The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15
Personal, Local and, General Notes.

j. j. Turner, general manager, ana ms
subordinate officials are inspecting the Van
dalia lines.
The Pennsylvania has just put in opera
ton at its shops in Altoona some electric
cranes which will lift sixty tons.
Harry Fuller, general passenger agent of
the Chesapeake & Ohio, passed through
the city yesterday en- route home from Chi
eago.
The lake boats on Wednesday delivered
to the Vandalia at st. Joseph, on the Michi-
gan division, ninety carloads OF freight TO
go south.
E. w. Braisted, joint agent of the lines
at st. Louis, is arranging his affairs to
spend few weeks in California on account
of i'll health.
The earnings of the Cleveland. Lorain &
Wheeling the first week in January We're
So 5000 ahead of those of the correspond
ing week of 1897.
diana, Decatur & Western, has resigned
He will be taken care of on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton.
On Wednesday SS1 loaded cars were
handled on the Terre Haute and Logans-
port division Of the Vandalia lines, 1T be-
ing a record-breaking day.
S. H. r. Clark ex-preside of the Union
Pacific, is better and has been removed from
mis- private car to a hotel In san Antonio.
His family has Joined him.
p. Cromwell, the Vandalia engineer who
had charge of the work on the Evansville
& Terre Hatue in making the fill at Halle
ton, has completed the work.
The Indiana Car-service Association is
taking steps to broaden it's territory by taxi
ing in several more roads There are now
twelve roads in the association.
The directors of the Lake Erie & Western
Railroad Company have declared the regu-
lar quarterly dividend of ia per cent. on the
preferred stock, payable FEB 15
The Pullman Car Company this week
placed an order for 100000 feet of lumber
with the new mills just located on the Kan
sas City, PittSburg & Gulf road.
On April the Pullman Palace Company
will withdraw from the New York, Ontario
q Western and the Wagner Palace-car
Company will operate on that line.
1t is said that the syndicate which owns
the Wabash will be one of the bidders for
the Kansas Pacific. Securing 1T would give
the Wabash direct line for Denver.
The approximate earnings of the Balti-
more & Ohio for December, 1897 were ST.
312,544, which is an increase of $i34,739 over
the actual earnings of December. 1896.
Brayton Ives formerly president of the
Northern Pacific, has been elected presi-
dent of the Metropolitan Trust Company.
succeeding Thomas Millhouse deceased.
The Chicago & Rock Island will next
tween Chicago and Portland. Ore This is
the first tourist service established to that
point.
The Big. Four will construct extensive
ground near the glass works will be pur-
chased if it can be bought at reasonable
figures.
On Thursday the longest train ever sent
west over the Chicago division of the Big
Four was hauled out of Indianapolis 1t
consisted of fifty-six cars, thirty-tive being
new empties.
The auditing department of the Grand
Montreal. General Manager Hays desires to
centraiiZe the chief officers of the company
at that point.
The North Shore Dispatch. the new fast
acrbf viii fret ht in oit Ny
over the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton,
making thirty fast freight lines working on
the c., Ii. & ID.
Track laying on the Arkansas Central is
and the road will soon be in operation from
Fort Smith to Charleston. Its objective
point in Paris, Logan county, Arkansas.
George j. Bippus, who has become quite
prominent through his connection with
China railways, was largely instrumental
in organizing the company which built the
Chicago & Atlantic, now part of the Erie.
Travelling Freight Agents Blair, of the
Santa Fe, and Martin, of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, and Passenger Men Col
William Shaw, of the c., b. & O. and Zell
ef the Queen & Crescent, were in the city
yesterday.
The Southern Railway Company has I'M
der consideration the building of a branch
from Indian Springs, a distance of seven
miles, to Washington, Ind. Deliveries of It's
new freight cars have commenced on a con-
tract for 800.
The new station and office building of
the Wabash at Montpelier, Ind the iunc-
ton of the Chicago and Detroit divisions,
will be completed this month. 1t is hand
some depot. constructed of pressed brick,
and cost 81, 500.
The names of the directors elected at the
annual meeting of the Michigan division of
the Nandalia lines give evidence that it
is looked upon as part of the Vandalia
system and a division the Pennsylvania
Company will retain.
The Ohio Falls car works, at Jefferson
Vile. Ind, have 1900 men employed and
contracts that will keep them busy the en-
tire winter. The Queen & Crescent has
just placed an order with them for 500 box
and ventilated fruit cars.
In the year 1897 there arrived and depart
ed at the Union Station a total of 1907
trains, handling 1S5 cars, against 45,32l
trains, hauling 262, 1852 cars in 1896. The in
crease in number of trains in 1897 was 1856;
in number of cars handled. 1879.
The Ontario & Western Railroad has
made contract with the Wagner Palace
Car Company to use the cars OF that COM