The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-29

| to the same position at Springfield, H.,
| where the general shops are located. Geo,
| w Mckee, now master mechanic at Mo
berry. Mo, will take charge of the Fort
| Wayne shops.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Frank Reed, general passenger agent of
| the Monon lines, is expected in the city
| to-day.
The Wabash Company has commenced
the erection at Buffalo of freight depot
400 feet in length by 80 in width
The Peoria & Eastern in the third week
of November earned $37, 512, an increase of
Of 1897.
The Big Four lines proper, in the third
week Of November earned $2S4 1898, an in
crease over the corresponding week of 1897
of $5,5SS.46.
John Riley, superintendent Of the Peoria
| & Eastern, has so far recovered as to be
about the house and hopes to be at his
| office in ten days.
Samuel Sweet, general freight agent of
the Lake Erie & Western, has gone to the
Northwest on business and will be alb
sent most of the week.
The Vanderbilt people have ordered 1000
| steel cars from the Scheon Pressed Steel
| Company 500 for the Lake Shore and 500
for the Pittsburg & Lake Erie.
| The Lake Erie & Western has under con-
| temptation the putting on of a through
/ passenger train between indianapolis and
| Fort Wayne via Upton and Muncie.
| engines which have been burning oil for
| fuel into coal burners, the use of the latter
fuel being much the more satisfactory.
The presidents of the roads which con-
| sengers Associations have approved the re-
] Vised rules and regulations under which
| they are now TO be operated.
H. F. Houghton, superintendent of the
| Chicago division of the Big Four lines, re-
| turned yesterday from the East, where, ac-
companied by his wife, he went to spend
| Thanksgiving with his aged father.
Joseph Heavy, who is to represent the
| Big Four at this point as assistant general
| freight agent, was for some years with
| the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton at De
| troit, three years ago coming to the Big
| Four.
The coal operators on the Indianapolis &
Vincennes are now getting out eighty to
| ninety carloads of coal day, and could
they get cars to ship it would load 125 to
| 100. The coal movement of all lines is
| heavy beyond precedent.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois has de-
| clared a dividend of Il per cent. on its COM
mon stock. In July the road paid a 21s per
cent. divident on its common stock, and It
! is expected that hereafter it Will pay 1
per cent. in dividends annually.
Meetings between the Northern Pacific
| and the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company are being held daily with view
of patching up the differences between the
| two roads, and IL is believed the confer
ences will result in harmonizinS OF In
terests.
Through trains from the East were de-
| layed by the great storm in New York
| and New England to such an extent that
they were yesterday several hours late the
Southwestern Limited being turned over to
the Big -Four at Cleveland yesterday seven
hours late.
The four through trains over the Penn
sylvania line between Chicago and Louis
Vile via Indianapolis are made up entirely
of full vestibuled passenger equipment, In
Guiding the Pullman parlor cars run on day
trains and the Pullman sleeping cars on
night trains.
The introduction of the steel car has
thus far created demand for more than
50000O,O0O pounds of steel, over 10000 steel
cars having already been built This steel
has been used largely in the construction of
coal and ore cars and experiments are now
being made with steel box cars.
One of the striking features Of the pass
enger train service on the Monon lines be-
tween Indianapolis and Chicago, is the fact
that its fastest trains are run nearer on
the exact schedule than its slow trains. Its
our-hour-and y-f1Ve-m1nute trains are
practically speaking, never late.
Another road from Scranton to Jersey
City is assured. The New York, wyoming
& Western has placed its first order, calling
for 1000 tons of heavy steel rails Since
built, the Lackawana road has had prac-
tically full sway in handling the business
between Scranton and the seaboard
1t is stated that Traffic Manager Mills, Of
the Columbus & Hooking Valley, who is
a warm personal friend of William Greene,
the new vice president of the Baltimore &
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern. On
the Hooking Valley he has made an excel
lent record.
Judge Woods. in replying to the remark
that there was an excellent prospect for
another crop of bankrupt roads, so demor
allied were rates, said that were it in his
powed he would bring about the old order
of things and break up the consultations
which are making cities like Indianapolis
mere way stations.
Shipments of live stock, mostly cattle, to
Rlraf. for
November, not only from the West but
from the South. The Queen & Crescent at
Cincinnati, and the Louisville q Nashville
roads, at Louisville, are turning over to
the Big Four $50 to 300 carloads of fat cattle
a week for the Cleveland and Buffalo mar
kets, fatted in Kentucky.
j. r. Cavanagh, car service superin-
tendent of the Big Four lines, has returned
from his Northwestern trip without having
much success in getting cars, either by hir-
ing them or by Northwestern lines allow
ing their cars to come east of Chicago or
Peoria He stated that all over the West
and Northwest every car is in use and
moving promptly as close watching will
move them.
The new engine just put in service the
Carnegie lines weighs thirty-three and one
half times as much as did the famous
Rocket on the Baltimore & Ohio and is
three times greater than the locomotive of
&, Reading was credited with having the
largest engine in the country, 1t weighing
100000 pounds. The weight of the Carnegie
engine on It's uTlNlnS WLeeiS Is 2Vo,OuV pOulluS
In speaking of his work last evening
Travelling auditor Hewitt, of the Big Four
lines. who has been in service over twen-
ty-five years. said he had never known
year in which there were so few changes
in agents on the Big Four lines as the
present one. There are 800 agents and about
$50 cashiers who are bonded by one of the
guarantee associations, and, so far
known, there has not been a dishonest
transaction by either of such officials since
Jan !, 1885, while the cash business of the
lines has been heavy beyond precedent.
Tomorrow ii will be one year since the
PENNSYLVANIA lines introduced on their
lines the tonnage rating system, and an Off
cial of the road, in speaking of it, said:
''Snce that time il has resulted in very
great Improvement in the freight train
load, and the Pennsylvania will show in
its report for the year 1898 results
never before attained. The system, more
over, has worked well, far the en-
gineers are concerned The men found
that they We're given their fair load, no
more and no less. and that in the long
run il was the most satisfactory from
their oint of view. Another thing which
property is the better loading of cars by
the shippers. In the last two months efforts
have been made, and with success, to in
duce the large shippers of coal and coke to
load their cars more carefully, and il has
been found that great deal of undertaking
has been corrected. This has saved a good
deal of car mileage. and has helped in Sc
curing better car trainloads. The scarcity
of cars, which is now very marked, has been
the lever by which the company has been
able 10 bring this about"
Pensions for Veterans.
Certificates have been issued TO the fol-