The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-07-11


in bad shape"
Personal, Local and General Notes.
During June l4s. 272 loaded cars were
moved over the middle division or the
Pennsylvania.
Harry Miller, manager OF the Vandalia.
was in the city yesterday, returning to
st. Louis last night.
In June the Indiana Car-service Bureau
handled 2S.97f cars, with an average de-
lay OF but 1.56 days.
Work on the New Haven and utter cut
off, building for the Wabash, is delayed
seriously through a lack of men and teams.
ID. G.. Edwards, passenger traffic man
ager OF the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Day
ton, has gone to New York to be absent
several days.
John Wise. a veteran passenger conduc-
tor on the Vandalia. is taking his annual
vacation, and his train is being run by eX-
ira Conductor James Pagan.
The directors of the Cleveland. Cincinnati.
Chicago & St. Louis Railroad have de-
clared a semi-annual dividend of ? per cent.
on its common stock, an increase OF y per
cent.
ids q Indiana located at Fort Wayne, In
Guiding superintendent Hunter and stan.
will occupy their new and commodious
quarters.
On July Is e E. Kirby will become trav-
cling passenger agent CT the Seaboard Air
line. H.. +. Krouse succeeds Mr.. Kirby
as passenger and ticket agent or the road
at Pittsburg.
Jerome A. Fillmore, who has resigned as
manager of the Pacific system OF the
Southern Pacific, has been at the head of
the operating department of those lines
nineteen years.
hauled from Pittsburg 10 Chicago In ten
hours and fifty minutes, excelling all rec
ords made by a passenger train between
the points named.
III. DDotRa Il, fho Ga0a1 x0or
ending june 80, earned $32. 1O5. 900. an in
crease over the previous year of S2,6S3,65S,
the largest earnings OF n year In the
company's history.
Adams township. Miami county. has voted
a subsidy of 81 900 TO the Cincinnati, Rich
mond & Muncie. The road will run west
from Peru. Ind, through Adams and Beth
lehem townships, crossing into Fulton eoun-
~ near Fulton.
A Buffalo paper says ticket scalpers' Of
fees are springing up on Exchange street
as rapidly as carpenters can build them.
ing business before the roofs of their Of
fees are in place.
agent of the Big Four lines, and c. F.
Daily. general passenger agent of the Lake
Erie & Western, are in Cambridge Springs.
Pa, attending a meeting Of the Central
Passenger Association.
President McDoel, of the Monon. has
contracted for eight new locomotives, two
10 be Of the large Chautauqua type of pas
senger engine, and they will be placed on
the Indianapolis division TO run between
indianapolis and Chicago.
A large force is grading for a second
track on the Indianapolis division of the
Panhandle. Nine miles will be graded.
When this is completed and the track laid
the Panhandle Tor twenty-five and one-half
miles west from Columbus will be double
track.
Commencing with Friday Of this week
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will
have a SneciaI SlaeDinO car from CinPin-
natl for Mackinac, returning on Monday.
Train 81. Of the c., Fl. q l., from Indian
apolis connects with train hauling the
special car.
Aug. 10 has been fixed Upon for the shop
mems field day of the Pennsylvania lines
west at Fort Wayne. Employees at shops
in Columbus, Indianapolis, Wellsville,
Grand Rapids. Logansport, Allegheny,
Dennison and Crestline have been invited to
participate.
The Continental Company has been in
corporated in Iowa. which proposes to build
and operate a road from Lake of the
Woods, Canada, TO the Gulf OF Mexico. TIL
object of the line. il is stated, is TO divert
export grain TO the Southern seaboard and
cotton north for export TO the Orient.
II is understood that when The Balti-
more & Ohio absorbs the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern arrangements will be
made by which the trains of the II. & O..
=. w. will enter Louisville via Jefferson
Vile instead Of New Albany, using the
Big -Four bridge. thus shortening its line
to LOUISVILLE several miles.
An official OF the Santa Fe states that
more immigrants have located in the last
ten months on their lines than during the
ten years previous. Last year the passen-
ger department sent a young mar among
the Oklahoma farmers who was a stem
ographer and typewriter. and he suggested
to the farmers that they write their friends,
describing their prosperity.
r. p. Sergeant. grand master OF the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, and
DEPUTY Chief Younger, of the Locomotive
Engineers brotherhood. are in Denver. act
ing as arbitrators where a question of
rights has been in dispute for some months
as to how many Santa Fe and how many
Colorado engineers and fremen should be
employed on a piece Of joint track between
Denver and Pueblo.
AS soon as offices in the johnson building
can be furnished and fitted Muncie will be-
come headquarters of the Chicago, Indiana
& Eastern Railroad. The headquarters will
be in charge of w s. Whitney, general
freight and passenger agent OF the road.
Under Mr.. Whitney's supervision the Of
fees are being removed from Matthews.
Ind. Mr.. Whitney expects TO be installed
in his new headquarters by the end OF this
week.
Following is a staement of the earnings
and expenses of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
western. for the month of June. 1901. ap-
proximated: Gross earnings. $f.03S.036; in
crease over 1890, S23S.l3o. Expenses. 2.51S.532;
decrease. So. Isl. Net earnings. 81, i5f.504: in
crease. $290.514. For twelve months: Gross
earnings. S4T.i243S9; increase. S.Sfl, 23l. Ex-
penses. $3l. los. 295; increase. S.2S0.079. Net
earnings. Sl6.0l6. 04; increase. S1.O61.1 52.
4 contract has been fled for record in
Baltimore between the Baldwin locomotive
works and the Western Maryland Railroad
Company by which the former loans 10
the railroad company ten freight locomo-
tives. TO cost $4,000. and the railroad binds
itself to pay $3.S23.75 monthly TO the works
as rental for the locomotives for three
wears after May 10. 1901, at the end Of
which time. If the terms of the contract
Rave been complied with. the railroad COM
pany has the privilege of purchasing the
The Wabash Railroad Is making progress
IN the construction OF the link which is 10
place Fort Wayne. Huntington and Wa
bash on the main line Of the system be-
tween Detroit and St. Louis. The abut-
ments for the i~00-foot, two-span bridge over
the Maumee at New Haven. seven miles
east OF Fort Wayne, are about completed
and men and teams are AT work on the
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