The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-14
Net earnings. s8S7.6S5 s5sS,Sss 1857
Personal, Local and General Note.

AOCaA n ~
Edwin R.. Holden. vice president of the
Lackawanna, will on March 1 retire from
that position.
Wages OF conductors and rakem on
the Illinois Central. 1t is stated, are to be
advanced an average of IS per month after
March 1.
A. L. Smith, air brake inspector of the
Big Four. has resigned and will go to Port
Huron, Mich, to accept a position on one
OF the roads reaching that point.
In the week ending Feb. 10 there were
handled at the Indianapolis terminals of
the Big Four 15,H5 cars, 7,79S being for the
Chicago and Cincinnati divisions.
Philip Allen. superintendent of the
Franklin division of the Lake Shore, has
resigned, to look after his large estate, and
is succeeded by c. B. Murray. of Buffalo.
Traffic over the Bee-line division of the
Big -Four is reaching a heavy volume. On
Monday eleven heavy freights were sent
east. ten of them through freight trains.
One of the Toronto papers says that, in
consequence of the advance made in
freight rates by the railroads. certain
merchants of that city are carrying their
freight between Toronto and Hamilton,
forty miles, on wagons.
In a train over the Bee-line division of
| the Big Four a freight car broke down
Monday night near Lagrange. wrecked
sixteen cars loaded with grain and made
bad work yesterday in the through train
Il sci IOt ilOoAos
District Passenger Agent Algeo, of the
! Monon, yesterday contracted TO carry six
ty-seven "skat" PLAYERS on Saturday from
indianapolis to Minneapolis on special
cars. north of Chicago going over the Chi
| cago. Milwaukee & st. Paul.
The Hoop scheme of delivering train or
ders to engineers and conductors is being
tested on the P~ittsburg, Fort Wayne &
Chicago. j. G. Quay, conductor on the
Erie, invented the plan, which is being
used successfully on the Erie.
In 1895 the illinois Central operated 2,SSS
miles of main line, and its gross earnings
were 49, 56, 994; net earnings, 81, 430, 90s. In
1899 this company operated 3,6n miles of
man line, its gross earnings were 28,114,-
go, and net earnings, $1. 133, SOC.
Receiver Hunt, General Superintendent
| Sherwood and Chief Engineer Randall, Of
the Toledo, ST. Louis e. Kansas City. are
this week inspecting the property. among
other things considering the building Of
some new depots along the line.
w. H. Reed, for many years the general
agent of the Wabash and one of the best
| known railroad men in the West, is now in
the employ of the United States govern
ment in the Territory.
w. III. McDoel, president of the Monon,
and the division chief engineers are this
week inspecting the lines with a view of
| determining what improvements shall be
made to roadbed, stations, ETC.. this year.
c. A.. Parker has accepted the position of
Il tTaIuC commissioner OF the 81. Louis lTdI-
fic Bureau, which was made vacant by the
death of A. j. Van L~andingham. The APP
plicants for the position were numerous.
On Monday over two hundred carloads
of steel rails were started out of Pittsburg
over the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chi
cago and Panhandle lines, most Of them
destined to points west Of Chicago and st.
Louis.
Foreign cars are again becoming quite
numerous on the Big Four and Pennsyl-
x.4 2t lives LIZ oADNA A.th Aaf a-l
Northwestern lines would not allow their
cars to come east of st. Louis, Peoria and
Chicago.
The Continental line has put on a daily
merchandise train between New York and
Kansas City TO make the run In eighty
hours. the same time as is now made by
the Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania lines be-
tween the cities named.
The grievance committee OF the Order of
Railway T~elegraphers will hold a confer
ence tomorrow. in Chicago. with General
Manager Nudge. OF the SAINT Fe system.
They are asking for a revision of wage
scale and more regular hours.
The joint passenger committee of the
Central and Eastern trunk lines has re-
ferred the matter Of continuing the pay
ment of commissions to old-time tourist
agents TO a committee. 1t is generally con-
coded that the old system will prevail.
The first week in February the Baltf-
more & Ohio carried less than 4 per cent.
of the east-bound tonnage from Chicago
to the seaboard. while one of the so-called
weak lines carried q per cent, and the b.
e. O. officials hint that some shading OF
rates is going on.
Three large gangs Of men are at work
On the new shops the Wabash Is building
at Fort Wayne in place of those burned.
and IL is expected TO have them completed
by April 1. When completed they will be
as well equipped as any shops on the Wa
bash system, although not the largest.
ID. b. Martin. manager of the passenger
traffic of the Baltimore & Ohio lines, who
has been on a Western trip, returned on
Monday to his headquarters. He is conf
dent that the ensuing year Will be one of
the most profitable in the way OF passen-
ger business experienced for many years.
1t is stated that the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie Railroad is now owned directly by
the Vanderbilts. For some years IL was
owned Jointly by the LAX Shore and the
| New York Central stockholders. The Pitts
burg * Lake Erie Is considered one of the
most valuable railroad properties in the
country.
As soon as the number OF heavy passen-
ger engines required for the fast heavy
trains OF the Panhandle are provided the
class p engine. the heaviest now In use
on the lines west OF Pittsburg. will Be re-
built and placed I'm service on divisions
where traffic Is lighter than between Pitts
burg and Indianapolis and Columbus and
Chicago.
The opening I" the branch from Tara
to Council Bluffs, which gives the Illinois
Central a through route from Chicago to
Omaha. adds 131 miles to this company's
main track. The distance is sic miles
or about twenty-five miles longer
than the Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul