The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-16
Balance .....,............. $251,5
Profit operating the T. H.
T,1S7.35
Personal. Local and General Notes.

the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy has de-
cided to at once erect a new passenger sta
ton at Creston, Ia, to cost $4,000.
The fare over the Congo Railroad, 241
one-tenth as much for blacks
J. E. Cooper. of the trainmaster's Office
at Richmond, has been transferred to the
office of Superintendent Walton, at Logans-
port.
]. N. Tittemore general freight agent of
the Iowa Central, and r. =. Martin, COM
mercial agent of the company az Minneap-
oils, are in the city.
General superintendent McGuian, of the
Grand Trunk lines formerly on the Wa
bash, is spending few days with old as
sociates in the West
So promising is the peach crop along the
Panhandle lines in Ohio that the company
IS fitting up two hundred cars to handle the
crop expeditiously.
Lewis King has been appointed agent of
the Panhandle at Gas City, Ind, vice
Thomas Members, transferred to Winamac
TO succeed l.. b. Carver, resigned.
On Aug. 10 it is expected =. A. Bonebrake.
superintendent of the Indianapolis division
of the Panhandle. will move his heddquar-
tiers from indianapolis to Columbus, o.
G. G; Pierce, general agent of the Mer-
chants, Dispatch at this point. returned
yesterday from his two weeks vacation He
was accompanied by his wife and spent the
time at Stone Lake, Ind.
George w. Bishop, passenger conductor on
the Baltimore & Ohio, has obtained two
ern trip, expecting to spend a couple of
weeks in Mexico before returning.
A number of delegates to the National
Educational Convention, held in Washing
ten, returned yesterday. The Chesapeake &
Ohio carried into Washington on this occa-
sion 24l7 school teachers and their friends
Harry Fuller, passenger traffic manager
of the Chesapeake & Ohio who was SO bad
~ injured in a wreck four years ago, has so
improved of late that he has discarded
clutches, getting along comfortably with
cane.
George Mckay. general manager CT the
Erie fast freight lines, was in Tie city yes
1erday. He expresses the opinion that III
trunk lines are maintaining west. Lourd
rates more closely than at any tine IN some
years
j. G. Van Wrinkle, general superintendent,
george F<ittredge, chief engineer, and VIM
Garstang, superintendent of motive power
of the Big Four lines, have been out for a
couple OF days on the Cleveland and Michi-
gan divisions.
ordered a hearing into the matter of the
alleged disturbance in passenger rates by
the Canadian Pacific Railroad, to be held at
tne Iederal courtroom, Chicago, at 10 a. m,
August l next.
The legal department of the PENNSYLVANIA
Is stiN studying on the problem how to un-
load the Terre Haute e. Peoria division the
earnings of which hardly pay operating ex-
penses and taxes. and yield no income to
the security holder.
Track laying on the Chicago e. Southeast
ern Is now progressing at the rate of one
third of mile day between Anderson and
Muncie. An impression prevails that the
Pennsylvania Company has been putting up
money TO complete the line into Muncie.
The Pennsylvania has a novel suit on
hand. James Ross has sued the company
for 200 for alleged injuries received when
walking along the company's tracks. A
torpedo was run over by a passing locomo-
tive and fragment of it struck Ross in the
face
Fast train No. 5. over the Panhandle, con-
Usting yesterday of eleven cars. vas hauled
from Columbus to Indianapolis, 1SS miles in
four hours and twenty minutes, stops to
be deducted. making it the fastest run ever
made between the two points with leavy
train.
G. IA Spragut, representing the Detroit
and Cleveland Navigation Company, the
coast line TO Macknac. is in the city for
couple of days. Mr.. Sprague states that bus
mess TO the points their line strikes has not
been as heavy in years as thus far this
season.
IL H. Lancaster, agent OF the American
Express Company at LAFAYETTE, returned