The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-21
Personal, Local and General Notes.

earnings on account OF inadequate equip
ment.
The associate officials of T. s. Lloyd mas
ter mechanic of the Chesapeake & Ohio.
gave him a dinner at Richmond. Va, Fri
day night.
Percy Todd, traffic manager of the West
Shore road, and L. /. Semers. general
Western freight agent of the same road,
are on the Pacific coast.
George III. Daniels. general passenger
agent Of the New York Central. on Monday
left for San Francisco and Pacific coast
points, to be absent a month.
II boycotted by American lines. IL is
stated that the Canadian Pacific will open
independent agencies in localities where 1t
is now represented by its own people.
II. J. Aubry. chief clerk of the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton at Lima, has been pro-
NOTED to the agency of the company at Co.
lumbus Grove, vice John Davis, resigned.
George Graves. superintendent of the In
diana. Decatur & Western, who has. with
his wife, been in Washington a few days
visiting relatives, is expected home this
evening.
The heads Of departments on the Big
Four line will on Monday evening give a
dinner to President ingalls, at Cincinnati.
He will leave Cincinnati on Thursday on a
trip to Europe.
The Big Four lines proper earned I'm the
second week of March $500, 569.S7, an in
crease over the corresponding week OF 1899
of $3o,653.62. The increase the first two
weeks of March was $57,S25.42.
The Chicago & Rock Island, having ex-
perimented with steel ties, will soon begin
the replacement of its wooden ties with
steel. The work will be carried on gradu-
ally, as renewals are required.
The Fort Worth, Corsicana & Sabine Pass
Railroad Company has been chartered to
construct a lire of road from Fort Worth.
Tex, to Sabine Pass via Corsicana, $50
miles in length. Work has already begun
on the survey.
Coke Alexander, who for several years
represented the Missouri Pacific in Indian
apolis territory. has been appointed general
manager of the Produce Shippers Dis
patch, with headquarters at Louisville,
vice o. X. Mullins. resigned.
The Peoria & Eastern. with the taking
effect of its spring time table. will put on
another train each way between I~ndianapo-
lis and Columbus, o., to connect in both
directions with the new trains the Big
Four will put on between st. Louis and
Cleveland.
TIL office of general freight agent, at st.
ern, held by w. s.. Smith, has been abol-
ished. and its duties assigned to General
Traffic Manager Porter. Chief Train Dis
patcher w. d. Kerr has been made car
accountant.
The Trunk Line Association has given a
rate of one fare, single tickets, for round
trip. from all parts of the United States
and Canada for the session of the Imperial
Council, Ancient Arabic Order Mobiles of
the Mystic Shrine. to be held In Washing
ton the week of May p.
Judge Colt, of the United States Circuit
Court, at Boston, has denied the petition
of DIR. w. Seward Webb, ct al. VS.. The
Boston e Maine Railroad Company, ct al,
for a temporary injunction TO restrain the
defendants from carrying out the proposed
lease of the Fitchburg road to the Boston
& Maine road.
The last two days there has sprung up
quite a demand for grain cars at points on
lines west of Indianapolis, which is taken
as evidence hat shippers have come TO the
conclusion that the lines East have decided
and after that maintain them at least until
navigation opens.
e. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines. has gone to Los
Angeles, where his wife. who is in poor
health, has been stopping some months.
Mr.. Ford expects to be absent until the
latter part of April, when he hopes his
wife's health will be such that she can re-
turn East with him.
The limited of the Big Four
on Monday made a fast run between Cleve-
land and ST. Louis. The Lake Shore de-
livered the train to the Big Four at Cleve-
and one o and thirty-five minutes late.
and 1t reached st. Louis but twenty min
utes late. The train consisted of nine cars.
and is one of the fastest on the line.
President Russell announces that the Mo-
bile & Ohio Railroad Company has pur-
chased the controlling stock of the st.
Louis a. Cairo road, Ihus giving the former
company ownership of a line from st. Louis
to the gulf. The purchase has been made
necessary by the rapid increase of trade via
this port with Cuba and Central America.
The Common Carrier, for March, is out.
and contains a number of interesting arti-
e eThe 70 Largest [ai + Syst system n.''0ss TicSet Agents
and Commissions" "Railroading as a
Career THE Standard Classification
l.. e. N. retreat Progress of the Sea-
board"
Beginning April 2. export grain rates
from Mississippi-river points to New York
will be 15ls cents per one hundred pounds.
and domestic grain and all grain products
will be carried at a rate of ia cents. On
that basis the export grain rate from Chi
cago to New York will be IL cents. and the
rate on domestic grain and all-grain prod
ucts will be 10 cents.
Chief Engineer Graham and Assistant
General Manager Willard. of the Baltimore
a. Ohio, have returned to Baltimore from
the West. where they have been inspecting
division, which Will begin as soon as
weather conditions permit. Contracts have
been made for all the material necessary
to complete the double tracking of about
thirty-eight miles of the Chicago division.
The second track will be laid between Fos-
toria and Attica, and between Hicksville
and Auburn Junction.
In the German Reichstag yesterday, dur
ing a debate on the management of state
railroads., the Prussian government was
severely taken't to task on the subject of the
antiquated system of coupling trains now
In use in Prussia, a system which has &C.
casioned many accidents. The Prussian
minister of railways, replying to criticism,
said the government had heard of the sat
~isfactory experiments or the Bavarian
railroads will the American
coupling and would agree to undertake
| similar experiments during the coming
summer.
The Lake Erie & Western has fixed upon
| April 10 for its new and faster schedules
to become effective. Under the new sched-
ule G.. f. Daily. general passenger agent,
says two trains daily each way will have
| close connections with the leading roads
in the northern part of the State. Both
fast trains of the Wabash will be connect
ed with at Peru. A line between Indian
apolis and Chicago via Laporte Is to be
established. and between Indianapolis and
Detroit. 1t is evident that the Lake Erie
& Western, under the management OF the
| Lake Shore, will be a much more aggres-
sive and important road to Indianapolis,
both as a passenger and freight line.
| Within the next year the Baltimore &
\ Ohio may be no longer recognized as a
| differential line between Pittsburg and
| Chicago. The company will not only i'm
prove it's service, but will have its tracks
in such excellent shape for making faster
time that the other roads will scarcely
| the same way with Pittsburg and Cincin-
mott hnsfpaSS over which a mild sort of q