The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-06

cent. of this number go ont of use each
year-more than the total output of the
| American Car and Foundry Company in
prosperous times, consequently the infer
| ence is that when the railroads begin to
| buy cars ii will be on considerable scale.
| Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Lake Erie & Western handled in
| January $3.50 loaded cars.
e N Pomeroy, Pacific coast agent of
the Pennsylvania, is in Philadelphia.
The $4,000 union station erected by the
Big Four and Pere Marquette roads at Ben
ton Harbor has been opened for traffic.
Directors of the Pere Marquette have de-
| clared the regular semi-annual dividend of
2 per cent. on the preferred stock, payable
| Feb. 10.
| egraphers will hold it's annual convention
| in this city, commencing June 10 and con-
| tinuing three days.
The Rock Island announces an immigrant
| rate of so from Chicago to oklahoma and
Indian Territory points, effective from
| March 1 to March Is.
| The January pay roll of the Big Four for
its Cleveland indianapolis division exceeded
| SAL 600. The weather was so severe during
| last month that there was much extra
| train service.
The transmssouri railroads have entered
into an agreement on passenger tickets and
| a passenger rate war has been averted.
| The tranSmssour bureau will be moved
| from Omaha to Chicago.
! c.. Z. Styles assistant general passenger
| agent of the Missouri Pacific has gone TO
| San Antonio, Tex, for the benefit of his
health. He has been confined to his room
for six weeks with a low-grade fever.
II. N. Allen, general manager of the Chi
| cago, Cincinnati q Louisville, who recently
| rendered his resignation, it is understood is
| to take a position on the Chicago & Rock
Island, a road on which he was formerly
an official.
1t is stated that the hedouarters of ]. w.
Donnell. who has been district passenger
agent for the Chicago & Alton at Buffalo
since 1901, will on March be moved to De-
troit. and the Buffalo office will probably be
| abandoned.
Warren ]. Lynch, general passenger agent
| of the Big Four, now in Europe, is COM
bning business with pleasure He believes
| the Big Four is one of the best lines to the
| st. Louis exposition and wishes people who
live abroad to know 1t.
Ralph .Vandyke. representing the Den
yer & Rio Grande, was in the city yester-
| day. He states that the road is doing a
| good business for winter months and the
/ outlook for a good summer and fall traffic
| is unusually promising.
w. d. Cornell, travelling passenger agent
| of the Burlington, has gone to Colorado
| Springs for the benefit of his health. z. S.
| Eustis, general passenger agent of the same
road. is at present at Colorado Springs for
| the benefit of his health.
The Leslie Carter troupe was carried over
the Lake Erie & Western yesterday from
| Peoria to Fort Wayne, the train consisting
of six passenger cars, at the rate of forty
five miles an hour. which, under the wealth.
| er conditions, was considered good time.
The gross earnings of the Lake Erie &
| Western for January were $685. 739. As,
against sS72, 1929 in % January jar 1903. a de.
the decrease was in the last week of jan
uary, owing to bad weather conditions.
The funeral of Lyman N. Andrews, for
merly general freight agent of the Indian
apolis. Peru & Chicago, but of late years
a resident of Lafayette, was held in that
city yesterday, and the remains were
brought to indianapolis yesterday afternoon
for burial.
L. F. Loree. the new president of the
Rock Island, and b. l.. Winchell, vice presi-
dent, Harry Miller and other officials were
in Kansas City Yesterday; The he party t has
going as far south as New Orleans, and is
now returning to Chicago
| Chief Engineer Cleveland, of the Lake
Erie q Western, has returned from Ken
lucky whittier he went to investigate a
| plan for treating crossties and bridge tim
Der with concrete or zinc tan. He pur-
poses to establish plant of that character
! on the Lake Erie & Western.
L. w. Lum has been appointed chief en-
gineer of maintenance of way and struc-
lures reporting to the general manager of
| the Southern Railway Company, with Of
| flee at Washington. ID. G. With the taking
| effect of this appointment the office of en-
| gineer of bridges and buildings is abolished.
A rumor pervades Wall street that Edwin
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| recently bought the Glover Leaf, is trying
| to construct line reaching from the mid
die West TO the Atlantic seaboard and also
| to the gulf 4 his story is vouched for by
a railroad official who is close to the syndi-
cate.
ID. L. Foster. of Crestlne o. has con-
structed a new grain door that will remain
in place during the life of the car. When
not in use for shipping grain ii is entirely
out of the way of loading and unloading
any other freight. thus saving the railroad
the cost of a grain door ever time the car
is loaded with grain.
On receiving notification yesterday that
| the Chicago 81 Northwestern had made
another cut Of two cents in the grain and
corn rates from Kansas City and Omaha TO
| Chicago, General Traffic Manager z. c.
Stohr, of the Chicago Great Western, di-
rected that the cut be met between the
| points named.
the Lake Erie * Western, will leave to-
night for New York TO attend the meeting
TO be held in that city next week of pas
senger officials of the Vanderbilt lines
Charles DAILY chief assistant general pas
senger agent of the road, viii join him at
Cleveland; also a. j. Smith, general pas
! senger agent
II. c. Jenney, who thirty days ago was
appointed Western agent of the Wabash
Lehigh Valley fast freight line with head
quarters t at, at lndIanapolls will on March
Smiley, general agent, is in Cincinnati to-
day in conference with the Big -Four peo-
| pie as to the appointment of one OF their
men TO the position vacated.
Lack of material and workmen will delay
the opening of the Brilliant cutoff of the
Pennsylvania Railroad until May. Assist
ant Engineer of Construction Brown. who
is in charge of the Improvement states
that he does not expect 10 notify the op-
Grating department for the opening for al
least three months. Last Monday was the
time set for the completion of the link. In
stead Of having trains running this week
only a few feet OF rails have been laid
while none OF the bridges or viaducts has
been completed.
shipment of 1900 bales of cotton for
Japan made last week by special train
from Houston 10 San Francisco over the
| Southern Pacific. The total number of cars
required was forty-one; the weight of cot
, ton was ISIS l9 pounds; the value OF the
freight was S250o00. exclusive OF freight