The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-11
Personal, Local and General Notes.

The Southern Indiana earned in March
SS2S5, an increase over March, 1901, of
S1254S.
Beginning April 10 the Nashville. Chatta-
nOoga & St Louis will operate a new fast
train between Atlanta and Memphis.
1t is again reported that the anti-pass
agreement is lettering and that exchange
passes will soon be issued as formerly.
on April 10 the Queen e. Crescent will
take charge of its dining.car service and
employ white men as porters in place of
negroes.
One of the most luxurious offices in the
new union station at PjttSburg will be that
of James McCrea, first vice president of
the lines west.
The Wabash has issued a bulletin to the
effect that employees riding on passes are
not to use chair cars if they crowd out pay
ing passengers.
The issuing of 100000 of additional stock
by the Louisville q Nashville brings its
stock issue up to S60,0O0,0O0 the authorized
issue fixed in 1893.
Business men of Fowler are laboring
earnestly to induce the promoters of the
Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie road to To-
cate their shops at that point.
superintendent Storr. of the Lake Erie &
Western, has notified engineers running out
Of Indianapolis that if arrested for fast
running they can pay their own fines.
Contracts have been let by the Pennsyl-
vania for enlaTging and improving the al
ready extensive yards at Altoona. In the
A Wabash official on Wednesday received
cablegram from II. n. Garland, Western
passenger agent of the road. announcing
his safe arrival in London after a trip to
Cairo.
The Pfttsburg. Virginia & Charleston
Railway, operated under lease by the Penn
sylvania, will be extended TO Morgantown,
w. Va. Samuel Rea is president of the
company.
Charles Rudolph. district passenger agent
Of ba iIa & Il in ~ Ia
thinks everything indicates that all South
ern roads will soon be owned by the South
ern Railway and the Louisville & Nash
vile.
50, 391, OSS, an increase over March, 1901, of
$164. 654 Since July 1 the lines have earned
$50, 634.57S, an increase over the correspond
ing nine months ending March 81, 1901, of
s., 77l,6 clio.
The committee on service of the
American Railway Association will report
at the May meeting a recommendation to
substitute a per diem charge for the use
by one road of anotherS freight cars, in
stead of the present rate of six-tenths of a
cent per mile
The Pullman Company is building for
the Santa Fe thirty-three day coaches of
the same pattern as those built for the
Big -Four. The seating capacity will be
eighty persons and the cars will rest on
two sets of siX-wheeled trucks.
While the operating expenses of the Big
Four have increased faster than the gross
earnings. due TO putting back into the prop
erty all the earnings not necessary for divi-
dends, the road will go out of its fiscal year
with a surplus of at least $1,000
The committee appointed TO call on the
Rock Island officials to ascertain why the
road withdrew from the Western Passenger
Association received the answer that il
was done on legal advices." and there
need be no further effort made to bring it
back into the organization.
Elaborate preparations are being made at
Pittsburg to entertain the annual cOnven-
ton of Train DispatcherS Association of
America. to be held the third week in
June. Fully LOCO train dispatchers from
all parts of the United States, Canada and
Mexico will be in attendance.
With the taking effect of the summer time
table the Burlington will cut off another
two hours between Kansas City and Bill
ings, making the time ten hours faster than
two years ago between those points. and
the time between St Louis and Billings
Will be proportionately shortened
Receiver Malott has let a contract for
five combined cars and eleven coaches for
the main line. They Will be modern seventy
feet long, equipped for electric lighting and
with the new high speed brakes. and will
be delivered in October. The contract price
is in the neighborhood of $4,000
All important lines are asking for bids on
furniture cars. All the roads are short Of
equipment suitable for shipping furniture
carriages and agricultural implements. The
reason is that shippers desire TO take ad
vantage of the ma ximum weight allowed
and they cannot do this with the ordinary
box car.
on April l the Wabash discontinued the
use OF exchange tickets. The practice has
been, when passenger was going a long
distance. for each conductor TO take up the
ticket and give an exchange ticket the
| process being repeated "a often as the con-
] ductor changed. Now the passenger keeps