The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-09
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
gained 300 members last year.
The Long Island road will pass under
Pennsylvania control on June IS.
The Toledo, ST. Louis & Kansas City
road earned in May s12S.170 against $780,
026 In May, 1899.
Vice President McCrea, of the Pennsyl-
vania. is In Europe making an examination
of the London underground system.
Joseph Ramsey, vice president of the
Wabash lines, left yesterday for New York
having completed his inspection trip.
j. ]. Hill. president of the Great North
ern. who has been in Europe several weeks,
will reach New York to-day on his return.
The Big Four has contracted wit. w.
III. White. of Terre Haute. to deliver at
Cairo 100000 white oak posts, paying so
cents apiece.
Work has at last been started on the con-
struction of the Benton Harbor & Toledo
Railroad. which is intended to connect
lakes Erie and Michigan.
The Southern Indiana is distributing
gravel ballast at the rate of 100 carloads
per day. and by the 10th will have its
line ballasted to Terre Haute.
Chesapeake & Ohio earnings for the
fourth week of May show an increase of
$41, 2S9: for the month, increase, $130 $50;
from July 1. increase, s1.029.052.
w. III. Newman. president of the Lake
Erie Western. on Thursday. accom-
.
Vanderbilt. made trip over the main line
on a special train.
Home seekers rates continue to induce
heavy travel westward. Through st. Paul
II has been the heaviest for some years,
chiefly immigrants. bound for Washington
Oregon and the north coast.
The completed portion of the Kentucky
Western will be opened for business next
Monday. Its eastern terminus Is Dixon
and at Blackford II connects with the Ohio
Valley division Of the Illinois Central.
Freight traffic on the Michigan division
on no division are the earnings footing
up more satisfactorily. From the gas belt
territory shipments of the varied manu-
factories were never heavier.
James keenan,, chief clerk in the Pam
handle yards at the Columbus Union Sta
ton. has been detailed to act as teller in
the count of the votes TO determine the
new members OF the advisory committee
OF the Voluntary Relief Association.
The National Car Service Association
City on June Is, at which a number of in
teresting papers viii be read. one by ID. L.
Bacon. manager of the Indiana Car Service
Association, on Things / Would Like TO
See.''
In the month of May the Indiana Car
Service Bureau handled 20.446 cars. with an
average detention OF 1.63 days. Something
unusual is that, including Sundays. there
were sixteen DAYS OF the month when no
charges were made, owing the the inclem-
ency of the weather.
The Pittsburg & Lake Erie has force of
several hundred men at work grading for
the new shops and the roundhouse at
Glassport. which Will be the freight ter
minal for the entire Monongahea valley in
the future. Twenty tracks are being laid
in addition 10 those already there, and the
switches and shops Will occupy over a half
a mile OF ground.
A party OF surveyors has been going over
route between Norwalk and New London,
o. This line would shorten the Vanderbilt
line from Chicago 10 Pittsburg. BY build
ing this line. which will not be over fifteen
TO twenty miles IN length. the vanderbilfs
would be able to turn trafiic from Chicago