The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-07-13

Personal. Local and General Notes.
The last three months the Monon has
been operated on 651s per cent. OF Its gross
earnings.
In the month of June the Indiana Car
Service Association handled 1925 cars, with
average detention 1.61 days.
c. l.. Lindsay 1t is understood. will be
appointed agent of the Big Four at Thorn
town, vice y. w. Weakley, deceased.
The Southern Indiana people say that
their passenger trains will be running into
the Union Station at Terre Haute by Sept. l.
c.. S. Crane, general passenger agent of
the Wabash, returned yesterday from a.
two weeks stay at northern Michigan sum-
mer resorts.
On Tuesday the Vandalia ran a Sunday
school excursion from Brazil to Paris. H.,
of twenty-four cars in two sections, carry
ing over 1900 people.
The Pfttsburg Fort Wayne & Chicago
will place six miles of new double track i'm
service to-day Sixty miles remains to make
it double from Crestline TO Chicago.
In the six months ending June 30 Belt
road engines handled on the switch OF
the Atlas engine works. located on the
Belt road, 1.21 loaded cars, in and out
bcund.
The Barney & Smith car works will to-
morrow deliver to the Big Four two new
dining cars, which cost $4,000 apiece. and
are of the highest type of this class of
equipment.
David l.. Haner who died i'm Richmond.
Ind, on Tuesday, aged eighty-four years,
was one of the contractors who built the
Panhandle line from Cincinnati TO Rich
mond and thence to Chicago
The Indiana, Decatur & Western is now
doing the heaviest freight traffic in its
history in the export line. Of 107 loaded
cars brought into Indianapolis on Tuesday
&c were loaded with meats and other arti-
cles for export.
Oficial denial is made of the recent re-
port that ]. III. Mcconnell has resigned the
position of superintendent of motive power
nell has been with the Union Pacific a
number of years.
A. S. j. Holt. Pacific coast agent of the
Pennsylvania lines. who was so severely
injured which riding wheel last Sunday,
and probably fatally hurt. before going to
California represented the Grand Rapids
&; Indiana in this territory.
The excursions TO Atlantic City this sea-
son promise 10 be largely patronized. The
passenger department of the Pennsylvania
fifty-two Pullman sleeping cars has al
ready been engaged. and the excursion will
rot run until Aug. is.
f. ]. Ward has been appointed division
superintendent of the Missouri Pacific.
with headquarters at Wichita. Mr.. Ward
was clerk OF r. A. Peck when the latter
was general superintendent OF the Big
Four, going with Mr.. Peck to the st.
Louis & Iron Mountain.
1t is announced that the trains of the In
diana. illinois & Iowa will be running into
Clinton. Ia. by July 15 The company has
built new line across the Illinois river to
Mendoza, and from there to Clinton has
bought from the Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy half interest in Its tracks.
The Pennsylvania Railroad management
will take direct control of the Western
New York az Pennsylvania road on Aug.
l. Operating leases will be executed COW
ering both the w. y. Y. & p. and Allie
gheny roads similar to the Pennsylvania
lease of the Pittsburg & Fort Wayne line.
The Wabash has established a rule for
the summer which citizens appreciate and
which they would be glad to see other
roads emulate. IL is special rates on Sun
day into important towns and cities on
railway announcing round-trip rates rang
ing from . cents to 81.
S. III. Kneeland. former president of the
Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City, announces
that he will take steps to set aside the
cent foreclosure sale on the grounds that
the property would have sold at higher
figures If bidders had known that con-
siderable part of the operating expenses
reported by Receiver Hunt really went into
permanent betterments.
A. n. Leitnaker. vice president and gen
cral manager of the Austin & Northwest
! road. came north to attend the funeral
Of the late n. w. Weakly. agent of the
Big Four at Thorntown. who was buried at
Lafayette yesterday. Mr.. Leitnaker was for
many years agent of the Big Four at Col
tax. Before returning to Austin, Tex. he
will. with his wife, visit friends in Indian
apolis.
Every Friday during the tourist season
the c., III. e. d. will operate a through
sleeper from Cincinnati to Pointe Aux
| Rarques. Mich. leaving Cincinnati on the
Michigan Flyer at l p. m. arriving at Pointe
| Aux Baraues the following morning at Z
| o'clock Sleeper leaves returning SUNDAY
| night. Connection with this service from
| Indianapolis is made by the train leaving
| at 1045 a. m.
An insidious enemy has attacked the steel
| car in its most vulnerable point and is wor-
rying railroad companies and manufacture
| ers as well. peculiar acid distilled from
coal. when soaked with rain. is eating into
| the metal and causes such rapid corrosion
| that II Is feared the steel may be ruined
| Company officials say that IL will be an
| these acids and that the life OF the steel
| cars is not threatened by any means
| Limited fast mail No. 6. on the New York
! Central. on Tuesday made the run from
Rochester 10 Syracuse in eighty minutes
| The Empire State express makes the run
| daily between Rochester and Syracuse
eighty-one miles. IN eighty-two onninutes
| this being its schedule time. Frequently II
| runs under eighty minutes. and some time
| ago the Empire made the distance I'm sew
| enty-five minutes. this being the record
| However. the fast mails time was very
| creditable. considering the weight and
| length of the train.