The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-14

In the first week in September $12356, an
of 1859
j. III. Orr formerly general claim agent
Of the Kansas City. Pittsburg & Gulf. has
been appointed chief special agent of the
company.
On Sunday the Chicago division of the
Erie carried l,s11 excursionists into Chicago
on one train $50 Of the number going from
Huntington, Ind.
Chalmers Brown, president OF the Rail-
way officials and Employees Association.
has returned from months vacation spent
at Georgian bay.
agent Of the Chicago & Rock Island. who
has been I'm Europe for few weeks, re-
turned on Tuesday.
Judge Bacon, general agent of the pas
senger department of the Chicago & Rock
Island Is in the city for a couple of days
or official business.
William Z. Loves. advertising agent OF
the Baltimore 6 Ohio. has been called to
indianapolis by the serious illness OF ms
brother, Louis c. Loves.
The Panhandle statement for August will
De oct In few days, and II viii snow sao ss
earnings OF MesI go 90 ian an increase o'er
William G. Latta, vino resigned as gem
eral agent of the Pennsylvania lines Sept
L. will become president of large system
OF electric lines in Pennsylvania
The vandalia yesterday turned over to
the Panhandle on Train 20 seventy-six re-
cruits for the United States navy, en- route
from the w est 10 fHlistucipHid
The directors of the Cleveland Cincinnati.
Chicago & ST. Louis Railroad Company have
declared quarterly dividend of Ia per
cent. on the preferred stock. payable Oct D.
Albert Andrews. formerly assistant train
master on the Vandalia lines, has been
placed in charge of the company's yards
at Effingham, vice Jesse Pruitt, transferred
to Brazil
western division of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago. accompanied by his wife.
will to-day start on an extended North
western trip.
report, showed yesterday that Train had
on board 126 through passengers from New
YORK to IT. Louis and twenty beyond. Inc
train hauled five sleeping cars.
On Oct. Wilbur Lee, general passenger
agent Of the Lackawanna, will put in effect
new schedule of rates, abol;shing the slid
ing scale of Communication tickets and In
their place giving monthly uniform rates.
The boycott of the Kansas City. PittsbuTg
| & Gulf was carried SO far as to help the
Kansas City. Fort Scott & Memphis, the
| gross earnings of the latter for August be-
ing $53, 3o4 in excess of those of August, 1898.
The Big Four lines proper earned in the
week ending Sept. Z. gross; 1924 56s.3S, an in
week Of 1898. in which the road made the
| largest earnings OF any week In its history.
Fifty of the machinists in the shops Of the
struck, their grievance being that skilled
mechanics are being dropped and their
places filled with apprentices who will work
for III a day.
| freight tonnage over the New York Central
| lines the increase In earnings from this
source for the year ending June 80 was but
| $50. 1884, while the increase from passenger
$4,000.
II. H. Lancaster. general agent of the
on Sept. completed his twenty-eighth year
| In that position. He has been In the en-
pioy or the company since 1860. having been
| messenger, route agent and then general
\ agent.
| Mr.. T. A. Noonan, travelling freight agent
| for Central States Dispatch of Chicago,
spent Sunday with T: II. Noonan, of Gin
home, after extended trip at Atlantic
| City and the East, and stopped over night
| here.
| Paul road was begun on Monday. and the
| contractors expect to complete the road to
the Michigan state line by Dec. l.. Next
| new road Is virtually an extension of the
/ Ann Arbor road.
On Tuesday last ten shares of the Penn
| sylvania stock were sold at 66A. being the
first transaction. Philadelphia paper says
| in that stock since June, 1895. when the price
was 3d. making Tuesdays figures a gain Of
| Sl375 per share Fifty dollars constitutes one
| share of Pennsylvania stock.
| There Is some comment that so many
| railroad men are taking the bankrupt law.
! In1S is Que TO the tact tnat chicago parties
have been buying up claims against rail-
| road men, and the latter have adopted this
method TO escape their wages being gar
| nished for debt and probably losing their
| positions.
| Passenger Traffic Manager Edwards, Of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton lines.
Warren ]. Lynch: general passenger agent
Of the Big Four lines. and c. +. DAILY, gen.
eral passenger agent of the Lake Erie &
| Western. who have been in Chicago three
days, will return to their respective head
quarters this morning.
The late Cornelius Vanderbilt it is stated,
contributed more money to encourage the
establishment of railroad branches of the
Young Mems Christian Association than
any railway official in the country, although
| M Il. ingalls,. president of the Big Four
and the Chesapeake & Ohio, has been a
large contributor to that work.
NJ NJ Rogers. purchasing agent of the
Nickel-plate. after seventeen years of con-
tinuous service in that position, has re-
his successor. Mr.. Rogers began his rail-
road career on the Pennsylvania at AL
:oona in 1875. Mr.. Dittoe has for some years
of the Nickel-plate.
Ex-President Kneeland. o. the Clover Leaf,
denies the rumor that the Lake Shore is
no sa Ior n e fa5 OF ,h his road
do not believe that the Vanderbilts care to
secure control of the Clover Leaf" said
line and gives that system an excellent
entrance into st. Louis"
The employees of the Lackawanna have
high regard for their late general man.
| ager. William f. Hallstead. Committees
| from the brotherhoods have presented him
with resolutions passed by the several
| bodies. Handsomely framed I'm the center
of the resolutions is pen picture of Mr..
| Hallstead, and under 1t a picture of the
engine Comet" which is combined en-
| CINE and car. on which he usually made his
| inspection trips.
A. d. Mcleod assistant general freight
agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton,
| selected good time for his vacation trip.
| He says the road Is thousands of cars short
| OF filing its orders and he did not see how
the situation could be relieved; in fact, he
feared the shortage would be more felt next
month. All along the lines over which he
passed he was struck with the fact that
there were no idle cars standing on side
tracks. but the big traffic was general.
Cars are being loaded and unloaded with a
promptness which he has never before
noted.
Within the past thirty days the Balti-
more * Ohio has placed several orders for
new freight equipment TO meet the ex-
cessive demand for cars. The South Balti-
more works is building 1 200 Baltimore
& Ohio standard box cars with all modern
improvements. The American Car and
Foundry Company has an order for 80 re-
frigerator cars, and ten improved horse cars
have also been ordered. The road has ONLY
received 1000 of the 5000 Schoen steel cars
ordered some time ago, and when the re-
manning 5000 are deliveredd will have 6 800
cars to add to the 200 now in use