The Indianapolis journal., 1903-05-05

Personal, Local and General Notes.
The assessment Of the Big Four in Ohio
shows an increase of $27SO00 over that Of
last year.
Four, is in Chicago to-day. and will be in
Peoria tomorrow.
Eastern lines will put tourist rates on sale
June to the usual points covered In Maine,
Canada and popular Eastern resorts.
The net earnings of the Hooking Valley
road for March were $4,000, as compared
with $4,000 for the same month last year.
Track laying was commenced yesterday
on the Pittsburg, Carnegie & Western road.
This is the Wabash extension to Pittsburg.
week to attend the twenty-second annual
meeting of railway telegraph superintend-
ents.
The general offices of the Missouri Pacific
have been moved into a new twelve-story
building at Seventh and Market streets,
St. Louis.
Estimates from Philadelphia are that
the Pennsylvania will spend SIS, 10000 this
year in making improvements on its east
and west systems.
volney T. Malot, receiver Of the Vandalia,
and Z. r. Barlow. assistant to the receiver,
have been East for several days and are ex-
pected home to-day.
To better equip its first-class passenger
trains the Erie has contracted with the
Barney-Snith Car Company, Of Dayton, for
fifty passenger cars at cost of S442.675.
Business of the Panhandle is again so
congested at Indianapolis that the road is
refusing to receive from connections cars
except of perishable freights to any ex-
tent.
The official statement of the Lake Erie &
Western shows that in April 10,160 more
cars were handled on the system than in
April, 1902, and of this number $3.50 were
loaded.
The Lackawanna tourist bureau is in full
operation. There are booklets of informa-
ton of over $50 hotels, and prospective tour
lists may get full information from these
productions.
Officials Of the mechanical department
of the various Vanderbilt system lines win
meet at Buffalo to-day and William Gar
stang. superintendent OF motive power, left
last evening to attend.
In April there were handled on the Big
Four system 534,604 passengers, against
| 4Sl 322 in April, 1902. There was large in
| crease In travel on the 81 Louis, the Chi
| cago and Cleveland divisions.
William Garstang. superintendent of mo-
| tive power of the Big Four, has been noti-
| fed that the Schenectady locomotive works
| will be able to deliver their twelve Atlantic
| type of passenger engines in July
| The Northern Pacific will reduce the run
| ming time of its north coast limited train,
between ST. Paul and the Pacific coast an
other hour. The train will leave ST. Paul
at I0:15 a. m. instead of 9:15 a. m.
The large gain in net earnings reported
Il
| the economy which is now possible In
| handling the company's traffic as a result
| of its enlarged motive power capacity.
Employees of the Pennsylvania at Fort
| Wayne have raised a purse of sl60 for
| George Z. Stewart, unfortunate Penn
| sylyania train dispatcher who has been dis
| abled by rheumatism for over a year.
| Honors were about equal between the
| Pennsylvania and the Big Four in number
| of delegates carried to the convention which
| convenes in New Orleans to-day, each hav-
| ing two sleeping cars from this section.
| The report is revived that when the new
| schedules are put In effect the Pennsyl-
| vania special, the twenty-hour New York
| and Chicago flyer will be restored al
| though local officials are reticent on this
point.
| Lake Shore car No. 101 has been taken
| TO New York to be rebuilt at a cost OF $40,
coo. The original cost Of the car was SS5. 900
| IL is said IL will be used by w. X. Wander.
| bilt for his bridal tour on reaching this
country.
| The Northern Securities Company hai
| issued a statement OF its income account
from November 13. 1901. to December 81
| 1902 showing dividends received on stock.
| owned TO be $l5364. .261. and a surplus, aftel
payment Of expenses. dividends, interest