The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-05

Personal, Local AID General Notes.
The Vandalia Company advertises for bids
for $4,000 depot at South Bend. bids to be
received till Sept 9.
In the month of August there were loaded
and unloaded on the bulk tracks of the
PENNSYLVANIA Company at South street
Engineer Boaz Hanna. of the Big Four,
will leave Thursday for Port Tampa. Flor
ida, en- route to Havana, Cuba, for one
months absence.
Labor day was quite generally observed
by the railroads. Freight depots were
closed. no local freights run and the out
side ticket offices closed at p. m.
The report of the master of the Union
Station shows that on Sunday. in addition
to the regular train service. there arrived
ana departed; on special and excursion
taking steps to improve the Lackawanna's
dining car service. which, they claim. has
been neglected more or less. New dining
cars viii be put. on the trains and the cafe
service will be improved.
1t is noticeable that there are more new
cars In use on Indiana lines at present than
could be seen at any time in the past. More
new equipment has been purchased during
the past ten months than has been ordered
in any five years previous TO the beginning
of 1899
The official statement of Charles Stilz,
general ticket agent of the Union Station,
shows that the receipts from the sale of
tickets in August were $17.O6S.46 in excess
of those In August. 1898. and exceeded the
receipts for the sale of tickets in July of
this year by SIS O69.34.
With the completion of the ninety miles
Of road that the Santa Fe is building into
San Francisco that road will be the only
one owning and operating its own tracks
between Chicago and the Pacific ocean. In
extent of through line it will be second only
10 the Canadian Pacific of all the roads of
the continent.
William N. Hughes, a member of the
clerical force in the office of Superintendent
and General Agent Robert Pitcairn, who
was last month appointed TO a second lieu
tenancy in the regular army by President
Mckinley. will probably be ordered to join
his regiment, the Thirteenth Infantry,
within short time.
j. NJ. Mcconnell, formerly ticket agent
at Lafayette for the Wabash. and after
wards travelling passenger agent for the
last named position. vice T. N Johnson,
Jr VINO resigned to accept an important
position with the United States Cast Iron
roundry Company, of Chicago.
1t will surprise many probably to read
that there are few dining cars operated on
American railroads which are sef-support-
ing; vi ,b course the dining cars on some
trains pay handsomely because the passen-
gers have no opportunity TO patronize sta
tfon restaurants and lunch rooms route.
Division Freight Agent John Fitzserald
or the Louisville * Nashville says the most
reliable information which has come into
MS office regarding the extent of the cot
ton crop or 1899 is that ii will fall 20 per
cent. under the volume handled last season.
So far none of the cotton on his line has
begun to move, and it is hardly probable
that II will begin to move before Sept 10.
On Sept. / James L. HILL eldest son of
President j. j. Hill became third vice presi-
dent of the Great Northern Railroad Com
pany, a position lately created. Lewis w.
Hill, another son, became vice president of
the Eastern Railway of Minnesota. The
title OF general manager is not attached to
a M yU n n I'd via Il
dent, although ]. n. Hill will perform most
of the functions of a general manager.
President Galloway. OF. the New York
Central, has made the following announce
ment: THE foreign freight department of
the West Shore has been consolidated with
that Of the New York Central. On and
after Sept. 1 the foreign freight traffic of
the West Shore and it's fast freight lines at
New york Will be under the charge of Wal
ter b: Pollock, manager foreign freight de-
partment, with +. t. Hopkins as assistant
at No. 10 Broadway, New York"
Information comes from Little Rock that
the action OF the Arkansas railroad COM
formity in freight tariffs IN that State has
met with the very spiri.eG opposition of
the Missouri Pacific. not because. however.
OF any apparent objection 20 the general
operation of the commissioners order but
because OF the claim that business which
heretofore I has gone to the Little Rock
new rules obtain.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr as a Locomotive
builder Is a practical and genuine success.
ana ne intends to pursue his mechanical
career. 1t Is found that the new Wander
pitt engine. on account OF the great heat
ing surface of its boiler easily runs the
steam pressure up beyond the ordinary
mark On one of its trips the safety valves
were set at $50 pounds and the steam
pressure was soon run up TO 1S5 pounds
In an ordinary engine the steam can only
run up ABOUT seven pounds above the safety
valve limit. The evaporation in the new
engine Is also very great, being about eight
pounds OF water to pound of coal
In the news that f. H. Hartman and
| Stuyvesant Fish are seeking control of the
Minneapolis * st. Louis for the Illinois Cen
| trail railroaders will see an invasion OF
Huntington's interests by the new and
equally formidable syndicate. The Minncap-
oils & st. Louis is distinctly a Huntington
road. Edward Hawley, its president. Is as
ern Pacific. G. Z. Huntington has retained
his interest In the line. which Is far re-
moved from his other lines, simply to con-
troll certain traffic relations In the Minneap-
oils field In order TO have a slight check
on the Northern lines in competition with
the Southern Pacific.
Advices come from Washington, head
quarters for the general offices OF the
Southern Railway. that President Spencer
has decided to restore the 10 per cent. in
wages for all employees that was taken Off
several years ago on account OF hard times
| few months ago a restoration In the
| wages Of shop operatives was made, and 10
| was announced that other Reservations
would soon follow. The cut has been I'm
all clerks agents and employees In the trans
portatton. engineering and traffic depart
ments except those who have already been
given advances. It Is said the official an