The Indianapolis journal., 1899-02-09

sas & Texas, has resigned TO take the posi-
ton OF assistant to Vice President Wickes,
OF the Pullman Company.
The Carnegie Steel Company is arrang-
| ing TO build steel freight cars on large
scale. The company viii invest $3,50O,O0O
| in additional works, rolling mills and shops
| BY Sept. ! the company expects 10 be
turning out eighty cars per day.
The annual meeting of the stockholders of
| the Baltimore < Ohio Railroad Company
| which has adjourned from month to month
| since Nov. 4. and which was to have been
| held yesterday, has again been postponed
| this time until Feb. 22.
resolution was passed in the lower
| branch of the Delaware Legislature yester-
| day reducing the tax paid the State by the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company from
| $4,000 to $4,000 annually. This amount is in
| lieu of all taxes The resolution caused a
heated debate, but IL was finally passed.
p. A. Bonebrake. superintendent of the
Panhandle between Indianapolis and Co
lumbus and of the Columbus terminals. was
in the city yesterday. He reported traffic
with the Panhandle as very heavy and it
| requires the closetst attention to prevent q
Columbus
IL the month Of January the Indiana Car
Service Association handled 1851 cars $500
more than In January, 1898, with an average
1885. This was due to the increased amount
or coal handled at indianapolis this year,
Whlch conslgnees are slower in unloading
than other freghts.
Union Pacific, in speaking of the attempt
to reorganiZe the Western Passenger Asso-
ciatlon. says he does not care how strong
lney make the agreement, but he will in
sist on his original proposition that all roads
III the Union Pacific territory must operate
under such an agreement.
The chairman of the board of directors of
the Lake Erie &, Western, in assigning rea-
sons for passing dividends, gives one the
attempt TO secure control of the Pittsburg
d Western, which indicates that II failed
10 accomplish what was undertaken, and
that the Pittsburg 6, Western will fall into
the hands of the Baltimore & Ohio syndi-
cate.
The Big Four lines proper earned in Jan
u9ry 81 .040. 1861. q decrease as compared
with January 1898, of $5s.376.49. An official
of the road states that the decrease was
the company have furnished the cars called
for. an Increase fully as large as was the
decrease for January this year, he says,
would have been shown.
D. S. Gray. member of the board of man.
ayers Of the Joint Traffic Associat ton in New
York, representing the Pennsylvania system,
celebrated his SEVENTEEN birthday and his
hftieth anniversary in the railroad service
at his home in Columbus, o. yesterday.
lie was the recipient of congratulatory tel
egrams from all parts of the United States
from prominent railroad men.
The MonOn lines earned in January $241,-
o02, an increase over January, 1898, of $S,9Il
As the lines have earned since the 1st
of July $2,O21S5O an increase over the corre-
spending seven months ending Jan. 81, 1885,
of but S22,S52, it would seem that the Monon
Is being much benefited by the mainte-
nance of rates. Most of the increase of the
seven months has been since rates were re-
stored.
Yesterday special party started from
Pittsburg over the Pennsylvania line on a
six weeks pleasure trip. They occupy
special private car. The party will attend
Mardi Gras at New Orleans. stop at points
of interest in Texas and Southern Califor-
MIA. then going on TO San Francisco, re-
turning via Seattle, Portland, Denver,
Omaha and ST. Louis, over the Vandalia
and Panhandle.
The February issue of the Book of the
Royal Blue published by the Baltimore &
Ohio, contains very instructive article on
THE Regular Army of the United States
by Major II. o. Heistand, assistant adjutant
general. Major Heistand gives facts and
figures concerning the military department
since its organization during the war of the
revolution Some of the statistics are very
interesting.
The following officials of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad started from Baltimore on
trip of inspection of the lines east of the
Ohio river yesterday They expect to be
gone three or four days: Oscar G. Murray,
receiver; F. D. Underwood, general man.
ager; Thomas Fitzgerald general superin-
tendent of lines east of the Ohio river; w.
T. Manning, chief engineer; Harvey Middle
ton, general superintendent of motive pow
er, and Andrew Stevenson, assistant general
freight agent.
Charles Hine, recently appointed train
master of the Chicago division of the Big
United States military service and applied
for the position of brakeman. When remon-
strated with for beginning railroad service in
that branch he answered that that was
where he wished to begin He was soon
made freight conductor, then switchman,
then yardmaster. He then enlisted for the
Spanish war, and on his return, was ap-
pointed trainmaster on the Big Four.
The interchange traffic between the Monon
and the c. Fl. & d. at indianapolis, covered
by the territory represented by Geo. S. Bre-
count, commercial agent of the Monon at Gin
cinnau, shows rather a remarkable record;
beginning with the year 1892, the business
ing with gain of 118 per cent, against the
year 1891, and 16 per cent. over 1897. The
intermediate years show % per cent. as the
minimum and 50 per cent. as the maximum
gain, the average gain being 40 per cent.
H. r. Dering assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania Company at Chi
cago, has been presented with ticket that
will undoubtedly be placed in a prominent
corner in the curio department Of his com
pany 1t was originally Issued to e. r.
Rundell, manager of the Economist, who
was drowned in the sinking of the steamship
La BOurgogne off the coast of Newfound-
land July last; Mr. Rundell used the go,
ing portion of the ticket to New York. and
the return part was found on his body, after
having been in the water sixty days.
officials of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy have been in the city for two or
three days examining the plans of the Big
Four depOts at this point and the methods
of handling the business at the yards Of
that company. j. Q. Hicks general yard
master, and George Bender, In charge of
the terminal yards gave the Burlington Off
CialS needed attention, and they were much
pleased with the information elected The
company will make extensive improvements
in the way of freight depots and terminal
yards at Kansas City. One of the party IS
the chief engineer of the Kansas City diVi-
sion of the c., b. & Q. lines.
w. r. McKeen. jr., who was for soma
time general foreman of the Vandala line
is at present situated in North Platte, Neb,
as master mechanic in charge of the extern
sive shops of the Union Pacific at that point
Mr.. McKeen is in charge of the rolling stock
on the railroads lines from Grand Island
to Cheyenne a distance of 36S miles, and
also has supervision of the equipment used
on the branch line to Denver. His duties are
greater and he has more responsibility than
the master mechanic of an Eastern line, as
the engineers and fremen on the division re-
port directly to him. and he thus assumes
the departmental duties of a road foreman
of engines Mr. McKeen is eulogistc in his
praise of President Burt's management.
-Teyre Haute Express
Editor and Printer Sentenced.
CINCINNATI o., Feb. SIN the United
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