The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-08

transferred over the Belt road Z0,oo6 cars,
Belt road engines handled at the stock
yards 1.12e carloads of live stock and for
private switches on its line $50 cars. the
heaviest traffic the road has done in any
week of the last four months.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
A meeting of the Southwestern Passen-
ger Buerau lines has been called for st.
Louis Oct. TO-
fourth week OF September increased SIS, 265;
for the month, $226,9l3; from July l, in
crease, $685., 30
The Mexican National Railroad will open
an Office in Cincinnati. and 1t Is reported
that an office will be opened at Pittsburg
at an early day
George n. Clayton. Northwestern pas
senger agent of the Wabash, is critically i'll
at his home in Omaha, having been uncon-
scious since last Wednesday.
Texarkana has offered bonus of $4,000
to the Iron Mountain for the location of
the shops OF that road, recently burned in
Little Rock, in Texarkana.
New block-signal work on the Columbus
& Newark line, operated Jointly by the Bal
timore x Ohio and the Panhandle, Will be
completed in about ten days.
The Chicago Eastern Illinois has es-
tabiished night telegraph and signal serv-
ice at Pittwood on the Chicago division and
at Dickson. on the Terre Haute division.
NJ ]. Burke, formerly a Big -Four road
master, more recently on the Lake Erie &
Western. was buried yesterday at Paxton.
Ill. He was highly esteemed by his superior
officials.
Receiver Malott says there is no truth in
the report that the Vandalia Company has
leased the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor &
Columbus Railway, thereby securing an
outlet to Lake Michigan.
John Dalman has been appointed assist
ant master mechanic of the Pittsburg
Fort Wayne & Chicago shops AT Fort
Wayne. He is recent graduate from an
Eastern polytechnic college.
Paymaster Wilhelm. of the Lehigh Val
ley has resigned after. forty years service
with the company, and payment OF en-
ployes by check is to be substituted for
the pay car. fr
George H Bower has been appointed
general baggage agent for the Missouri
Kansas & Texas, succeeding w. X. Max
well, deceased His headquarters will be
in Parsons, Kan.
The gross earnings OF the Wabash in
September We're sl.6l5,569.3l. an increase
over September. 1899 of Sill. 72S.s9, being the
largest earnings in any one month in the
companys history.
Rate clerks of the Eastern and Trans
missouri committee lines of the Western
Passenger Association will meet in Chicago
and arrangements
William Pratt who has represented the
Chicago Alton at Kansas City for nine
teen years. retired last week and the ship
pers of that city presented him with an
elegant dinner service.
The management of the Baltimore & Ohio
has decided to enlarge it's freight-yard ia
cilities in South Chicago and to spend sew
eral million dollars providing equipment
for the Chicago division
NJ. ID. Woodford president of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton g. Dayton lines ard of
the Indiana, Decatur & Western, is West
again. and yesterday inspected the l., d. &
w. main line and the River division.
Charles S. Shoemaker. chief clerk in the
offices of General Passenger Agent 4. A.
Ford, and his assistants. of the Pennsyl-
vana lines west, has gone 10 Old Point
Comfort for a vacation of two weeks.
The Lake Erie & Western will enlarge its
shops at Lima, and John Rowe, mechanical
engineer, has gone to Pittsburg to examine
into the best methods of equipping rail-
way shops and the most modern machin-
cry.
James McCrea. first vice president, and
Joseph Wood third vice president of the
Pennsylvania lines west, on Saturday COM
pleted an inspection of the Northwestern
lines. including the Grand Rapids In
diana.
The Vandalia received and forwarded last
week at Indianapolis forty-two more loaded
cars than in the corresponding week OF
1899. the Bee-lire division of the Big Four
twenty-five more. the ST. Louis division 22}
more, the Lake Erie K Western 240 more.
More than siO00.O00 will be spent within
the next year or so in placing the Chicago
K Grand Trunk on paying basis. The
money will be used in making general i'm
provements TO the property. The roadbed
Will be placed in a better condition, and in
many places new steel rails will be laid
The equipment will be increased greatly
through the acquisition of new engines and
cars.
General Passenger Agent DAILY. of the
Lake Erie q Western. is much pleased
that the passenger earnings of the lines are
increasing proportionately with the freight
earnings since the road came under con-
troll of the Lake Shore people, and when
the roadbed is brought up TO the Lake
Shore standard. which it will be, he pre-
diets still larger increases in business of the
passenger department of the Lake Erie &
Western.
AT the annual convention of the American
Association of General Agents and Tickle,
Agents, TO be held in Buffalo on Oct. is
several important subjects will be submit
| ted for decision to that body viz: Anti
| scalping legislation, the extension OF the
| perfect safety paper system for use or
interline tickets, engagements of the use.
| fulness of the association; also, the issu.
| ance OF a compendium of passenger rates
| and divisions
| The Erie road now has TO its credit nearly
| much gain tonnage for period of three
years as it would have had If the Supreme
| Court had not declared the Joint Traffi,
| Association illegal. Last week the Erie car
| ried nearly one-third OF all the graiI
| shipped from Chicago by rail TO the East
| The Grand Trunk second. with les.
| than half the tonnage of the Erie. and III,
| Lake Shore was next highest, with abou
| half the tonnage of the Grand Trunk.
! Lake Shore Railroad employees are alb
| sorbed In the movement 10 establish I
| pension system similar TO the one in vogu.
| on the Pennsylvania. This pension rule wa.
| recently extended over the Buffalo and Allie
1 gheny Valley division of the Pennsylvania
| and. apropos of its introduction by III.
| way managers have learned that the pen
| sion scheme is good thing for them finan
| cially. but the employees, as a rule. are op
| ponents OF the plan
| For number OF years an effort has beer
made 10 get the Eastern railroads 10 issu
| an interchangeable mileage book but 8,
| far nothing has been done. For the firs
| Tina IN NOW looks as IL Some deflnifa q cfio,