The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-06
Personal, Local and General Notes


w. F. McClurd has been appointed gen.
eral traffic agent of the Galveston, Houston
& Henderson Railroad.
Charles C. Curtice, formerly of this city,
now city passenger agent of the Vandalia
line at st. Louis, was in the city yesterday.
The hospital car of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas, which cost complete $4,000 will
be put in service on the road next month.
respect.
n. w: Taylor, general freight agent of the
Vandalia, was in the city yesterday. He
reports that on Friday there were handled
heaviest movement of any one day since
the road was opened for business.
The annual meeting of the Illinois Central
VIII occur on Sept %. at Chicago. and free
transportation has been sent to every stock
holder and an earnest invitation that they
attend in person as far as possible
A. H. Egan, the newly-appointed division
superintendent of the Illinois Central, has
decided to move his offices from Henderson,
KY, to Evansville, Ind He was in Evans
vile yesterday selecting rooms for offices.
The directors of the Grand Trunk have
increased the salary of General Manager
Hays to $S5 GOO year as a mark of appre-
citation of his services since he left the Wa
bash lines and accepted his present position.
The estimated gross earnings of the Terre
Haute & Indianapolis Railroad and leased
lines (vandalia) for lie month of August
were $4OO l5l.97 an increase of $51, 355.99 as
compared with the same month last year.
Panhandle from the Pennsylvania road
East to help handle the enormous business
crowdng the line between Columbus and
Pittsburg and largely from the Southwest
ern system.
The railroad shops of all the local lines
were closed yesterday on account of Labor
DAY employees of shops at this point have
! no room for complaint, as at no railroad
center have they been kept better employed
than at indianapolis for twelve months
past.
Tharo &c h. he -
ing that the Merchants Dispatch fast
freight Vine will not be disturbed by the
Vanderbilt changes. William Geagen, who
has been traffic manager of the line for
many years, will be continued in his present
position.
Next Monday the fourteenth annual con-
vention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
F1remen will convene at Toronto and the
attendance promises to be unusually large.
A good deal of interest is taken in the
Lection of grand master to take the place
of F. P. Sargent.
Both passenger and freight business is
very heavy with the Big Four. William
Garstang, superintendent of motive power.
is hurrying up the Schenectady locomotive
works for the passenger engines now build
ing and the Richmond locomotive works for
the freight engines.
Since. 1862 the capital stock of the Illinois
Central became full paid, and since that
date cash dividend ranging from to 10
per cent. per annum has been paid semi-an-
nually to every holder of stock. 1t is now
-
less than 5-per-cent. dividend.
The export traffic of the Crank Trunk has
so increased since the Wabash begun to
send business over it that the company
has considerably increased the number of
It's steamships to sail between. Portland,
now more formidable competitor for ex-
port business than at any former period.
l.. w. Landman, secretary of the Travel
ing Passenger Agents Association, was in
the city yesterday, having been in Craw-
louisville to Snon0 SUNDAY with friends
Mr.. Landman states that the prospect for
large attendance at the annual meeting at
Lake Chautauqua is encouraging. Over
three hundred delegates have asked that ac-
commodations be reserved for them.
The official report of John Ferguson. gen.
eral baggagemaster at the Union Station,
pieces of baggage were handled, which was
y. los more than was handled in August,
as in September, 1893, che month that the
Grand Army of the Republic was here but
71,O64 pieces were handled, the business of
August this year being 1902 pieces ahead
of that of the G. A. r. year. -
Presidents of the roads in the Joint
Traffic Association have reached a special
agreement that no commissions shall be
paid ticket agents on account of business
coming to their roads from the West and
Northwest at the low rates in eject on ac-
count of the Canadian Pacific competition
Imperative notices to that effect have been
sent to all general passenger agents. The
paying Of such commissions as have been
total paid for the tickets at present
The following general passenger agents
have been appointed a committee to reor-
ganize the, Western Passenger Association:
D. B. Caldwell, chairman; J. Sebastian, of
the Chicago & Rock Island; G. T. Nichol-
son, of the Santa re. and H. H. Heafford,
of the Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul The
aim in the Reorganization will be to draft
articles of agreement which will bring every
Western line into the association. and in
that case the formation of the Trans
missouri Association will probably be
headed off.
Before many days" said freight off,
cial, 1.-The question will be, how can we get
cars to handle the business? Not in many
years have the conditions been the same as
at present. Last year we had immense
quantities of grain to move but in all other
classes of freight the traffic was exceed
ingly light. This year we have large quanti-
ties of grain to move, and at present it is
moving slowly, but other classes of freight
are moving in such tonnage that it requires
all the cars we can command to take care
or 1t, and where the cars to move the
large quantities of wheat and corn being
held back are to come from is difficult to
foretell.'