The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-14
PersonaI. Local and GeneraI Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
L. n, Loree, general manager of the
Pennsylvania lines West will this morning
leave Pittsburg and travel over the West
ern lines.
The indianapolis & vincennes is enjoying
a good squirt of business, last week bringing
into indianapolis 40 carloads of grain, live
stock and coal.
General Passenger Agent Rinearson, of
the queen az Crescent, has gone to PITTS
tooth, a relative.
Lester Smith James steeley and Frank
AlcDevitt, trainmen on the Evansville q
Terre Haute, on Saturday left the road to
go to Klondike.
The Wheeling & Lake Erie has placed on
sale hve-h 1undred-mile tickets at $lO; good
on the train, as with the old form OF COM
mercial mileage.
J. A. Monroe, traffic manager Of the Union
Pacific, has appointed J. II. l4athrop rep
resent the freight department OF the Union
Pacific at Pittsburg.
The Vandalia handled at indianapolis last
week 294S loaded cars, bringing in l,Sn and
forwarding 977. Of she in bound business,
14S cars were live stock
-Four new mail crews were placed on the
through runs over the Wabash yesterday.
the business having so increased as to ne
cessitate the additional crews.
f. Van Etten, Of the New York Central,
emphatically denies that he has under con-
sidei alton the acceptance Of the general
managership of the Union Paclhc
The members of the various brotherhoods
on the Baltimore & Ohio lines are planning
to federate. A meeting was held yesterday
at Grafton. W. Va, to begin the work.
The joint weighing and inspection bureaus
On Saturday the representatives at Indian
apolis received their pay for December serv-
ice.
Rather than have it's yard interfered with,
build two viaducts over its tracks at Terre
Haute. the cost of which will be fully
$4,000.
Yesterday the Panhandle, the Pittsburg
Fort Wayne q Chicago and the Big Four
lines had passenger engines and crews in
service to help move the accumulated
freights.
The disbursements of the paymasters of
the Panhandle, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
& Chicago and the Big Four lines for jan
u&ry for train service will be the largest
ever required.
Passenger officials are much encouraged
that the Chicago and Peoria lines have
agreed to restore and maintain passenger
rates on Feb. IS. The rate Will then be
$4.25, an advance from So.
President Galloway, of the Lake Shore,
last week sold his fine residence in Toledo,
Cleveland He has just purchased a hand
some home on Euclid avenue, in that city.
Civil engineers last week commenced MAX
ing survey through Youngstown. o., for
an extension of the Lake Erie & Western
Brice lines to reach the steel plants, mills
and other large industries in the Mahoning
valley.
The Big -Four lines proper earned, in the
first week of February 1853 616.79, an in
of 1923, PSI. So. Increased earnings were shown
by both the freight and passenger depart
ments.
e. O. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four, and D.. G. Edwards,
passenger traffic manager Of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton, have gone to
Washington to attend meeting of passen-
ger officials.
Chesapeake & Ohio who has been in Gin
cinnati two days comforting with his father
has gone to New England to close some inn
portant coal deals for coal mines on the
Chesapeake & Ohio.
Immense quantities of Southern pine lum-
Der and timber are coming North for the
very busy The Louisville division of the
Pennsylvania and the Monon are hauling
1t by trainloads daily.
o. d. Ashley, president of the Wabash
lines. who has been West several days re-
turned to New York on Saturday. He was
much pleased with the business the Wa
bash is doing, and thinks present conditions
will prevail for some time to come.
The Wabash is building two baggage cars
specially designed TO carry the baggage of
theatrical troupes. They will be sixty-four
feet in length, and will be equipped with
all improvements. The cars are like the
new baggage cars of the Peoria & Eastern,
without end platforms.
Every year Indianapolis increases in i'm
Eortance as freight and passenger center.
"A few years ago general agents or travelling
passenger or freight agents rarely visited
Indianapolis: now there is not a week that
there are not thirty or forty representatives
OF foreign lines who drop in here for day
or two, and usually get some good bust
ress
Last week was the banner week with the
Big -Four in it's loaded car movement. On
the Big -Four proper 14,445 cars were re-
ceiVed and forwarded at Indianapolis, 12,064
being loaded, and 1919 were handled on the
Chicago division; 1,S40 more loaded cars
were handled than in the corresponding
week of 1897.
The receipts from sales of tickets of the
Big Four at indianapolis the last four
months show an increase of $S6,343.6S over
the corresponding four months ending Jan.
81, 1891 II. M. Bronson, assistant general
passenger agent, credits portion of the
increase to the adoption OF the interchange
able mileage book
The new heavy steel for the Panhandle
thousand tons are to be distributed on the
Indianapolis, Chicago and Richmond div-
sions, ready to be placed in the track when
will do a good deal this year in laying addi-
tional sidetracks, utilizing the light rails
taken up in such Improvement.
In the year 1897 the much-boasted limited
trains of the Pennsylvania between Chi
eago and New York averaged but forty
passengers to the train. An official of the
road said that when the cost or operating
these trains and the value OF the equip
ment was considered they were not paying
trains, unless it be In the way of an adver--
the limited trains, with their $4 excess fare,
have barely paid expenses.
Superintendent Mansfield, of the Indian
apoliS * VincenneS, says that one winter OF
good roads in the southwestern part of the
State has convinced the citizens of the
towns and the farmers that money eXpend-
ed in the Improvement of highways soon
gave it's full return. About 100 miles of
road in Greene and Owen counties Were i'm
proved in 1897, and he says that such inn
provements were now likely to become gem
eral. The railroad companies are inclined
to deal very literally with county commits
sioners who propose to continue the good
work so well begun in these counties, as 1t
brings business to the railroads and enables
the farmer to sell his produce when it will
bring good prices. The increased ship
ments however of stock from the towns
where these improvements have been made.
and which reach the railroads, have been
the most remarkable.
In his efforts to convince the court that
the Baltimore & Ohio greatly needed more
equipment Receiver CoWen said: Take the
business done by this road in 1895 and COM
pare it with that done by the Pennsylvania
in the same period. We that year made
SO, 100000 and the Pennsylvania lost money;
We doing minimum and
they a maximum business. In other
words the Pennsylvania, with 1N,0O
cars, had plenty, of opportunity of
doing more business were it offered,
while our road was working right up
TO its limit. This was a period of de,
preston. Now things are changed, and
what is the result? The Pennsylvania can
give its shippers all the car accom- m0da-
tons they want and we are circumscrlbed,