The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-14

Personal, Local and General Notes.
Superintendent Gleason, of the Detroit
Southern. has removed. his headquarters
from Jackson to Springfield. o..
The Peoria & Eastern earned in the first
week OF July S47 .349.5S. an increase over the
corresponding week of 1900 of $9,1S7.67.
The Big -Four now has in actual service
on its system eight fun modern dining cars,
two buffet cars and sixteen parlor cars.
The Fort Wayne & Jackson has declared
a semi-annual dividend of pa per cent. on
its preferred stock. payable September 2.
The Big Four proper earned in the first
week of August $3.50, 100. "a. an increase over
the corresponding week of 1900 of $7,S91.13.
]. A. Barnard. general manager of the
Peoria & Eastern. leaves to-day for the
Pacific coast. to be absent a month. His
wife accompanies him.
General Manager Potter. of the Balti-
more * Ohio, has been in Pfttsburg two or
three days with his family. In October he
will remove his family 10 Baltimore.
The people of Doylestown. o., have de-
cided to build three miles OF railroad and
secure a connection with the Erie lines
and that road will be privileged to oper-
ate 1t.
The Hooking Valley road earned in the
first week of July S92. 9l6. an increase over
the corresponding week of last year of
s.. i94. Since July / it's earnings have in
creased $52.52l.
Union Station 4.793 passenger trains. hand
ling n, 152 cars. an increase in number of
trains over uly 1900, OF 39S, in number or
passenger cars handled, 1,221.
One of the railways running into Ann
Arbor has purchased 400 acres of land near
Frankfort. lying between Lake Michigan
and Crystal lake, as a site for a great
~Chautauqua ASSEMBLY ground.
The work of double-tracking the western
division of the Grand Trunk between Port
Huron and Chicago is being pushed, and
General Manager Reeve states that l2O OF
the 335 miles will be completed this year.
In tho last few daNc the Peoria * Ea Of.
ern has received 1850 tons of new steel
rail, which IS now being placed in the
tracks. Next month 1.50O tons additional
will be delivered and placed In the track
at once.
The National Hay Association is after the
railroads in earnest. Complaint has been
filed with the Interstate-commerce Com
mission against thirty leading roads. the
charge being unfair discrimination i'm rates
on hay and straw.
At several of the shops on the Chicago.
Burlington * Quincy road the piece-work
system has been inaugurated. and ii is said
the employees are well pleased with the re-
suits and claim that they make more
money than before.
The Lake Shore road at the present time
has plenty OF cars, but il short of motive
power, which has resulted in a congestion
of business. At the Ashtabula yards on
on sidetracks for lack of power to for
ward them.
\ new coach full OF pictures OF Santa Fe
scenery ana HEhteu Win eieStTlcll1 gen
Grated by the axle is being exhibited by
the Santa Fe at points on its line. Within a
few days the ear and its contents are 10 be
sent TO Buffalo 10 be placed in the Santa
Fe's exhibit at the exposition.
Among the improvements made on the
pfttSburg, Fort Wayne < Chicago the last
year was the ballasting of lyl miles with
stone. and the length OF side tracks was
increased sixty-two miles: seventy miles OF
second main track has been graded. rails
laid and made ready for service.
Pennsylvania control or the Norfolk &
Western and adopting its methods has
handsomely increased the revenue OF the
road. and its net earnings for the year end
ing June 80 were S5.339,9o2, against S5,bS9. 200
i'm the preceding year, and the surplus has
increased from $3.50. go 10 $4,000. 20.
Investigation OF the charges that three of
the lines in the Central Traffic territory
have violated the anti-commission agree
ment develops the fact that the roads have
not been paying commissions 10 the ticket
and this, II is feared, will lead TO trouble.
The Big -Four il TO enlarge and recon
struct its Belt road yards OF the Chicago
division. The capacity or the present yard
Is 1000 ears When reconstructed and en-
larged " VIII have a capacity for LOCO ears.
and 80 s~ystemati1ed will be the tracks
~ 10 enable the handling Of trains ex-
peditiously.
The nrst train FOR four years was run on
the Denver & Rio Grande. and hereafter
daily trains Will be operated. This branch
runs through u mining region OF Colorado
and was abandoned I'm 1897 on account OF
the heavy cost OF renewing IL after the
spring Hood.
Thc PENNSYLVANIA Company q few weeks
aro purchased at Niles. Mich. the plant