The Indianapolis journal., 1898-01-31
=. r. Cost,s Promotion.

f. H. Costs Promotion.
E. f. Cost, of Cincinnati general freight
agent of the Big Four, has been promoted
to be freight traffic manager, the appoint
ment to take effect tomorrow.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The vandalia brought in from the west
last week 1,266 loaded cars, 154 being loaded
with live stock.
The Big Four handled at this city last
week $50 more loaded cars than in the corre-
spending week OF 1897.
w. l. Burnett has been appointed travel
ing passenger agent of the Missouri, KAN
sas & Texas, with headquarters at Detroit.
Within ten days the Pittsburg, Bessemer
& Lake Erie will have $50 miles laid with
steel rails weighing one hundred pounds TO
the yard.
William Greene, general manager of the
Baltimore & Ohio lines, who has been West
several days, has returned to his headquar-
ters at Baltimore.
Two surveying corps are now engaged in
locating line for railroad between Akron
and Ravenna in the interests of the North
ern Ohio Railroad, a Brtoe line.
The Pennsylvania is already distributing
large mileage of new steel rails weighing
one hundred pounds to the yard and many
thousands of new oak cross-tles.
Isaac Rumbaugh, the veteran passenger
engineer on the Panhandle has obtained a
few weeks leave of absence, and. with his
wife, will spend the time in Florida.
The Chicago Great Western has just
placed man at Salt Lake City to repre-
sent the road, and now the Wabash and the
Chicago & Alton will take similar action
North Shore Dispatch agents have been
appointed Harry l.. Wyatt will be agent
in Chicago, S. G. Tiffin in Milwaukee, Clyde
Swisher in Minneapolis and c. F. Matchette
in Kansas City
The Union Pacific will establish a weekly
steamer line from San Francisco to the
Klondike via ST. MichaePs and the Yukon
river The first steamer will leave San
Francisco June !.
The directors of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois have under consideration the paying
Of a per cept l. dividend on the company's
common stock the sum now in the treasury
justifying such action.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
utilize electricity as a motive power in its
yards at Altoona and Harrisburg, and will
in the near future introduce it's use at Wall,
Conway, Dennison and Columbus.
The average quantity of coal used for To-
comotives of the Panhandle at Columbus is
twenty carloads every twenty-four hours.
Columbus is of the important coaling
stations on the Panhandle system.
John H. Crawford, the new general man
ager of the Lackawanna line, has decided
to make Chicago his headquarters Hereto
fore the headquarters of the general man
ager of that line has been at Buffalo.
Train 6, over the Panhandle, which leaves
indianapolis at $3.50 a. m, when it reaches
Pittsburg is the heaviest train running into
that city, consisting OF sixteen cars In
bad weather it is run in two sections.
Commencing with Feb. 1 the messengers
of the American Express Company will also
act as baggagemen on the trains of the
Monon between indianapolis and Chicago
and between Louisville and Chicago.
Now that the troubles with the coal min
ers have been adjusted the roads find them
selves with supply of coal which will last
several months, which had been piled up
when prospects favored a general strike.
Some extensive improvements are under
contemplation on the Pittsburg & Western
in the way of Strengthening curves and re-
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speculation as to what party is furnishing
the funds for such an outlay.
The track layers coming west on the Wa
bash, laying the heavier rail, on Saturday
| reached Peru. More rails have been dis
tributed west Of Peru, and the work of sub
stituting the heavy for lighter rail will
go on west of Peru this week.
When the new Pullman cars from st.
Louis and Cincinnati are attached to the
PennSylVanias Chicago and New York linn
tied at Pittsburg, if the rail is bad two of
| the Glass l. engines are used in hauling the
train between PittSburg and Altoona.
George M. Bennett, aged seventy-two
years and the Oldest engineer on the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern, retired from
that position last week, and, with his wife,
has gone to Florida on an extended visit
He had been on the pay rolls of that road
fifty years.
The old draw span of the Perrysvile
bridge on the Pennsylvania road over the
| Susquehanna Is being removed to give place
to a more substantial truss span $50 feet in
| length. The whole structure will be greatly
strengthened to bear the strain of the new
heavy engines.
q. ". Rossiter. treasurer of the New York
Central, is on his way to Egypt to have a
business conference with Cornelius Wander
bilt, who is now sojourning in that country
and it is thought the result of the visit will
be important changes with the so-called
Vanderbilt lines.
S. T. NJ. Pearson. vice president of the
Order of Railway Telegraphers of the
United States and Canada, has been sus-
pended by the executive committee for con-
duet unbecoming an official of the order.
The matter will be passed on at the next
meeting of the Grand Lodge.
A short time ago Elisha Inman, of Elnora
on the Evansville & Indianapolis car
ried past the station where he desired to
stop, and afterwards had to walk fourteen
miles. He was to diSpleaSed that he brought
suit against the railroad company for $780,
and the case is on trial at Washington, Ind
For the meeting of the American Medical
June, the Missouri Pacific Railway has ar
ranged to run a special through train from
ST. Louis to Denver, to be known as the
"Chutmuck special making the trip via
Kansas City, Pueblo and Colorado Springs
F. D. Drake, general manager of the Gin
cinnau Northern, will on March ] retire
from that position and the road will come
under full control of George Bradbury, vice
president and general manager of the Brice
lines. The jurisdiction of c. f. DAILY, gen.
eral passenger agent Will be extended to
cover that road.
A new office has been created on the
Ndnudlld, lndL OF coal inspector, ana the
position given to William Reddie He is to
inspect ali coal purchased for the use of
the Vandalia lines. The company has been
so imposed upon in the purchase of it's coal
that it was decided to have an Inspector
he to purchase all coal for the company.
President Webb of the Wagner Palace
Car Company was in the city on Satur-
day, and with General Manager Schaff, of
the Big Four lines, spent several hours at
the Brightwood shops. The work done at
Brightwood is of such an excellent charac-
ter that the Wagner Car Company will have
more of it done at the Brightwood shops
in the future.
Commencing Feb. is the Burlington viii
inaugurate line of personally-conducted
tourist Sleeping cars between st. Louis and
Portland, leaving St. Louis every Wednes-
day their fast Denver express at S:45 p.
M, running direct through to Portland via
their line 10 Denver, scenic Colorado Salt
Lake City. Oregon Short-line and Oregon
Railroad and Navigation This is the first
line of tourist sleepers to be established via
this route.
AS a report was sent over the country that
at a meeting of a committee of the railway
brotherhoods on the Big Four with j. q.
Van Wrinkle. general superintendent, ad-
vances in wages were asked, it is proper to
state that at the meeting the question of
wages was not alluded 10 directly or ndi-
rectly. 1T was a friendly meeting TO talk
over matters regarding the movement of