The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-25
Per.onaI. Local ana General Notes.


The directors of the Panhandle road have
declared a dividend of IL per cent on the
preferred stock.
Thomas Perkins. a %well-known engineer
on the Vandalia, yesterday buried his faith
er at Charlottesville, Ind.
The Big Four viii to-day run a special
from st. Louis to indianapolis, carrying the
skat congress. The return will be made
over the Vandalia.
Harry Fuller, passenger traffic manager
of the Chesapeake 81 Ohio. and D.. B. Martin,
passenger traffic manager of the Baltimore
& Ohio, are in Cincinnati.
Receiver Hunt, Of the Toledo, St. Louis &
Kansas City, has under contemplation max
ing extensive improvements TO the COM
pany's shops at Frankfort. Ind.
J. H. Cooper. general yardmaster of the
Lake Erie & Western, has resigned. and the
yards at Lima will hereafter be in charge
Of E. r. Bissell, t~rainmaster at Lima.
The railways have this season profted
more in the handling of theatrical parties
than in any previous season for years. The
business has been well divided and good
rates obtained.
A special train of four cars on Wednes-
day made the run from Urbana to Bloom
iEgton, H., on the Peoria q Eastern, fifty
miles, at a speed of less than a mile a min
ute. stops deducted.
George L. Bradbury, vice president and
general manager of the Lake Erie & West
ern, who has been in the city since Wednes-
day. returned to Chicago last night. Next
week he expects to go TO New York.
Inc WABASH mas Q6clOeQ 10 puTcndSe IOTIV
locomotives, thirty for freight service and
ten for fast passenger service. and the
orders have been divided with the Baldwin,,
the richmond and the Rhode Island locomo-
tive works.
The International Association of Ticket
Broker expects to exist at least another
year, the president announcing that the
annual convention in 1900 will be held at
Jacksonville, Fla, and will include a trip
TO Cuba and return.
An auxiliary branch TO the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen at Fort Wayne was
established this week, beginning with
twenty ladies enrolled. Mrs. James Arehart
was elected president. Mrs. William Dexter
vice president and Mrs. R. c. Case secre-
tary.
On the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
through freight trains are run with the
same dispatch that are the through passen-
ger trains. AS soon as a train reaches a
division point one or more engines, as re-
quired, is attached and In less than five
minutes the train is moving with a new crew
and fresh locomotives.
The Pennsylvania Railroad officials do not
expect to be affected to any great extent,
if at all, by the recent decision of the United
States Supreme Court relative to the stop
ping of trains in Ohio towns with a popu-
latiOn of over 5000. Their local trains are
numerous enough to fill the requirement
of the law, without through trains being
affected.
J. d. Laying, vice president of the Big
Four Company and general manager of the
West Shore road, who will retire Oh April
/. is on a Western trip. Mr.. Laying began
his railroad career on the Panhandle; later
he was employed by the P%ittsburg. Fort
Wayne e. Chicago, and then by the West
Shore. But few railroad men are better
known and more respected than is Mr..
Laying.
Colonel Albert F.. Boone, promote of the
Black Diamond road, states that the char
ter of the company is a duplicate of the
charter of the Pennsylvania road. granted
1870, which company now controls over eight
thousand miles of railroad. AS now contem-
plated, Colonel Bocne's road will comprise
but 1859 miles, a considerable per cent Of
which, he says, will be built this year.
James P. Whaling, for many years
auditor Of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul, who was buried at Milwaukee on
Thursday, commenced his railroad career
in 1852 on the Rutland & Burlington. COM
ing West in 1860 to take the position of
travelling freight and passenger agent for
the Milwaukee & Prairie III Chen. Three
years later he went into the auditors office;
in 1881 he was appointed auditor of that
road.
NJ. w. Mansfield. superintendent Of the
Indianapolis & Vincennes, says the motor
car between Xenia and Springfield, O., is
a great success, and promises to be a very
popular mode of travel. On Wednesday it
ran fifty miles an hour. carrying fifty pas
sengers. Mr.. Mansfield says there is no ques-
tion as to the Pennsylvania Company intro
ducing the same system for short travel
over three divisions centering at Indianap-
oils.
George w. Graves, superintendent of the
Chicago & Ohio River Railroad, recently ac-
CURED by the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day.
ton and the Indiana, Decatur & Western
syndicate, has been on the line several days
and finds there is a good deal of business
had the road facilities for handling it. The
track is in bad shape. Twelve miles an hour
over it is now fast. The new parties in control
will lay thirty-ive miles of new rail at
once and are now distributing cross-ties
along the line. BY next fall. Superintendent
Graves said, trains can be run over it safely
thirty miles an hour.
a. II
between Pittsburg and st. Louis, averages
forty-six miles an hour. Between Pfttsburg
and Columbus 1t haulS twelve cars. An idea
of the speed Of this train is shown in the
fact that Train Z, known as the Western
Express. takes six hours more time to run
from Pittsburg to ST. Louis, and when it
is taken into consideration that Train II
often leaves P~ittsburg one to two hours late,
the time schedule by no means represents
the speed of the train. sixty miles an hour
being a very common run for the train on
good stretches of track.