The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-26

Pacific hospital at Washington. Mo. and
also a hospital at Kansas CITY and was
consulting surgeon for the Memphis road
until II was acquired by the 81. Louis G
San Francisco.
The change in the presidency Of the IS
& o. s. w. from Bacon 10 LOree was due
TO the fact that the Baltimore * Ohio Rail-
road Company has adopted the policy 0t
having its president also the president Or
all its constituent companies. president
LOree says the moving Of the general Of
fees from Cincinnati to Baltimore is not
contemplated.
Arrangements are making for a general
conference of Western railroad presidents,
to be held I'm New York Dec. 4. President
f. 7. Jeffrey. OF the Denver x Rio Grande,
called the presidents together a. chairman
of the previous conference held in New
York. Since the last meeting of this kind
was held there has been a radical change
and a great concentration OF interests.
r. A. Gould. superintendent Of the East
ern division of the Wabash. in announcing
the merits and dement's on the Wabash Tor
the month of October, gives from five 10
thirty marks to four conductors, four
brakemen, one switchman, two agents, one
section foreman. six engineers. three fire
men and two hostlers. y conductor, two
brakemen and two switchmen were dis
missed.
Charles NJ. Hayes returns TO the service
Of the Grand Trunk, which he left about
q year ago TO accept the presidency of the
Southern Pacific. He became general man
aver VI the hIdlu llullk III lN'u' AAtlNAliS Nv
position for five years. During that time
he introduced many reforms and brought
the roads methods up to modern ideas,
and his return will enable him to complete
the work.
Trinity Springs. which belongs to the
heirs of the late Ben Dunn. at Blooming
ton, has not yet been sold. The option eN-
pires on the 9Th of January. Parties VINO
hold the option are representatives, OF Mr..
Walsh, president of the Southern Indiana
road. II the sale is made, as undoubtedly
il will be. the Walsh people propose to
erect a 100000 hotel at that point, and the
projected extension of the Southern In
diana would pass the place.
A dispatch to the Journal from Wabash
says the handsome $4,000 depot and dlVl-
sion Headquarters building of the Big -Four
at that point is nearing completion. The
Buckeye Church Company, or sidney, u,
has the contract. and now has the struc-
cut stone. is three stories in height and
will be cOmmodiOus enough to answer
all the local requirements for years. 1t viii
be thrown open about Jan. J.
Panhandle preferred stock continues to
move upward. The company shows for 1900
a surplus of 4 per cent. on the preferred
and 2 per cent. on its common stock. This
year in ten months it has gained a net
earning equivalent to 2 per cent. on the
common stock. and will show undoubtedly
for the present year not less than . per
cent. on the preferred and 3 per cent. on the
common. The preferred stock is entitled
to 4 per cent. before the common receives
-
anything.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, the mechanical
genius Of that family, has invented two
new cars which are revolutionary in their
tendency. one of them is a tank car for
grain carriers, which is similar to the car
now being used for transporting oil; the
essential difference is that the vanderbilt
grain car will be easier to unload than
the oil car. Another car is a big steel coal
hopper which has the advantage OF being
so constructed that Ii is stronger and
49, +Io, tho nroganf CfVla of car
1t Is evident that the West Shore will be-
come of greater individual consequence. It's
tracks parallel those Of the New York Cen
trail and the Nickel-piate parallel those lt
separate. The tendency Under the COM
munity of interests policy is to close
management Of roads rather than to top
heavy management through a combination
Of Offices. and il need not be surprising,
says an Eastern paper. If the West Shore is
placed under a separate management at the
beginning of the new year.
A dispatch to the Journal from FIT:
Wayne says President NJ. d. Woodford, of
the c., II. * D., and a party or other Of
fcials. arrived there yesterday morning TO
inspect their roads new possession, the
Findlay, FIT. Wayne d Western. They
have arranged with the Wabash road TO
take care of it's terminal business at that
point instead of the Pennsylvania road, the
transfer to axe place in sixty days. Mr..
Woodford said the Findlay would be put
In standard condition and through trains
will be run between Cincinnati n TT.
Wayne.
Traffic Manager Stubbs. of the Hartman
lines. has promulgated an order abOlishing
through rates heretofore in effect to points
beyond it's line on the st. Joseph ~ Grand
Island Railroad. This will cut of Missouri
river points south of Omaha from a great
deal of business that has heretofore gone
that way from Nebraska points. as 1t will
have the effect of removing this territory
from competition by those points. AT a re-
cent election two of the roads directors
representing the Hartman interests were
dropped. and this is thought to be an eX-
nlanation of the order.