The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-04

illustrated in the fact that its net earnings
in 1897 were but s6.061.3l3.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Mag
azine for August Is among the best num-
bers yet issued. While answering as an
advertising medium, il contains much IN
teresting reading matter.
y. Whalen. one of the oldest passenger
conductors on the Baltimore & Ohio South
western, died on Saturday morning at
Loveland, o., as the result Of a severe
case of nervous prostration.
The impression in railroad circles is that
the deal by which the Pennsylvania will
secure control of the Columbus, Sandusky
& Hooking road will be contaminated, the
two connecting at Carrothers, Q.
Saxby's Travellers Magazine for August
contains much interesting reading matter,
among other things a picture Of d. w.
Cooke, general passenger agent of the Erie,
and sketch Of his railroad career
Manager Michigan, of the Grand Trunk;
says that before December the Grand
Trunk Will have I15 miles Of double track,
and when the work is completed, can in
crease the tonnage per train 80 per cent.
The Erie is arranging to put on another
fast train between New York and Chicago
to keep pace with its competitors. The
Erie and Hooking Valley will put on another
fast train between Columbus and Chicago.
1t is stated that p per cent. of the pre-
ferred and 921a per cent. of the common
stock of the Monon has been deposited un-
der the proposed plan of exchange for Sc
curities of the Louisville & Nashville and
the Southern Railway.
The Jersey Central is receiving bids for
the construction of a steel structure over
Newark bay. 1t is proposed to build the
bridge without interruption of traffic. Sew
| en- masonry piers will be required, $50 feet
Of pile fender and fourteen steel cribs.
David l. Forsyth has been appointed as
/ sistant superintendent Of the Wabash, TO
/ have supervision of car distribution, per
/ diem settlements and car records. Mr.
i -, 10 oh r1f
bash.
In Eastern financial circles an impress
/ sion prevails that stock OF the Hooking
/ Valley road is being purchased for the
Gould people, it being conceded that the
/ line would be of more value to this inter
/ est than it could possibly be as an indie
pendent line
! The seashore excursion. Aug. Z. over the
/ Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton and the
! Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, promises
TO be large one. District PASSENGER
| Agent AlgeO has already sold every berth
in three sleeping cars and expects to fill
at least one more.
| Five employees of the West Shore road
| were arrested on Friday charged with
larcency and burglary. Two pleaded guilty;
| the others demanded trial The company
| has been missing freight for some time
and put the detectives on the case. In the
| house of one of the clerks was found a
| wagon load of stolen property.
J. d. Besler, for forty-six years in the
service Of the Chicago, Burlington &
| Quincy. has been retired from the position
OF general superintendent and has been
| given an advisory position on the staff of
Howard Elliott, vice president of the COM
pany. +. G. Rice succeeds Mr.. Besler as
general superintendent.
The Wabash's effort TO get into Pitts
burg has been a fortunate thing for that
city, forcing the Pennsylvania to spend
millions in improvements TO meet the grow
ing business of the city. 1t is estimated
that $35,000OO0 will be expended as result
OF the Wabash going into PlttSbuTg, SlO,-
100000 having ben expended at Pittsburg
and its immediate vicinity already.
E. II. Talbot. who is well-known in rail-
road and journalistic circles as the founder
and for many years editor and proprietor
of the Railway Age, one of the most in
fiuential and successful class publications
of recent years, has permanently located
in Indianapolis as president and manager
of the Oral Advertising Corporation with
branch offices in all the important cities.
So many statements have been published
recently to the effect that John A Hanley
formerly traffic manager of the Kansas
City Southern, was to take a similar po
sition with title OF vice president with the
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad
that Arthur E. Stillweil. president of the
latter system. has cabled w w. Sylvester
vice president of the Orient line. from
London, emphatically denying the report.
The order of L. f. Loree. president of the
Baltimore & Ohio, that no more womer
! is fast thinning out the ranks. Among the
hundreds of clerks al the general offices
but one woman is left few women arr
still filling positions at Camden station
and o. p McCarty, general passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwest
ern at Cincinnati. has a woman clerl
forty-five years old who has been there TO
many years and will be retained for thu
present.
The Chicago & Northwestern recent,
published a valuable little volume of mucl
historical interest, entitled The Indian
and the Northwest" 1t is not often tina
railroad advertising reaches that poin
where ii becomes literature of the frs
class, much less literature of marked his
toricaI value, but the present little volum
has reached that standard in a marke
degree. The volume is being placed a
present in the public libraries Throughout
the country, and librarians are profuse Il
their praise of II. II is profusely illustrate
and includes comprehensive and renabl
maps that are much appreciated by stud
ents of the history of tne American India
and the great Northwest.
The complete itinerary of the thirteenth
annual convention of the Travelling Pas
senger Agents Association at Montreal
Sept. 15 has been issued Quite numbe
! will go from indianapolis. Last year tn
| convention was held at Los Angeles, an
not many attended, owing to the grea
! ! distance The special train carrying tn
. | delegates will leave Chicago on Friday
| Sept II, at l p. m, going via the Gran
, | Trunk to Muskoka wharf. Here the part
7 will take a boat for a days trip about tn
, ! lakes arriving at Detroit the evenin
: of the same day and from there procee
! | to Kingston, thence to Montreal via tn
+ ! Richelieu & Ontario boat line. They wi
, | arrive at the Hotel Windsor, Montrea
. | on the following day. Business will b
! ! transacted in the morning. The principe
! tonic for discussion is Benefits derive
: from the convention by the travelin
passenger agent and the company he rel
:, | resents" on Monday afternoon carrias
; ride will be taken through the city an
on the evening of that day grand ba
T will De held at the hotel. On Tuesda
morning, Sept. Is, a business meeting Wi
be held The party will leave by speci;
train on Wednesday, Sept. II, for Ottaw
and Quebec. The following day trip wi
= be made by boat down the st. LawrenC
river They will return to Chicago on III
s morning of Sept %