The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-18


The Big Four Gazette for November is out
and Is an unusually interesting number.
j. Z. Reihner was yesterday appointed car
accountant Of the Ohio Southern, vice E, b.
Farrell, resigned.
). j. Turner, general manager of the Van
dalia lines. was in the city yesterday TO
confer with Receiver Malott.
Bids for the erection OF the new shops of
the Wabash at Fort Wayne will be opened
to-day Fifteen bids have been filed.
George g. Mason has been appointed
trainmaster Of the Iowa and Dakota divi-
sions Of the Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul.
Some indianapolis investors who have
held stock Of the Chesapeake Ohio since
1889 are now receiving their first dividends.
The Southern Indiana road is putting in
a fine electric plant at Bedford. There are
two dynamos and the plant is quite COM
plete.
VIM. Greene, vice president of the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern, who has been
East ten days. will to-day return to Gin
cinnati.
Over five hundred miles of new railroad
was built iE this country in October. bring
ing the total up to the present to fully 800
miles built this year.
The Lake Shore report for the quarter
ending Sept. so shows surplus earnings OF
81, Isl, 1858, an increase over the corresponding
three months of 1898 of s254.o26.
The Chesapeake & Ohio will abandon the
tonnage system of paying for the handling
of freight and return to the per diem
method or paying platform men.
West-bound travel is unusually heavy, and
the gouthw y, St. LIMITED Of the Big -Four
are now hauling from ten TO eleven cars.
The directors of the Chicago & Alton have
declared dividends of 2la per cent. on the
preferred and per cent. on the common
stock Both dividends are payable Dec e.
Roads in the Central Passenger Associa-
ton are now voting on proposition 10
make holiday rates cents per mile each
way instead OF half-fare rates. as IN years
past.
Local freight r1en have been notified that
on Nov. "a the rates on billets, mill cinders,
blooms. scales, borings, crop ends. iron,
ETC.. will be advanced an average OF 10 cents
per ton.
The New York. New Haven & Hartford
will double-track it's Naugatuck division
and expend a half million dollars at Bridge
port in raising its tracks above the grade
of the streets.
Roads crossing Illinois north and south
have advanced coal rates 10 cents per ton,
the Wabash the Illinois Central and the
Peoria, Decatur q Evansville lines being
OF the number.
Extensive Improvements are In progress
on the Michigan division of the Vandalia
heavy steel rail laid and q large mileage
reballasted with gravel.
I Major r, r 7 Weeks, general passenger
agent or the Philadelphia q Reading, who
| has been confined at home several weeks
with rheumatis is much better and ex-
| poets to resume duty again next week.
General Manager Loree states that the
Pennsylvania lines have in the last eight
cen months purchased 1900 new cars and
| have 5000 now under construction and GO
| Ing into service at the rate of forty day.
| Thomas Griffin, one of the Oldest of the
| engineers on the Lake Shore road, died at
Ashtabula on Thursday. He had large ac-
quaintance among locomotive engineers ow-
| ing TO his connection with the Brotherhood.
The earnings of the Santa Fe lines for
October We're the largest in the roads his
| tory and will show an increase in gross
earnings over October, 1898. of at least $780,
| 600. and in net earnings an increase OF
| 100000.
James McCrea. first vice president of the
| Pennsylvania Company was in Cleveland
yesterday looking after the proposed i'm
| provements in dock facilities of the company
| at that point The most modern machinery
for handling coal and ore will be utilized.
Joseph Wood, third vice president of the
| Pennsylvania lines west. was in the city
last evening and will to-day leave over the
| Indianapolis * Vincennes for few days
| hunting. Mr.. Wood on his hunting trips
takes with him couple of dogs valued at
| 81 600.
William ]. Murphy was yesterday APP
| pointed general manager Of the Queen *
Crescent. Mr.. Murphy has been in railroad
| Since February. 1893, he has been connected
with the Queen & Crescent in an official
| capacity.
The Erle's new short line from Homes
dale 10 Burton will shorten the distance
| from New York 10 Buffalo thirty-seven
miles and will save an hours time for its
| fast passenger trains. The project shows
that the present management is alive 10
| its opportunities
Hereafter freight returned TO manufacture
| ers for repairs will be charged full tariff
| rates in transmissouri territory. IL has
| been customary TO return such shipments
| at half rates, but some dealers have been
returning unstable goods under the rule
| hence the change.
The aggressiveness of the Baltimore &
| Ohio IS attracting much attention. BY re-
| cent acquisitions IL has the past week had
| conveyed 10 IL Isl locomotives, 1900 box
cars, 100 gondola cars, go steel cars and
a large amount OF passenger equipment,
which the deeds state have all been paid
for.
Simon Sterne, who prepared the report for
the New York Board of Trade and Trans
portation. recommends that the trunk lines
| be asked to issue interchangeable mileage
books, saying thai he, belteyed the general
adoption OF the interchangeable mileage