The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-17

Personal. Local and General Notes.
The directors of the Big Four have de-
clared a quarterly dividend of Ia per cent,
payable Oct. 20.
Since July the Louisville & Nashville has
earned A.0S5CS2, an increase over the ccrre-
spending period of last year of S96967.
The directors of the Evansville & Terre
Haute have declared a 4-per-cent. dividend
on the preferred stock for the year ending
June 80.
OF September $72,6S2, against $69,l76 in the
corresponding week OF 1897, and against $685.
% in 1896.
George w. Kittredge chief engineer of
the Big Four lines, spent most of yesterday
in the city inspecting the shops, going to
St. Louis last night
An entire new train of steel cars of 100000
pounds capacity came West over the Pan
handle on Thursday to be used in the ore
and coal traffic of Ohio and Indiana roads.
The United States Investors compilation
will show that gross earnings of los roads,
the first half of the year 1898. increased
S5SO29,54O over the corresponding period OF
Train on the Baltimore & Ohio road last
guarded. The car contained two hundred
silver bricks weighing fifty-nine pounds
each.
A. d. Perry. district passenger agent of
the Chicago & Alton. yesterday returned
from Chickamauga. where he had been for
three weeks looking after business for the
&. a. A.
On Sunday the Big Four will run an ex-
cursion from indianapolis to Cincinnati for
81 the round trip. ard the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton q Dayton will run one from Cincinnati
to indianapolis.
The railroad commissioners of Illinois
have decided, after thorough investiga-
lion, that the live stock rates now in force
afford no just grounds for complaint on the
part of shippers.
The Pullman Company will next week de-
liver the last of 1900 cars it is building for
the Big Four road on a second contract,
and viii then begin the building Of second
1909 cars for the Chesapeake & Ohio.
The Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburg Com
pany finds that to secure suitable terminals
In Pittsburg Will cost S., 0O0, 900. The B., r.
g. p is a part of what is to constitute the
Brice system of lines from the West to the
East.
Chairman Richardson, of the Southeastern
Passenger Association, has called meet
ing of the lines at st. Louis on Sept. q.
This meeting will be attended by passenger
traffic managers of the Southwestern and
Western Passenger Associations.
Charles Miller. for twenty-six years an
employee in the shops of the Vandalia at
Terre Haute. on Thursday left the com.
pany's service to go to the poorhouse of
Vigo county. He is seventy years of age
and had been a steady, faithful employee.
The Travelling Passenger Agents Associa-
ton has practically agreed TO analagamate
with the Ticket Agents Association, which
has been holding its annual meeting in De-
troit this week. and committees viii meet
the consolidation.
Prospects have improved for Dayton, o.,
getting a new passenger station. The Penn
sylvania Company has prepared plans which
it is believed will meet with the approval
of the Big Four and the Cincinnati Hamil-
ton & Dayton arrangements, who are joint
" interested in its erection.
The state inspector OF Ohio has just COM
pleted an inspection of the Toledo. st. Louis
& Kansas City road. one hundred miles of
which lies in Ohio, and reports his surprise
over the excellent condition of the property,
its track and bridges being in excellent
condition as compared with even one year
ago.
The Panhandle people claim that the for
fy-seven miles Of track between Pittsburg
and Steubenville. when the improvements
in progress are completed, will be the best
track not only I'm the Pennsylvania sys-
TENS west, but east. and that unlimited
speed be the rule the movement
or trains
General Manager Waldo, of the Cincin-
pati, Hamilton q Dayton. ard w. Fl. Nc
Doel. vice president Of the Monon lines. will
meet next week in this city 10 confer as 10
terminal matters. The work of laying the
\ G.. II. & p tracks to reach the ground the