The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29

tanooga, where he will be general manager
of the Chattanooga Southern, G. II. Kim
ball. of Cleveland, succeeGsSM. Bonzano at
Columbus
heaviest of any years since 1892. and largely
Ligh-class freights. showing that Western
merchants are large buyers.
A dispatch from Elwood says: The Penn
sylvania Railroad Company is retrenching
and has laid of for a period of four days
all the section hands at Elwood and else
where on the division
The gross earnings of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul increased in the third
week of September $4,000 over those of the
corresponding week OF 1897, the total being
the largest weeks earnings on record.
P A. Bonebrake, of Columbus. superin-
tendent of the indianapolis division of the
Panhandle, is in the city for couple of
days He has, with General Manager Loree
been going over portions of the Southwest
ern system.
A Wabash official is quoted as saying it
would not do for the Wabash to antagonize
the Vanderbilt interests so far to build
a link. giving it an entrance into Cleveland,
and rumors of that character, he said, had
foundation
s. G. Nefiier. commercial agent of the
Southern Railway will on Oct go to Chi
cago as commercial agent, and be succeeded
az cincinnati by j. j. Webster. travelling
freight agent of the road. whose headquar-
tiers has been at St. Louis
The Royal Blue Book of the Baltimore &
Ohio for October is out and is unusually in
teresting. Among other things, 1t contains
cuts OF the oldest passenger and freight
depots in the world, it is claimed, and some
interesting matter concerning early railway
travel.
o. F. Prescott. formerly master mechanic
of the Peoria G. Eastern, now with the
Santa Fe at Prescott, Ariz., is in the city
for a few days. He has just returned from
Dunkirk, N Y, where he contracted with
the Brooks locomotive works for three
heavy, ten-wheel locomotives.
Trainmen on the New York Central are
seldom informed as TO what train President
Galloway intends to travel on when going
out on the lines. He sometimes travels in
his private car, but more frequently takes
the ordinary passenger accommodations,
sometimes taking a seat in the smoking
car.
The National interviewing Plant Com
pany has been awarded the contract for the
plant at Lafayette which is to be erected
jointly by the Big Four, the Wabash, the
Lake Erie Western and the Monon. AS
the grades of the several roads are widely
separated the installation of the plant will
be difficult.
H S. Waite, general yardmaster of the
Columbus & Hooking Valley at Columbus,
was married on Tuesday to Miss Margaret
an Eastern trip H. S. Waite is Oit son of of the
late c: c. Waite, and. like his father, is
beginning at the bottom in service, with
good prospects for promotion.
The seriousness of even a slight drop in
rates is we'll illustrated in the last annual
report of the Erie. The average freight rate
per ton per mile decreased only 3S-10Oths
OF a. mill amounting to ~ cents per ton
carried. Insignificant as those figures seem
at first glance they represent to the Erie a
net revenue loss of over $1,70G.00O.
The Nckel-plate is delivering to the Co
lumbus. Lima Milwaukee. at Continental
forty-two miles of new steel rail, to be laid
between Lima and Definance, o. The Co
lumbus, Lima & Milwaukee runs from Co
lumbus. O., to Sagatuck Mich, distance
of three hundred miles, and it's owners have
planned to extend the road south to the
Ohio river.
On Sunday train on the Wabash made
the run from Chicago to Detroit 272 miles,
in five hours, making thirteen stops De-
Quoting the time for stops. the train dis
patcher claims the train was hauled at the
average speed of sixty-two miles per hour
speed of seventy-two miles an hour ,Ias
attained.
Joseph Ramsey, general manager of the
Wabash lines. has made himself very pop
ular with employees. especially train en-
ployes. When travelling he often asks the
conductor of the train to share meal with
him, and any other Wabash employee who
chances to be on the train General Man
ager Ramsey never smokes or drinks in
toxicating liquors. and he maintains that
men engaged in railroad service cannot con-
sistently indulge in such luxuries certainly
not when on duty
Southwestern Railway having failed in sew
eral conferences with the officials of that
road to obtain satisfactory adjustment of
suggested grievances. the several chiefs of
meet in Cincinnati and endeavor to assist
in the settlement. r. r. Clark of the Rail-
way Conductors: P. H. Morrissy. of the
raphers. and Assistant Grand Chief Young
son, of the engineers, are already in Gin
cinnau, and Sargent of the firemen, is ex-
an amicable adjustment can be had when a
conference with the railway officials is held.