The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-01
Personal, Local and General Notes.

to Havana and other Cuban points
All the roads in the Central Passenger
Association have announced reduced rates
for the holidays.
The ticket and freight agencies of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton at Rushville
have been separated.
c. D. Benjamin, the new representative of
the Canadian Pacific in this territory. was
in the city yesterday on official business.
Z. o. Covert, claim agent of the Pan
handle, who has been confined at home since
sept; l by typhoid fever, expects to resume
service to-day.
G. w. Gundiff, one of the older engineers
in time of service on the Wabash. has ac-
eepted service in Mexico. His headquarters
Will be San Luis Potosi.
II. Chandler, late with the Nickel-plate,
will to-day become private secretary of G..
II. Kimball. general superintendent of the
Columbus, Sandusky and Hooking
The Wabash earned in the third week of
November S2SS 1856, an increase over the cor
responding week of 1887 of S30,920 Since
July an increase of $36s sos is shown
The money which the Wabash is spending
on the Eel River division certainly indi-
Gates that the company has no idea of aban-
doning that division, as has been alleged.
On Tuesday afternoon special train car
rying President Ingalls, made the run from
Cincinnati 10 Huntington, over the Chesa-
peake & Ohio. 162 miles, in three hours and
fifteen minutes.
The new passenger station of the Big
-Four at Bellefontaine is nearing compile
plans prepared for new depot at that
point to cost $500.
The Georgia Central has issued new
folder which contains a map of the terri
tory through which the system runs and
the location of twelve winter camps for the
United States army.
DR. Charles 3; Dudley of Altoona, chief
day delivered an address before the students
of Purdue University on the relation of
chemistry TO the railroad.
A protective committee has been selected
by the first mortgage bondholders of the
Detroit q Lima Northern and the Lima
Northern Railway companies to formulate
a plan for reorganization.
The obsequies of the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation have been postponed until Jan. !,
but the clerical force will be out of posi-
ton Dec -. What is to be done with Chalr-
man Blanchard is not yet announced.
To-day the Vanderbilt party will inspect
the Big Four lines from Chicago to Gin
cinnati. travelling on special train. Presi-
dent Ingalls, being in Washington, c: r.
Schaff, general manager of the Big -Four,
will accompany the party.
j. T. Wilson, who has been draughts-
man in the offices of the Pittsburg, Fort
signed and to-day takes the position of
resident engineer of construction of the Bal
timore & Ohio at Pittsburg.
Roads interested in east-bound passenger
business from st. Paul failed to reach any
agreement at their conference in Chicago
yesterday regarding the discontinuance or
what is known as the Milwaukee basis in
the construction of through rates.
VIM. Green, the new vice president of the
Baltimore Ohio Southwestern, will at
once remove his family from Baltimore to
Cincinnati. He has relieved the minds of
subordinate officials and heads of depart
ments by stating that no changes are con-
temDlated.
The suit for damages against the Penn
sylvania Company brought by Henry Burg
win, a repairer who had his hand
crushed while at work, was compromised
on Monday, the company giving him 50. 600.
The accident occurred in the yards at New
Castle Pa.
The gross earnings of the Chicago Great
Western for the week ending Nov. Il were
$115, Il, an increase of 3.3S610 over the
corresponding week last year. The total in
crease since the beginning of the fiscal
year July y is $95,04970 as compared with
the same period in 1897.
The Merchants Association of Indianap-
oils has perfected arrangements for running
an excursion from points on the Louisville
division of the Pennsylvania lines Dec. I;
from points on the Monon, Dec. 8, and from
points on the Lake Erie & Western, Dec. 9.
In each case the rate will be one fare for
the round trip
The presidents of the bituminous coal
roads will meet in Washington to-day to
see what can be done to secure rates which
will leave some profit to the roads on the
large coal traffic handled. The Pennsylva-
MIA the Baltimore & Ohio, the Chesapeake
q Ohio and the Norfolk & Western are
the lines interested
Yesterday the engineers of maintenance
of way of the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg met at Logansport to consider
contemplated improvements. 1t is stated
that no work will be done in doubling the
track of the Panhandle between Logansport
and Kokomo until it is double tracked from
Chicago to Logansport.
Representatives of the labor organizations
are holding a two days session at Nor
folk Va. Grand Chief Arthur, of the Broth
erhoOd of Locomotive Engineers, Grand
Master Sargent, OF the hremen, Grand
Master DodPe of the trainmen, and Grand
Chief Powell, of the Order of Telegraph
ers, are in attendance.
Recent collisions in which steel cars have
been involved have demonstrated that it
is the engine not the cars, that are most
dangerous In recent accident the en-
gineer who jumped from his engine, says
an engine might as well run into massive
stone wall as into train made up of steel
cars In the case mentioned the LOCOMOTIVES,
he says, crushed together like an egg shell.
EXPERT Stephen Little, who has just re-
turned from an extended trip over the st.
Paul the Burlington and the Chicago Great
Western systems, says: mo one who mas
not recently examined these properties has
any idea of their value and infinite prog
rcss The service on the st. Paul, the Bur-
lington and the Chicago Great western IS
unCxcelled. There is nothing IN the East
to compare. much less to equal it. and it
towers fundamentally over any other trans
portation in any part or the WoTia. Inc
train service of these three corporations is
superb
GAYLORD Beach, general manager of the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie, has issued some
very stringent orders as regards employees
visiting saloons which become effective to-
day a well-known Pennsylvania ofhclal IN
speaking about this matter sald that II was
not so much the evil of the drink as the
bad results of the treating habit, and that
they had found that many OF their men
who frequented the saloons had Deeh speHu-
ing their money in gambling or had Deen
losing sleep and incapacitaung themselves
FOR duty by the effect of bad assoclatlionSs. lions.
I'VE do not think" he said, that drink
does a man half as much harm as the
company he associates with while taxing
it."
Indianapolis is again gaining prestige as
a lumber shipping point. For years the cry
furnished a large per cent. of the hardwood
lumber used in the New England states;
With the clearing up of Indiana or hardwood
lumber the business drifted away, but Is now
returning Local dealers now receive their
supply of lumber and timber from points
on the Cumberland river and other streams
in Tennessee, transferring II from boats az
Cairo and Evansville to the railroads, ana
shIpping the lumber through on the cars
II IS loaded on at the points named. One In
dianapolis firm yesterday snlpped a carlodo
of hardwood lumber to Hartford, Conn,
one to New Haven, Conn.,, one TO Rochester,
n Y one TO Binghamton. n. y. and one
10 Bethlehem Pa, and II is stated that IN
dianapolis is doing more now IN TINS uirec-
ton than at any time for three years.
The suit of the Atchison. Topeka q Santa
Fe Railway Company In the United states
District Court at New York. 20 compel the
Western Union Telegraph Company 10 az
fix aud pay for the revenue stamps required
bV the war revenue law on the Geographic
messages transmitted under its contract
with the railway company, has been dis
missed at the railway company cost. The
contention of the railway company was
that the service which the telegraph COM
pany is TO be free of all charges. The tel
cgraph company'S answer was that IL could