The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-10

non, who has been quite i'll, is at his OF
flee again.
Fred Hawley. passenger conductor on the
Big Four, is rapidly recovering from Sc
we're illness.
]. II. Davie, confidential secretary of Pres
ident Ingalls, of the Big Four was in the
city yesterday.
The Big Four has established an outside
office at Lafayette, and NJ. K. Weakley has
been appointed ticket agent.
L. F.. Loree, general manager of the
Pennsylvania lines, reached Pittsburg yes
terday on his return from abroad
OF the 100000 tons of heavy rail the Penn
sylVania contracted for recently 2o,UO tons
are to come to the Southwestern system.
John Hawkins, of Battle Creek, Mich,
has been appointed roadmaster of the
Grand Trunk, from Chicago to South Bend,
Ind
President Dole, of Hawaii passed through
the city yesterday en- route for st. Louis,
lines.
The figures of the Chicago & Northwest
ern for the calendar year 1897 show That
there was a surplus after dividends of ST.
219034.
The stockholders of the Peoria & Eastern
held their annual meeting at Danville, ILL.,,
yesterday and reelected the old board of
directors.
The last six months of 1897 the Cleveland,
Lorain & Wheeling earned within $1,000 of
its entire fixed charges for it's fiscal year,
which will end June 80.
The boom in railway stocks has reached
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, and
some of the new preferred stock sold on
Monday at $S5 per share.
The Pullman Company is building twenty
tourist cars for the Minneapolis, st. Paul
& Sault Ste. Marie road and twenty passen-
ger cars for the Grand Trunk.
On Sunday the Santa Fes California linn
tied run from La Junta. Col, to Dodge City,
Kan. POP miles, hauling eight cars, at an
average speed of 531s miles an hour
Passenger representatives of the Wabash
OF Il
the Kansas City local passenger bureau for
cutting rates. The evidence against the road
is said to be quite positive.
. The Pennsylvania Company, by tearing
down the old buildings on the ground 1t
purchased from the Slnker-DaVis Company,
will get rid of paying taxes on the several
buildings, which was no small Item.
The Missouri Pacific in order to accom-
modate the large travel to the Klondike,
will inaugurate weekly tourist car service
between st. Louis and Portland, the first
car to leave on Feb. %, and on every Tues
day thereafter.
Passenger officials state that travel to
Southern pleasure resorts from this sec
ton this winter has been disappointing,
while the business to the Pacific coast has
been a great surprise, ecllpslng all former
records
Fort Wayne & Chicago were promoted to
engineers-C. A. Prince, II. Strasser, w. IL.
Van Arsdale, r. H. Craig and E. Truesdale.
All passed rigid examinations and are COM
petent for promotion.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie has received
and put in service twenty-five of the one
hundred steel cars it ordered built, and
should they prove what is expected they
will when in service, the order will be in
creased to five hundred.
Panhandle yardmasters and train crews
have been instructed to hereafter haul all
fiat cars, when empty, next to the caboose,
no matter what their destination tina . as q
lapse in the middle of a train.
r. Tanhroeck has been apDointed Eastern
freight and passenger agent of the Union
Pacific at New York r: w. Baxter freight
Aglar freight and passenger agent at St.
Louis, and b. v. Maze general agent at
Butte, Mont.
The Big Four yesterday received it's last
consignment on the one thousand cars it
contracted with the Pullman car works to
build, and the Pullman works will now
build the last five hundred cars on the
contract to build one thousand for the Ches-
apeake q Ohio.
Barney Smith & Co., of Dayton, o., yes
terday delivered to the Big Four several
which are said to be the best arranged of
any car for such purpose yet constructed.
The same works will next week deliver
new parlor and dining car to the Big
Four.
w. L. Talbot, consulting engineer of the
railroad commissioners of Illinois, was in
Nation on Monday to arrange with r. B.
Starbuck general superintendent of the
Peoria, Decatur 81 Evansville, and d. Sloan,
Cfl0I engineer Oh the IltlIlOlS CGHIIdl lOI
the erection of an interlocldng plant at that
point
The gross receipts of the Illinois Central
from traffic for the month of January are
estimated at 81 303, 1913, an increase of $405,636
over the same month of last year. For the
six months ended Dec. 81 last the excess of
receipts from traffic over operating expenses
and taxes were $4,6202sO an increase of
81. 200, 146.
AS the matter now stands the strong lines
are lnd1nerent as TO the conJinuing TINS
lines, that are more anxious to make a good
showing, and the proprietors of summer re-
sorts are urging mat they De resumed as
business.
The roads doing business at East st.
Louis are protesting against the measure
before the Legislature of Illinois, COMPEL
ing them to erect a new station at East st.
Louis The roads claim that the Importance
of the town and the volume OF business done
does not justify such an outlay as the bill
contemplates.
Persistent reports of a coming union be-
tween the Chicago & Northwestern and the
Railroads are in circulation in Wall street,
but for every new outbreak of the story
there is abundant and satisfactory denial by
leading interests III the roads.
1t is probable that the Cincinnati Hamil-
ton & Dayton will replace its Pullman ser
vice with that of the Wagner Palace-car
made between the Monon and the Wagner
PaIace-car Company. In that case the only
Pullman service between chicago ana III
dianapolis will be over the Panhandle.
1t has been understood for some time past
that the Vanderbilts We're securing a large
holding of the securities and stock of the
Delaware, Lackawanna 81 Western, and
now the rumor comes that it is the inten-
ton to consolidate the Lackawanna with
the Michigan Central, which would certain
ly be shrewd move and make very
strong east-and-west line.
The oldest locomotive engineer in the
United States is Thomas Telley, who re-
sides at Fort Wayne and has been run
ming on the Pennsylvania line forty-tive
years, most of the time between Fort
Wayne and Chicago. He commenced as a
fireman IN 1S4S, and in 1852 was promoted to
engineer. The conductor of the first train
he hauled was Charles Gorham father of
C. ID. Gorham, superintendent of the Nickel
Plate
Hereafter when trains 5 or q, from the
east, are reported late over an hour and
fifteen minutes the VandaIia will make UP
a special train at Indianapolis, running il
through on the time schedule of those trains.
so that Indianapolis passengers will not
miss western and southwestern connections
at st. Louis. When the trains mentioned
are but one hour late the Vandalia can
make up the time If the track is good and
the weather favorable.
The friction which exists in the railway
brotherhoods, alluded to recently, ii is said,
is due to the extravaganza of the officers
OF the brotherhoods. AT the firemen's con-
vention in Toronto, Canada, the delegates
from the United States will bring charges
that the grand officers are dictatorial and
hot thsaNr ltf-x its.f tf nt