The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-08

Baltimore 81 Ohio SouthWeStefn-FOurt
week January $146,486; decrease, $3.50.
Month, $5O5, 053; increase. $24, 1852. From July
!, SO, 3Sl 58S; increase, $2S2, 800.
Lake Erie & Western-Fourth week Jan
uary, $S4,9O4; increase, $7,725. Month, $274,331;
increase. $22,S 12.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
NJ. e. Ingalls, has returned from the East
and is arranging to start on a trip to MeXi-
co about Feb. Is.
A larger mileage of new railroad is now
in construction in Alabama than in any
State in the Union.
Stuart Allen, agent of the North Shore
Dispatch, the new fast freight line, is in the
city on his initial trip.
One day last week 712 carloads of coal
passed over the scales of the Panhandle at
Sheridan, eclipsing all former records.
John +. Miller, superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Southwestern system. is
stopping at Indianapolis for a day or two.
Freight officials report remarkable in
crease in west-bound tonnage of merchan-
disc and miscellaneous freights the last few
days
Thomas Rodd, chief engineer of the Penn
sylvania's Northwestern system, has re-
turned from an extended Western trip much
improved in health.
The pay rolls of the New York Central
show that there are 26,S67 persons in it's en-
ploy, to whom was paid in 1897 SIG, rs 435,
an average of 1922 each.
Assistant General Passenger Agents Rock
lines, were in the city yesterday to meet
General Passenger Agent Ford.
President Robinson and several of the d-
rectors of the Mexican Central passed west
on Sunday. They go to inspect the prop
erty, and will be absent month.
On Sunday there arrived at Indianapolis,
over the Big -Four lines, thirty--our trains,
and twenty-six were sent out between mid
night Saturday night and midnight Sunday.
One of the directors of the Chicago a.
Eastern Illinois states that on July l the
on ito
common stock, probably per cent, semi
annually.
When the common stock of the p, c.. c.
& ST H. was at $40 a share Il number of
the employees who had a little money not i'm
use invested in it, 1t is now selling at $45
per share
President Ripley. of the Santa Fe. is
quoted as saying that the company would
this year spend in the lleighborhood of 49,
OO0O0O in improvements to roadbed and
equipment. ftf
James Hardwelf has been appointed divi-
sion freight agent of the Canadian Pacific
at Montreal. and William Robinson takes
the same title with headquarters at st.
John, N B.
The Indiana, Decatur q Western yester-
day had 126 carloads of grain standing in
its yards at Indianapolis for inspection
which had been brought in Saturday night
and Sunday.
Yesterday the deliveries of grain to the
cerealine mills, the hominy mills, the starch
works and Elevator A were the largest of
any day the present season Forty-five car
loads were delivered to the cerealine mill
alone.
The Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf has
contracted for twenty-five carloads of -four
to be shipped from Minneap polls to London
via Port Arthur This is the first Shipment
made from any Minnesota point over this
new route.
on Wednesday II. G. Hook chief rate
clerk of the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton,
will retire to accept service as chief rate
clerk of the Erie lines at Chicago. Lewis
M. Webb will be his successor on the
c., II. & d.
General Passenger Agent Orr, of the Kan
sas City, Pittsburg & Gulf has published
an elaborate map of the system. The route
Is represented by a golden key, extending
TO the Gulf of Mexico and suspended by two
cards. extending to Omaha and Quincy, Ill,
on Feb. 10 the Mallory and Morgan steam
ship lines viii advance rates TO former tar
Waged between transportation companies.
This advance in rates will be of benefit to
roads both south and north of the Ohio
rive;
When the Pittsburg & Lake Erie gets it's
improvements completed between Youngs-
town and Ashtabula its large freight engines
burg to Ashtabula, which is its present
standard train between Pttsburg and
Youngstown
p c. Clark. ticket agent of the Big Four
at Cleveland O.. has undergone an opera
ton for appendicitis, and, while there is
hope that he will recover he was yester-
I.
joint ticket agent of the Big -Four and Lake
Erie d Western at Lafayette.
Local ticket brokers have taken fresh
courage over Senator Tillmans proposed
amendment to the anti-scalping bill and
now look for a failure of the bill to pass
the Senate, arguing that the railroad COM
panes will not tolerate the Interstate-com-
merce Commission interfering with the is
Suance of passes, such as the amendment of
Senator Tilman would enforce.
The passenger officials of the Erie road
are elated over the fast run made by spe-
cial train on their road. which left New
York at S:l5 a. M, arriving in Buffalo at
ll:2l a. m. Including all stops, the run was
made In eight hours and twelve minutes.
The officers of the Erie say that the condi-
ton OF their road will permit them TO equal
this record every day IN the year.
The statement of George w. Boyd as
sistant general passenger agent of the Penn
sylvania before the intersrate-commerce
committee on the anti-scalping act, has
been published in pamphlet form and it and
so fully set out and so we'll substantiated
by figures and reports of years past that
his statements are very oonvincing
The Union Station of the PENNSYLVANIA
lines at Chicago is TO be improved at a cost
of $4,000. The following roads occupy this
station: The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
the Chicago Milwaukee 4 st. Paul, and the
Chicago Burlington q Quincy. When that
building was erected it was considered the
largest and handsomest in this country.
1t is stated that the Panhandle. to save
$l5 by running its trains of fourteen cars
doubleheader in experimenting in that di-
rection in four days lost $3.50 i'm broken
couplers and delay in traffic. Hauling such
trains. when the thermometer is below zero.
says one of the employees. will hardly be
attempted again. The Adams Express cars
would not stand the strain and excessive
speed on favorable stretches, and the order
was withdrawn.
President Hill. of the Great Northern.
states that he has begun the construction
or ii number OF feeders to the main line and
proposes to make il the greatest revenue
earning road west of the Mississippi river.
A new branch has just been opened from
Park Rapids 70 Leach lake, Minnesota, and
large force of men is now grading a line
from Deer creek TO Fosston Mimi. which
VIII be two hundred miles long This line
VIII reach Red river. Some idea of the inn
mensity Of the grain traffic of this road is