The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-12
Personal, Local and General Notes.

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cars will go a great way to cure this
species of railway mismanagement
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The. new cars of the Panhandle. 100000
pounds capacity, are being put into service.
The car itself weighs "A, 100 pounds.
c. n. Gilmore, who has been supern-
tendent of the Des Moines & Fort Dodge.
has been elected president of the company.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers has once more politely declined to
amalgamate with the American Federation
of Labor.
]. @. Van Wrinkle is arranging his at
fairs to spend two weeks at West Baden.
his health being somewhat impaired by
overwork.
The Lake Erie Western will run an
excursion TO Indianapolis from points on
its lines account of the German Luther
an orphans festival.
The Big Four yesterday let contracts for
new roundhouses at Springfield, Delaware
and Cincinnati and for additional shops at
Delaware and Cincinnati.
The air-brake instruction car of the Penn
sylvania lines West has been sent TO Fort
Wayne, where ii will remain for some time
giving instructions TO employees.
n. j. O'Brien, superintendent of the
Greensboro division of the Southern Rail
ton the Long Island Railroad
Under it's new time schedule the Chicago
& Northwestern has five through trains TO
Omaha from Chicago daily. The new train
will be known as the Colorado Special.
F. N Hicks son Of Travelling Passenger
Agent Hicks, of the Lake Erie & Western
has been appointed city passenger agent of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton and the
Monon at indianapolis.
The c.. r. & NJ. Railroad Company will
Twenty new passenger coaches also have
been purchased and will be used for ex-
cursion traffic this summer.
Papers have been signed. sealed and de-
livered extending the lease of the Cincin-
natl Southern road to the Cincinnati, New
Orleans & Texas Pacific for sixty years
from Oct. II, 1906 when the present lease
expires.
William P. Sweeney, chief train dis
patcher of the Nashville. Chattanooga &
St. Louis. is dead. He had been connected
with the road thirty-hve years and held
his position longer than any dispatcher in
the United States.
In the reorganization of the passenger
department of the Baltimore & Ohio Cen
eral Passenger Agent Austin, of Chicago. is
given jurisdiction over the newly acquired
lines. which add COO miles of additional
road west of the Ohio river.
The boiler makers and helpers at Barnes
vile. on the Great Northern. who re-
ceived orders from union officials 10 strike
in sympathy with the st. Paul men, refuse
to obey the order of the union officials
saying they are well satisfied with present
conditions.
The Book of the Royal Blue" for June
published by the passenger department of
the Baltimore & Ohio, contains a number
of the rebellion, among other things giving
the reasons why Mcclellan failed as a
leader of the Union army
The fact that the twenty-hour train to
be put on by the PENNSYLVANIA and Van
derbilt lines will make no stops between
New York and Chicago except to change
engines or take water is a new feature.
Both lines have most of their space re-
served for the first few days.
George A Cullen. Western general passen-
ger agent of the Lackawanna, who was in
the city on Tuesday with other Lacka-
wanna officials, denies the report that the
between New York and Chicago in connec-
ton with its Western outlet.
The Indiana. Decatur & Western has
opened stations on its extension at Mount
Auburn and appointed F. S. Harrington
agent, and at ROby and appointed T. B.
Dawson agent. Superintendent Graves is
on the line arranging to appoint
agents at the four other stations.
President FELTON,. of the Chicago & Alton.
says the road early in 1903 will be so near
perfect in its condition that there will be
a cessation of heavy charges for improve
mehts, and the stockholders will get LARGE
returns. He considers it the best road of
like mileage west of Buffalo and Pitts
burg.
Vice Presidents McCrea and Wood. of the
Pennsylvania, who accompanied Receiver
Malott, Assistant Receiver Darlow and
General Manager Miller on their two days'
inspection of the Nandalia. are expected at
headquarters this morning. The party
travelled in three private cars, and has been
over the entire system, including the To-
ledo extension.
On June q the Pennsylvania will receive
bids for the erection of a new shop building
at Fort Wayne, where the company s
largest shops in the West are located. The
building will be COO feet long by 50 wide.
constructed of brick. resting on a stone
foundation, and will be eighty feet high al
its highest elevation TO admit of the use of
large cranes to carry heavy machinery.
Whatever apprehension fingered in the
minds of the master car builders and mas
ter mechanics of the two national organi-
cations with respect to transportation ia
Saratoga for their annual conventions ow-
ing to the anti-paSS agreement has been
dissipated by the trunk lines granting the
courtesy OF former years TO actual railroad
men. Others viii be carried at rate and
one-third for the round trip
An official of the Pennsylvania saws that
indications are that more steel rails will be
required next year than has been the case
this year, as everything is sold up for 100.
and orders are booked for some months OF
1905, and added that some roads are sc
anxious for rails that they would pay 8
10 S. per ton extra for deliveries the present
year. 1t is estimated that 25 per cent. Of
next year 5 output has already been booked
The gross earnings of the Panhandle FOL
1896 were Sl6,73S,Sl2; in 1901. S24 30. go; net
earnings in 1896. 81 342 4s6; in 1901, S7.0l5. SOS
The increase in net earnings available for
interest and dividends was sufficient &c
pay per cent. on both classes of stock
! The indicated surplus for the system las
year was 50. 10000 over all charges. which
could pay per cent. on both classes 81
stock. and stockholders are clamoring for
increased dividends.
The Chicago & Northwestern has notified
the authorities OF Chicago that IL is anxious
10 begin the elevation of its tracks The
Pennsylvania Company. whose Panhandle
line parallels its tracks and is covered b,
the same ordinance. has not agreed to ele.