The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-06

agitated, and pleaded hard for no exposure,
actually bursting into tears as a vision of
No steps nave yet been taken toward a
prosecution.
Personal. Local and State Notes.
w. w. Painter, for some years agent of
the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan at Eau
Claire, Wis, died suddenly on Thursday
last.
Beginning with April Is, the flour rate
from Minneapolis to Chicago and common
points, will be advanced from z 1-2 to 10
cents per 100 pounds.
The Southern and Southwestern railroad
companies, in explaining their export rates
to the Interstate Commission. claim that
the irregularities in ocean rates prevent
their maintaining rates.
The Lake Erie and Western road earned,
in March, $207, 1916. against S15O,56l.41 In
the corresponding month of 1888, an in
crease this year of S57, 200.15.
NJ. Maxwell, superintendent of construc-
ton of the Indianapolis q st. Louis road,
and is much of the time confined to his
room.
C. c.. Matson has been appointed assist
ant solicitor of the L., N. A. d C.. road. at a
salary o. $500 per apnum. His duties will
be confined wholly to the southern division
of the system.
The Chicago committee. of the Central
Traffic Association has under consideration
the question of abOlishing the 81 switching
charge which is charged to private eleva-
tors and not to public ones.
A circular has been issued by the North
sociation. asking for information about the
heating of cars. No less than sixty ques-
lions are asked in the circular.
w. w. Worthington, general superin-
tendent of the Fort Wayne, Cincinnati 81
Louisville road, is the leader of a syndicate
which proposes to give Fort Wayne all the
natural gas that the city requires.
The freight committee of the Central
Traffic Association will meet in Chicago On
Tuesday next. There are nineteen questions
to come before it for consideration, and the
sitrings will last two or three days.
Wilbur Lee. late general passenger agent
of the Lake Erie & Western road, now as
sistant general passenger agent of the
Union Pacific, passed through the city yes
terday en- route from GAINESVILLE to Omaha.
The Lake Shore e. Michigan Southern is
getting twenty-five new locomotives built
at the Schenectady ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Three are heavy passenger engines, fifteen
mogul freight engines and the others are
switching engines.
Persons who have conversed with Presi-
dent ingalls,, state that his remarks regard
ing the changes which will follow the Bee
.ine-Big -Four consolidation, indicates that
the general Offices of the consolidated roads
viii be at Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan
directors will meet on April 10. for the cleo
ton of officers. The health of General
Manager Beckley has improved so much
lately that he viii not resign, as he con-
templated doing a few weeks ago,
A movement is on foot to remove the Of
hces of the train-dispatchers of the Indian
apolis & st. Louis road from Mattoon to
Indianapolis, where the tr~ain-dispatching
of the /. & St. l.. and the Bee-line can be
done under the chief train-dispatcher.
The establishment of a line of Pullman
sleeping and reclining-chair cars combined
the Chicago q Eastern Illinois, and the
Ohio. Indiana 81 Western road, is proving a
good move on the part of the two roads.
J. b. Porter, the ne-wly-appointed en-
cinnati, Hamilton q Dayton, is making his
first trip over the road, going over the In
d%ianapolis division. H.. Pierce; whom he
succeeded, yesterday went to his new field
Oh the Chesapeake & Ohio road.
The new schedule of insurance which the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company want
to put into effect on the western portion of
the system, whereby the men are paid half
rate insurance., does not meet with their
approval, and many of them threaten to
quit work before signing the proposition.
A.. +. Walker. the newly-elected chair
man of the Interstate Railway Association
has arrived in Chicago. A meeting of the
officials of the roads in the association has
been called by acting Chairman Hughitt
for Tuesday next, when Mr.. Walker will be
duly installed as chairman of the assOcia-
tion.
The Ohio Falls car-works are delivering
box cars to the Pennsylvania Company at
the rate of twenty q day. On Thursday
morning. 600 of the 1000 cars contracted for
had been delivered. These works, on
Wednesday last, secured a contract to
build 500 standard freight cars for one of
the Southern roads.
Persons whohave visited Hot Springs and
ridden over the narrOw-gauCe road. TWENTY
two miles in length, and paid 10 cents per
mile fare, will be pleased to learn that the
rate has been reduced to 8 cents a mile.
Preparations are being made to convert the
road into a standard gauge, the work to be
completed July l, 1880.
The Lake Erie 81 Western has received
from the Brooks ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the five
heavy freight engines ordered a few weeks
age. All are now in service and perform
ing well. They weigh empty $4,000 pounds:
On Thursday one of the engines hauled
forty loaded and twenty empty cars IN one
train, over the middle division of the road.
The rate disturbers who dwell at Chicago
eount on the meeting of the Western
Freight Association in that city, April 9, as
being one which will bring about a general
reduction IN rates to conform to the Iowa
rates. and this means serious trouble in the
future as regards the interstate rates.
These anticipated frictions do not, as a
rule, amount to much.
j. w. Sherwood did not accept the posi-
ton of superintendent of the Mountain di-
vision of the Chesapeake * Ohio road on
the LIST of the month, but the position is still
open to him. The reason assigned is that
be has been offered a much better place on
one of the Eastern roads. which he will
probably accept, it being one of the best
roads III the New England States.
Under friendly traffic arrangements en-
tered into between the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company and the New Jersey Central,
the latter company is enabled to use tie
Pennsylvania tracks between EastOn and
Belyidere, and in return the Pennsylvania
will use the New Jersey Central tracks on
its Leh1gh x Hudson division TO Campbell