The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-16

pointed assistant ticket agent of the Chicago
& Alton at Bloomington, Ill.
Irving King who has been contracting
agent Of the Baltimore & Ohio at Balti-
more, will on Jan. 20 become travelling
freight agent of the company, vice Arthur
Sinclair, resigned to 90 into private bust
ness.
John ]. Mossman, division freight agent of
the Wabash lines, with headquarters at
Buffalo, has been i'll for some days and on
Saturday his disease took such a turn as to
give his friends much anxiety as TO his re-
covery.
The Journal has excellent authority for
stating that the presidency of the Delaware,
Lackawanna q Western has been offered to
an operating official of one of the Wander
bilt lines and he has it's acceptance under
consideration.
Day l.. Anderson will to-day assume the
duties of joint travelling freight agent for
the Pittsburg & Western and the Cleveland
Terminal & Valley Railroad Companies
with headquarters at Cleveland, vice w. c.
Durham, resigned.
The West Shore has been caught cutting
passenger rates on theatrical business be-
tween New York and Chicago, and it's COM
petitors are much displeased. as passenger
rates were thought to be we'll held now be-
tween those points.
The Vandalia handled at Indianapolis in
the week ending Jan. IA, 253S loaded cars
eighty-four more than in the corresponding
week of 1898, the road forwarding west S52
end bringing in 1856 loaded cars. OF the In
bound business, 10 cars were live stock.
A. ID. Shaw, one of the oldest and best
known yardmasters in the country, who re-
Gently retired as general yardmaster or the
Peoria & Eastern, has arranged to go 70
Santa Cruz, Mexico, for permanent resi-
dence. He has relatives now residing there.
j. j. Mitchell, who is closely identified
with the affairs of the Chicago & Alton, an
nounces THAT the property is not now for
sale at any price 1t is intimated that the
controlling stock is held by persons who VIII
not sell, but expect to keep it as an invest
ment.
George w. Squiggins. city passenger agent
of the Baltimore q Ohio at Pittsburg, Will
on Feb. be promoted TO be passenger and
ticket agent of the Baltimore q Ohio at
Cleveland A. w. Tiddy, agent of the Balti-
more e Ohio at Washington. Pa, will sue
coed Mr.. Squiggins at Pittsburg.
The order issued by the Pennsylvania
Company requiring all men in its service
TO give their age and the time they have
been in the service of the lines, is causing
considerable comment. An official of the
company says it is only carrying out the de-
sire of the company to have a complete rec
ord of each employe in its service.
There were handled at Indianapolis last
week by the four PENNSYLVANIA lines 43S9
loaded cars 125 fewer than in the CORE
spending week of 1893. The Indianapolis di-
vision was the only one showing any in
crease over last years corresponding week,
it bringing in S26 and forwarding east 2,224
loaded cars "a more than in the correspond
ing week last year.
Thomas J. Newkirk. attorney of Rich
that John r. Walsh, of Chicago, had stated
to him that he intended to extend the South
ern Indiana to Richmond and that he had
purchased the rails, denies having made any
such statement as coming from Mr.. Walsh
or any one else. /Still Mr.. Newkirk hopes
and thinks such an extension of the road
will be made.
George w. Boyd assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Pennsylvania lines east,
will be married on the oath to Miss Mira G..
Moves, daughter of Crosby S. Noyes, editor
Il ~ on Of hn a n iDgr IN
Evening Star The wedding will take place
at Ingeside, the residence of F. B. Noyes,
the brides brother number of the friends
of Mr.. Boyd in railroad and business circles
in this city have received invitations to be
present at the ceremony.
The Wabash has commenced the laying
of tracks in the yards at the more impOr-
tant points with rails weighing eighty
pounds to the yard, and a large force of
men is now engaged in the work at Lafay-
cite, Another matter of importance re-
ceiving the attention of the Wabash engi-
neering department is the practice of Jay
ing light rails. if anywhere, through cities
and towns along the main track, with the
understanding that trains move slower
through cities and towns.
Marion, Ind, is one of the best paying
local stations along the line of the Toledo,
st. Louis & Kansas City. and has the poor
est depot. The room used for ticket Of
flee, telegraph office, waiting room and bag
gage room is by actual measurement twenty
feet square, and on Saturday there were
fifteen large commercial trunks a number
of valises, five ladies and eleven gentlemen
crowded into that room awaiting the ar
rival of the morning train WeSt-bound The
citizens are urging the receiver to give them
better accommodations, feeling that the
business the town gives the road Just1heS
them in demanding such an Improvement.
At noon to-day O. train service will be
started from Jersey City over the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad and the Plant system which
three hours Hitherto the train making
ship connections at Tampa for Havana has
left Jersey City at a. m, but the New
service to-day, will, by increased speed,
make the same ship connections though
starting three hours later. All space in this
first train is taken, and stateFoomS are
fully engaged until late in February. The
plant steamship Olivette which did trans
port work during the war, and which was
sunk at Fernandina, has been rebuilt in
Philadelphia will sail jan q to enter the
Tampa-Havana service.
Chairman Woffindin. of the Chicago COM
mittee of the Central Freight Associat ton,
on Saturday issued his annual report, which
shows that in 1898 there were shipped 1896
go tons of freight, against 2650,94 tons in
1897, an increase in 1898 of 1,5S5616 tons. The
more freight of the kinds specified than
any of it's competitors, having 1877 per cent.
of the total traffic. The Michigan Central
was close second. having exactly 13 per
cent The Fort Wayne line of the Pennsyl-
Vania had 1913 per cent. and the Panhandle
rs per cent The Erie road had 1872 per
smallest share was taken by the Big Four
road, 81 per cent. The Baltimore & Ohio S
was S.S per cent. which was one-tenth of l
per cent. more than the Grand Trunk had.
The first iron rails that formed a continu-
Gus line from tidewater to the Ohio river
We're laid forty-seven years ago and the
work was completed on Christmas eve, 1852.
The completion of the laying of the iron
rails, steel being too expensive al that time,
is marked by natural monument, eighteen
miles from Wheeling, and near Roseby's Sta
ton. This monument is a great stone on
the hillside, and is located in Marshall
county, West Virginia. Il is sixty feet long,
thirty-fiVe feet wide and thirty feet high.
Commercially minded men have estimated
that it is worth $500 for building purposes,
historical association with the completion of
the main line of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
road Cut deeply into the side of the rock
that faces the railroad track is the following
inscriptions: 'Roseby's Rock. Track con-
nected Christmas eve, 1885,"
YOIJNG SEN ATORS