The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-10
Personal, local and General Notes.


The Chicago & Eastern Illinois has de-
clared IA per cent. dividend, payable
April L. ~
In the month of February the Indiana
Car Service Association handled 6,402 cars,
with an average detention of 164 days.
The gross earnings of the Chicago &
Rock Island for February were 27 per cent.
in excess of those of February, 1897.
The Financial Chronicle computes the
gross earnings of 2S5 roads for the calen-
an increase over 1896 of $65, $50, 795.
John Hockey superintendent of the
freight warehouse of the Pennsylvania died
at York, Pa, Tuesday, OF typhoid fever.
He had held the position for several years.
President Thomson, of the Pennsylvania
lines, and subordinate officials are this week
where extensive Improvements are in prog
ress.
VIM. r. McKeen, jr., superintendent of
rolling stock of the Vandalia lines, now
has nine coaches in the, shops at Terre
Haute undergoing general repairs and re-
painting.
AS the Brice deal for the Flndlay, Fort
Wayne & Western has been declared off,
George Chapman, assistant to the presi-
dent of the road. will be appointed general
manager.
c. w. Hequenborg, who, on April l. will
become traffic manager of the stock yards
at East st. Louis, has for twenty years
been the car service superintendent of the
Missouri Pacific lines.
A. Galloway, superintendent of the Gin
cinnati and indianapolis divisions of. the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and j. L.
Orbison, general superintendent Of tele-
graph are in the city.
George Bradbury, vice president Of the
Lake Erie & Western lines, was, on Tues
day, elected president of the Peoria d Pekin
Union Railway. c. II. Bosworth was re-
elected general manager
Joseph Ramsey, general manager, and H.
i. Magee, general superintendent of the
NaIa oh linz in al dow
looking for suitable sites for new freight
house and roundhouse at that point.
The body of Hugh ]. Jewett, sex-president
of the Erie Railroad. was brought to Zanes-
ville o., yesterday in private car from
Augusta, Ga, where he died, and was in
tered after brief services in Woodlawn
Cemetery
The Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City will
not have line of passenger steamers be-
tween Toledo and Buffalo this summer, as
had been contemplated. a feet of freight
boats will, however, be run in connection
with the road.
Charles Alvin Gillig, American general
passenger agent of the Great Eastern
Railway of England, now in this country,
on Monday appointed Arthur w. Robson
to represent the line at Baltimore. Mr..
Robson is a former b. & o. man.
On all of the engines of the Los Angeles
Terminal Company, in California, oil for
fuel is now used with excellent results, eff
fecting a saving of 60 per cent in the fuel
BILL The cost of oil is Ill cents per mile,
against 2S.3 cents per mile for coal
Despite the fact that the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton has competition such
as it never had before through trolley lines
and recently established competing steam
railw; y lines, its passenger earnings are
highly satisfactory and its freight earnings
were never larger.
The Baltimore g. Ohio has got out its
Royal Blue Monthly for March and it ex-
GELS all former numbers. The book con-
tains photographers of all of the public
buildings of importance in Washington and
much valuable information as regards the
capital of the United States
The Big Four earned, in the eight months
ending Feb. rs, gross, 1851 ,163 an increase
over the corresponding eight months end
& Terre Haute earned in the same period
$S27 1856 an increase of $134. 419; the Evans
Vile & Indianapolis, $227 ,327 an increase of
S3S, S11.
NJ. w. Mansfield, superintendent of the
Pittsburg last evening. While there he sue
ceeded in getting the Pennsylvania Com
pany to send at once two of the five en-
gines assigned TO this road for this year.
the largest type of freight engines the
Pennsylvania Company builds.
A short time ago w. II. Newman, division
freight agent OF the Monon, with head
qurters at Louisville, being out of health
took trip South Fer pastime he looked
after business more or less, and as a re-
suit secured the shipment of $50 carloads
of lumber TO Northern points; of that num-
Der 430 carloads have been shipped North
over the Monan in the last few days.
N. E. Ollie, who. for twenty-nine years,
has been connected with the Star Union
freight line of the Pennsylvania Company,
has resigned to accept a position with the
Northw western Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany. Mr.. Ollie founded the dairy service
on the Pennsylvania lines, beginning his
work with the first refrigerator car run,