The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-10
Personal, Local and General Notes.


All expert machinists in the Erie shops at
Huntington, Ind, have received an in
crease in wages OF "a cents per day.
The Monon earned in November 1871, obs,
an increase over November last year of
$46,946. The Wabash earned in November
81, 639. 573.51, an increase of $207, 9S9.01.
The report of General Manager Bacon
of the Indiana Car Service Association,
shows that in November ii handled &C. OO5
cars, with an average detention of 152 days.
The Pennsylvania coal and coke ton
mage for the first eleven months of this
year aggregated % 100. 2S5 tons an increase
over the corresponding period last year of
1,124. 4S0 tons.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad has prepared
plans for the erection of a large locomotive
and car plant at Chain-Dam, near Easton,
Pa: The contemplated works will cost in
the neighborhood of s., 100000.
j. II. P. Hughart, of the Grand Rapids
& Indiana, is authority for the statement
that the company is not in any way inter-
ested in the proposed Ludington & Grand
Rapids road, as has frequently been re-
ported.
The Erie is testing on the Chicago divi-
sion an engine built for the Chicago, Mil
waukee st: Paul. Its weight on the
drivers is 1850 pounds, and the trucks
1900. The engine pulled ffty-six loaded
over the Chicago division with ease.
The Lackawanna has placed an order
for sixty large locomotives with the Amer
lean Locomotive Company, most of them
freight engines. Since Western men took
control of the road both the passenger and
freight service have increased very hand
somely.
]. C. Winans, general travelling passen-
ger agent for the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton, was in Fort Wayne on Satur-
day and selected rooms for his new Of
fees. Mr. Winans expects his headquar-
tiers will be changed from Piqua, o.. to
Fort Wayne.
Warren ]. Lynch. general passenger
h. Elrr~ loft for Naxx- orb
last night to attend meeting of the joint
passenger committee of the Vanderbilt
lines. c. F. DAILY, general passenger agent
of the Lake Erie Western, also left on
similar mission.
F. L. Campbell, heretofore trainmaster
and road foreman of engines of the Peoria
division of the Vandalia, has been ap-
pointed trainmaster OF the main line. o. E.
Raidy who has been trainmaster of the
main line for many years, taking his place
on the Peoria division.
}eRh IaTg the new % line
ing constructed by the Wheeling & Lake
Erie, but by syndicate friendly to the
Wabash interests. The new line will be
completed by Jan. 1, 1903.
Samuel Sweet general freight agent of
the Lake Erie & Western, says that not
withstanding the fact that shipments of
grain from points on their lines were
LOO cars fewer than in November last
year. the earnings of November this year
were the largest of any like month in the
roads history.
Passenger agents are figuring on the
largest excursion business following the
holidays to the South and the Pacific slope
that the railroads have ever enjoyed. They
base this belief on the unusual number of
inquiries at the city ticket Offices for liter
allure descriptive of winter resorts and
other information.
The scarcity of labor for railway con-
struction last spring brought a number
of foreigners to Indiana, among them
many Italians, who have been employed
most of the summer. but with the coming
of colder weather in northern Indiana they
are seeking more congenial quarters and
going south by hundreds.
Frank Wilson, who was chief clerk of
| the general passenger and freight agent of
/ the Finday, Fort Wayne a Western, who
/ was relieved when the Cincinnati Hamil-
\ has been called to Cincinnati 10 take a
! good position in the tariff and percentage
I department of the Cincinnati, Hamilton *
! Dayton.
! by the recent meeting of presidents of the
trunk lines, Central Traffic Association
/ lines and Western lines well, that the
conditions are very fair, and il is hoped
VIII still be better after the expiration OF
/ the present year. No new committees have
\ been appointed and no matters made sub
ject of reference.
The New Orleans Picayune publishes an
\ interview with Warren ]. Lynch. general
/ passenger agent OF the Big Four. Mr.
Lunch visits that city with the intention
Il of increasing the business of the Big Four
\ He was greatly pleased with the city and
| pronounces II capital place TO spend the
winter He will take his family there 10
reside through the winter.
The new trains of the Big Four and the
/ Lake Erie & Western running between
indianapolis and Fort Wayne. already
on "A very handsome paying basis, Great
\ ing new business and better serving the
] fp ia
/ run on these trains are said TO pay better
Il than those running between Chicago and
/ Cincinnati on the Big Four.
A IL. Smith. general superintendent OF
| the Lake Shore and the Lake Erie & West
! ern. boasts of the record the Lake Eris