The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-16
Personnl. local and Genernl Notes.

Personal, Local and General Notes.
One of the new switching engines just re-
ceived by the Big Four from the BROOKS
works was yesterday sent to Lafayette tor
service.
The laying of rails on the Columbus
Northwestern road is progressing rapiuly:
The tracklayers are within eight miles of
Bellefontaine.
w. f. Bruner. assistant general passenger
agent of the Vandalia lines. mas gone 10
Mexico to look after the interests OF the
Nandalia in that section.
S. p. Brush. superintendent of motive
power of the Panhandle lines, was IN lne
city yesterday, spending most OF the tlnle at
the shops, which are now very busy
The combined mileage Of the ssz Lake AXE she IRE
other company has so large mileage OF
double, third and fourth track ana sldlngs.
The Panhandle. will introduce telephone
service at points on its lines Wnere IMPROVE
ments are iii progress, to facilitate the sate
movement of trains and as an economical
measure.
John Comley, passenger conductor on tne
Chicago division of the Big Four, who mas
been seriously ill., has so much improved
that, accompanied by his wife, he yesterday
left for Florida.
Regular passenger engineers at DIVISION
points on the Wabash lines are putting IN
many hours of extra time daily III running
switch engines in the yards, so pushed IS
the road with business. ~
lowing weights. which shall govern, when 1t
is impossible to ascertain exact hgures;
beef and pork in barrels: Pickle on, $50
pounds; pickle off, 537 POUNDS.
The receipts from sales of tickets over
the Vandalia line at Indianapolis Increased
in January this year over those of January,
1897, % per cent. and the receipts OF the
Pennsylvania lines nearly 81 per cent.
1t is stated at Montreal ON good author
ity that the Grand Trunk Railway has been
notified unofficially that it will be permitted
TO cut rates to the Northwest only TO meet
the Canadian Pacific on its own ground.
Passenger Engine 1A, on the Vandalia,
holds the record for making the fastest time
with a regular passenger train ever made
on the line. 1t is afaSchnectady engine,
much the same type as the Garstang ma
chine.
George Il. Mckay, general manager of the
Erie fast freight lines, was in the city yes
terday. He states that the Erie is getting
it's full share of the heavy traffic, its bust
ness being limited only by the cars 1t can
furnish.
General Manager Loree, of the Pennsyl-
vania lines west, has asked that two OF the
heavy Glass / passenger engines on the
Pennsylvania. proper be sent to the Pan
handle to test between Pittsburg and Co
lumbus M
The Big Four has extended for thirty days
the options on certain pieces OF property,
which encourages citizens of Terre Haute
in the belief that President ingalls, has de-
cided to build new passenger station at
that city.
John W. Mass. travelling freight agent of
the St. Louis & San Francisco, has been
stricken with paralysis and no hopes OF his
recovery are entertained. Mr.. Mass many
years ago was district passenger agent of
the Louisville & Nashville, and is veteran
in railroad service.
The Kankakee & Seneca division of the
Big Four is doing the heaviest freight bus
mess in it's history. Trains of fifty cars
loaded with grain are daily brought into
Kankakee from the west. hauled by two
locomotives, these engines going over the
road three or four times daily.
B. f. Dickson, a few weeks ago, retired
as superintendent of the Henderson division
tre ene the emnlovas ON fhe road have
been engaged in making up purse for
him, and on Monday presented him with
twelve OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES bills as his val
entine.
Jacob Frank Cincinnati, ticket broker,
said yesterday that IF the roads will stand
by each other and strictly enforce the rules
of the interchangeable mileage book, twelve
months from now the field will be clear or
scalpers without Congress or any of the
state. legislatures passing anti-scalping
bills"
The Panhandle is building at it's shops in
Columbus ten standard day coaches and
three combination cars. The combination
cars are seventy feet in length. Both are
vestibules similar to the Pullman cars, and
when completed will be put in service, be-
tween Pittsburg and St Louis Two bag
sixty feet inside and without platforms.
The Detroit & Lima Northern has filed
formal complaint with the railroad commits
sioner of Michigan against the Lake Shore
and the Michigan Central alleging that
they are discriminating against it in switch
ing charges. If the complaint proves sue
cessful in that case it might be we'll for
some of the Indianapolis roads to file COM
plant against the Lake Erie q Western
for discriminating against some of the In
dianapoliS roads in the same direction.
A. la g
Dayton vacates the old Bee line freight de-
pot on South Alabama street the Big -Four
the ground into the yards in which to handle
their bulk business into and out of Indian
apolis 1t will be convenient TO the COM
mission houses and to the business houses
on Delaware, Pennsylvania and Meridian
streets. The company expects to eXpend
$685. GOO in improving the ground and fitting
it up with tracks. sr
L. W. Wakelys general passenger agent
of the Missouri river lines in the Chicago,
Burlington q Quincy system, arrived in the
city last evening, accompanied by Col. VIII
Wakely is proud of what has been achieved
by the company he represents at st. Louis,
where it has spent nearly $5,OOO0OO In inn
provemeuts, and made it's lines very pop
ular This road was the first to put on COM
pete full vestibuled trains west of st. Louis,
and it proved popular. To-day 1t will maui
gurate its weekly tourist line, from st.
Louis to Portland, Ore, and nearly every
berth in sixteen section car is taken Mr..
Wakely states that their business all over
the system is highly satisfactory.
Wabash Plain Dealer: There is a grow
ing feeling among the residents along the
line of the Big Four between Wabash and
Elkhart that they are entitled to better
train service. Persons can go neither north
nor south from stations located between
the points named until nearly noon. and it
is next to impossible TO go any distance
transact any BUSINESS and make a round
trip in a day. A train is run daily from
Wabash to Indianapolis and return. While
another makes daily trips between k.lkhGrt
and Benton Harbor. The Warsaw News
says just why Goshen Warsaw, North
Manchester and numerous intermediate
towns are shut out in this matter OF con-
Venient train service is mystery. "A res
toraton of the third train as operated by
the old c., w. & M. management, would be
hailed with delight.
Several important changes will be made in
the traffic department of the Baltimore d
Ohio on March l. j. Al Murray, the present
coal and coke agent. will be given the title
OF general coal and coke agent of the entire
system. with headquarters at Baltimore.
William IL. Andrews viii be assistant coal
and coke agent for the Pittsburg district
with headquarters at Pittsburg. T.. r.
Affieck, now coal and coke agent for the
lines west of the Ohio river, with head
quarters at Columbus. will become assistant
coal and coke agent for that territory Mr..
Andrews is well known as private secretary
Of Receiver Oscar G.. Murray, and came to
the Baltimore q Ohio when Mr.. Murray was
appointed receiver MIR. Affieck has held his
present position for q number OF years and
Mr.. j. A. Murray was formerly private
secretary to ex-Traffc Manager Frank Har-
riott. These appointments are in the nature
of promotions. and II is believed Will very
materially strengthen that branch of the
Baltimore X Ohio traffic department.
Lament of Lonely Editor.
m Lincoln when The fare was low