The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-09

Indianapolis and erected a freight depot its
business has so increased as TO show the
wisdom of going to that expense.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
S. T. Seeley, travelling passenger agent
of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, is
in the city on official business
Stuyvesant Fish, president, and several
other officers of the Illinois Central were
in the city yesterday en- route from Gin
cinnau to Chicago.
George w. Lishawa auditor of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, who has been
quite i'll, has so far recovered as to be at
his office yesterday.
Another strike is said to be due on the
Chicago & Southeastern, the men again be-
coming uneasy about back pay. This will
be strike fourteen, it is said, whenever 1t
natures.
Judge Dichi of Lima, o.. has overruled
the motion to have the sale Of the Ohio
Southern to the first-mortgage bondholders
set aside, and the sale will now be con-
hrmed, it is expected.
j. r. Cavanagh car-service superintend-
ent Of the Big -Four, went to Buffalo last
nISut 70 Iook dIleI Ile cdIS which Tue view
using in local business.
M. D. Woodford, president of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton and the Indiana,
Indiana, Decatur & Western.
D. S. Hill, general superintendent of the
Lake Erie & Western, with the approval
of George Bradbury general manager, yes
terday appointed Frank S. Fill acting claim
agent, with headquarters at Indianapolis.
Henry Hanson, supervisor of the Cairo
division of the Big -Four, died at Mount
Carmel, Ill, yesterday after q short ILL
ness. He had been in official position on
that division of the Big -Four for many
years.
The announcement that F. Underwood has
been appointed general manager of the Bal
tlmOrp II Ohio confirmed the
eral offices of the b. q o. in Baltimore.
Receiver Murray says that no selection has
been made.
Representatives of Southern lines are be-
coming numerous at the Northern railroad
centers, and they say that tourist travel
South already shows much activity. A be-
this winter be exceptionally heavy
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton sent
special train from this city at l o'clock
this morning, carrying a theatrical troupe
numbers fifty, and occupies two sleeping
cars. Their baggage occupies two cars.
A number of the Western lines have re-
newed their efforts to get rid of private
car lines. private line, which operated
over the Union Pacific and had five hun
dred cars, has withdrawn from the road
under the pressure and sold their cars to
the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf.
A majority of the master mechanics on
Indiana roads observed the law of the
State giving certain numbers of hours to
d.
election day, and found that it pleased the
men much better than shutting down at 4
p. m. to give the men time to go to the
polls.
power Of the Chicago & Eastern illinois,
is in the city. In the last thirty days this
road has received seven new heavy freight
locomotives, making. twelve in the last
ninety days. These locomotives will haul
in one train three thousand tons from DAN
vile to Chicago.
Thomas Johnson, chief engineer of the
Pennsylvania's Southwestern system, will
this morning leave Pittsburg on a bridge
inspection trip which viii cover the entire
system and occupy three weeks: He will
be accompanied by members of his staff
and over each division by the respective
division supervisors.
A. E. Stillwell, president of the Kansas
City & Gulf is slated as the new president
of the Detroit q Lima Northern. The Still
we'll people will place 600 in the road
the Haskell interests remaining as they are.
The name of the road IS to be changed. It
will be known as the Central Terminal &
Connecting Railroad.
]. F. Evans, assistant auditor of the Rio
Grande Western, is spending his vacation
with relatives in this State and in Ohio
Mr.. Evans entered railroad service as a
messenger boy on the Baltimore d Ohio
Southwestern, the Ohio & Mississippi
in the seventies. In 1881 he went to the
Denver & Rio Grande later going to the
Rio Grande Western.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Springfield, ILL.,, yesterday Judge Allen en-
tered decree of foreclosure and sale in
the case of the New England Trust Com
pany against the Chicago & OHIO River
Railroad on a mortgage for $}COVOO exc
cuted in May, 1856, on which interest was
defaulted. The road has been absorbed by
the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville Railroad.
1t is stated that never in the history of
the Indianapolis division OF the panhandle
lines has it's track been in as good cOndi-
ton as at the present. Over seventy miles
of new heavy steel have been placed in the
track in the last four months, and every
bridge but two rebuilt to admit of running
the new Glass i passenger engines on this
division. Before the month closes the inn
provements to the last two bridges will be
completed.
An Eastern freight official states that
west-bound rates from Atlantic coast
points are in a deplorable condition; COM
peting lines are earnestly working to secure
shipments, and such thing as net revenue
is lost sight of. He stated that one or the
heaviest shipments from New England
point ever made to the West by the con-
nections of one of the initial lines was car
ried at slightly over one mill per LOCO
pounds per mile
Much Importance is attached to the pro-
ceedings of the meeting to be held in
Buffalo to-day by the passenger men. Gem
eral passenger agents OF Eastern and
Western lines will be in attendance and
will meet McNicOl, passenger traInc man
ager of the Canadian Pacific, to determine
whether this foreign line should be granted
q representation in the immigrant bureau
at New York city.
p n Bonebrake superintendent of the
indianapolis division of the Pennsylvania
lines, has asked the Pittsburg officials to
send a couple of Glass l. passenger engines
to haul the heavy fast trains this winter
between Columbus and Indianapolis. Traffic
is so heavy on this division that when one
of the fast trains drops little behind its
schedule and is delayed by meeting freight
trains the lost tipqe cannot be made up with
the Glass z engine.
Gaylord Beach, general manager of the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie, formerly with the
Bee-line claims that when the improve
ments now in progress on that road are
completed it will be one Of the most perfect
steam railroads.&c. this or any other coun-
try. II will have double tracks easy grades,
minimum curvature, be laid with steel rail
weighing ninety pounds to the yard, and