The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-05

In the week ending Dec. there were
transferred the Belt road 1880 cars,
against 1876 in the preceding week. Belt
road engines handled at the stock yards
| 4S3 carloads of live stock, against 1,120 in
| the preceding week. and for private indus
! tries on its line, 1,0l9 loaded cars, against
/ 957 in the preceding week.
| Personal. Local and General Notes.
| The Lake Shore road will copy after the
| Pennsylvania and use typewritars in MAX
/ ing duplicate bills of lading, etc
William Buel, ex-Panhandle conductor,
| has been appointed a deputy organizer of
| the Order of American Plowmen.
Every township in Elkhart county, Indi-
| ana, has a steam railroad passing through
| It. Six railroads cross the county.
The Panhandle will erect additional build
| iBgs at Columbus, O., to improve its facili-
| ties for handling freight at that point.
Rumor has it that negotiations are pend
| ing by which the Vanderbilt people may Sc
cure control of the Chicago & Alton.
Since July ! the Cleveland, Lorain &
| Wheeling has earned net $109. 594. against
$S4,53l in the corresponding period Of 1897
| Merchants at Cincinnati and at Pittsburg
| are alleging that the railroads are discrm-
| mating against these cities in naming rates.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie has placed an
order for one thousand steel cars of 100000
pounds capacity, the aggregate cost OF
| which is 100000.
| Col. Park Foster. editor OF the st. Louis
| territory as passenger agent of one Of the
| Northwestern lines.
| William Kirby, ex-rairoad commissioner
| of Ohio, has identified himself with the pro-
| jected Black Diamond road from Port Royal
| to Chicago, 500 miles.
/ F.. L. Martin, for some years joint agent
| of the Erie and Wabash roads at Newton.
| has been promoted, and is succeeded by J.
| w. Bolinger at Newton.
| Joel Fessenden, for many years a con-
| ductor on the Cincinnati, Wabash & Mich
| igan, now part of the Big -Four system, died
| last week at Adrian, Mich.
| It is stated that shopmen on the Pan
! handle will receive more pay for their serv-
| ices in November than in any previous
| month in the last five years.
| Western lines delivered at the stock yards
| last week 1,4S3 carloads of live stock, the
| largest deliveries in the history Of the yards.
The receipts were largely hogs.
| William Murdoch has been appointed as
sstant engineer of maintenance of way of
| the Toledo division of the Pennsylvania
| lines. Mr.. Murdoch is a Yale graduate.
| P. J. Harrigan has been promoted to mas
| ter mechanic of the middle division of the
Baltimore e. Ohio, with headquarters at
| Cumberland, vice d. c. Courtney, resigned.
The railroad shops all over the country
are working full time at present, and many
| the Erie Railway are running fifteen hours
a day.
Passenger agents at this point have been
notified that the st. Louis & San Francisco
| line would establish regular train service on
City City g. q from + '"pu'pa' l. L. 10 oAiA90m"
1t has been decided that the Pittsburg &
! Western should remain the one Independent
| link, and ii now is ready to give entrance
! to any and all combinations which wish to
reach Pittsburg.
The large number of new locomotives be-
| ing delivered to Western roads the last
| three months is good evidence of the general
| prosperity of roads in the West, Southwest
| and Northwest.
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| eral ticket agent at the Union Station
| shows that the receipts from sales of tickets
| last month were $4,242.22 in excess of those
of November, 1897.
The official report of John Ferguson, gem
| eral baggagemaster at the Union Station
| shows that during November there were
| handled 243,179 pieces of baggage, 1884 more
| than in November, 1897.
| AS a result of the deal the Brice syndicate
/ has closed with the Pittsburg & Western
| the general offices of the Northern Ohio,
! now located at Akron, are to be removed
| on Jan. l to Pittsburg.
| The four Pennsylvania lines handled at
/ Indianapolis last week 1876 loaded cars, 365
more than in the corresponding week of 1897.
| The indianapolis division brought in 91S and
| forwarded East ,27S loaded cars.
| The reorganization plan of the Baltimore
| & Ohio southwestern was sent to Europe on
| Saturday for the approval of the foreign
| security holders. 1t is expected that it will
/ meet their approval and be returned in two
weeks.
The last issue of the st. Louis Railway
| Journal contains an excellent picture of h.
| o. Mccormick, passenger traffic manager of
| the Zig Four sketch of his railroad career
and speaks highly of his ability pas
| senger official.
Under the schedule which became effective
Dec l the time between indianapolis and
| the City of Mexico over the Big Four or
| Vandalia the Iron Mountain, International,
| Great Northern and Mexican Northern has
| been reduced twelve hours.
The Nickel-plate is doing the heaviest
| business in its history: Train crews are al
| lowed to lay off only in case of sickness or
| death in their families. Train crews on that
road are now making the best wages since
| the road was opened for business.
| The Big Four, it is stated. is negotiating
with Saugatuck (NIich.) shipowner for the
| establishment of a winter line of boats be-
! tween ST. Joseph and Chicago. The Gra-
| ham e. Morton Transportation Company
will not further engage in winter navlgat on.
The Nandalia handled at Indianapolis last
week 294 cars, 200 being loaded, an in
| crease of 154 over the corresponding week of
| 1897. The road brought in LASS and for
| warded West 912 loaded cars. OF the in
! bound movement 152 cars were loaded with
| live stock.
| Engineer McLelland, on the Pittsburg d.
/ vision of the Pennsylvania lines. says that
/ with one of the new Class l. engines, with
| eighty-inch driving wheels, he can haul a
| train of seven or eight cars from Pittsburg
| to Altoona 1T miles, in 100 minutes, despite
/ the heavy grades
| The Pennsylvania Company has made a
| rule that hereafter no person Will be en-
| ployed fireman who is over twenty-four
/ years of age AS new men are usually
/ obliged TO fire three years more before
| being competent TO run locomotive, their
| age is of some Importance.
The Big -Four lines proper handled at In
/ dianapolis in the week ending Dec 9731
| loaded cars, which was 10 fewer than in the
| corresponding week of 1897. The Big Four $
! business is now limited to the cars il can
| command. and the company could use three
| thousand moro cars TO advantage.
| George S. Mckee on Dec ! assumed
| charge of the shops of the Wabash at Fort
/ Wayne. Mr. Mckee will have the Buffalo
| division under him. There are now four
/ master mechanics on the Wabash who were
| formerly master mechanics on the Big Four
/ system. General Manager Ramsey selecting
| them
General Manager Hays, of the Grand
Trunk, who was rendered a banquet at
| Portland. Me-, last week, given by fits citi-
! zens. states that the growth of traffic with
/ the Grand Trunk road at that point was
remarkable; in 1886 an increase of 100 per
/ cent was shown. in 1897 an increase of 60
/ per cent. over 1896 and this year the in
crease Will reach 500 per cent.