The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-23
Personal, Local and General Notes.


The Wabash will purchase number. Of
new locomotives, whether twenty or thirty
has not been determined.
Henry Bimple, superintendent of the
Adams Express. Company, is critically Ill at
his home, in GAINESVILLE, o.
T. s. Eagan to-day takes the agency of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton at Mid
dletown, o., vice p. c. Corrigan, deceased.
The Lake Erie G. Western will next month
place order for 500 box cars, $4,000 pounds
capacity, possibly increasing the order to
1000 cars.
The Western Railway and Inspection
Bureau has established an agency of the
association at Spokane. This bureau now
employs over 700 men.
The Illinois Central has asked for bids on
eight ten-wheel passenger engines twenty
four ten-wheel freight locomotives two con-
solidat1on engines and six switching engines.
Next month the Baldwin locomotive works
will deliver to the Grand Rapids & Indiana
road four ten-wheel locomotives with work
Ing pressure Of 200 pounds; weight on driving
wheels of 100000 pounds
Railway interests quite generally observed
Yesterday day as a, a holiday City freight depots
run and the outside ticket Offices ticket
scalpers excepted. closed at noon.
G. S. Mckee. master mechanic of the
shops of the Wabash at Fort Wayne has
selected as his chief clerk r. T. Boyd. who
was with Mr.. Mckee when he had charge
of the Big -Four shops at Mattoon.
Track laying on the Columbus Lima &
from Conner, eight miles north of Lima, and
as soons as the bridge over the Shawnee
river is completed trains can be run into
Lima.
Plans are under consideration by the New
York, New Haven & Hartford which pro-
vide for a combined waiting room at the
Grand Central depot instead of the separate
waiting rooms now used by the three COM
panieS interested.
The heavy buying and advance in the stock
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, COM
ing simultaneously with the marked advance
in stock of the Pennsylvania, has awakened
the rumorS of a consolidation or close traffic
alliance of the two systems.
A report is current that after March the
roads east of the Missouri river will dis
continue all traffic agencies west of the
river and the rumor is causing consider
able uneasineSs among the representatives
of Eastern lines in the West.
James P. Whaling, who for twenty-five
years was general auditor of the Wisconsin
Central Railway Company, died at Milwau-
l1ee yesterday, aged eighty-three. He had
been in falling health for a long time. Mr..
Whaling retired from active service in the
railway company eight years ago.
There has been more or less talk to the
effect that when w. Fl. Truesdale enters on
the duties Of the presidency of the Della
ware Lackawanna & Western there would
be general reorganizing Of the depart
ments, but 1t is learned from high author
ity that he will make no important changes.
The Lake Erie & Western earned gross
for December $SO3l lSl, decrease Of $l0R67;
net earnings, Sl4O64l, a decrease of Sl2,-
535: surplus. $75.3S7, a decrease OF $17491.
Fiscal year-gross earnings were 50, ,467, ,37S
an increase of $27.9S1; net, 81, ,464 693 an in
crease of $1.4l1; surplus, $I19,267, a decrease
of So, $50.
The movement to abolish second-elass mas
senger fare in the Central Traffic Associa-
tion territory has received a setback by
the Nickel-plate and the Baltimore & Ohio
declining to become parties to such an ar
rangement. This will not stop the Big Four
and the Pennsylvania lines from discontinue
ing their sale between local points.
r. 5. KaylOr, in his annual report as rail-
way commissioner for Ohio. states that IS
per cent. OF the highway grade crossings in
the State are protected by gates, watchmen
or bells; at l5 per cent. of the crossings elec-
trio lights are maintained, and 16 per cent
OF the crossings of one standard road with
another now have interlocking plants and
signals
1t is expected that meeting OF directors
OF the Pennsylvania Will be held In a few
days at which viii be considered the matter