The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-05
Personal, Local and General Notes.

Charles Stiltz, ticket agent at the Union
Station, is quite i'll
w. w. Peabody, vice president of the
Baltimore & Ohio, is now on his way to
Mexico.
N. Is. Elliott ex-general superintendent
of the Vandalia lines, is stopping day or
two in the city.
The directors of the Chicago & Alton yes
terday declared a quarterly dividend of ia
per cent, payable March l.
Business with the Big -Four is again
heavy. On Thursday there were handled on
the system 5,056 loaded cars.
George Bradbury, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Lake Erie IL Western
lines, returned to Chicago yesterday
Samuel Porcher has been promoted from
assistant purchasing agent of the Pennsyl-
Vania lines east to purchasing agent
The Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City
earned in January $3.50 04564 a decrease. as
compared with January, 1897 of $l,O97.27.
On Feb. 10 Southern roads will restore the
old through rates on grain, flour, hay, pro-
visions and merchandise such as sugars and
rice.
John I'll. Reese, general yardmaster of the
Chesapeake q Ohio at Richmond, Va, has
resigned to come West and accept employ
ment.
were in Washington on Thursday to con-
slider with the authorities the erection of
new passenger station.
Last year the New York holdings of stock
of the Pennsylvania increased 10000 shares,
50 per cent. going from Philadelphia and Is
per cent from London.
The proposition to stop running Iow-rate
excursions on Sunday is not meeting with
the approval expected, and it is apparent
that they will not be abolished this year
Grand Trunk officials on Thursday made
4 trip over the Elkhart & Western and it
is intimated that the Big Four will have
competitor in securing control of the road.
The Vandalia is still handling, east
bound, from twenty-five to thirty-five car
loads of cotton a. day, and its transcon-
tinental line business is unprecedentedly
heavy.
The Grand Trunk, Notwithstanding it's
decision to honor Northern mileage books,
has not abolished It's $40 books. which are
recognized on trains and for tickets III a
station.
A. w. Summer, late purchasing agent of
the Pennsylvania, whose death was an
nounced a day or two ago, had sd. been with
the Pennsylvania road since 1864, and pur-
chasing agent since 1879.
It is estimated that there are still $3.50
freight cars which are in such good condi-
ton as to Justify equipping them with au-
equipped with air brakes.
The citizens of Alexandria want their pas
Senger station located more conveniently,
and the Big -Four people will crafty their
wishes If the citizens will provide suitable
place, which they propose to do.
Chairman Tucker. of the Central Freight
Association, is in New York attending the
being an expert on rate matters where the
rail and water lines are interested
Freight service on the north end of the
Michigan division of the Big Four which
the deep snow and it's drifting, has been
resumed and trains are running on time.
The Boston & Albany claims to have the
model car shops of the country at Spring
field, Mass. Thirty cars can be undergoing
general repairs at one time, while in the
old shops only nine could be repaired at the
same time.
The big new freight engines on the Van
dalia are hauling loco tons of freight over
the road, thirty-five cars ten more than
the freight engines heretofore in service on
that road, and it is proving very profitable
to the road
The passenger department OF the Queen
& Crescent has issue in neat phamphlet
form a publication entitled, Views from q
Car Window" The little work is unique,
full of interesting information, and pro-
fusely illustrated.
James Burwick. a railroad evangelist, is
Visiting division points on the Pennsylvania
lines, the company furnishing him a car in
which to hold meetings On Sunday night.
at Columbus. O., he spoke TO an audience of
twelve hundred people.
The Pennsylvania Company TO enable it
to successfully compete with the Pittsburg,
Bessener x Lake Erie road. has reduced
its grades between Conneaut and Youngs-
town until freight locomotives will haul 20
per cent. heavier trains.
The Monon has established a new passen-
ger station at Forty-seventh street. Chica-
go. which will be of great convenience to
patrons of the Monon and the Cincinnati.
Hamilton & Dayton lines. near does it
leave a passenger to Hyde Park.
Erie train men whose headquarters are at
Huntington. Ind, say they earned more in
January, this year than in any month in
the last five years. Some of the freight
engineers will receive as high as 500 for
their months work, and the firemen S100.
1t is stated to be the policy of the Lake
Shore Railway management TO ultimately
abolish every grade crossing on its main
line between Buffalo and Chicago. The
company is now spending So 100000 in ele-
waiting tracks at Chicago and on the west