The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-30

| natl, Hamilton & Dayton and other WOOQ-
ford syndicate lines. is West again.
Orders have been given to the officers Of
| the shops of the Pennsylvania Company at
| Fort Wayne to build 500 gondola cars OF SO,-
| O0J pounds capacity.
| In the last four weeks / ,09S trains of the
| Wabash have passed through Peru, a june
| ton point of the Toledo and Detroit lines,
exceeding all former records.
The Wabash and the Peoria & Eastern
have arranged to put in an interlocking
plant at Mansfield, where the roads cross.
The plant will have fifteen levers.
NJ +. Ingalls,, president of the Big Four
| lines. last evening entertained at his home
on Madison avenue a number of prominent
| railway officials of Cincinnati lines.
j, p. Waldo, trainmaster of the Detroit.
| patcher on the Big Four, has been In the
city for a couple OF days visiting friends.
| With the completion of the new inter-
| locking plant at Lafayette there will be in
operation at crossing of other roads by the
| Big -Four lines eighty interlocking plants.
| The January number of the Book of the
| Royal Blue. published by the Baltimore q
| Ohio, is out and contains much interesting
| reading matter of an historical character.
| Western agents of the Pennsylvania lines
| were yesterday notified that the embargo on
| wheat and corn at Baltimore had been
| raised and shipments may now be sent for
| ward.
| All doubts regarding the Illinois Central
| extending its line TO Omaha are now re,
| ground in that city on which to establish
| yards and erect freight depots, etc.
| The second mortgage bondholders of the
| Ohio Southern are again making trouble,
| and the confirmation OF the late foreclosure
| sale has been postponed, as the court de-
sires to investigate certain ALLEGATIONS.
| On Jan. L w. T. Stevenson will take the
position of travelling freight agent of the
| New York Central consolidated fast freight
| lines at Cincinnati, vice w. Apologize, re-
| tired to go into business at Birmingham,
| Ala.
| The Great Northern and the Northern Pa
| cific by the recent changes in their time
| schedules are making practically the same
| California points that the Union Pacific
| does.
1t is stated that the appointment of W.
| +. Bruner as city passenger agent of the
! Vandalia is but temporary arrangement,
| and that as soon as vacancy in a higher
position takes place the position will go to
| Mr.. Bruner.
Captain c. F. Lamar master mechanic
| on the battle ship Oregon, now on a fur
| Tough, is visiting friends In Marion, Ind.
| For many years Mr.. Lamar was an engineer
| on the Wabash running between Lafayette
and Fort Wayne.
| W. c. Watrous late with the Great North
| ern, who, Jan. l, will take the position of
| superintendent of the Cotton Belt lines, was
| in the city yesterday, the guest of j. r.
| CaVanagh, car-service superintendent of
| the Big Four lines.
| General Manager Stevens, of the Chesa-
| peke & Ohio, has issued an order that any
| employee detected entering a saloon will be
| discharged; also, a garnishee of any en-
| ploye's wages by a saloon keeper will re-
| ault in his dismissal
| The Monon lines earned in the third week
| of December $50, 1888. an increase over the cor
| Erie & Western earned in the third week
| $6C695, decrease as compared with the
| corresponding week of 1897 or $,S23.
| Joseph Keavey, who with his force, comes
| to Indianapolis next Monday as division
| freight agent of the Big Four will have his
| offices in the Ingalls, block, as will Dr. Ford,
| the general surgeon of the company, who
| will locate at Indianapolis on Jan. l.
Citizens of Frankfort are urging Receiver
| Hunt, of the Toledo, st. Louis Kansas
| PIERCE, the late receiver, and erect a new
| passenger station at that place, the business
| of the place justifying such an outlay.
On Monday the general officers of the Wa
| bash will occupy their new rooms in the
| Lincoln Trust building at ST. Louis, corner
Of Seventh and Chestnut streets, and the
| Illinois Central their new offices in the Union
Trust building at Seventh and Olive streets.
The Big Four, the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
| Dayton and the Pennsylvania lines have
notified their clerical force who live in the
| suburbs, of Cincinnati and ride on their
| trains that there will be no change in their
policy as regards transportation-a favor
| which they appreciate
| The date for the sale of the Cleveland
Canton & Southern Railroad has been
| changed to Saturday, Feb. 4. The road will
station, on Ontario street. Cleveland, at
| noon on that day, by Special Master Com
| missioner III. +. Carlton.
There is official authority for stating that
| with the reorganization OF the Baltimore q
| Ohio southwestern there will be no change
| in the higher officials of the passenger and
Carly, general passenger agent, and S. r.
| Mclaughlin, general freight agent, filling
| their positions with marked ability
Harry Miller, superintendent of the Van
dalia main line, was in the city yesterday.
| Hearing the remark that probably, with the
| restoration of rates, freight traffic would for
themselves, he said he hoped it would drop
off until the Vandalia could clear its side
tracks of delayed freights and catch up
| with the orders for cars.
| Nearly all the fast heavy through trains
on the Panhandle are now run double-head-
er, and the hauling of such trains by two
engines is bringing about punctuality in
movement which is exciting favorable COM
| ment. 1t is stated that never in the history
OF the indianapolis division of the Pan
| handle have trains been run so near on
schedule time as since p A. Bonebrake was
| appointed superintendent.
The Cape Fear & Yadkin Valley Railroad
was sold at auction yesterday at Fayette-
Vile, N. G., under foreclosure proceedings
| by Commissioners Martin and Manly. The
| road was bought by the Atlantic Coast line
for So, 10000 The bidders were President
| Samuel Spencer, for the Southern Railway;
| William H. Blackford, for the Baltimore
bondholders or Seaboard Airline, and Harry
| Walters, for the Atlantic Coast line.
1t is not generally known, but the first
| was designed by Joshua Staples when chief
| engineer of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis
| road. This was in 1862. The bridges were
| constructed at Cincinnati and within the
| past twelve months have been taken out,
the engineer department not daring to trust
| them any longer, so great has been the in
| crease in freight traffic and so much heavier
| trains are now hauled
H. d. McClelland, trainmaster of the Erie
| lines at Huntington, Ind, who q few weeks
| ago went to Arizona for his health, writes
| that he is improving. He is stopping at
| Seligman division point the Santa Fee
| Pacific road, where he found a number of
| engineers whom he once knew who were
| formerly engineers on the Pittsburg, Fort
| Wayne & Chicago some other Chicago
| line. One of these was Henry Davis, who
| formerly ran the engine which hauled the
| Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago limited be-
| tween Chicago and Fort Wayne.
| When the Toledo e. Ohio Central and the
| Big -Four established through line between
Cincinnati and Detroit Passenger Traffic
ton & Dayton line between those points
| had under contemplation establishing a
| through line between Cincinnati and Cleve-
| land to retaliate for the step of the Big
| Four and Toledo 6; Ohio Central, but on
| looking into the matter decided it would not
! be wise to do so. The line established by the
| Big -Four and the Toledo & Ohio Central has
| proven a nonpaying undertaking and has
| been abandoned
| The Central Coal and Coke Company held
| a meeting at Columbus, o., yesterday to
| composed OF the coal carrying and coal
| mining companies of Ohio, being for the
| purpose of maintaining equitable rates. The
| competition of West Virginia coal resulted