The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-17
of the increase being in passenger earn

of the increase being in passenger earn
ings.
Walter G. Coleman. who has just re-
signed auditor of the Philippine archi-
pelago on account Of i'll health. has been
appointed general travelling passenger
agent of the Seaboard Airline. with head
quarters in Washington.
II. c. Holabird. general agent of the pas
senger department Of the Erie lines, was
in the city yesterday. He says the Erie
passenger earnings for the last fiscal year
of the company exceeded 100000. operat-
ing but 1850 miles of road.
The staff and associates of John f. Mil
Ter, who retired on Jan. as general super
fntendent of the Pennsylvania Southwest
ern system, rendered him a dinner at CO.
lumbus. Ohio. Tuesday night. Covers
were laid for forty-five persons.
DIR. c. b. Stemen. surgeon of the Penn
sylvania lines, located at Fort Wayne, has
been connected with the road in that
capacity for twenty-five years, and during
that time has attended fully 10000 sick and
injured men employed by that company.
Instructions were given on Monday TO
the head of the car department of the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne q Chicago at Fort
Wayne to build one hundred gondola cars,
100000 pounds capacity. These shops nave
work on hand 10 keep them busy all win
ter
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy d.
rectors have declared a quarterly dividend
or IL per cent, payable TO stockholders
or record Feb T. Ii was also voted TO issue
10 per cent. of new stock at par TO stock
holders of record Feb. Z for construction
and equipment.
single locomotive recently hauled a
passenger train of sixteen cars, nine or
which were sleeping and parlor cars, from
New York to Albany, 143 miles, in three
hours and fifteen minutes, which is forty
| four miles per hour. The train weighed
| 1,S32, 600 pounds and was 1,212 feet in length.
Warren ]. Lynch, general passenger
agent OF the Big Four lines, was In the
| city yesterday and returned to Cincinnati
| on the Florida special, which made Its
| initial trip over the Big Four between Chi
cago and Cincinnati yesterday, carrying a
| good trainload of passengers for Florida
| points.
The Santa Fe has placed a representative
| at Atlanta, Garrett A. Dobbin, with title of
| Southern freight and passenger agent.
| Ernest G.. Woodward travelling passenger
| agent of the Santa Fe who was located
at Atlanta. takes a similar position with
| the Nashville, Chattanooga ST. Louis at
4 st. Louis.
| A Union railroad depot at Springfield O.,
| is likely to be built. 1t is said the improve
ment will be made exclusively by the Big
-Four, and the Panhandle will use it, paying
| rental 1t is understood that the Pennsyl-
vania trains will pass through Springfield,
| using the Ohio Southern tracks as far as
Charleston, which will also it's trains
/ into the new station.
AT the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers OF the Indiana, Illinois q Iowa Railway
| Company held in Chicago yesterday the
present incumbents were reelected to the
board of directors. The annual report of
/ the board of directors was submitted and
| shows net earnings of $S59904 for the year
ending June go 1900, a balance of s453, GA
| and a net gain in surplus of s73,54S.
| Some very fine passenger equipment
| manufactured at the Pullman works is
passing through here for the Plant sys-
| tenn. They are full vestibules and will be
| used on the Southern railway between
| Jacksonville and Cincinnati and Jackson
vile and Washington. In addition - me
coaches there are several large postal
/ cars, combination, express and baggage
cars, all mounted on modern sx-wheel
| trucks and in every respect as modern
| and complete as any yet turned out at the
/ Pullman works.
| e. st. John, who yesterday retired as
/ vice president and general manager of
| the Seaboard Airline railway, still de-
| clines to indicate his future movements.
| Mr.. st. John is one of the best-known
| railway men in the United States. He be-
gan railroad work when eighteen years
| of age, in Toledo In 1863 he went into the
| general ticket department of what Is now
| the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific In
| 1864 he became chief clerk, thence working
his way steadily up to the traffic depart
! ments until i'm 1877 he made general
| manager, a position which he held for
seventeen years and left on Dec. 81, 1894
| to become vice president and general man
| ager of the Seaboard Airline.