The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-26
Personal. Local and General Notes.

Twelve years ago common stock of the
Peoria x Eastern sold at $3.50 per share,
yesterday is sold at $40.
NJ. E. ingalls,, president of the Big Four
lines, will go TO Hot Springs, w. Va, to-
day to spend Thanksgiving.
]. Q. Hicks. general yardmaster Of the
Big -Four at Indianapolis, will, on Sunday,
complete his twentieth year in that posi-
ton.
There is excellent authority for stating
that the PerOia & Eastern income bonds
next April Will paying 4 per
cent. interest.
+. f. Place, who will succeed his father
as master mechanic on the Illinois Central
on Dec. 1, began MS career as clerk in his
fathers office in 1884.
J. A. Barnard, of the Peoria & Eastern.
has placed an order with the American
locomotive works for two heavy switching
engines to be delivered in June.
On Dec. l the Pennsylvania. in connec-
ton with the Southern Railway. will put
on through Pullman s~leeping-car service
between New York and Charleston.
The Chicago < Northwestern earned in
October $f,5i6,10 4, against s4.1S4,2 24 in Oc-
tober last year. For the five months the
earnings were $40. 49, 900. against SIG, 1884, 43I
In the previous year.
w. G. Parnell. general agent of the Big
Four lines at Columbus, o., was in the
city yesterday looking for ears. He says
he could load 100 cars a day at Columbus
If he could furnish them.
Under the new train schedule the Penn
sylvania has -inaugurated a new train
service between Pittsburg and Detroit, via
the Pennsylvania line to Toledo and the
Michigan Central to Detroit.
The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific Of
hcials have decided to spend $780, coo i'm ter
minal improvements and shops at Chicka-
saw. /. T. Chickasaw is a central point
on the main line to Fort Worth.
James Il. Smith. who recently left the Lee
high Valley road To become ward m "a Cfpr
of the Ann Arbor road at Cadillac. Mich.
has been appointed general yardmaster of
The Pittsburg Il Lake Erie at Pittsburg.
The gross earnings of the Chicago Great
Western for the second week I'm November
show an increase of $12. 474.2 3 over the cor
responding week of last year. Since the
beginning of its fiscal year. July 1, an in
crease Of SS11. 70l.47 is shown.
With the election of L. F. Loree president
of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern. TO
succeed +. r. Bacon, the company loses it's
individuality with the issue of Baltimore &
Ohio securities for its own. a majority of
the directors are Pennsylvania men.
Charles Stone. general passenger agent of
the Louisville * Nashville, is making a
fine record in improving the passenger
earnings and the equipment of the lines.
He claims TO have the best line of dining
cars run on any road in the country.
The Northern Pacific has issued a circu-
lar TO the holders of the c~Ompany's COM
mon stock notifying them that the con-
NeTIlDlt CtIIllCdlcS OF Indebtedness TO De
issued in order TO retire the company's pre-
ferred stock are TO be payable on Jan. l.,
1907.
Last week the New York. New Haven q
Hartford contracted for thirty new loco
motives. the Chicago Great Western for
tOrty-five. the Chicago * Northwestern
twenty-five. the Great Northern and the
Santa Fe twenty each. with the American
locomotive works.
William Garstang last week placed an or
der with the Schenectady locomotive works
for ten more of the Atlantic type of pas
senger locomotives, and not until July
would the works promise to deliver them.
They are precisely the same type as the
four recently received by the Big Four and
which are doing such good work.
Frederick Helmer, who has been in the
service OF the Big Four thirty-One years.
began his railroad career as a brakeman on
the Lake Shore. In 1879 he accepted a posi-
ton on the Indianapolis & St. Louis. and
teen years. He has retired 10 engage in
commercial pursuits in Mattoon, III.
Important changes ~ the directory of the
Northern Pacific Railroad are being con-
sidered by President Hill and other in
announced in the near future. The ques-
ton has been brought up BY the agitation
in Minnesota against any consolidation Of
the Great Northern and the Northern Pa
citc.
Or. James T.. Jackson. who died at Kan
sas City last week. was prominent as a
hospital surgeon III the service OF West
ern railroads. He established a Missouri