The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-28
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Edward f. Cost freight traffic manager
OF the Big -Four, spent Sunday with rela-
tives here.
The Erie people will occupy their new
handsome passenger station at Jamestown
on March l.
The net earnings Of the Chesapeake &
Ohio for January were $l9,461 in excess of
those of January, 1897.
The Big Four lines handled at Indianap-
oils last week 1905 more loaded cars than
in the corresponding week of 1897.
Charles L. Smith has been appointed to
represent the Mobile & Ohio in the North
west, with headquarters at st. Paul
Harry Grayhill. traffic manager Of the
Belt road and live stock yards, returned
from trip TO New York on Saturday.
The Peoria & Eastern has received from
the Brooks locomotive works two new
switching engines of the siX-wheel type
The Baldwin locomotive works has broken
all previous records by building four en-
gines of a peculiar type in twenty-one days.
The Legislature of Kentucky has decided
to drop the bill establishing 2 cents per
mile as the passenger rate on roads in that
State.
The stockholders of the Little Miami d.
vision of the Pennsylvania lines on Satur-
day declared a dividend of per cent. pay
able March 10.
railroad in Texas has been granted
special rates by the State Railroad Com
mission in order to meet the competition of
the wagon roads
George vice pfSSluenL ana gem
eral manager of the Lake Erie & Western,
is expected to be in the city two or three
days of this week.
G. r. Layher, who has been with the Wa
bash lines some years, has been appointed
freight agent of the company at Buffalo,
its new Eastern terminal
An official of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy stated on Saturday that the line will
show an increase in gross earnings for Feb
ruary over February 1897, of over 100000.
d. w. Butler whose funeral occurs this
afternoon in this city, was for several
years general live stock agent of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton at this point
The Erie road has notified its Western
agents that the embargo on hay at New
York would be lifted March 4. The embar
so was placed on that class of freight on
Feb. II.
An official of the Santa Fe says there is
no truth in the report that their line had
resumed full traffic relations With the Kan
sas City, Pittsburg q Gulf, the boycott still
being in force.
The appointment of ]. B. Flanders as
general manager of the Cincinnati North
pie will not include II in their Lake Erie &
Western system.
The stockholders of the Northern Central
held their annual meeting in Baltimore on
Friday and elected Frank Thomson presi-
dent A. j. Cassatt was elected in his place
as one of the directors
1t is highly probable that Cresson Springs,
on the Pennsylvania, as summer pleasure
iCSDIL VIII De AbdiiQOIlSHl. 1t ildS DteH con-
siderable of burden on the Pennsylvania
having never paid its expenses.
The vandalia last week handled at this
city 2,loS cars, 2,l02 being loaded, the road
bringing in 1.2S7 loaded cars and forward
ing west SIS. OF the inbound business l23
cars were loaded with live stock.
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
Legislature which proposes TO abolish mile
age tickets, the long-haul clause, and COM
pei the roads to carry passengers at so
much per mile and without rebates.
w. p Walker, freight traffic manager OF
the Chesapeake e. Ohio has so far recov-
cred from his paralytic stroke that he can