The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-16

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come general manager in full charge Of OPP
erations.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
NJ. f. Ingalls,, president of the Big Four,
returned to Cincinnati yesterday.
The directors of the Illinois Central Rail-
road have declared a dividend of 212 per
cent, payable Sept. /.
The Baltimore & Ohio has asked for bids
on five postal cars of the most approved
United States standard.
1t is stated that the large buyings of late
of stock of the Big Four and Chesapeake &
Ohio were taken by London houses
George Graves, superintendent of the
Indiana, Decatur & Western, has gone TO
Port Byron, n. Y, for two weeks rest.
Negotiat ions are pending through which it
is expected the Great Northern will secure
control of the st. Paul. Minneapolis & Mani
toba.
r. w. Lightburne yesterday succeeded
John Sergeant at the head of the freight
department of the Kansas City, Pittsburg
& Gulf.
William G. Taylor chief clerk of William
Garstang. superintendent of motive power
of the Big Four, has gone north for a ten
days rest.
NJ w Mansfield, superintendent of the
Indianapolis q VincenneS, has gone with
his family to Bay View, Mich, for two
weeks stay.
Oscar Murray. receiver, and j. H. Madden.
press agent of the Baltimore & Ohio lines,
natl yesterday.
In the last number of Engineering are
diagrams showing the distribution of rail-
ways over the world. The United States
leads, with 1874. 00G miles.
When c. B. Hoyt takes service with the
engineering department of the Nickle-plate
his title will be chief supervisor of track in
stead of general roadmaster.
George w. Bradbury, vice president and
general manager of the Lake Erie & West
ern and other Brice lines, left, on Sunday,
for New York, to be absent ten days
G. w. Brady formerly superintendent of
pointed assistant superintendent of the New
YORK division or the New York, New Haven
" Hartford.
A battalion of 40 men is to be carried
miles, at 1896 per capita. The Santa Fe,
the Nickel-plate and the Lackawanna will
carry the men.
Common stock of the Boston & Albany
road on Saturday sold at $3.50 per share,
having advanced SIS since Aug. l. This is
taken as evidence that some important
change is pending.
The Pullman Company last week deliv-
cred to the Erie Railway five new twelve
section sleeping cars. which it is stated are
the most elegant and complete the Pullman
Company has constructed.
The Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway will
be in the hands of the new company by the
1st Of January 1899. According to the reor-
ganization plans the committee is to elect
the directors for the new company.
H. G. Stiles, general agent of the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton & Dayton at this point, and
George Haylor, district passenger agent of
the road, were in Cincinnati yesterday for
conference with their superior officers.
The Big Four on Sunday had seventeen
well-flled coaches of excursionists from In
dianapolis to Cincinnati eight for Dayton
trains nearly two thousand tickets were
sold.
The Indiana, Decatur & Western is bring
ing more corn in off of its own line than
any of the Western reads centering here,
and it is stated that so per cent of the re-
ceipts go to local cerealine mills and starch
works
1t is stated that A. G. Wells. now general
superintendent of the Southern California
and the Santa Fe Pacific, is to be ap-
pointed general manager of both properties:
Mr.. Wells was formerly superintendent of
the St Louis division of the Big Four.
1t is said to be the intention of President
Burt of the Union Pacific, to close all sa-
houses on their lines. Some were by his or
ders closed yesterday. 1t is stated that
twenty places will be affected by this order.
General Passenger Agent Charlton, of the
Chicago d Alton declines to withdraw his
notice of withdrawal from the Western
Passenger Association. He says he would
prefer to be outside the association until
after the Omaha exposition closes. This is
thought to mean that he will cut the rate
to Omaha.
When the Lehigh Valley put on its Black
smoking would be allowed on any part OF
the train except in the smoker proper. Last
week the passenger department modified
the order and announced that smoking
would be allowed on the platforms of the
observation cars.
The sale of the Ohio Southern Railroad
which was set for next Saturday, has again
been postponed. Judge James H. Doyle, of
Toledo, representing the Central Trust
Company the trustees of the first mort
gage bond holders. appeared before Judge
Richie at Lima o., yesterday and had the
sale postponed until Sept. 90.
President Robinson, of the ST. Louis & San
Francisco Railroad, says the property OF
the Kansas City, Osceola Southern, Rail
Bolivar, Mo-, in accordance with contract
recently made, on and after Sept. l, 1898
Will be operated as a part of the st. Louis
& San Francisco Railroad system.
The Erie Railway Company yesterday
supplanted steam with electric power on its
nawanda-Lockport branch The electric
G Gnrrenf f winch operates the line is brought
the capacity of the wire is 10 900 volts. AT
Lockport a transformer station has been
built and the machinery erected can pro-
duce 1000 horse power
The roads interested are not able to agree
on plans for the projected new union sta
ton at Dayton, o. As a consequence, the
city authorities of Dayton have informed
the companies that they are not standing
by the agreement on which the roads were
given certain streets and other privileges,
ton was to be at once erected.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy is op-
Grating 1,422 miles of main line and there
are LIS towns and forty-four cities of more
than ten thousand inhabitants on it's lines.
The company employs 25170 men. has ,050
locomotives, 100 passenger cars and 80 900
freight cars, and has within the last few
years built seventeen steel and iron bridges
across the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
At the present time the route between St
Louis and the City of Mexico is a circuitous
one, built with view of taking in the
cities of Galveston and Houston, Tex. A
company is now being organized to build a
more direct route. BY taking more north
erly route it is stated that three hundred
miles could be saved. Railroad men are be-
ginning to realize that western Texas is
nos the barren waste it was supposed to be,
but is capable of great development.
The twenty-four-hour trains between New
York and Chicago over the New York Cen
trail and the Michigan Central, which were
taken off on Sunday, had been on fourteen
years and now it is announced that they
were taken off because they were not money
ing of this, said: From the standard of OPP
Grating departments of the railroads. these
fast, acknowledgement trains are not re-
garded with much favor. They are not
money makers. For advertising and show
purposes the limited trains are all right,
but when 1t comes to earning capacity the
slower. well-equipped trains, catering in the
general and local travel, rather than long
distance passenger traffic, bear off the pa m.
/ doubt if there is a railway running limited
trains that would not be better off without
them"