The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-24
PersouoI local and General Notes.


The meeting of the traffic managers. of
the Vanderbilt lines will be held at Bunalo
tom TOW.
One of the Vandalias big freight engines
last week hauled ninety empty cars from
Terre Haute to Brazil.
The Panhandles Indianapolis division has
seventy freight locomotives assigned TO IT,
and every of them is in service.
The annual meeting of the directors of the
Chicago. Indianapolis & Louisville road will
be held in this city on Wednesday, Sept. q.
Commodore u. B. Simunds. the first rail-
way master mechanic to be appointed in the
United States, last week celebrated his sew
enty-ninth birthday. He resides at Sedalia,
Mo.
-Four construction trains are at work on
the ST. Louis division of the Big Four dis
tributing two hundred carloads of ballast
daily.
The engines OF the Louisville & Jeffer
sonville Bridge Company are to be over
hauled at the shops of the Big Four at
Wabash.
The gulf lines are again entering the field
with low rates and bid fair to give the
Eastern lines lively competition for the ex-
port grain traffic.
The Big Four is nightly running fast
fruit and vegetable train from Benton Har-
Dor south Immense quantities OF fruits
are being shipped from northern Mlchigal
E. C. Ellis. one of the Vandalia linemen,
is at ST. Anthony's Hospital Terre Haute,
suffering from blood poisoning, received
from an Ivy vine on a telegraph pole which
he climbed.
The American Glucose Company. which
has it's large works at Peoria, will build
a branch from Peoria to Washington, dis
tance of ten miles. to connect with the Chi
cago & Alton direct.
number of passenger men were in the
city yesterday, among them Joseph Lyons
and w. H. FOgg, of the Missouri Pacific,
and J. E. Davenport. of the Toledo. st.
Louis & Kansas City.
The Chesapeake & Ohio now has eleven
large steamships in service between New
nor EllTnnp1n N Wi a6
three more, marked has been the in
crease in their business.
]. A. George, general agent of the Chi
cago G. Northwestern lines, has resigned.
He had been in the service of the company
for thirty years, and now goes into the
brokerage business at Chicago.
On Friday the Baltimore & Ohio ran
special. hauling but one coach, from Balti-
more TO Pittsburg, at a rate of one dollar
per mile run. D; 2 i keenan,, who chartered
II. A. Wells Eastern passenger agent of
the Baltimore Ohio lines, with head
quarters at New York. accompanied the
K of p. delegation from New York to In
dianapolis and returned at once to his head
quarters.
The Pennsylvania has just completed,
at its shops in Altoona. model instruc-
ton car. 1t is sixty-five feet long; ten feet
at one end is for an Office and examination
room, ten feet for lavatory. and forty
five feet for the instruction room.
There are twenty through passenger
trains daily between New York and Chi
cago and President Galloway of the New
York Central. is quoted as saying there was
Just business enough to make ten trains pay
with the high standard equipment now in
use.
T. NJ Bennett, trainmaster of the Louis
willie division of the Pennsylvania lines, says
their road is nightly bringing North from
ninety TO one hundred carloads of fruits and
vegetables. From Madison alone from fif
teen to twenty carloads of peaches are
shipped daily.
The Big Four is putting in a number of
eidetracks 10 industries located on its Mich
igan division. No division on the system
has as many sidetracks to industries as has
the Michigan division, and each year in
creases the number. This remark applies
only to way stations. not terminals.
The Muskoka lakes. reached by the Grand
Trunk Railway, are with each year becom-
ing more popular pleasure resorts. The ride
thereto is said to be through most pictur-
esque sections of Canada, along the shores
of Lake Slmcoe and Couchiching for many
miles crossing many branches of the River
Severn.
The monthly reports of the various car
service associations are showing that they
are accomplishing a good deal i'm causing
prompt movement OF cars, and shippers
have come TO look upon what to them at
first seemed arbitrary on the part of the
railroads as being good thing for both
roads and shippers.
The Western Passenger Association will
hold a meeting in Chicago tomorrow for
Passenger Agent Charlton. of the Chicago
e. Alton. TO recall his withdrawal from the
organization. The trouble is over the rates