The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-06
the consolidation of that property with the
New York. New Haven e Hartford.

the consolidation of that property with the
New York, New Haven & Hartford.
j. X. Jacobs. one of the oldest passenger
conductors on the Pennsylvania road. was
buried at Newport, Pa, yesterday He died
after a very short illness. He had run
passenger train on the road over thirty
years.
In the three months ending Sept. 20 the
Monon. 1t is stated officially, has handled
more passengers between Indianapolis and
Chicago and Louisville and Chicago than in
the corresponding period OF 1888. when the
worlds fair was in progress.
The large increase in business with the
Vandalia the last three years is evidence
that the management of the property made
no mistake in the promotion of N. w. Tay
Tor to be general freight agent of the road
on the death of H. w. Hibbard.
Passenger officials of the Michigan Gen.
trail are pleased over the decision of the
Michigan Supreme Court to the effect that
mileage books good for an entire family
need not be sold by agents of that road
doing business on the main line within that
State.
A company supposed to be backed by the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton is being or
ganiZed to build a road from Rushville to
Laurel stone quarres. The shipment or
stone over the Whitewater road from Laurel
quarries averaged sixteen cars day tnis
season.
General Foreman Wright in the Vandalia
shops al Terre Haute. is pushing the work
of equipping the company's freight cars
with automatic couplers and air brakes he
partment, and expects to do so through the
winter
Freight service will be somewhat inter-
fered with on the lines centering at FITS
burg next week on account of the knights
Templars' conclave. The trains Will be SO
numerous that 1t will be necessary 10 put
some of the freight locomotives in passen-
ger service.
The shops of the Philadelphia & Reading
are so busy that the Saturday half holiday
has been abandoned. because the service or
ic af fr1l M
machinists are working fifteen hours day.
The company now has over 2,lO0 men on its
shop pay rolls.
When the first union station was erected
in indianapolis the roads drew lots for the
track nearest the waiting rooms. The Terre
Haute & indianapolis, now the Vandalia,
up to the present time having it's trains
arrive and depart on the track nearest to
the waiting rooms.
1t is stated that the business of the Gin
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton to Michigan
pleasure resorts the past season fully
60 per cent. in excess of that of the CORE
spending period last year. and, in fact, the
heaviest the company has ever enjoyed;
which is evidence that fine equipment and
fast trains are appreciated by pleasure
seekers
The receipts of the Big Four for the
months of September from sales of tickets
at Indianapolis exceeded those of Septem-
ending with Sept 80, 1898, the increase over
the corresponding period of 1897 was $l44,-
1920. At no point on the Big Four system
was the increase proportionately as great
as at Indianapolis
p H. Morrisey, 81 and master of the Rail-
road Trainmen, is in Pittsburg giving at
tention to the dema nds of trainmen in the
Pittsburg district for an increase in wages.
He says there need be no fear of a strike
but expresses the opinion that traffic is now
so heavy and the roads doing so well that
the demands of the trainmen are not un-
just and that the railroad officials will read
lily make the concessions asked
Col A. H.. schell agent. of the Pennsyl--
vania at Jeffersonville- will shortly be sent
to Louisville to succeed U. T. Underwood at
the Fourteenth-street station; Harry Cor
rell. of Seymour. will succeed Schell; Frank
Stout, of Franklin, will succeed Correl;
Will Davis agent at Scottsburg. will sue
coed Stout at Franklin; Agent Butler will
be sent from Shelbyville to Rushville, and
the Rushville agent will go to Columbus as
baggagemaSter.
George H. Campbell, terminal agent of the
Baltimore & Ohio at Baltimore has. in adj
dition to his present duties. been appointed
inspector of stations and terminals over the
whole line. The object of the appointment
is to secure at each terminal better service
in every respect, and is in line with the
policy of the receivers to give to the patrons
of the road better and quicker facilities for
the handling of freight II. S. Fordyce has
been appointed chief train dispatcher of the
Ohio division, vice c. E. Adams, resigned
The Pacific coast agents of the Canadian
Steamship Company give as the reason for
putting the Tartar and Athenian, their 1000
ton steamships. on the run between Van
couver, Portland, Vladivostock and China
that the trade between the Orient and
America has grown to enormous proper
tons. The three 5,O00-ton steamships. En-
press of China, Empress of India and En-
press of Japan, were in the habit of leaving
behind about 500 tons of freight. The Tar
tar and Athenian will handle the supplies
for the Transsiberian railway, and then pro-
coed to Hong-Kong to help the Canadian
Pacific Railway Empress line More steam
ships may yet be put on.
Edward s. Washburn, who has been ap-
pointed the third arbitrator to settle the
questions in dispute between the American
roads and the lines of Canada, begun his
railroad career as a bill clerk on the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy road. For ten
years he remained with the company. serv-
ing as cashier, chief clerk to the auditor,
private secretary to the general superin-
tendent, general agent contracting freight
agent. assistant general freight agent and
general agent in charge of operating and
commercial departments. In 1875 he went to
the Michigan Central Chicago agent,
afterwards becoming private secretary to
the general superintendent at Detroit. His
career from that time included service as
manager of the Hoosac Tunnel fast freight
line, general traffic manager of the. Fitch
burg, freight traffic manager of the Big
Four. freight traffic manager and president
of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Mem
phis. He is man just entering the forties
and is thoroughly schooled in railroad af-
fairs.