The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-29
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
Twenty-seven engines on the Big Four
system drew for December service $lo0 or
over.
Bonds of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & In
dianapolis on Thursday sold at IL cents
above par.
II. Fl. Porter, president Of the Chicago &
Eastern illinois, has gone to Asheville for
two weeks rest
J. J. Turner, general manager of the Van
dalia line, is in the city for conference
with Receiver Malott.
S. G. Lutz has been appointed assistant
general freight agent of the Iowa Central,
with headquarters at Marshalltown.
j. W. Greegor, freight Superintendent ON M
the Chicago division of the Big Four, is i'll
at his home in this city with rheumatism.
C. e. Schaf, general manager of the Big
Four, was in the city yesterday for con-
ference with ]. @. Van Wrinkle, general SUI
Derintendent ~,
Frank Thompson, president of the Penn
sylvania lines, who. with a party OF friends,
has been in Florida ten days, returned TO
Philadelphia yesterday
Train rs, on the Michigan division of the
Big Four on Thursday ran from Marion
to Anderson, thirty-three miles, in thirty
| three minutes, stops deducted.
Sylvester Van Horn one of the Oldest en-
gneers on the Panhandle lines, was buried
yesterday at Xenia. OF late years he has
run on the Little Miami division.
The Pennsylvania $ Golden Gate special
passed through the city yesterday on sched-
uled time, and was one of the handsomest
and most complete trains ever seen here.
Edgar II. Beckley, formerly general pas
senger agent of the Clncinnatl WABASH q
Michigan, now part of the Big Four sys-
tenn. has purchased drug store at Elkhart,
Ind.
Train II on the vandalia has now been
on two years and has become the best
paying train on the r. III. & l. division. In
running from Terre Haute to indianapolis
it makes but one stop.
John f. Miller, general superintendent of
he cxylxy at1ia thxyp
with several subordinate officials, is in
Pittsburg to attend a meeting of the adj
visory board of the relief department.
The Allegheny division of the Pennsylva-
MIA lines was operated in November on 500
per cent. of it's gross earnings, and under
less favorable circumstances in December
on less than 90 per cent. of the gross earn
irgs.
c. e. Hildebrand, who for some years
was in the office of VIM. Garstang, super
intendent @, Of motive power Of the Big -Four,
ing. His remains will be brought to In
| dianapoiis for burial.
A number of engineers and firemen on the
Big Four have gone into the service of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Superintendent
OF Motive Power loves, formerly with the
Big Four, knowing their qualifications for
the positions given them.
John O Brian has been a passenger con-
ductor on the Lake Erie & Western. for
merly the Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago, for
| thirty-five years, running first between In
dianapolis and Peru, and since 1869 between
indianapolis and Michigan City
The Mobile & Ohio will on Feb. % cele-
brate its fiftieth anniversary, and on that
day declare a dividend on its stock. The
company has no floating debt, Is lightly
bonded and only car trust obligations
amounting to Sl47,92S are outstanding.
J. II. Burwick who for some years was
a fireman on the Panhandle lines, will to-
morrow address the railroad branch of the
Young Mems Christian Association at Co
lumbus, o., and during the following week
| hold monday meetings at shops and other
| places.
| Fl. M. Bronson, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four lines and the Pc
oria & Eastern, returned yesterday from a
Western trip He states that at Peoria and
st. Louis the receipts from sales of tickets
uary, 1897. '''''''''' 80
The Big Four lines proper) earned in
the third week of January $243, 520.36, a de-
crease as compared with the corresponding
week of 1897 of $33s.30. There was an in
crease shown in passenger earnings as COM
pared with last year and q decrease in
freight earnings.
The big Schenectady Engine 1904, which
the Panhandle is still using between Pitts
burg and Columbus, is making some re-
maFka6e a runs ta with heavy train, trains almost
1t unfavorably with the favorite Pennsylva-
MIA Glass p engine.
For the year which ended March 81. 1897,
the Rock Island earned 3s per cent. on
its capital stock. In the nine months from
April 70 Dec. 81 it increased its net earn
ingS by 3l2 per cent. so thai in nine months
of its fiscal year it has been earning 69s
per cent. on the capital stock
L. "A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
lines says the increase in business between
points north and south of the Ohio river
the last sixty days has been almost phe-
nomenal. The interchange of traffic be-
tween the North and South is about equal
ly divided.
Railway men who have read the argument
of Mr. George w Boyd assistant general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania. before
the Senate committee, favoring the anti
| scalping BILL speak very highly of it. The
senator's it is stated. were impressed with
its weight, as all were by Mr.. Boyd's cam
dor and fairness.
The net earnings Of the Burlington system
for tho month of December were 1896. l73, an
increase of S21 $50 over the same month of
last year. For the months from the first
of July TO Dec. 81, the net earnings of the
system have been S4345,9l9. an increase OF
$l,o09,555 over the same months Of the pre-
cedng fiscal year.
j. J. Hannahan. grand chief of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen. was in
Wabash on Thursday to confer with DR.. ].
| IL Ford, chief surgeon OF the Big Four
| lines, in reference to claim for total dis
ability made by Judson kegg. an employee
on the Michigan division. he being insured
IN the brotherhood's association.
The New York Produce Exchange is re-
newing its efforts 10 wipe out the differ