The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-11

George S. Brecount, commercial agent of
the Monon lines at Cincinnati, is quite i'll.
Samuel B. knight, general freight agent
of the Wabash lines. is reported seriously i'll.
Herbert Durand former general advertis-
ing agent of the Wabash lines, has accept
ed a similar position on the Mobile & Ohio.
Another test of the Chicago market failed
to confirm the report that the scalpers were
wei supplied with New York and st. Paul
tickets.
A A. Zion returned yesterday from Bur-
lington, Ia, whittier he went to settle
suit for damages brought against the Union
Railway Company.
The Baltimore & Ohio the Erie and the
Wabash opening a number of new tele
graph offices in northern Indiana to aid in
the prompt movement of trains.
Firemen and brakemen on the Panhandle
lines are arranging for a mass meeting in
Pittsburg in the near future under the
auspices offthe Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen
J. F. Pease who was deposed as master
mechanic of the Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas
City, win return to Delphos as superintend-
ent of the shops at that point, a position
he formerly filled.
The last few weeks the railroad hospitals
have been very useful, so many trainmen
hospital of the Wabash road at Peru there
are now forty patients.
On June IL the National Freight Agents
Association will hold its annual meeting at
Norfolk Va, and the local Freight Agents
Association of Boston has voted to attend
the convention in a body.
Notwithstanding the unfavorable showing
of earnings the Big Four made in January,
since July 1 the lines proper have earned
SOL, 500 more thai in the corresponding
period ending Jan. 81, 1898.
The January pay roll of the shops on the
Pennsylvania lines is the largest since June,
1897. At Altoona and many other of the inn
portant shops for weeks the men have been
working thirteen hours a day.
There are reports of dissatisfaction among
the employees on the Union Pacific over the
order that they be vaccinated At the offices
In Omaha over three hundred people must
be Vacclnated II they wish to hold their posi-
lions.
The Panhandle. which has never paid
much attention TO Southern business from
Chicago and other Northern points, is now
doing an unprecedented traffic to Louisville
and Cincinnati as we'll as to Southeastern
seahoard points.
1t is stated that the Mobila & Ohio will
would give the Mobile & Ohio short
through line from st. Louis TO Savannah. 1t
is further stated that the Mobile e Ohio
will make arrangements to get into Chicago
over the Chicago & Eastern Illinois.
The loss of life by railroad accidents in
the United States in 1898 $3.50. as COM
pared with 2l6i in 1897. The number Sc
riously injured was 2.616. as compared with
2,42S in 1897. More lives are lost and more
persons injured in years when business is
as heavy as in 1893 than in ordinary bust
ness years.
General Manager Schaff and other Big
-Four officials who have been on the st
Louis and Cairo divisions the last three
days returned yesterday. Their special
mission was to decide what improvements
were really necessary. on these divisions
this year. One of the improvements will be
new depot at Paris, III.
The new general manager of the Chicago
& Southeastern is finding il uphill work TO
operate the road successfully. Trains
leave the track and engines are in such bad
shape says the Lebanon Reporter that
they go dead on the hands of the engineer
= III 4 ha HFaf ~. ~f .
frozen and is giving the new official much
trouble"
The travelling auditors of eight of the In
dianapolis lines yesterday examined the ac-
counts of General Ticket Agent Stiltz at
the Union Station, and found them i'm as
good shape as during the jurisdiction of the
late Daniel Donough, who was credited with
cry detail that the auditors had anything
70 do with.
r. II. Archer, of Cincinnati, has brought
suit for receiver for the Hutchinson a.
Southern Railroad, lire running from
Hutchinson TO Blackwell, o. T.. rs miles
The Hutchinson * Southern has lately been
operated by l.. Il. Walker and w Brad
and general manager. He claims 10 have
purchased one-tenth of the capital stock ~
the company and afterwards was frozen
out by Walker, Bradford and others
This weeks issue of the Railroad Gazette
contains list Of about six hundred new
railroad projects IN the United States
Canada and Mexico. including the Droposed
and addresses OF contractors. Ii any For
new companies, the names and addresses
of officers OF promoters are added While
PROBABLY not ono mile in ten OF the entire