The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-03

evident that the transfers for 1901 Will ex-
coed 100000 cars. Belt road engines
handled at the stockyards in September
5,09S cars. and for private switches on its
line $40 cars.
Train L on the Baltimore & Ohio South
western Friday was hauled from
ST. Louis 20 Washington. Ind. in three
hours and forty minutes. a notwithstanding
run. Between Flora and Vincennes the
ffty-four miles was covered in ffty-five
minutes with one showdown.
OF the freight traffic handled by the
Chesapeake x Ohio in the year ending
June 80, 1901, Sc per cent. was coal originat-
ing on its own line. 81 per cent. coke. 3.5i
per cent. ores, and 4.12 per cent. stone In
other words, 60 Per cent. Of its entire
freight traffic was of a character winch
permits OF the heaviest train-loaGing.
II. l. Miller. general manager of the Van
dalla line. and several of his subordinate
oIlclals Yesterday completed a TWO days
inspection trip over the Eel River road.
II Is predicted that six months from now
1ast Xes1buled trains will be running over
the Nandalia lines between St. Louis and
Detroit, and a large freight business nam
died.
The Cincinnati. Georgetown & Ports
mouth Railway, which has heretofore been
operated by Cincinnati owners. has passed
into the hands of ComstOck Brothers.; OF
Detroit. 1t Will be changed TO ~tandard
gauge and operated Dy electricity. The road
now ends at Georgetown, a distance OF Ior-
ty-fve miles from Cincinnati. II will be
wv u INlDltN a I OlIG dAh ~ ~
portsmouth, Iron and other points.
Harry Jeffrey. who has been promoted to
superintendent of the blacksmith shops OF
the American locomotive works, com
menced at the anvil in the shops OF the
Ohio < Mississippi in 1851. Later he was
with the Cincinnati, Hamilton Il Dayton.
At the outbreak of the civil war he TOOK
service with the government at Chatta-
nooga, in 1866 returning to service on the
Evansville d Terre Haute; since 1880 ne
has been with the Cincinnati Southern.
The pamphlet report OF the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad Company for the hscal
year ended June 80, shows total earnings
of $751; or, 206, an increase of s279,S2S over the
preceding year. The total operating eX-
penses were SIS 2S, 0S3, a decrease OF $S'u,5'5
from the last year. The total net earnings
from all sources were $40. 1913. sci. being an in
crease of $1e4.S44. The total charges were
$6,2l2. I49, an increase of $43,96I. After De
Quoting the dividends there renamed a
surplus of 81. $50, 112. which was an increase
or $IS,S1 over the year before.
An important meeting of the Central Pas
senger Association was held yesterday at
the Pan-American Exposition. All the
roads in the association were represented.
The most important decisions were those
relating to the Pan-American Exposition.
Beginning with the 5th OF OCTOBER, the
various Buffalo-Chicago lines will sell
round trip tickets, good for six days, for
So. 10 between Chicago and Buffalo: THESE
tickets will be on sale Tuesday, THURSDAY
and Saturday for the rest of the month OF
October. From Cincinnati the rate will be
So Is for the round trip.
T.. G. Hawkins, general manager of the
White Pass d Yukon road. has rendered
his resignation to take effect at the earliest
convenience of those concerned. Mr..
Hawkins demonstrated his ability 10 per
form almost insurmontable feats of rail-
road construction. Several prominent en-
gineers of this country and of Canada re-
ported adversely to the practicabinty OF
building a railroad over White Pass. Mr..
Hawkins declared the plan feasible, and
4 l. raa,.It AE tho rnnaN U-nnHOrfv1
feats Of engineering in the world. 1t is
understood that A. b. Newell, formerly SUI
perintendent of the western division OF the
Lake Shore road, will succeed Mr.. Haw-
kins on the White Pass & Yukon.