The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-31
AGENTS, with 4. H. Porter. of Boston, presi-

gents, with A. H. Porter, of Boston, presi-
dent.
lie Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton, the
Indiana, Decatur & Western and the Mo-
non will move their outside ticket offices to-
day to the Cordova Block, % West Wash
ington street
The Union Railway Company is erecting
street crossing similar to the one recently
completed on Delaware street, which is
operated from a tower.
The Baltimore G. Ohio made a record yes
terday on a fast run between Cumberland.
Md, and Washington. A special train car
rying the st. Louis baseball club covered
the 152 miles in three hours and five min
The shops of the Baltimore & Ohio South
western will to-day begin running sixty
hours week. For three years they have
been running but forty hours week. These
shops now have six hundred men on the
pay rolls.
Walter White, chief train dispatcher of
the Grand Trunk, has been appointed pri--
superintendent of the Grand Trunk and A.
H. Landers succeeds Mr.. White as chief
operator
The Big Four is distributing twelve miles
of new steel rail east from Guilford, which
weighs eighty pounds to the yard. When
this is In the track the ITO miles from In
dianapolis to Cincinnati will be laid with
rail of that weight.
Train 46. over the Peoria & Eastern's
eastern division, which leaves Indianapolis
at $40 a.. m.,. will. at Springfield, connect
with Train 46. from Cincinnati the new
train put on Sunday, and known as the New
York and Boston morning special
A. A. Zion. superintendent of the Union
Railway Company, yesterday appointed
Mrs. William Boiler ore of the matrons at
the Union Station. Mrs. Boiler is the wife
of Engineer Boiler, of the Panhandle lines
who has been untitled for duty by paralyt-
ic attack.
One of the new engines on the Belt road
yesterday hauled forty loaded cars from the
West Side to Brightwood with ease, and
the officials are confident that either of the
new engines, when well in service, will maui
fifty loaded cars Thirty loaded cars has
been the train load assigned to the older
locomotives on the Belt.
The Pennsylvania, on Saturday. put in eff
feet its summer time table from Phllauel-
phia to Atlantic City and other New Jersey
seaside resorts. The road from Philadelphia
to Atlantic City is double track its entlre
distance, is laid with steel rails weighing
ninety pounds to the yard, and the running
time of several of the express trains has
been shortened.
The Pennsylvania, last night, put on it's
new sleeping-car line between lndlanapolls
| and Detroit over the Panhandle, to Dayton;
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton to To-
ledo, and the Michigan Central to Detroit
The train leaves Indianapolis at 7:20 p. m
and arrives at Detroit at els next morning
This is the best service ever given between
the points named.
During May the Queen & Crescent peo-
diers at Cincinnati carrying nearly thirty
| thousand men, who were sent to the camp
at chieRamanga The ne beauty of it is
handled them all without an accident; have
not scratched man. and we have put them
through in pretty lively shape
l.. F. Loree, general manager of the Penn
ssylvania lines west of Pittsburg, is, graft
| fled over what he with his subordinate
| officers have been able to accomplish in the
| increasing of the net earnings. The fact
| that the net earnings of the lines west of
| Pittsburg in the four months ending April
Sc increased $5s9 200 while those of lines east
| ment that any general manager may well
| be pleased with.
S. B. Wiekens, special agent of the Texas
& Pacific the Iron Mountain and VAN
dala lines, last evening returned to Dallas,
| Tex, his headquarters. In conversation last
| night he said he much enjoyed. his few
| city its citizens might we'll be proud Of.
| This was his first visit here. He came
to make IA arTangment f 5or properly enter h
| present from the State of Texas at the
! coming convocation
| II. l. Miller, superintendent of the Van
! dalia main line, was the first to suggest
running the fast passenger trains between
| indianapolis and st. Louis. 24O miles, with
out change. of locomotive, while W. c. Arp,
superintendent of motive power as have a
| number of officials in that position, hesitated
| as to the wisdom of making such long runs,
| but so MUCH of success has 1T proven on
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| nent arrangement, and the runs for freight
| locomotives are being heightened.
| The Chicago & Eastern Illinois is, SEEM
| ingly, approaching an excellent financial
| basis. Figuring ten months this year. and
allowing slight increase in net earnings
| the last two months of its fiscal year, the
road will have earned in the three years
ending June 80. average of per cent. per
annum on its common stock, and the direc-
tors, should they choose to do so, can, at
the next meeting, pay a dividend on the
common stock. 1t has paid dividends on its
preferred stock since reorganZed, but none
on its common stock
Three of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day
| ton locomotives are in the Indiana, Deca-
| tur & Western shops rebuilding. When
| these are completed forty of the e., H. & D.
! locomotives will have been rebuilt at these
| shops since the WoodfcTd syndicate became
| interested in the Indiana. Decatur & West
| ern, which was at fortunate time. just as
| the c.. H. & d. shops at Lima were de-
stroyed by fire. AS the new shops at Lima
are fitted only for building and repairing
cars the c.. Fl. & d. people will continue to
| have their locomotives rebuilt as it becomes
| necessary at the L., d. & w. shops.
H. S. Hynes, general manager of the Los
Angeles Terminal Company, by circular,
| makes the following announcement: w. A.
| freight department. in addition to his duties
| as chief clerk; T. c. Peck is appointed gen.
| era agent of the passenger department and
stationer. Mr.. Peck was formerly with the
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton at Indian
| apolis, but more recently with the Columbus
| & Hooking Valley assistant general pas
senger agent. few months ago. on ac-
| geles, where his health has much improved