The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-01
the Lake Erie 8 straltsvine division Of the

the Lake Erie & Straitsville division OF the
b. & o.
Train q on the Pennsylvania was yester-
day nearly two hours late. owing TO the
heaviness of its train. The train left New
York with twelve sleeping cars for Western
points. People are now returning from the
seaside resorts by the hundreds.
In the gas belt territory the manufac-
turers are now loading from 200 to 25O cars
a day with glass. lamp chimneyS and the
various products Of the numerous establish
ments, and business of all kinds from and
to that section is unusually heavy.
Freight officials state that west-bound
tonnage is now the heaviest in years, and is
confined to no special class. which is taken
as evidence that all over the West condi-
tions are excellent and people have money
to buy goods and make improvements.
Roam. Ind. on the Wabash. enjoys the
distinction of shipping out weekly more car
loads of live stock than any other way sta
ton between Peru and Detroit. IT is not an
unusual thing for twenty TO thirty cars
week to be shipped from that one point
The increase in earnings of the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois reached $25, 400 the third
week of August. This is due largely TO the
extraordinary large passenger business the
road is now enjoying. But few roads have
been more benefited than the c. & E. l. by
the war.
telegraph and equipment of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton q Dayton, was in the city yester-
day arranging fo- carrying the O. A. X.
business next week from this section. he
says the c., H. & d. will carry more people
into Cincinnati next week than any other
one line reaching that city.
On Tuesday Samuel Thomas, president of
the Monon lines, telegraphed w. H. Nc
Doel, vice president and general manager,
that if there was any uneaslness on the
part of the men as to rumored consolida-
ton with the Big Four. that they need have
none, as there is no foundation for the re-
ports which have been published.
The receivers of the Baltimore Ohio
Railroad Company will pay the coupons due
Sept. l, 1898. from $2,5O00OO bonds of the
Central Ohio Railroad Company, amounting
to 1852 These coupons are payable at the
Union Trust Company. New York, and at
the office of the treasury of the receivers
of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Nicholas Dodson one of the oldest and
best known engineers on the Terre Hautes
& indianapolis. died at Terre Haute on
Tuesday night. He was fifty-eight years
old and had lived in Terre Haute since
between Indianapolis and Terre Haute since
1865. He leaves a wife, three sons and
daughter.
F. Wolcott Jackson, general superintend-
will be succeeded to-day by F. L. Sheppard,
general superintendent of the Pennsylvania
lS division, and j. M. Wallis goes ;, TO 70
transfer. Mr.. Jackson will continue as
president Of the United New Jersey Rail-
road and Canal Company
The Michigan and the Peoria divisions of
the Vandalia have of late been creating
surprise over the increase in business and
the increase in earnings. While the q bOVe
was intended to apply to freight traffic, the
increase in passenger traffic has been as
much of a surprise especially to Lake
Maxinkuckee and St. Joseph. Each year
travel to these plea sure resorts is 1ncreaS-
ing.
At Bellwood, Pa. there is fiourishing
branch of the Young Mems Christian As
ISOLATION, composed of railroad men The
branch has leased a hotel and converted
the barroom into a place for religious in
struction, the cultivation of morality and
refused license at the last term of
the court, and friends of the association
purchased the property.
Chief Engineers Hall. of the Monon, and
Wilson, of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Da.'-
tin. were in the city yesterday comforting
as to the changes which are proposed in the
df If t depot OF the M3non ana the plans
freight depot which it is decided shall be
located on parallel with the freight depot
of the Monon the latter to be extended
flush with East street 1t will then be 40
feet long by 80 wide. and the new depot of
the c., H. & D. will be of the same dimen-
sons.
NJ. w. Mansfield, superintendent Of the
Indianapolis q Vincennes, in conversation
yesterday said that he did not in the future
expect to see farmers shipping their grain
Immediately after harvest, as conditions for
reaching railway stations on their lines had
changed. In Greene and other counties on
the l. q V. a large mileage of maca famized
road has been constructed and marty miles
graveed or otherwise improved; conse-
quently the farmers can wait their leisure
to ship their corn, or for better prices, if
they so choose, as at any season Of the
year they can now bring their produce to
the 6epots for shipment. Shipments of hogs
and cattle thus will be of great advantage
to the farmers.
The consolidated Vanderbilt fast freight
lines will be Differed follows: F. l..
Pomeroy, of Buffalo, general manager of
the Red. White Blue, Canada Southern and
Midland lines; w. f. Wilson. of Buffalo,
general manager of the West Shore, Nickel
plate and North Shore Dispatch lines; Geo.
r. Street, of Rochester, general accountant
of the eight lines: w. j. Mann. of Detroit,
general claim agent. All the offices will be
in Buffalo, and the changes will become ef-
fective Oct. l. Inquiry shows that the con-
soldation will not throw as many men out
of positions in the Western cities as should
at first have been expected. In the West
each of the lines named sends business over
different roads, and the roads, for self-pro-
lection, will have separate representatives,
as in the case of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton. the Lake Erie & Western and the
Wabash The consolidation does not affect
any person representing such lines as the
Traders Dispatch, the Lackawanna, the
Empire, the Kanawha Dispatch, the Hoosac
Tunnel, the Continental or the Central
States Dispatch, but tends to strengthen
their hold on business.