The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-07

troit & Lima Northern. with headquarters
It Lima. G. Il. Haskell. superintendent at
TecuInseh, retired on Saturday.
A. b. Caswell. who has represented the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau at Buffalo,
has been transferred to Minneapolis. His
successor at Buffalo as travelling freight
agent has not yet been selected.
There is said to he some foundation for
the rumor that the Missouri Pacific and the
Texas Pacific roads are TO be consolidated.
The Missouri Pacific operates $3.50 miles Of
road, the Texas Pacific 100 miles.
John f.. Miller. general Superintendent Of
the Pennsylvania Southwestern system,
spent Sunday at Terre Haute with his son,
Harry Miller, superintendent of the Van
dalia main line, returning to Columbus yes
terday.
Train p. on the Panhandle, on Saturday,
ran from Columbus to Xenia, f~ifty-five
miles, in siXty-seven minutes, and from
South Charleston to Xenia. nineteen miles,
in eighteen minutes. hauling eight cars, in
Guiding four sleepers.
g P schaf, general manager; J. @. Van
Wrinkle, general superintendent; George w.
kittredge, chief engineer. and William Gar
stang, superintendent of motive power of
the Big -Four lines. will to-day start on a
trip over the st. Louis and Cairo division.
The Central Association of Railroad Off
Gals held their regular monthly meeting
yesterday and installed John Riley, superin-
tendent of the Peoria &, Eastern. as presi-
dent. and A. A. Zion, superintendent Of the
Union Railway Company, as vice president.
n. f. Kenney, who, until recently, was
general superintendent of the Philadelphia.
Wilmington & Baltimore, has been elected
president of the junction Railroad and vice
president of the Baltimore Central, both of
which are parts of the Pennsylvania sys-
tenn.
The Railroad Gazette reports that there
were 20 accidents on American roads in
December, in which 80 persons were killed
and l3 injured. OF those killed % were en-
ployes, . passengers and l a trespasser; of
those injured 1Z7 were employees, 80 passen-
gers and 3 trespassers.
The National Association of Railway Sta
uon Agents is increasing IN membership
very rapidly. Agents from all over the
United States and Canada are coming into
the organization, the object of which is to
promote unity, fraternity and congeniality,
and, thus far, 1t has been a success.
The two Simple engines for freight serv-
Ice built a few months ago by the Richmond
locomotive works for the Big -Four have
are 10 be built of much the same type, only
being much heavier, weighing $4,000 pounds
instead of $4,000 pounds, as do the first two
spoken of.
J. L. Simmons, agent of the Big Four.
claims that Muncie is the best business way
station on the Big Four lines. In the year
the shipments which originated at Muncie
averaged forty-two cars per day. There
may be points where more loaded cars are
handled. but a portion Of this business is
transferred from some other line to the Big
Four, as is the case at Terre Haute.
Samuel V. Derran, who has been appoint
ed assistant general freight agent of the
Missouri Pacific system. entered railway
service in 1880 as check clerk, becoming
truckman, trainmaster's clerk, superintend-
ent's clerk, passenger agent, travelling
freight agent and later commercial agent of
the Santa Fe. In 1891 he entered the serV-
ice of the Missouri Pacific as commercial
freight agent.
Al official of the Chicago &c Alton writes
the Journal that their competitors are TAX
ing advantage of the rumors of a sale of the
road and making false statements to the
effect that the property is running down and
its equipment deteriorating, while every
thing is kept up to the highest standard, and
will be so long as T: B. Blackstone is its
be sold until President Blackstone chooses
to approve of the sale.
Control of the railroad properties cOmpos-
ing the Seaboard Airline system and the
Baltimore Steam Packet Company was for
mally transferred to the Williams syndicate
Yesterday. President Hoffman and the old
board of directors resigned and the new
owners organized by electing Mr.. John Skel-
ton Williams, of Richmond, Va, president
of the Seaboard & Roanoke Railroad,
Raleigh & CASTOR Railroad, Carolina Central
Railroad, Raleigh & Augusta Railroad and
Baltimore Steam Packet Company.
Those we'll informed in the matter predict
that it will be at least two years before the
Lake Erie & Western will resume the pay
ing of dividends. F. w. Whitridge, chair
man of the board of directors, has issued
a circular to stockholders explaining why
it was advisable to pass the dividend. An
official of the road is quoted as saying: THE
Lake Erie & Western is located in such
territory that it is directly subject to sharp
competition at the hands of the east-and-
west roads in the middle Western district,
more particularly the Big -Four road and its
connections. For three or four years past
the Big Four has undoubtedly been a con-
slant menace to rates. Lake Erie & West
ern completes with it very directly on grain
business from Peoria. A very large portion,
in fact. of Lake Erie & Westerns tonnage
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