The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-24
Personal, Local and General Notes.


Personal, Local and General Notes.
The heads of departments on the Big
-Four viii to-day hold their regular monthly
meeting in the city for conference.
The Schenectady locomotive works expect
to ship two of the large new passenger
engines building for the Vandalia lines by
Feb. 10.
The Monon lines earned in the second
week of January $55.163 against $40, 430 in the
corresponding week of 1898, and against 49,
032 in 1891
H. f. Houghton, superintendent of the
Chicago division of the Big Four, has so far
recovered from his recent illness as to be at
his post again.
The Wabash will this season complete the
laying of it's main line between Peru, Ind,
and Detroit with steel rail weighing eighty
pounds to the yard
The Lake Erie & Western earned in the
second sec on week Of January $62,647.. against
against $62,73 in 1897.
Isaac Bromley has been appointed general
5 a;avertsi Ing agent of all the consolidated
lines OF the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford. The office is an important one.
The improvements that the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne & Chicago has under contem-
plation at Allegheny will cost $1,500,00O. The
new bridge across the Allegheny river will
be included
Western lines yesterday brought in eigh-
ty-seven carloads of corn for indianapolis
industries. Shipments of corn this week
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some months.
The engines the Baldwin locomotive works
are to build for the Erie road will be of the
Vauclain type have % by 26-inch cylinders,
a driving wheel six feet in diameter, with
$1,000 pounds resting on the drivers
The common stock of the Big Four yes
terday touched the highest figures since
issued, $50 per share 1t has been predicted
this month it would go to $50 per share.
The preferred stock yesterday reached $9S
per share
The earnings of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton lines are said TO be highly sat
isfactory at present; especially is their coal
traffic large, and for several months 1t has
exceeded that of any fall and winter of
some years.
The business of the Panhandle at Column
bus, o.. has so increased that the eng1n-
eering department has been instructed to
lay out larger system or tracks ana 10
make surveys to see what additional land
needs to be purchased to enlarge the yards.
Passenger men seemingly are carrying out
their instructions as to strict maintenance
of tariffs, more strictly, II possible, than
are the freight men, and many persons who
have been favored with half or shaded rates
on some slight excuse have to pay full tariff
rates.
Frank James has been appointed traffic
manager of the American Linseed Oil Com
pany. Mr.. James from 1875 to 1892 was di-
lines at Toledo, and later general freight
and passenger agent OF the F1ndlay, Fort
Wayne & Chicago
Inc TACT LldI -O6n6Idl MdHdS6I I1dlStSuS
of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western,
has declined to accept the presidency Of the
road with the retirement of Samuel Sloan
is giving the officers and employees on the
lines much anxiety, as most of them have
been on the road from boyhood.
J. L. GRAY, general manager of the White
Pass & Yukon road, writes thaI tne me me Is
completed from Skaguay to White Pass,
and work is being pushed on the extension
to Selkirk, a distance OF thirty-tWo miles.
over 5000 men are employed in construction
nf he which iS being built with money
furnished by English capitalists.
The Big Four has under contemplation the
laying of a second track on ten or twenty
miles of the division between indianapolis
and Cincinnati this year. Forty-three of
the 10 miles will then be double track. II is
President Ingalls's intention to make the
line double track between Indianapolis and
Cincinnati and all Improvements along the
road are made with this expectation
DR.. Talbert, medical examiner of the In
dianapolis division of the Panhandle lines
and of the Indianapolis & Vincennes, last
evening went to Nincennes to pay $500 to
Mrs. John MURDOCH wife of hagman on
the road, he being member of the Noiun-
tary Relief Department and dying Of pneu~
monia He was one of the oldest employees
on the Indianapolis & Vincennes in time OF
service.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton has
the plans for it's new city freight depot at
this point completed. The structure will
tween New Jersey and East streets, and the
ground purchased from the Indianapolis
Carpenters Union will be utilized for a
system of bulk tracks. The bulk tracks Will
be used Jointly by the Monon and the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton.
Chauncey M. Depew denied yesterday the
story that the New York Central was plan
ning a transcontinental line The report
was that the Central was about to purchase
the Northwestern road. and have a route
from New York to Buffalo. the New York
Central: Buffalo to Chicago, the Lake
Shore; Chicago to Omaha, the Northwest
ern; Omaha to Nampa, Ida, the Union Pa
- nd Oregon
road and Transportation Company.
IT is stated that l.. E. Dewey on becom-
ing general manager of the Detroit & Lima
Northern, will generally reconstruct the
heads of departments and introduce entirely
new methods. His experience mas been en-
tirely on Eastern lines, ana ne is more Lhe>
w to get valuable new ideas on western
lines than he can bring from Eastern IDEAS.
The most competent railroad officials now
on New York and New England roaos were
educated on Western lines.
The Seaboard Airline has given notice
that it will cut rates from Atlanta ana
Athens to Portsmouth and Norfolk from 20
to 20 cents per hundred. beginning rep. l.
frhe Southern gives evidence that it is in the
fight to stay for authority has been secuTeu
from the railroad commission 10 REFUSE u1s
Brunswick-SaVannah rate from ~ 70 10
cents which preserves the dinerentlal OF D
cents which originally existed between rates
TO those ports and the Norfolk portsmouth
rates. The Central Georgia Will again re-
duce its rates to Savannah.
General Passenger Agent Ruggles, of the
Michigan Central when asked 70 explain
WHY that road and the Lake Shore had
withdrawn from the Chicago Railway Pas
senger Association, the oldest organization
of the kind in the West, said; we 90 not
propose to be party to any association pup
fishing a rate sheet which implies a recog-
milton of the differential fare principle or
which can possibly be construed as an
agreement between roads to maintain GER
TAIN rates The motto of the Nanderblit
lines is 10 be common time-common fare.
time-common fare.
That the Erie Railway proposes to mann
tain rates is evidenced in the following cir
cular letter sent out by D. l. Roberts, gen
eraI passenger agent of the Erie lines mes, East
and West: ''On and after the I'D inst; the
Erie Railroad Company assumes tull re-
sDonsihiIity for maintenance or TarlIL rates
on tickets of it's issue from points IN trun ls.
line territory to destinations. and in order
that there may be no deviation from rnsI pub
Iisbed fares. connecting lines are respect
f flt ueouested to instruct their representa-
tives that they must not either by the pay pay,
ment of commission to the agent or al ntsM,
ance to the passenger effect a issue
If rates on tickets of this company lssuS S;
Yolr fun cooperation in this matter VIII
be appreciated.
SALES OF REAL ESTATE.