The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-09

crease in earnings for the month of April
over April, 1897, of STATS.
w. III: Newman, the new president of the
Lake Shore, Will go to Cleveland on the
10Th to assume his new duties.
w. H. Newman was last week elected one
or the directors of the Lake Shore. succeed
ing John De Koven, of Chicago, deceased.
Roswell Miller, president of the Chicago,
Milwaukee IL st. Paul, on Saturday went
East over the Panhandle on his private car.
George Lowell, general superintendent,
and Frank Reed, general passenger agent of
the Monon lines, spent Sunday in the city.
"A president of the Nickel-plate road:
Chauncey M. Depew says, will be elected
May 20. '0'e - 'i'e ''e''0i9 - 70 N''
The Panhandle has created a new position,
that OF assistant travelling engineer, and
has promoted Engineer J. G. Mccullough to
the place.
The May number of the Book of the Royal
Blue, the official organ of the Baltimore &
standard.
Daniel Dreamer, late chief train dispatcher
of the Big Four, left $1,000 in insurance,
payable to his wife.
General Passenger Agent crane. of the
Wabash. will name his new fast train be-
tween st. Louis and New York the CONT
mental Limited.
Coal traffic on the Pennsylvania lines is
again very heavy. An average of 375 car
Sheridan yards.
e. b. Thomas, president of the Erie lines.
IS quoted as saying that the tracks of the
Erie are to be doubled from Salamanca
west to Marion, o.
The four Pennsylvania lines handled at
indianapolis last week 1903 cars, 1858 being
loaded, making 1t the banner week with the
lines at this point.
The Baltimore & Ohio will, with the TAX
ing erect of it's summer time schedule, put
on another through train each way between
Cleveland and Chicago.
The plan by which the Grand Trunk ex-
mont Railroad has been defeated by action
OF the Legislature of Vermont.
The freight department of the Wabash
IS much excited over the earnings of the
lines in the last week of April they exceed
ing those of the corresponding week of 1897
by $50, 446
The Chicago & Northwestern furnished
the claim agents who went to Omaha to at
tend the annual convention of that associa-
ton With an elegant special train, which
carried liz claim agents.
Philadelphia capitalists have purchased
sTe large car-Dulldlng plant OF the Carlisle
Manufacturing Company at Carlisle The
works have been idle several years, but will
now be put in operation.
Within the last three months over 1900
Dunkards have migrated from Pennsylvania
and Ohio to North Dakota, taking with
them $50 carloads of household goods farm
ing utensils and live stock.
The passenger department of the Big -Four
son resorts of the Berkshire hills, the White
Mountains and other inland points reached
Dy the Big -Four and its immediate connec-
tions.
The vandalia last week exceeded all for
mer records iii number of loaded cars han
died at Indianapolis There was total of
55.o4I cars handled at this city, 1920 being
loaded, lat being live stock brought to this
market.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is to
at al once begin the erection of the long
and, when completed it will compare favor,
adelphia.
Herman f. Moeller, who has been APP
pointed general passenger agent of the
Flint & Pere Marquette has been in the
passenger department of that road since
1852, the last few years as assistant general
passenger agent.
The request of Western men for reduc-
ton In grain rates east-bound has not been
received with favor by the Joint Traffic As
sociation; nevertheless big shippers are en-
Joying lower rate than the one asked by
the Western men.
The Wagner palace-car works on Friday
shipped to the Wabash a complete new
cago The train consisted of baggage
car, a smoker, a day COACH chair car
and two sleeping cars.
A clause in the annual report of the pres
ldent OF the Mexican Central Railway for
the year 1887 says the loss to the company
In net earnings from the decrease in value
or the Mexican dollar amounted to Sab $50
United States currency
The Queen & Crescent road furnished spe
cial trains to carry the Elks from Cleve-
land Terre- Haute Cincinnati and various
other towns to New Orleans permitting
them to stop off at Chickamauga to see the
government troops assembled there.
The work of doubling the track of the
CieVeland d PittSburg southwark from
Cleveland is being pushed vigorously. Gen
eraI Superintendent Watts spent three days
on the line last week looking after the ex-
tensive improvements now making on that
division.
The four divisions of the Big Four proper
handled at Indianapolis in the week ending
May Z a total of 1929 cars, II 021 being
ipaded, an increase of 1,024 loaded cars over
handled at indianapolis in the corresnond
ing week of 1897.
VIM. e. Chamberlain, who on Nav /. as
sumed the duties Of general superintendent
of the Old Colony system of roads in New
England, is a Western educated railroad
man, having been in service on the Chicago,
burlington & Quincy and on the Chicago 81
Northwestern.
Chief Engineer Mansfield, of the Union
Railway and Belt road is preparing plans to
nave some cutoff switches laid in the train
sheds at the Union Station by which trains
may be transferred from one track to an
other with less trouble than as the tracks
are now arranged.
l.. D. Law, superintendent of the Pitts
burg. Fort Wayne & Chicago. has returned
has been i'll there some time. The entire
distance a large American flag was hung
from the rear platform of her car and at
tracted much attention.
The Federation of Woman's Clubs has Sc
lected the Big Four. the Chicago & Alton
and the Union Pacific railways to attend
their biennial meeting at Denver, Col. June
II. They will have palace train of through
Pullman sleepers without change from In
dlanapolis, leaving on Saturday, June Is.
j. B. Barnes, superintendent of motive
power of the Wabash thinks that one of
their new heavy passenger locomotives I'M
der favorable conditions, will haul train of
hVe cars at a speed of ninety miles an hour,
and the first engineer who accomplfshes
the feat will be handsomely remembered by
the superintendent of motive power.
H. M. Bronson, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four lines, says the
rates now offered for carrying United States
troops are the lowest ever known. During
the civil war every road received from the
government 6-lO0 cents per mile for every
soldier carried and the same sum per mile
for prisoners carried. The 6-100 cents was
added to pay the per cent. tax on the fare
of every government passenger
The demerit report on the Wabash lines
for April contains announcements of sew
eral merit as well as demerit marks. A con-
ductor brakeman and engineer are given
merit marks for good service a fast
freight run. Among the assessments of de-
merit marks thirty are against a conductor
who carried a man in a caboose without a
pass, twenty for brakeman and thirty for
an engineer for frequenting saloons.
The city authorities of Frankfort have
been inclined to annoy the railroads passing
through that city, going so far as to bring
suit against some of the roads as to the
crossings. Receiver Peirce, of the Toledo
st. Louis & Kansas City. has become tired