The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-20

" T. Malott, receiver of the Vandalia. has
gone to Atlantic City for few days stay
Charles Merrill, Western passenger agent
of the New York Central lines, was in the
city yesterday.
w. Davis. for many years agent of the
Vandalia at Rockville, will be buried to-
day at Charlottesville.
The Big Four is handling on it's system an
average of 1900 loaded cars a day, against
5000 or more in April. May and June.
The Lake Erie & Western earned in the
second week of July $54. 999. an increase over
the corresponding week of 1897 of Slab
The Pennsylvania lines. in connection with
the Vandalia, on Sunday had three trains to
Lake Maxinkuckee, carrying over 1000 ex-
cursionists.
Train 20 on the Panhandle yesterday
afternoon was hauled by two locomotives
there being twelve cars, including six Pull
man sleepers.
A Hutching, agent of the vandalia at
Charlottesville. has obtained a months
leave OF absence to go TO North Dakota on
a pleasure trip.
The Lehigh Valley claims to have the
Smoctnest track OF any road in the country
With the continuous rail.
For ten days past the Knickerbocker
over the Big Four has left indianapolis for
Cleveland with one to two extra sleeping
cars, making four in all.
r. B. f. PIERCE. receiver of the Toledo
St Louis & Kansas City, who intended to
leave for Toledo last night was taken SO i'll
that he was obliged to remain here.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
come to the conclusion that the train news
boys are nuisance, and has issued orders
not to permit them on through trains here
after.
Wesley Kipp. who has been with the Mis-
souri, Pacific at Kansas City for thirty
years, is in the city visiting N. H. Kipp,
his brother. who represents the Empire line
at this point.
OF the eleven big freight locomotives
which this month will he n the Pan
handle Southwestern system. five will be
put in service on the Indianapolis and six
on the Chicago division.
D. S. Gray. who represents the Pennsyl-
vania lines the board of managers of the
Joint Traffic Association, is at home ar
ranging to go with his family to Lake
Chautauqua for months stay.
The Vandalia on Monday commenced
building at its shops in Terre Haute fifty
coal cars of q new pattern, with a capacity
of $4,000 pounds. On Monday these shops
commenced running but eight hours.
The shop men of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois will hold a picnic July o. at Mo-
mence; and employees in other departments
in both cases furnishing a special train for
their accommodation.
A. ]. Hammond. of Frankfort Ind, will
exceed H. S. Moore in the Office of the chief
engineer of the Vandala lines Mr. Ham,
mond is graduate of the Rose Polytechnic
and has been city engineer of Frankfort
since graduation. in 1889
Inc santa re, the Missouri Pacific and
several other of the big Western systems
have decided TO give shippers passes to go
with stock wherever ii is consigned but
will not give them return passes so much
has the plan been abused.
George Lowell, general SUPERINTENDENT of
the Monon lines, was in the city yesterday
He states that the company is taking from
The Bedford stone quarries from sixty 10
seventy carloads of stone a day a large
per cent. Of II going to Eastern points
j. +. Lawes, superintendent of motive
power OF the Chicago * Eastern Illinois. has
just turned out of the company's shops En-
CINE 100 1t is a rebuilt engine with a num-
Der of improvements, and II is expected il
will be the fastest on the road with a train
of six cars.
The Monon is receiving its new fiat cars
from the Haskell 4 Barker car works
Michigan City. at the rate of ten day until
go shall be delivered These cars are forty
feet long. with 50, 900 pounds CARRYING ca
pacity and designed especially for the
Southern lumber trade.
In the month OF June not an employe on
the Indianapolis the Columbus or Cleveland
divisions of the Big Four was dismissed
from the service for any reason, neither did
one resign during the month. which General
Superintendent Van Wrinkle thinks remark
able on so large mileage
The ticket scalpers are much elated and
seem confident they have outgeneraled the
general passenger agnts and that their bust
ness is now in better position than before
its legality was brought before Congress
and bill prepared 10 stop the traffic They
cent test vote on the anti-scalping bill