hornellsville to Cleveland. Some sixteen
stops were made on the trip.
Well informed railway officials are rot in
clined to believe there Is much foundation
for the report that the Vanderbilts are ne
gotiating for the control of the Chicago &