The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-23
PersonaI. local and GeneraI Notes.

The Ohio Falls car works have been
awarded the contract to build 1000 new cars
for the Denver 6, Rio Grande.
Those who seem well informed state that
the reorganization of the Baltimore * Ohio
will not be perfected before July J.
BY an agreement of the presidents of the
trunk lines, dating from to-day, published
passenger rates are to be strictly MAIN
tanned.
The Lafayette division of the Order of
Railway Conductors, No. 302, will give their
first annual ball at Lafayette, Feb. Q. 1t is
to be an elaborate affair.
Commencing with to-day. under an agree
ment between the presidents of the Eastern
trunk lines, no more commissions on pas
senger business will be paid,
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois will ballast
its road with broken stone and viii place
a powerful rock-crushing plant at Mo-
mence 10 prepare the ballast
Within ten years says a Boston paper,
seven out of thirteen of the directors OF
the Santa Fe have died one president, one
vice president and two general managers.
Cars are becoming more plenty with the
Big Four and last week the lines handled
at Indianapolis 1913 loaded ears. against
1888 in the corresponding week of 1898, an
Increase this year of 200 loaded cars.
Business on the Michigan division of the
Vandalia lines has so increased of late that
an additional through freight has been put
on each way, to be known as Nos. 81 and 62.
The Panhandle is examining number of
men for positions of tiremen. To pass an
examination men must have a good char
acter be well built, healthy and of steady
habits.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois passenger
department has issued a unique folder enti-
tied. Our Southern Sisters Much valua-
bic information is given regarding Cuba and
Porto Rice.
F. e. Wolfkill, formerly an engineer on
the Vandalia, then going to the Northern
Pacific. and later to the Mexican Central,
died at Cardenas, Mexico, few days ago
of smallpox.
On Feb l H. A. Johnson, for several
years past representing the freight Depart
nent of the Union Pacific al Denver, will
take the general freight agency of the Colo
raGo q Southern.
1t is stated that the Pittsburg limited, on
the Pennsylvania road, every night makes
eighty miles an hour between GreenSburg
and Latrobe, where the track is level and
free from curves.
Robert Hayes the oldest passenger con-
ductor in time of service on the Iittsburg
& Lake Erie, who was seriously i'll, is much
better. He is arranging to take trip
South when able to travel
The old board of directors and officers of
the Terre Haute q Peoria have been re
elected, James McCrea being president. j.
L. Brooks vice president. George Harrington
secretary, and r. b. Thomas treasurer.
A freight official, who has just returned
from the West, states that the car famine
is more severely felt in the West than in
this section. Some of the roads, he states,
cannot supply rs per cent. of the cars called
for.
Men in the different departments of the
Vandalia are now undergoing an eXamina-
ton for color blindness. All new men are to
be examined hereafter who have anything
to do with train service or about yards and
switches
The friends of William Green, ex-general
manager of the Baltimore q Ohio South
western, positively assert that after the re-
organization he will hold one of the inost
important offices on the Baltimore q Ohio
Southwestern.
l. l.,
Vandalia, the road handling at indianapolis
last week 1852 loaded cars forwarding
west 902 loaded cars and bringing in 1880.
OF the inbound business lat cars were loaded
with live stock
E. NJ d. Fisher, auditor of tae Columbus,
Sandusky & Hooking road, was formerly
with klngan q Co, OF this city, and they
last week sent him pair OF OK horns
handsomely mounted and polished as a
mark of their esteem.
1t is said Frank Dewey, late of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford, is to sue
coed Joseph r. McGrew as general manager
of the Detroit & Lima Northern, on Feb.
/. He is making an inspection tour of the
road with one of the receivers.
The Garner suit for $4,000 damages
against the Chicago q Eastern Illinois,
which has been in the court at Danvile for
some time has been thrown out. Garner
was a fireman who claimed damages from
a faulty construction of an engine shaker
bar.
The Missouri Pacific telegraphed Frank P.
Sergeant grand chief of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Flremen, on Thursday, to
send half dozen good firemen who stood
well in the brotherhood, and after colsid-
cradle trouble he found but one idle fireman
to send.
S. E. Thomas, travelling freight agent of
the Big Four's Michigan division, with
headquarters at Wabash Ind, has been
transferred to Indianapolis, and O. l.. Win
slow has been promoted to travelling agent
of the Big -Four, with headquarters at
Wabash.
L. II. Gray, general manager OF the White
Pass & Yukon road sends a number of DhO-
tographs of trains on the line. enc a double
header climbing the mountain. One CT the
singularities of the road is The comeback,
or double road, which does away with all
turning out.
w. A. Sullivan, assistant general freight
agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio, with head
quarters at Richmond Va was IN the city
the G. & o, as doing an immense coal
traffic. He has not yet arranged to remove
his family to Richmond.
Willard Kells. master mechanic of the
shops of the Erie road at Huntington, Ind,
has been promoted to assistant superintend-
ent of motive power of the lines, with head
quarters in Jersey City, and he is succeeded
at Huntington by j. G. McLaren. general
foreman of the Erie shops near Chicago.
The four Pennsylvania lines handled at
indianapolis last week 4,749 loaded cars,
against 4,379 in the corresponding week of
1898, an increase this year of $40 cars. The
indianapolis division of the Panhandle con-
forwarding from Indianapolis LAS loaded
cars and bringing in SS5.
The directors of the Lake Erie 81 We tern
at their meeting last week, placed on record
on the minutes a resolution touching feel
ingly on the connection with the company
of the late Calvin Brice 1t speaks Of him
as being shrewd, but amiable and free from
all bitterness or resentment, harhoring no
III thoughts toward those with whom he
differed.
A result of the higher rates now being
enforced on the Pennsylvania system is
shown in an increase of over $1,000 in gross
two weeks of January over those of the cor
responding period of 1898, end it is stated
that the Big Four would show equally good
results had it the cars to handle the bust
ness offered.
A report comes from the East that East
ern lines have authorized a reduction in
grain rates on corn originating west of the
Missouri river, and destined to the sea-
board The present tariff is is cents per
100 pounds, and it is proposed to make it
1872 cents TO New York, 1919 cents 10 Phila-
delphia and IL cents to Baltimore and New
port News. Twelve cents to Newport News
and Baltimore was the rate on which the
Chesapeake g. Ohio and the Baltimore &,
Ohio last year carried such immense guam
titles of corn from Missouri liver points.
The Southern Indiana Railroad Company
has purchased at Greensburg a strip of
ground $50 fet wide, running through the
southern part of the city, which cost nearly
$4,000. On this ground will be located its
passenger and freight depots and yards for
freight tracks Everything points to ex-
tending the road to Richmond. AS the Big
-Four station at Greensburg is rather a
dilapidated affair for Il tirst-class road. it is