The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-25

Usher. Of Lawrence. Kan; H H Dillon and A.
L. Williams, OF Topeka Kan. The new board
of directors contains large representation of
the Union Pacific railroads controllers
Yves Zentmyer, engineer of engine No S06
on the Cincinnati g. Muskingum Valley road,
made remarkably fast run between Bremen
and Junction City. The distance Is seven miles
and q quarter and he covered 1t, including start
and stop, in exactly eight minutes. Most OF the
| time he at the rate of sixty i've miles an
hour. Engineer Zentmyer has been on the road
about thirty years.
A special train will run from Dresden to Nor
row. over the Cincinnati & Muskingum Valley
| read. Tuesday. carrying the inspecting
officials, Directors Herdman, Graham Bucking-
ham, Churchill and Superintendent Darlington,
accompanied by Colonel Church. Freight Agent
McCaee General Superintendent Miller and Mo-
tive-power Superintendent Wall, of the Panhan-
die, will constitute the party
Mr.. NJ. E. ingalls,. president of the Big Four.
has received telegram from Vermilye 81 Co.,
agents of the syndicaSA who bought the first
million of the ten million ourper-cent. refund
ing bonds, saying that all had been disposed of.
| This is extraordinary in two ways. First as
evidencing the high credit of the c., l., ST. L. &
c., and second, as showing the immense de-
mand for secure investment at a low rate of in
teres6
The Boston & Albany turned out OF its shops
last week. two elegant coaches for the New
York e Boston limited which are among the
finest cars in the country. They are fitted up
with the Milan ventilator which prevents dust
or smoke entering from without. So successful
was the test, that company Will be organized
to manufacture the ventilator for car uses. The
Boston q Albany is considering proposition TO
light all its passengerca cars with gas.
A Philadelphia stock circular says: 'The
facts about the Jersey Central and Baltimore d.
Ohio contract seem to be that it is TO two
years a certain class of business and longer
on others. Terminal charges on freights are to
be 20 cents per ton and to prorate with the Bal
timore 81 Ohio on about fifty miles for haul
ing distance If the latter company cuts rates
in competition with other trunk lines, thu Jer
sey Central is to bear Its proportion of the cut.
The contract is to take effect in about month
The South Florida Railroad Company will
| change the gauge of the road to the standard
gauge of feet ii inch on Sept. l. This road
forms the connecting link between Sanford,
Fla, the southern terminus of the Jacksonville,
Tampa e. Key West road, and Tampa. on the
Gulf coast, from which point fast steamers.
making tri-weekly service, run to Cuba. After
this change through cars be run from the
North and East to Tampa without change. This
route is saving in time of from twenty-four to
| thirty hours, 1t is claimed.
General Passenger Agent Baldwin, of the
Monon route has appointed Frank Guthrie gen
eral agent at Cincinnati, having in charge the
affairs of the freight and passenger departments
of the company in that city and territory ada
cent thereto; Tom D. Campbell. district passen-
ger agent, with headquarters in the same city,
and Ike Terrence ticket agent, succeeding Mr..
Campbell, promoted. The selections made by
Mr.. Baldwin are all good. Mr. Terrence, who
succeeds Mr. Campbell as ticket agent was
ticket agent of the Indiana, Bloomington g.
Western until recently, when the company
closed its Office
The Chicago Tribune says 1T is reported
that negotiations pending to extend the
Louisville. Now Albany e. Chicago from Indian
apolis to Cincinnati giving line between these
cities of only l02 miles, az against 124 miles by
the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton and lis by
the Big Four This would make the New AL
bay route 285 miles from Chicago to Cincinnati,
as against 30 miles of the Big Four A bank
ing house identified with the Louisville New AL
bany 81 Chicago claims to have parties willing to
take the necessary amount of consolidated bonds
to build the new extension from Indianapolis to
Cincinnati"
The Central Traffic Association passenger de-
partment) has referred TO the general managers
the contract made by the Chicago 81 Grand
Trunk with the Order of Odd-fellows to carry
members of the organization from Chicago to
the Boston convention, in August, for $13 for
the round trip This rate was based upon the
$l2 rate from Cincinnati, the stipulation being
that 5000 people should go, and not less than
twenty on one ticket This Cincinnati contract
has been repudiated, but the Grand Trunk de-
cines to abrogate its arrangement, and some
trouble in rates is anticipated in consequences
The following suggestive and encouraging
statements made by Philadelphia paper:
1.-THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company has re-
Gently been quietly making experiments to as
certain whether or not it would pay for big
railroad corporation to observe Sunday by cut
ting off more less of its Sunday traffic A
great many of its excursion and several of it's
regular passenger trains have been discontinued
The freight trains, excepting those carrying live
stock and perishable goods, have been ordered
of from O'Clock Saturday night till midnight
Sunday, and all repairing work on Sunday has
been stopped. To make The opportunity still
further beneficial. freight engineers are allowed
the use of their locomotives to take themselves
home for the day. The results have thus far
proved so satisfactory that the directors are now
arranging to make these experimental changes
permanent and to extend them. The men are
found to be worth more and the liability to acct.
dent is lessened."