The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-06-16
Personal. Local and General Notes.

excursion from Indianapolis to Cedar Lake.
The Big Four will on Sunday run cheap
excursions to Terre Haute and to Louisville
from indianapolis.
C. E. Schaff, general manager of the Big
-FOUR lines, was in the city yesterday, last
evening going to ST. Louis.
The board of directors of the Illinois Cen
tTai railroad Company has decided to sub
scribe Tor $2,OOO.OOO of the new war bonds.
The Peoria & Eastern has a pile driver
Two construction trains and $50 men at work
making improvements on the eastern di-
vision.
- All the roads in this territory will, on the
Sd and 4th of July, make a rate of one fare
LOT the round TRIP between stations, good
to return on July 5.
p. A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the
was In the city yesterday looking over the
terminals at this point.
The fast freight line men, who have had
an easy time for some months on account
or the heavy traffic, are beginning to beStir
themselves as tonnage falls off.
The Erie Railway Company has just COM
pleted at its shops the second copper-fin-
ished passenger car. The first one built is
meeting expectations as to service.
An early movement on the part of the
Woodford syndicate to consolidate the In
diana, Decatur & Western and the Peoria,
Decatur & Evansville is predicted.
A local scalper boasts that he has sixty
of the interchangeable mileage books on the
road, and so guarded that when the proper
time comes he will get the $40 rebate
Barney, Smith & Co. of Dayton, o., yes
terday shipped from their works two ele-
CANT new parlor cars for the Big Four.
They are to be run between Cincinnati and
Chicago.
Train 20, on the Vandalfa consisting of
eight cars, was yesterday hauled from
Greencastle to the Belt road in thirty min
utes; distance, thirty-nine miles. Elmer
Sherburne was engineer.
George Kittredge, chief engineer of the
Big Four. completed the plans for the new
eewo-story union depot TO be erected at Beiie-
contract for its building
The Pullman works are now delivering
new cars to the Baltimore & Ohio at the
rate of 150 week. All are equipped with air
brakes and automatic couplerS, and have
carrying capacity of $4,000 pounds
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Indianapolis
Will be held in this city to-day: The voting
will be done by proxy. and it is stated no
changes in the directory are likely to be
made.
A train of fifteen palace horse cars loaded
on Tuesday from Chicago to Lafayette in
four hours and fifteen minutes, and the south
end OF the road was covered at nearly that
average of speed.
Erie as soon as improvements in progress
are completed. will put on fast train which
will make the run from Pittsburg to Cleve-
land in two hours and thirty-five minutes:
distance. 135 miles.
The Master Car Builders Association be-
gan its thirty-second annual session at
Saratoga, N. Y, yesterday The convention
opened with prayer by Bishop John p. New
man, followed by an address by Hon. S. A.
Crone, of New York.
BY July the Cincinnati Hamilton e. Day.
ton expects to have its new coach-erecting
shop at Lima completed. In the freight-car
department the employees have been at work
for over month. The shops are said to be
unusually complete in every respect.
General Manager Waldo, of the Cincinnati.
Hamilton x Dayton lines, was unable TO
meet the telegraph operators, who are ask
ing for Increased pay. last Monday. but will
have a conference with them next Monday,
at which Grand Chief Powell, of the Order
of Railway photographers, will be present
r. B. F. PIERCE receiver of the Toledo, st.
Louis & Kansas City Railroad. yesterday
1led report with the clerk of the Federal
of T the TosG from Ma1 81 1 me p M
81, 1893, as follows: Receipts, SIG, SOC, 252 o.;
disbursements. SIG, 731 904.SS; balance on hand
June ], $6S. 347.96.
The business men in the northeastern
part of the city appreciate the efforts Of the
Monon passenger department to accommo-
date them by establishing station at the
Twenty Second-Street crossing and placing
telegraph operator there, day and night,
with authority to flag and stop any train
to take on passengers.
Agent Maxwell of the Lake Erie & West
ern, and his clerical force yesterday raised
handsome American flag on a staff
erected on the companys building at the
Johnson. general agent of the NORTH Shore
Dispatch, who has an office in the building,
made an appropriate address.
The management of the Indiana Southern
Railway is getting its trains running with
regularity and at convenient hours. and
each week is showing marked Improvement
in freight and passenger traffic. The extern
sion of the road from Seymour to Richmond
has been surveyed and located. and within
eighteen months it is predicted the extern
sion will be built
On Tn i'm nf he
Pennsylvania northwestern and south
western systems will be concentrated at
Pittsburg, the consolidated bureaus to be in
charge of E. E.. Wright. The headquarters
of the bureau of the southwestern system is
at Columbus ni The change will necessitate
several clerks with families moving from
that place to Pittsburg.
Last week the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul road completed the laying of thirty
Junction and Kittredge This gives the
company an entire system of double track
between Chicago and the Mississippi river,
a distance of 1873 miles At Minneapolis the
company is building a handsome brick sta
ton which is to cost 5000, 900, and proposes
to spend a million dollars this year in i'm
proVementS.
The Western Passenger Association was
in session all yesterday at Chicago consid-
ering the passenger-rate situation and will
meet again to-day. The general sentiment
among passenger men seems to be in IA
vor of putting rates down to bottom fig
ures: in the hope Of forcing a settlement
has announced that it would apply the low
rates between st. Paul and the East
west-bound business well as east-bound-
move which will tend to still further dis
turb rate conditions. Meantime the Cana
dian Pacific is making money while the
American lines are suffering losses. The sit
uation appears hopeless unless some COM
promise can be reached with the Canadian
road.
1t is stated that the engineers and iremen
on the Wabash who are running the new
heavy locomotives have asked for an in
crease in their pay to recompense them for
the added heavy duties and physical eXer-
ton required in running the powerful
gines. The firemen have asked for an in
crease from SO to $3.15 for each locomotive
run variously estimated at 100 miles, and
the engineer want 81 instead of $3.50 for the
same Performance The men base their
claim on the fact that the new engines burn
an average of fifteen tons of coal for
of 100 miles. whereas the old type of engine
consumed only seven tons in the same dis
lance. In addition the heat emanating from
the fire box of the new locomotives is said
to be intense and almost unbearable. 1t is
also disastrous for the clothing worn by the
men, and this entails an unlooked-for out
lay.
VITAL STATISTlCS-JUNE Is
Births.