The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-23

The directors of the Lake Erie & Western
yesterday declared lh per cent quarterly
dividend. .as Afp sse-
The United States Express Company an
nounceS its 129th dividend or 112 per cent,
payable May TO-
The Wabash Company has commenced re-
pairing it's shops at Andrews. 1t is stated
the force will be increased.
Trainmen on the Wabash, including en-
gineers and fremen, after May Is are to be
uniformed and have badges on their caps
denoting their position.
The general manager Of the Traders Dis
patch has issued a notice to the effect that
April % he will remove his headquarters
from Buffalo to Chicago.
The Panhandle took east on Wednesday
forty-t1ve palace horse cars IN which 70 car
ry the cavalry and artillery horses from
East Liberty to Chickamauga.
George II. Bowdoin, one of the newly
elected directors of the New York Central,
is a member of the j. p. Morgan & Co,
banking firm. He represents the foreign in
terests.
j. G. Philbrick who for many years was
a passenger conductor on the Panhandle,
has returned to railfoading and taken a
similar position on the, Baltimore q ONO S
western division.
A. r. Mack, for many years travelling
freight agent of the, Santa Fe lines, has
resigned and on May ] will enter the sery-
ice of the American Steel and Wire Com
pany of Cleveland. 'i
The Lehigh Valley has discharged num-
Der of engineers and promoted firemen to
their places. The reason assigned is that
it is an economical measure, as the hremen
the first year receive but $2.75 per day.
The st. Louis bureau of the Joint Weigh
iEg and Inspection Bureau has been placed
Hnder j. b. EekPan lnsp9etGr on the son l nf
]. b. Eckman, has taken position IN the
Indianapolis bureau.
The citizens in the southern part of the
State through which the Southern Indiana
mas
it being arranged at convenient hours. The
equipment is all new and second to none
running on Western roads.
The nineteen officials of the Klondike
lines who have been in the city for two
days left last night for their respective
headquarters. The strong lines, which ex-
pressed indifference about getting inc Gresh
party Of eighteen, secured the traffic.
F. E. Browne the newly appointed agent
in this section for the Hoosac Tunnel line
is making an earnest effort to build up the
business of the line; but, like his prede-
cessor, he Us held so strictly to tariff that
competing lines have much the advantage.
George Moses, who for some years was
chief clerk Of the master mechanic of the
Erie lines at Huntington, but who resigned
recently to go with the Chicago & Alton,
will on May ! return to the Erie to take a
good position in the superintendent of mo-
tive power department at Jersey CITY,
Passenger officials Of the Klondike lines
state that not more than 27,0OO tickets have
been sold to the Klondike region since the
excitement began. The low rates have not
perceptibly increased the business, they
state. Some of the railway officials thought
100000 people would take advantage OF the
low re les.
agent at the Union Station, will have a
table placed outside Of the ticket windows
for the use of travelling statesmen who call
for exchange tickets and have to sign their
names. Mr.. Stiltz is anxious to make it as
convenient as possible for TINS class of the
travelling public.
number of employees in the shops at La
fayette is becoming quite famous for the
excellent music it furnishes, and is often
called on to furnish music at public gather
ings in the northern part of the State and
at Lafayette in cases where II VIII not in
terfere with their work
An expert maintenanee-of-way man who
on Tuesday came east over the VandalIa
said he was surprised at the improvements
that have been made in the main line in the
last fifteen months. He said that at several
seventy-eight to eighty-one miles an hour
and the track rode very smoothly when the
train was running that fast.
The monthly report of ]. b. Eckman, in
spector for the Joint Weighing and Inspec-
ton Bureau for the Indianapolis district
shows that in March the roads gained
the indianapolis district SIS 27847 as fol-
lows: At Indianapolis Sl00l3.60; at Terre
Haute. $l,7l5eS at Louisville, $56l;S at
Evansville, $l,370A at Vincennes $56T.40.
LlAS SSAAo y ILdSlSIfl 80
four construction trains which have been
at work on the eastern division. and are
now reoallasting the track between Farm
ers City and Leroy, on the western division.
on the eastern division, by the recent hlgh
waters, fully forty miles OF track were re more
or less damaged, and it required ass car
leads OF gravel and eighty,three carioads or
rip-rap to repair the roadbed
The improvements that the Baltimore &
Ohio has made at Connellsyille, Pa are inn
portant The old shop buildings, passenger
station freighthouse, engine house. turn
tables and other buildings that have been
in use for the past forty. years have been
removed. In their place have been erected
q new passenger station of pressed brick
S2xlI0 feet and a new frame frelghthouse
4Oxl6l feet. The interior furnishings OF the
passenger station are modern.
Joseph Ramsey. vice president or the Wa
bash lines, passed through the city yester-
day en- route from Pittsburg to ST. Louis.
Mr. ramsey says the Buffalo extension IS
largely Increasing the business OF their
lines. In Speaking Of the improvements
dna{ nay. nate bsen made to The WABASH ne
sald tnat, with the steel rail already iaid.
and which WIFI be- laid before Dec. 4, there