The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-09
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issue orders prohibiting all employees on
duty.
The Belt Company Is laying a new side
track on the Belt road north for the ac-
commodation of the brick traffic OF Justus
c. Adams.
A L. Paddock. son of Passenger Con-
ductor Paddock on the Vandalia. has &C
oepted a position with the Pullman Palace
Car Company.
The Chicago & Western Indiana earned
in its last fiscal year s945.432: its expenses
were $50 sSS and the stockholders received
10000 in dividends
Colonel Samuel Moody. assistant general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines.
has so far recovered from his recent i'll
ness that he is at his office again.
d. S. Gray. who represented the Pennsyl-
ayers OF the Joint Traffic Association. has
gone to New York for a few days stay
Tho special trains carrying fruits and veg
etables Of Southern production TO Northern
press passenger trains over the lines which
handle this business.
Charles W. Morris. passenger conductor
on the Panhandle lines yesterday went to
Chicago 10 enter hospital TO be operated
on for a malady from which he has been
suffering for several years
Engine 70s OF the Big Four, just received,
yesterday on its return trip from kanka-
and, Master Mechanic LAWYER says, could
have hauled 200 tons more.
The Panhandle is making favorable prog
ress with a double-track Improvement on
the Indianapolis division west Of Columbus.
Eight miles of second track from the Scioto
river west has been completed.
A. R. McAlpine, who for some years has
had charge of the Indiana Car and Foundry
CompanySs repair department, has resigned
and goes to the Burton Stock-car Company,
as master car builder, at 5000 year.
The Monon people are arranging to put
electric fans in their sleepers, to be oper-
ated during the summer months, while the
cars are standing IN depots at terminals
The seepers will be cool and pleasant
On July the Baltimore & Ohio South
western will place its new dining cars In
service on its line between Cincinnati and
st. Louis. These said TO be among the
finest dining cars ever built by Barney.
Smith & Co.
John Chesborough, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Vandalia lines, Is, with
E. A. Ford. general passenger agent OF the
Pennsylvania lines west and ii. X Derine.
assistant general passenger agent, making
a Western trip.
]. A. Edison. for many years general su-
perintendent of the Cotton Belt route at
Tyler Tex, has been rendered and accepted
the position of general manager OF the
Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf, to succeed
the late Robert Gillian.
A circular announces the transfer of L.
s. Mcclellan, who has been district passen-
ger agent of the Wabash at Louisville, to
ST Louis. The Louisville district has been
placed in charge Of George Maxfield, repre-
senting the line at Indianapolis
In the last day or two quite a number
of passenger conductors have passed
through the city en- route to Hot Springs,
s. D., TO attend the thirty-second annual
convention of the Old Reliable Conductors
Life Insurance Company. which meets there
June II.
Charles W. Shaw. secretary and general
manager of the Columbus, Bloomington &
| Terre Haute Railroad Company, has not by
any means abandoned the building of a
road. He is this week canvassing townships
oil Tod inc VII a
raising per cent. subsidies.
The Royal Blue dining cars running over
| the Baltimore & Ohio between Washington
and New York have baggage e,, Eomp ia !.
novel way. The rooms viii be fitted up as
smoking rooms and cafes. where light
lunches and refreshments Will be served
The practice of allowing more than one
man to ride in a car in which horses are
shipped has become so common that most
| of the roads will in the future have the
name OF the person who Is to accompany
them placed on the bill of lading. which will
| be quite a relief to the conductors of stock
| trains.
1t is expected that the Erie will be run
ming it's trains to Springfield. o., over the
Ohio Southern after July /. The Erie misses
| Springfield by two miles: the road was
built by English capitalists and at the time
| it was built they did not think Springfield
would amount to much and gave 1t the
go by.
John w. Campbell. travelling passengef
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week completed his forty-third year in pas
| senger service. He began work in 1856 on
the Bee-line. and in 1870 went to the Penn
| r:any years general passenger agent of the
| lines west.
! One of the local lines purchased a con-
| siderable tonnage of new rails this week,
| paying $27 for the same pattern 1t paid so
| for last fall and the same road was Obliged
/ to pay $1,000 to the Baldwin locomotive
| works for new boiler, In every respect
/ the same as one the company a year ago
| paid 81. 100 for.
| At Toledo. yesterday, Judge Willard
handed down decision in the case OF the
| city VS.. the Manufacturers Railroad, In
which the road is given permission TO con-
denim right of way along the o river front at
in the heart OF Toledo. me road Is s sus,
| this decision will involve the Manufactur-
ers' line and the proposed Detroit & Toledo
Shore line, as the roads seek to condemn
! the same property In many places.
| Passenger officials are now giving more
| time to excursion business than to any
| other line of passenger traffic. The revenue
| derived from these excursions is looked
1 upon by some passenger men as clear gain
| unless II be between points where excur-
sions are too frequently run. In the latter
/ excursion rates to go on and remain over,
| selling the ticket to some other person to
| return on, but this practice is not carried
/ to so great an extent many are prone
| to believe
Not in many years have the Panhandle
| the Big Four the Indiana, Decatur &
| Western the Peoria a. Eastern, the Monon
/ the Vandalia. the Lake Erie q western
| and the Wabash shops been run so many
| hours of the week as during the ten months
| past Repair work has been quite heavy.
| All the roads are putting in their spare
time in equipping their freight cars with
/ automatic couplers and air brakes, and by
| the time the law requires every Indianap-
| oils road will have its care provided with
| these improvements.
| A passenger official in commenting on the
| growth of passenger traffic with the through
| lines east and west, said that one would be
/ surprised on investigation TO see what the
| increase has been in the last ten years
1 Ten wears ago the Panhandle ran between
| ST. Louis and New York and Indianapolis
/ and New York. but two sleeping cars. and
| seldom were they overcrowded. The
| Big Four ran one New York and
| one Boston sleeping car from St. Louis
| and indianapolis. Now the Panhandle
| has six through sleepers daily be-
| tween ST Louis and New York and Wash
| ington The Big Four has three sleeping
| cars between ST. Louis and New York, two
| between St Louis and Boston, and one
| between St Louis and Washington, al
/ via Indianapolis. In connection with the
Baltimore & Ohio the Cincinnati. Hamilton
{ Indianapolis gets a good many passen'
GERS from the st. Louis and indianapolis ter
| ritory, and, what Is better STILL 20 days
| ont of the year this increased number OF
cars yields very handsome revenue OR
| certain trains like the Knickerbocker, or
the Big -Four. or No. IA. on the Panhandle
a traveller TO be sure OF getting sleeping
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