The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-06
Personal. Local and General Notes.

A. f.. Waters, trainmaster of the Little
Miami division Of the Pennsylvania lines, IS
seriously i'll at his home in Cincinnati.
The Ohio Falls car works will this week
m delivering 1900 gondola cars to
the Columbus, Sandusky & Hooking road.
Thomas Noonan. general manager of the
Central States Dispatch and the Continental
line, spent Sunday with friends In this city.
L. S. Hare chief telegraph operator of the
Baltimore x Ohio, has gone TO Mexico
health-seeking expecting to be absent sew
eral weeks.
The recent decree of court providing for
the foreclosure and sale Of the main line of
the Baltimore & Ohio is directly in line with
the reorganization proceedings.
A. II. Clark, a former passenger conductor
on the Panhandle, now on the Santa Fe,
has been called to Columbus, o., on account
of the death Of a bTbther-in-law.
Arthur j. Herbert has been appointed
travelling passenger agent of the New York
Central for the Adirondack division. He
Will enter upon his new duties to-day.
N g Greegor, city passenger agent of the
Big -Four at Columbus, o., has resigned to
accept a position in the War Department at
Washington, where his father is employed:
The Pittsburg & Western has created a
new office, that of special excursion agent,
ana CHARLES Orr, a ticket broker for some
years, has been appointed to fill the posi-
1t is stated that no road running into In
annapolis makes larger passenger earnings
per mile the year round than does the Lake
Erie & Western between Indianapolis and
Peru.
The new flyer on the Panhandle running
between Pittsburg and Wheeling makes the
run of sfxty-siX miles, with sixteen stops
and three slow orders, in two hours and five
minutes.
Good headway is making in the reorganlza-
ton of the Columbus, Sandusky & Hooking,
and with its completion Samuel FELTON,, the
receiver, can have the presidency of the
road if he chooses to accept it.
Most of the shops of the Wabash at
different points are now running fourteen
pushing the equipment of its cars with air
brakes and automatic couplers.
The Chicago Great Western. by retiring
all its priority loans, amounting to 81. 1923, $50.
which are not due until 1884, will wipe out
all its mortgage Indebtedness and be about
the only road in the country without a mort
gage.
The Vandalia handled at indianapolis last
week 2, 443 loaded cars, 1S1 more than in the
corresponding week of 1898. The road for
warded west 9O6 and brought in 1,537 loaded
cars. OF the inbound business 155 cars were
live stock.
f. w. Hooking, an old-time engineer on
the pennsylvania lines, is now at the head
Of the Hooking Hat Manufacturing Com
pany. which has a large plant at Hazelton,
Pa. He still retains his membership in the
Locomotive Engineers.
J. s. Dickey, formerly train dispatcher on
the Pittsburg, Bessemer & Lake Erie, has
been appointed chief operator of the Color
ado q northwestern with headquarters at
Boulder, Col. Colonel Dickey is well known
In local railroad circles.
The Pennsylvania lines had another good
week. handling at this city 1895 loaded cars,
against $3.50 in the corresponding week of
1898, an increase this year of $50. The In
dianapois division brought in 925 and for
warded east Lap loaded cars.
1t is stated that the general managers of
the Northwestern lines have already tired of
the fast train service and that all lines will
probably go back to the schedule of fourteen
hours between Chicago and Omaha. The
present schedule is twelve hours.
The Big Four lines proper handled at In
~dIanaDolls last week but 9,174 loaded cars,
of 1885. The unfaVorable exhibit is Entirely
due to a shortage of cars, many Of the Big
-Four cars being tied up at seaboard points.
Engine 24, with its seventy-eight-inch
driving wheels, On Friday hauled the Big
Four Southwestern limited, consisting of
eight cars, from indianapolis to Terre
Haute, seventy-three miles, in seventy-seven
minutes, stopping at Danv1lle and Green
castle.
Z. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines west, will to-day
move with his clerical force into new quar-
tiers, especially adapted to passenger offices,
on the second floor of a new block at the
corner of Eleventh street and Penn avenue,
Pittsburg.
E. n. Kendall, jr, of Wolcott. Ind. writes:
Il notice in the Journal an item stating that
parties at Bunker Hill claim to have loaded
the largest car of grain, viz. 1900 bushels,
from Indiana. There was loaded from A. q
T. II. NoIcotts elevator on Jan. II a car
load of ", 293 pounds, 1,51 bushels"
OnUeF the GlrectlOn or w. >. DOWleY, chief
engineer of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
the survey of the new line from Marion to
Gray's Point will be commenced this morn
ing. A survey was made some months ago,
but it is thought an Improvement on the
iirst can be made in the way of lighter
grades and fewer curves.
The story sent out from Chicago that Gem
elal Passenger Agent Austin, of the Balti-
more & Ohio, had reported rate cutting on
the part of rival lines to the receivers is
sttenuously denied at B.. & O.. headquarters.
sir. Austin, TN a letter, absolutely denies
tnat any such cases have come under his
notice and ~denounces the report as untrue.
L. II. COnklin, who has been appointed
general manager of the Chicago a South
eastern, is q practical railroad man, and if
given. money TO handle the property it will
certainly make a better record than in years
past. Mr.. Conklin expects to make many
improvements. 1t is intimated that new
parties who have money have taken an in
terest in the road.
Henry Watkeys, master mechanic of the
Monon, who has resigned and been sue
eeeded by the promotion of w. p. Coburn,
Will move from Lafayette to Rochester N.
l., where he expects to end the rest of his
days. Mr.. Watkeys ranks among the old
est master mechanics in the country and has
made an excellent record. Mr.. Coburn has
done good work as assistant master me-
chanic of the road. Charles Collier will sue
ceeu Mr. Coburn as assistant master me-
chanic.
The business of the Knickerbocker express
on the Bis Four has become so heavy that
with the taking effect of the spring time
table, II not before, another Wagner Sleep
ing car vii. be put on to run between In
dianapolis and Rochester. n. Y, the car to
return on the Southwestern limited. The
year round there is a very large travel
from St. Louis and Indianapolis to west
eTn ara central New York, and a, car be-
tween the points named would greatly re-
lieVe the situation.
The Santa Fe system, which tried hard
and long to reach it's employees through the
independent clubs organized at division
points, now turns to the Young Mems Chris
tian Association for help. The club idea
with them was a decided failure. Associa-
ton buildings win be erected at several
points where a large number of employees
promised the work. At MOnett, Mo, the
company gave the site for a building. in adj
dition TO $1,000 for its erection. Other build
ings Will be started in the near future.
Eight heavy freight locomotives have been
transferred from the Pennsylvania road east
of Pittsburg to the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
& Chicago to help move the heavy business.
AT way stations 1t is not at all
to see ten freight trains going in one direc-
ton fifteen minutes apart, and a little later
the same number of trains moving in an op-
poSite direction fifteen minutes apart. But
for the long sidings the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne IL Chicago has for many miles, be-
ing practically a second track, ii would be
impossible to prevent a congestion of bust
ness daily. West-bound business with that
road is now fully as heavy as its east-boUnd
traffic, which is unusual in February.
SALES OF REAL ESTATE.
Seven Transfers, with "a Total COnsid-