The Indianapolis journal., 1891-04-14


the dissolution of the Western Traffic Asso-
ciation at an even earlier date than was
generally predicted. The charges or rate
cutting recently made against the Mis-
souri, Pacific were to be investigated at TO-
days meeting. ami II that company Is not
represented it will be concluded that
Gould has no intention of submitting to the
rulings of the board.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Charles Tappan. of Buffalo, N. Y, general
manager of the Nlckel-plate fast-freight
line, is in the city on official business.
Superintendent Zook of the Indianapolis
division of the Louisville. New Albany &
Chicago road. is SO i'll as TO coDtine him at
home.
The passenger men expect to have the In
dianapolis joint-rate sheet completed by
this evening, but 1t will not be issued In
printed form before May !.
The employees saving fund of the Penn
sylvania road proper now amoun ts to s6I4,-
O66 the deposits in 1890 were S344, 152.
There are now 1850 depositors.
Assistant General Manager Holcombe. of
the Union Pacific railroad, has resigned,
and Will be succeeded by f. ID. Dickinson,
recently with the Baltimore 81 Ohio.
1t is announced that for the present
Superintendent Lamport, of the Cincinnati
Wabash g. Michigan road, who is an all
around railroad man, will act as master
mechanic, vice s. B. Tinker, deceased.
Division Superintendent Wells, of the
Big Four. and A. A: Ziop, superintendent
OF trains over the Belt road. who have been
sick for some days, have SO far recovered
that they reported for duty yesterday.
Ice-dealers in Southern markets have
purchased at points on the Chicago & West
Michigan road over five thousand carloads
of ice which the Chicago & West Michigan
will turn over TO it's connections for ship
ment to such points.
A. A. Bowman was yesterday appointed
assistant general superintendent of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois road and NJ. F.
Burke trainmaster. The formers head
quarters will be at Chicago, and Mr..
Burke's at Danville. LII.
The through business of the Vandalia
connection with the Cincinnati. Hamilton
c Dayton 10 steady increasing, both in pas
sengers and freight. While it would doubt
less be larger were solid trains run through,
the growth is now very satisfactory.
In passenger circles it is looked upon as
being rather significant that the divisions
of the Big Four where train collectors are
employed are showing no increase In train
earnings. while on the divisions where they
are not employed every train is showing
better earnings than last year.
j. L. Watkins has been ticket agent of
the Chicago, Burlington q Quincy road at
MENDOZA. Ill, for thirty years. and had
never rode on passenger train until Tues
day of last week, when he was compelled
to ride, having been summoned As q wit
ness in Q case which came up In Wheaton,
Ill.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company ia
making preparations for extensive i'm
provements on its lines from Jersey City to
Chicago. Between now and Jan. /, 1893,
several million dollars are to be expended
in improvements of the most substantial
character. says one of the highest officials
of the road.
II. &. Potter, vice. president and general
manager of the Flint IL Pere Marquette
road, has rendered his resignation, to take
effect May 1. 1t is understood that Gen.
John Nj. Corse. late postmaster of Boston,
will be his successor. MIR. Corse's railroad
experience was mostly on the Toledo, Del
phos & Cincinnati road.
The first week in April the Canadian Pa
cific road earned s591. .Oo0 an increase over
the corresponding week of 1890 of S91, 900.
The large increase in earnings that this
road is showing. from week to week, clearly
demonstrates that there is good ground for
the assertion that the Canadian Pacific is
making serious lnrOads on the business of
some of the American TO ads
President McKeen, of the Vandalia, says
that IL Is hardly probable that the north
ern division will be extended north of st.
Joseph. The Vandalia now has a very
friendly connection there and the prob
abilities are that within the next two years
road will be built direct from Grand Rap
ids to st. Joseph, which would take the
Vandalia as its southwestern outlet.
The through travel of the Louisville.
New, Albany IL Chicago road is showing
handsome increases daily, in both direc-
tions. over that of a year ago. March ia
considered a dull month for travel, yet at
the outside ticket-office of the Monon at
Indianapolis the receipts from sales of
tickets were 81, ,023.15 in excess of those of
March, 1890.
Inquiry has developed the fact that the
ticket agents at local stations are. as
rule, poorly paid, and really need CON-
missions to- help them to exist. On one
of this city's largest systems of roads the
average paw of 55 per cent. of the ticket
agents is from S22 to S25 per month, 90 per
cent. get from SS5 to $40 per month, and
those who get over $50 a month are few and
far between.
Il is highly probable that the vandalia
Will perfect some arrangement by which o
through coach will be run between Indian
apoiis and st. Joseph the coming summer.
II satisfactory arrangements cannot be
made with the Big Four via Colfax il will
likely be arranged to run the coach via
Frankfort. over the Monon. The latter is
to soon put on q morning train out of In
dianapolis, and this will make it o paying
train from the beginning.
The Cincinnati. Wabash d Michigan and
the Big -Four people expect to build up a
large traffic through their establishing a
line of boats between Benton Harbor and
Milwaukee. 1t Is claimed that freight
shipped from Milwaukee to Benton Har-
bor by boat and thence by rail over the c.,
w. a. ~. and the Big Four can be landed
in sixty hours in Louisville or Cincinnati
which would be quicker than it could be
shipped by rail via Chicago to such points
The Vandalia people are net favorably
inclined as yet to the putting on of solid
vestibuie Pullman trains between st. Louis 3
and New YOrk-that is making trains %
and 81 of such character. They feel that
the frst-class through travel of the line
Will hardly Justify such change, while
the Pennsylvania people take the other
view of the case and favor their adoption
on the summer timetable taking effect.
The Pullman company is working in that
direction. 1t may be adjusted by the Pull
man company running their own parlor
cars on train 20 for Cincinnati, over the
Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton.
General Manager Burgoon. of the Terra
Hante d Peoria road. was in the city yes
terday for a conference with G. W. Fair
banks, President of the road. Probably
there is no road in this section where i'm
provements are going on with so little
noise and TO so great an extent as with the
Il. q L. III. The business of the road is in
creasng to such an extent that it leaves a
very respectable surplus above operatin O
expenses and paying its fixed charges.
every dollar of which is being used IN i'm
proving the road-bed. The new eouip-
ments which have been put on the last tn O
years were paid for from fund for that
purpose, laid aside when the bonded debt
was placed on the road. The grades of this
road are so light that an ordinary eight
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