The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-17
Personal, Local and General Notes.


In the month of July thirteen roads earned
81, S23, AL more than in July, 1897.
S. c. Clark, general Eastern freight agent
of the Chicago & Alton, was in the city
yesterday.
E. B. Bull, formerly with the Wabash
has been appointed agent of the Hoosac
Tunnel line at Buffalo.
c. J. Crane, ticket receiver of the Penn
sylvania lines at this point, is still so Ill as
to confine him to his bed
Thomas Leonard. formerly at Elkhart, has
been appointed general yardmaster of the
Lake Shore road at Toledo.
l.. H. Johnson, division superintendent OF
the Wagner Palace Car Company, has been
in the city for a couple of days.
The Baltimore & Ohio, aside from regular
business in July, handled 1900 people adj
ditional on special and excursion trains.
1t is stated that the West Shore and Wa
bash lines are about to enter into a trafnc
alliance, which will greatly benefit both
lines.
l.. r. Morrow, city passenger and ticket
agent of the Grand Trunk at Chicago, has
resigned and will be succeeded by j. Fl.
Burgess.
1t is stated that on the 1st of January
the Wheeling & Lake Erie road will pass
under the management of an entirely new
company.
The new S0.OOO-pound capacity gondola cars
building at the Vandalia shops at Terre
Haute are being turned out at the rate of
five a week.
Plans have been submitted to General
Superintendent William Gibson, of the Bal
timoTe & Ohio, for a fruit exchange building
at Pittsburg.
All east-bound lines out of Chicago, St
Louis and Peoria have agreed to restore
rates to tariff and maintain them, Peoria
falling in line yesterday
Bondholders of the Columbus, Sandusky &
Hooking who oppose the plan of reorganiza-
tion have appointed a committee to prevent
if possible, carrying into effect the plan
Monday marked the fifth anniversary of
the opening of the Union Station at Terre
Haute. which cost $Z.o9W;; and was erected
Charles McCurdy, passenger conductor on
the Chicago e. Eastern Illinois, has been
granted three weeks leave of absence and
he will spend the time at West Baden
Springs.
William Wright, chief draughtsman of the
Pennsylvania ct its shops in Altoona. has
been appointed general foreman of the Van
dalia shops at Terre Haute, vice w. r. Nc
Keen, jr., who retired a few weeks ago.
Ward Wilt. who has been in the master
merchandise office of the Panhandle at this
point, has been promoted to a good position
in the Office of M. w. Mansfield, superin-
tendent of the Indianapolis q Vincennes.
At the shops of the Panhandle at Logans-
port new ballast distributor on a new
Monday it worked very satisfactorily, ex-
cept being too slow, trouble which can be
easily remedied.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois has erected
at Mount Vernon. on the St. Elmo division,
a plant to treat railroad ties chemically to
better preserve them. and 100000 ties the
company has purchased are being delivered
there to be so treated.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern has
just fitted up commOdiouS and handsome
new offices at St. Louis, occupying rooms at
Locust streets, recently vacated by the
American Express Company.
AT Connellsville, on the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad. branch of the Young Mems
-falli bod
a short time, and it now has a membership
of over two hundred. G.. E. Enterline, sec
rotary, states that others are coming in
daily
The Bethlehem Iron Company has placed
an order with the Schoen Pressed Steel
Company for six cars, the largest ever con-
structed. The specifications call for car
with a carrying capacity of 10000 pounds
They are to be fiat, thirty-six feet in length
the car itself will weigh $4,000 pounds. and
the steel bottoms will be greatly strength
ened by beams and truSSeS
Not for years have the deliveries of the
Western lines at indianapolis of grain, live
stock and fruits and vegetables been as
heavy in August as this year. The re-
ceipts Of grain are ranging from 100 to 125
cars per days for local industries, and of
live stock. at the yards 100 to 10 carloads
a day; in fruits and vegetables 20 to so cars.
The inspections of corn yesterday reached
eighty-two cars
William Garstang. superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big Four, who has visited
MANY of the locomotive and car works re-
Gently, says 1t is remarkable that the sew
eral works are so crowded with orders. The
Schenectady locomotive works and the Rich
mond locomotive works, he says, are behind
in delivering the new locomotives of the Big
Four, and he found that other roads are ex-
periencing the same trouble with the other
locomotive works. The car works seem very
busy. He says the roads are putting very
little money into equipment these days that
does not go to secure the best modern roll
ing stock obtainable. He says the heavy
demands that are being made on the manu-
facturers of locomotive and car ma terial,
principally those which handle special ap-
planceS, are large.
c. M. Hobbs. purchasing agent of the
Denver & Rio Grande, comes from Denver
this week to make two addresses at Vino
ma Mr.. Hobbs will be remembered as one
of the principal speakers at the interna-
tional convention in this city in 1893. Mr.
Hobbs will lecture at Winona next
Saturday night on Colorado VS.. Switzer-
land-Which?" and on Sunday night he will
give the annual Young Mems Christian AS
ISOLATION address. The lecture mentioned
is one that has been received with marked
favor, and railroad men in the West have
tried to prevail upon Mr.. Hobbs to give it
through the East. one of them saying that
If this could be done in one hundred cities
the population of Colorado would be
doubled in the next three years Mr.. Hobbs,
as is President Jeffery. of the Denver & Rio
Grande. is a warm friend of the Young
Mems Christian Association.
For Business Men.