The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-30


year $3.50 cars were equipped with air
brakes and automatic couplers. and thirty
seven miles Of new railway was built.
1t is stated that President HILL of the
Great Northern, seriously objects to a div
idend on the stock on the ground that If
II IS paid ii will lead TO unfavorabe legis-
lation. particularly as regards rates, this
winter.
The general manager of the Grand Trunk
Railroad system says there is no truth in
the story that ii has made arrangements
with DR.. Seward Webb for lease of that
part of the road situated between Massena
and Howick.
The Indiana & Lake Michigan division of
the Vandalia lines will be sold at foreclos-
ure sale on Dec S 1t is forty miles long,
extending from South Bend to St. Joseph,
and since operated has rarely paid its oper
ating expenses
1t is said that the movement Of the Bal
tmOre q Ohio to secure control of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie is further advanced
thar has been understood and that it is
now really IN the hands Of the New York
representatives of the Baltimore e. Ohio.
w. X. Vanderbilt, when West last week.
inspected the Big Four lines only between
Cleveland ard Cincinnati then returning to
New 4 ork In the Latter part of this week
ne VIII inspect the lines between Cleveland
ana ST. Louis and Cincinnati and Chicago.
Walter b. Pollock to-day takes the posi-
ton of manager of the lighterage and for
elgn freight department of the New York
Central at New York city. vice Albert Skitt,
resigned. Mr.. Pollock was formerly auditor
OF freight accounts of the New York
Central.
c. L. Potter. superintendent of motive
power of the Pennsylvania lines. with head
quarters at Fort Wayne, returned on Mon
contract for the building OF 1850 freight
cars, the construction of which was placed
in his hands to look after.
Conductor Stack, of the Big Four, who
fell under his train and was cut in two at
Columbus, o., Monday morning, had been
in service on the Cleveland and Columbus
divisions of the Big Four for over thirty
years. He stepped from his train before
il had stopped and fell under the wheels.
The Great Northern has created quite a
stir among the coal operators of West Vir-
ginia and Pennsylvania by making a con-
tract for 10000 tons of coal, to be delivered
during 1899 at Sandusky at $125 per ton
Heretofore $.33 has been the lowest figure
touched in prices for delivery at Sandusky
The actual net earnings of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio for October were $11 12S in
excess of those of October. 1897: the in
crease in net earnings the first ten months
of the year was 1928, 41S. The year will I'M
doubtedly be the best year as to finances
that the Chesapeake & ohio has ever eX-
perienced.
Superintendent Loree on the Panhandle
mas a swtchman named Biggs, who has
held that position since 1887, and although
fifty years old he has never ridden on a
train. he gets but IS a month, having
practically little to do, but declined to go
to Chicago at S65 per month when offered
position.
NJ F. ingalls,, president Of the Big Four
and the Chesapeake & Ohio, yesterday
planned to go to Chicago on the White Spe-
cial, and went so far as to order his car
attached to the train. He was about leav-
ing Cincinnati. when he received a tee-
gram calling him to Washington, and he
went East last night.
Benjamin McKeen, superintendent of the
Peoria division of the Vandalia, who has
been on a trip through Texas for the bene-
mt or his health, returned on Monday much
better than when he left. He was weakened
close n hp hpir1
very anxious to bring that division into
better reputation for business.
Lawrence il. .Cott, chief clerk in the
Office of the auditor of the Columbus &
rocking Valley. has been obliged to give
up his position on account of i'll health and
ne Will to-day be succeeded by l.. E. Jones,
who has been acting chief clerk. Auditor
Everett accepted the resignation of Mr.
Colt with many regrets.
1t is stated that within sixty days the
Wabash will purchase outright from the
Grand Trunk its Airline division, which
extends from Windsor, through Ontario, to
Buffalo, the Wabash to pay. %OOO,OOO for
operating that division eighteen months. and
80 per cent of the traffic over it has been
that of the Wabash lines.
Engine POS, one of the large new passen-
ger engines of the Big Four on Monday
hauIlng nine cars, ran from Indianapolis
TO Terre Haute. seventy-three miles. in
ming slow in the city limits at Indianap-
oils and al Terre Haute. This is the quick
H.
dianapolis to Terre Haute.
At the twenty-fourth annual meeting of
the Passenger and Freight Conductors
Mutual Aid Association, held in Chicago
last week, an amendment to it's bylaws
was agreed on by which all pending claims
will be settled on the basis of 81 900 cash
and deferring payment of S1,600 to which
beneticiarieS are entitled, to such time as
the finances of the association will permit
On Saturday James Gray, brakeman on
the Lake Shore road, having received the
S350DO0 to which he was said to have fallen
heir notified the trainmaster that he
guessed he would not go out on his regular
run. In talking with an official of the road
about the matter he is quoted as saying
that he intended to invest a portion of the
money in stock of the road he had worked
FOR so many years.
The stockholders of the Central Ohio Rail-
road, at meeting held in Columbus yes
terday, decided to accept the proposition of
the reorganization managers of the Balti-
more q Ohio Railroad, and practically set
tied the controversy that has been going on
for several months The committee ap-
pointed in April to confer with the man
proposition, namely, an exchange OF Cen
tral Ohio common and preferred stock dol
lar for dollar. for preferred stock of the re-
organized company and a bonus of $3.50
per share the par value of which is $50.
Under the arrangement that becomes eff
fective Dec. IS, the Southern Railway will
have for the winter season. of 1S9S-99 from
the four Observation-Disclosures, Louisville
st. Louis and Kansas City-double daily
trains to Florida, which is the best serv-
ice ever offered, as on previous years only
one schedule a day has been operated for
Florida. The occasion for this double daily
service is the increased interest in Florida
Cuba and Porto Rico and travel to that
territory. Steamship lines have been es-
tablished from Miami, Fla. by the Florida
East Coast Steamship Company direct to