The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-13

death of an uncle, received $4,000. has de-
cided to quit railroading and engage in some
commercial pursuit.
Friends of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
say that the company will. on April l. be-
gin paying dividends on its common stock
at the rate OF per cent. per annum.
The Chicago e. West Michigan has started
a land and industrial department to begin
operations Feb Is, with II. H. Howe in
charge, with headquarters at Grand Rapids.
The annual report of the Chicago & Alton
Will, II is stated, show a decrease in gross
earnings for 1898 as compared with 1897 of
$4,000 and u decrease in net earnings OF
$4,000.
NJ. E. ingalls,. president OF the Big -Four.
VINO mas been in Washington since Thurs
day, will tomorrow go to New York and
on Thursday attend the meeting Of the pres
idents Of the trunk lines.
The Vandalia last week handled but / 500
lOd0ed cars at indianapolis, which was 5lS
fewer than in the corresponding week Of
1885 and the lightest business the road has
handled at Indianapolis in any week OF
many months.
The highest price ever paid for a railroad
bond in this country was on Wednesday,
when one of the Pennsylvania Railroad gen.
eral mortgage per cent. registered bonds
sold In Philadelphia for sl32.50. the bond
maturing in 1910
The Pennsylvania lines handled at this
point last week 1886 loaded cars, 100 more
than in the corresponding week of 1898. The
gain was with the Indianapolis division, this
division bringing in $40 and forwarding east
Las loaded cars.
The Illinois Central earned in January
&oJ4, 49, an increase over the corresponding
month in 1898 of $I17429. Since July ] the
road has earned $16,793904, an increase over
the corresponding seven months ending
with Jan. 81, 1898, Of $429 6S3.
The old railroad project known as the
Cincinnati. Hillsboro & Wellston has been
revived and may be built on the line sur
veyed about a year ago. The plan to get
Cincinnati Is fourteen
the Little Miami from Milford into Cincin-
natl.
Charles Johnson, formerly district passen-
ger agent of the Northern Pacific at Pitts
burg who resigned some months ago TO go
to Klondike, has returned and is making his
home at Zanesvilles, o., expecting TO re-
turn TO railroad work when opportunity
offers.
AS soon as the weather moderates the
Panhandle will put in service its new steam
motor car on the Xenia & ,Springt1ieetl Ella
miles an hour on one and one-third tons
of coal and will haul two coaches easily
and make forty miles an hour.
I. P. Bowman and Frank Parrish. en-
gineers, who during the DebS strike, lost
their positions on the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois, have at last secured locomotives
TO run on the Missouri Pacific, which are
said to be their first employment on a rail-
road since the A. r. u. trouble.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
row employing more men at It's SHOPS IN
Altoona than at any time since the shops
were built, each week increasing the num-
Der. This company will at once build five
of the new type of passenger locomotives,
with eighty-five-inch driving wheels.
Joseph Sanger, for twenty years the gen.
eral yardmaster of the indianapolis, Peru
& Chicago at this point, and for years sec
rotary Of the National YardmasterS Asso-
citation and one of its founders, died at
Washington on Thursday and was yester-
day buried at Sudbury, Mass, the home OF
his childhood.
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manager of the Baltimore e. Ohio lines, on
Friday made his first trip over the Wheel
ing division This week he will, in COM
pany with Receiver Oscar Murray, make
trip over the Baltimore 81 Ohio lines west
of the Ohio river, including the Baltimore &c
Ohio Southwestern.
The Big Four lines handled at Indianap-
oils last week but 1884 loaded cars, TALL
ing off of 4,373 cars compared with corre-
spending week of $685. but it should be said
that the corresponding week with the Big
handled the largest number of loaded cars,
with but one exception, of any week In Its
history.
An agent from che Of the Mexican roads
has been in this section for some days hir-
ing engineers to take positions on Mexican
roads Six of the engineers on the Toledo
& Ohio Central road have already gone, ana
their places have been filled on that ROAD
by promotion of firemen. Some of the en-
gineers on the Hooking Valley road have
such a step under consideration.
For several years the pennsylvania CoIn-
pany has been trying to secure a tract OF
land in Chicago, between Northumberland
sixth and e-hundred-and-tWelfth streets,
to be used for yards and a shop site, and
has at last succeeded in securing it The
ground was purchased by E. H. Bucklen,
who has sold it to the Pennsylvania Com
pany for $A2,817 The company Will this
spring construct extensive yards on the
ground.
The big passenger engines on the Big
Four are making fine records this cold
weather Last fall, when these engines were
placed in service. VIM. Garstang, superln-
tendent of motive power dropped note to
President ingalls, citing two or three runs
one Of them had made with heavy
fast passenger train. President Ingalls, made
a note at the bottom of the letter, return
ing ii, writing wait until the weather gets
below zero and see what they will do. The
trains hauled by these engines make their
time.
The Baltimore & Ohio has introduced
new feature in it's sleeping car service, ar
ranging to attach an ordinary sleeper in ad-
dition to the regular first-clasS sleeper now
in service on through trains, commencing
with Feb. Is. The innovation will be that
in these ordinary sleepers Pullman rates are
reduced one-half, so that passengers have
the choice of paying the highest price Pull
man rate or take advantage of the cheaper
rate offered in ordinary cars. The Baltt-
more & Ohio is the first line to introduce
this service, and it's popularity has been
predicted.