The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-27

Personal, Local and General Notes.
H. G. Stiles, general agent of the freight
department of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton at this point, has entered his thirty
first year of service with that company.
w. c. Rinearson, general passenger agent
OF the Queen q Crescent, has named the
new train between Cincinnati and Tampa
T1e Cincinnati, Florida and Havana Linn
ited'
Chauncey NJ. Depew says there is not the
least foundation for the statement that the
New York Central is investing largely in
Chicago & Northwestern and Union Pacific
stocks.
1t is stated that nearly one-half of the
stockholders of the New York. New Haven
$4,000 are held in New York and 1900 in
Massachusetts.
BY running trains double header the oper-
ating department of the Panhandle lines is
able to keep the fast trains, Nos. 20 and q
on their scheduled time when hauling thir-
teen 70 fourteen cars.
1t has been costing the Chicago. Burling-
ton & Quincy 5000 year to supply dining
cars with flowers. This sum- it is expected
will be cut down by the company establish
ing its own greenhouses.
The Utah & Pacific Will have it's road
completed to Sulphur so as to run the first
train on New Years day. From Milford
to Uvada, the present terminal of the new
line, is seventy-fve miles.
Chief Train Dispatcher Lusk of the Pitts
burg & Western, and his force will, on Jan.
!, remove their headquarters from New
Castle Junction to De Forest, which is to be
made an important division point.
The Pennsylvania will erect morgues for
the reception of the remains of employees
and trespassers killed on their lines The
first will be erected at Harrisburg work
having absolutely been commenced.
Herbert F. Bates, who has been station
agent of the Old Colony road at Wey-
mouth for twenty years, has been appointed
general baggage master of the new union
station of the consolidated lines at Boston.
w. H. McDoel. vice president and general
manager of the Monon lines will this after
Kenosha, Wis. Mr.. and Mrs. McDoel will
at once leave in his private car for an ex-
tended Southern trip.
The Pennsylvania has twenty modern
engines about ready to turn out of the shops
at Altoona, most of them for Western lines
An OFFICIAL Of the road says the company
Will build y per cent. more locomotives in
1893 than during the past year.
1t is stated that the selection of a pres
ident of the Lake Erie e. Western and other
Br1ce lines rests largely with Adrian Iselil.
who bears much the same relation to the
property that the late Calvin Brice did, be-
ing largely interested in it financially.
Some of the equipment of the Indiana De-
catur & Western will be fitted for serv-
ice on the Chicago division of the Peoria
Decatur x Evansville. recently purchased
by the Woodford syndicate which adds
seventy-three miles to the Indiana, Decatur
& Western interest.
Seldom is there as quiet day in railroad
circles as was yesterday Offices and freight
depots were closed and no local freights
run. There is little hurrying OF through
freights east bound. the trunk lines are
calling on Western connections to hold back
freights as much as possible until the con-
gestion at seabord terminals is relieved
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie is making some
scientific tests OF its new consolidated freight
engine 1t attracts considerable attention.
as IL has cab at both ends of the boiler
The front cab is to protect experts who
watch a gauge set on the steam chest in
order to obtain diagrams which will In
dictate the horse power developed, the aver
age pressure, etc, and at the same time
a careful record is kept of the amount Of
coal burned, the actual weight of the train
and its speed. These tests will be of inter-
est as they are the first made in hauling
trains OF seventy loaded cars.
The life Of Pullman car is estimated at
twenty years. but IL has been found that
after twelve years they disappear on inn