The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-04
Personal, Local and General Notes

The Indiana Car and Foundry Company is
building fifty fiat cars for the Commerce
Despatch.
The Cox Brothers are now in full control
of the Terre Haute car works, and have or
ders to keep them busy for three months.
The Big -Four officials expect that the
gross earnings of the lines for January will
be fully 100000 in excess of those of Janu
airy, 1897.
A. Prentice, freight agent of the Chicago
& Alton at Buffalo, will retire from that po-
sition as soon man is appointed to take
his place.
N s. Pennington, for several years traffic
manager of the Florida Central & Peninsu-
lar, retired from that position Jan. on ac-
The Ohio Falls car works are now build
ing $50 cars for the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern, and have contracts to keep
them busy some weeks.
The Pullman Company has so many orders
for new cars that it will not take any new
contracts until May and Jut few before
September of this year.
The Terre Haute car works, in addition
to the 500 box cars 1T is to build for the Chi
cago & Northwestern, will build $50 furni-
ture cars for that road.
George Francis Hess who died last week.
had been in the employ of the Central Road
of New Jersey forty-seven years, and for the
last twenty-five as paymaSter.
Judge Field, of Chicago, general solicitor
of the Monon lines, was in the city yester-
day looking after some legal matters before
the United States District Court.
The estimated gross earnings Of the Rock
Island for the month of December were ST.
5lS.llol, an increase Of $3.50 1915 over the esti-
mated gross of December 1896.
w. H. H. Clark, late president of the
Union Pacific, is not improving by his stay
in Texas. He is not able to leave his car,
which is sidetracked near San Antonio.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton has
contracted with Fay 81 Co, of Cincinnati.
TO furnish the machinery required for the
car shops the company is building at Lima
Limited, over the Santa Fe line, will be run
in each direction three times a week in
stead of semi-weekly, as at the present
time.
engineer of maintenance of way on the
Louisville. Evansville & ST. Louis, will re-
move the office from Louisville to Prince
ton, Ind.
1t requires 1870 to 14o gallons of oil per
month TO light the lanterns of the switches
located on the Union tracks, and about
double the quantity for the switches on the
Belt road.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy is pre-
pairing train schedule in which two of its
trains, one each way, will cover the dis
ty-four hours.
There We're handled on the Big Four sys-
tenn in 1897 total of 4S4,547 passengers,
against 454,50l in 1886, an increase over 1895
of 5000 passengers. During the year not a
passenger was killed or seriously injured.
The Vandalia is this week distributing
twenty miles or more of new heavy steel
rails, which will make sixty-one miles laid
on the main line since V. II. AIalott became
receiver Of the road. little over one year
ago.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy last
week placed an order with the Pittsburg
locomotive works for twenty new locomo-
tives, much the same type as the twenty
two these works built in 1896 for the Van
dalia.
On the LIST of March the Isackawanna
fast freight lines general manager will
be located at Chicago instead of Buffalo.
1t is expected that w. II Smith, general
manager will remain. but the headquarters
at Buffalo will be abolished.
George E. Conn, who yesterday assumed
the duties of commercial agent of the Flint
& Pere Marquette at Minneapolis for
number of years represented the Pennsyl-
wanna lines at Boston. and more recently
the Canadian Pacific Dispatch at that
point.
The Big Four. the Lake Shore. the Nickel
Dlate. the Pittsburg a Lake Erie and quite