The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-01
Minor Items.

The Indiana Car-service Association in
1900 handled 276,75S cars, an increase over
1899 of 49, 16 cars.
On account of i'll health General Passenger
Agent l.. S. Allen, of the Seaboard Airline
has retired from his office.
In 1900 there arrived and departed at the
Union Station 50,156 trains, consisting of
290024 cars. against 46, 749 trains in 1899, with
26e. 900 cars.
There were handled on the Peoria & East
ern last year 194.441 loaded cars. and during
the year its passenger trains carried 724, $50
passengers.
In the year 1900 there were handled on the
Big Four line proper 1.5S3.379 loaded cars,
and there were carried during the year on
the system 6.002.517 passengers
In 1900 there were transferred over the
Belt road 1884, 43 cars Belt road engines
handled at the stockyards 62.344 cars, and
Tor private switches on its line AZ, 1913 cars.
John Dodds. chief clerk of the superin-
tendent of the Cleveland e Pittsburg diyi-
sion of the Pennsylvania Company has
been appointed assistant superintendent of
the Pennsylvania Company Voluntary Re-
lief Association.
In the year 1900 there were loaded and un-
loaded at the Big Four city freight depots
s6,279 cars; at the Indiana. Decatur & West
ern. 7.435; at the Cincinnati, Hamilton e.
Dayton, II, 100; at the Monon, 611S; at the
Lake Erie d. Western, n,SO2; at the Van
dalia, u,S1 cars.
The Cincinnati & Cleveland Railway
Company. which proposes to acquire a
line of road between those cities, and the
Shelby q New Washington Company Were
Incorporated at Columbus. o., yesterday.
Capital stock in each case Is given at
$4,000 but may be increased.
The Chicago Great Western is determined
to rid itself of the reputation of being a
rate disturber. which accusation, the COM
pany claims, is seldom deserved. To-day
the road placed itself before its competi-
tors not only backed up by the personal
statement of its officers, but by the sworn
affidavits of its traffic employees
Official announcement was made yester-
day by President FELTON,, of the Chicago
& Alton, that j. III. Barrett has been APP
pointed general superintendent, vice Willis
T. Gray, resigned. Mr.. Barrett has been
lately general superintendent of the Erie
Railway He has also been connected with
the operating departments of a number of
Eastern roads
Benjamin G. Lennox, for many years en-
pioyed in the office of various presidents
OF the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail-
way. died in the Palmyra (Wis) Sanitar-
ium last night, aged sixty-four years. Mr.
Lennox had been ailing for several years,
the result of being sandbagged in Chicago
He was one of the best-known railroad men
In the country.
1t was announced yesterday that the Gen.
trail Trust Company, of New York, will
finance the $35, 900, 900 per cent. bonds of the
Erie Railroad Company, which will be is
sued for the purchase of the Pennsylvania
Coal Company. The property of the Erie
Railroad will be back of this mortgage
which will be further secured. 1t is reported
by large amount of the stock AZ the New
York. Susquehanna &c Western Railroad
Company.
The official report of Charles Stilz, gen.
eTal ticket agent at the Union Station.
shows an increase in revenue from sales of
tickets of S51, 096. There was a considerable
increase in number of interchangeable mile
age books sold. the mileage detached on
which tickets were sold being about 80 per
cent. in excess of 1899. That there should
be any increase in revenue at the Union
Station is gratifying, as the business of
1899 far exceeded that OF any former year.