The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-22
Personal, Local and General Notes.


Superintendent Parker, of the Monon, yes
terday returned from Asheville, N c. His
WlIe VIII remain there some weeks.
The Toledo. Peoria & Western has placed
a contract for four new high-class locomo-
tives with the Rogers locomotive works.
The Haskell & Barker car works at Mich
igan City yesterday began on a contract to
build LOCO box cars for the Great Northern.
The Wabash and the Illinois Central will
erect interlocking signals and switches at
their crossings at Monticello and Tolono.
R.: L; Queisser. of the Cleveland Terminal
q Nalley road, spent Sunday with friends
IN this city and last night returned to
Cleveland.
w. c. Rinearson, general passenger agent
OF the Queen & Crescent. who has been
spending a couple of weeks in Florida, re-
turned on Sunday.
It is, stated that the Illinois Central,
which has just placed an order for ten new
locomotives, will, within the next thirty
days, contract for fifty more.
d. B. Earhart, passenger conductor on
the Big Four, is confined at his house, suf-
fering from scalded foot 1t is feared he.
will be crippled for some time.
cEW w. Boltz, general agent of the Iowa
WILL on April l, remove his headquarters to
Cleveland. where his family resides
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton yes
syfers and family, Who ACCOMPANIED his
burial -
George Bradbury, vice president of the
Lake Erie & Western and other Brice lines
has returned from New York and will prob
ably spend three days this week at Indian
apolis.
Every passenger coach owned by the Gin
cinnau, Hamilton & Dayton is either new
in the last eighteen months or has been re-
built at the shops of the Indiana. Decatur
81 Western.
The roads interested have agreed to re-
rates house
the Missouri river to the Mississippi, and
from St. Paul to Chicago to the normal
basis, March 2S
The arrangement by which passenger
trains of the Nickel-plate arrive and depart
at Chicago at the Van Buren-street passen-
ger station is said to be increasing the bus
mess of the road.
The Big Four is having the low-baclxed
seats on a number of its passenger coaches
taken out and has substituted high-back
change being $3.50
The Monon people are identifying the sur
roundings of their new shops at Lafayette
by laying, cement walks, laying out little
practicable to do so.
The Chicago & Rock Island has decided to
EQUIP az OF It's engines which haul passen-
tested three on their engines for some
months with satisfactory results.
The superintendent of transportation of
the Chicago & Erie in his report shows that
cial tr lin on Thursday, from Chicago to
Ashland, o.. was S22 miles in S2S minutes
n. T.. Chamberlain. general agent of the
Lackawanna line at Kansas City. retires
from that position on April l. His success
soF will be appointed this week. 1t is I'M
derstood that freight man on the Wabash
lines will be selected.
Under a new arrangement all the trains
of the Monon now stop at Forty-seventh-
street station. Chicago. This station is but
a seVen-minute ride on electric car from
the stock yards and many other important
industries in that vicinity.
The business men of Lafayette, through
the City Council, have taken up the ques-
ton of having the roads centering there
that the Lake Erie a. Western is the only
read that gives the project cold shoulder.
Both pay cars OF the Big Four line were
in the city yesterday. These cars leave at
Indianapolis. every month, between S92 900
and $4,000. The total disbursements on the
entire system run from $6,2O0.oO0 to. $1,000
900 per annum. The largest sum paid out in
any one month was $4,000.
Gross earnings of the Chicago e. North
western roads for the month of February
were $2,5S6,Si3 against 81 206, S3l for the cor
responding week of last year. From June
] last, gross earnings of the road have been
S27 900 216 against $23. S57 9z7 for the CORE
spending period of the preceding fiscal year.
N. w. Taylor of ST. Louis, general freight
agent OF the vandalia, was in the city yes
terday and called on Receiver Malott Mr.
Taylor says business is at it's maximum
with all the roads at st. Louis. but, unfor-
tunately, rates on several classes of freight
are lower than they should be to handle
business at a fair margin.
The Knickerb0cker has now been on three
years and has become the best paying train
turned over to the Lake Shore road at