The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-14
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Southern Indiana last week awarded
a contract for three new locomotives to the
Rogers locomotive works
The Lake Erie q Western has prepared
specification for one thousand box cars and
will ask for bids probably this week.
1t is officially announced that the Missouri
Pacific Railway Company has purchased the
Central branch lines west of Waterville.
NJ. S. Curey has been appointed master
mechanic Of the Illinois Central at shops in
Paducah, vice William Hassmen, resigned.
The Baltimore e. Ohio Southwestern will
pay more attention to the dressed meats
traffic and will build fifty refrigerator cars.
j. r. Cavanagh, superintendent of car
service of the Big -Four lines, has gone to
Buffalo to attend a meeting of car-serVice
superintendent
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois now has
the largest equipment per mile of any road
entering Chicago, and the lowest grades,
the Lake Shore excepted.
The last fifteen months the Wabash has
been spending an average of $4,000 per
month in betterments to the property and
charging 1t to operating expenses.
The Ohio Falls car works last week con-
tracted TO build nine coaches and a pay
car for the Nashville, Chattanooga & ST
Louis, to be delivered next month.
F. V. s. Crosby. treasurer of the Union
Pacific road, has been appointed treasurer
of the Oregon Short-line, vice II. K. Cum
mings, who will retire on Feb. Is.
The Memphis Car-service Association has
agreed with the produce merchants of that
city to give them seventy-two hours free
time for unloading carload freights.
George HayIor. district passenger agent of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the
Monon lines was in Cincinnati yesterday in
conference with Passenger Traffic Manager
Edwards.
Edward B. Gillett, one of the directors of
the Boston & Albany, who died in West
field, Mass, last week, had been a member
of the board of directors of that road nearly
forty years.
L. H. Van Allen, of the Lehigh Valley
will to-day resume control of the Lehigh
Valley Transportation Company. the lake
line of the road, relieving Capt. w. p. Henry
as general manager
The unpretentious Peoria & Eastern road
yesterday, with special made very
creditable run from Springfield. o., to In
in two hours and forty-seVen minutes.
Freight traffic is heavy with the Wa
bash that agents on western divisions have
been notified tt, to refuse all but perisha BILE
eastern divisions can be cleared of loaded
cars
William Garstang, superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big -Four lines, will leave
this evening for New York to attend a
meeting Of the executive committee of the
American Railway Master Mechanics Asso-
ciatiCn.
]. III. June, travelling passenger agent of
the Union Pacific, with office at Indianap-
oils, yesterday received from his brother
now in Manila, the time table of the only
to Dagupan.
1t is stated that with the retirement of
j. ID. Laying as general manager of the
West Shore road, on April !, the West Shore
will be operated as a division of the New
York Central as is the Rome, WATERFOWL
& Ogdensburg.
The fast mail train, No. II, on the Van
dalia on Saturday morning was late in
reaching Indianapolis, the first time since
put on three months ago. The train was
delayed by the breaking down of the engine
and It's passengers were transferred to a
train following.
Notwithstanding the refusal of three of
the principal trunk lines in Western terri
tory TO cooperate with their competitors in
forming Western traffic association the
reports show that at the large railroad CEN
ters passenger rates are firmer than at any
time in many years.
The Wabash has six locomotives in service
between Peru and Toledo borrowed from the
Cincinnati Northern. To add to it's troubles
the Wabash has had more engines become
unserviceable in the last ten days than at
any former period so severe has been the
weather.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois has made
a trafhc alliance with the St. Louis South
to derive much benefit. 1t is expected that
at later date, by building from Marion to
Cape Girardeau the Chicago & Eastern Hi
nols Will be able to make direct connection
with the Gould system in the Southwest.
The directors of the Grand Trunk road
have declared a 3-per-cent. dividend on it's
SlOCk ana nave surplus left.
This Is the first dividend that has been paid
in many years, and is the result of reforms
instituted by General Manager HAYS, who
two years ago left the Wabash to American
lie the Grand Trunk and bring it up to
modern standards.
The Illinois Central, which recently ac-
CURED control of the Indiana q Illinois
Southern. will bring the roadhed and its
equipment up to that of the Illinois Central
standard, which is of the highest order
Towns on the line and the farmers are show
ing rev life in business matters now that
the Indiana Illinois Southern is to be
made good railroad.
President Fish, of the Illinois Central is
credited with saying that from 1880 to 1897
the railroads of the United States paid out
in conducting their postal service $121. 255, 079
more than the companies received. 1t is
overpaid for the transportation of mail mat
ter. In the present Congress statements to
that effect were made when the appropria-
ton for railway mail service was discussed.
Definite announcement is made by the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Of
ficialS that 4 deal has been closed by which
the latter road absorbs the Keokuk q West
ern Railway which parallels the main line
of the Burlington road west from Keokuk
to Nanwert O.. and connects with the
Humeston q Shenandoah branch OF the
Burlington, thus giving the Burlington an
other through line from Keokuk to Omaha
aud connects with Kansas City. The official
announces that the deal will be made in a
few days
The announcement that the Baltimore q
Ohio would OF Feb 10 put into service on
their lines number of new Pullman cars
On which half af he Sln