The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-09-07


Chicago. and New York and Eastern points
used Cincinnati rates Tor basing pur-
poses. This was great discrimination
against Chicago. but though many confer
ences have been held on the subject
the Eastern roads refused TO make any
change in the method of rate-makiDg.
They have at last consented to do the fair
thing and the whole thing has been settled
by the adoption of the following resolu-
ton offered by General Passenger Agent
Ford, of the Pennsylvania road:
Resolved, That beginning Oct. !. 1891. rates
both first and second-class from Cincinnati,
Louisville and Indianapolis and territory affected
thereby shall he based upon Missouri river rates
and that meeting of rate clerks he called at the
earliest possible day TO fix rates accordingly.
The meeting will be held at Chicago on
Wednesday of this week.
Personal. Local md General Notes.
T. j. Geddings, chief clerk in the Office of
General Manager Tappan. OF the Nickel
plate. is in the city.
Henry II. Dering. assistant passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines Al Clncin-
natl. spent Sunday in this city.
H. e. Mcclure has been appointed travel
ing passenger agent of the Chicago a. AL
ton. vice &. l.. Lingo, resigned.
The annual inspection of the heating appa-
ratus In coaches. cabooses and stations, on
the Pennsylvania lines, is now in progress.
CIV. Vanderslye. Of the Northern Pacific,
has been made SUPERINTENDENT of the Mani
toba division of that line, vice L. +. Mi
chaels.
Il. S. Josseleyn, car accountant of the
Denver & Rio Grande, has resigned. and 1T
Is understood that other officials of the
company are to go.
General Manager Furber. of the Boston
g. Maine, has ordered that hereafter no
clerk in the employ of that road shall re-
celve pay while OH vacation.
Charles p. Stamm, formerly cashier Of
the Big Four here, but now chief clerk in
is in the city visiting friends.
The New York papers state that President
ingalls, will hereafter have his office in that
city, probably in the Grand Central station,
but this is denied in CINCINNATI.
The report that the Kentucky Midland
road is about to be sold to New York CAPT.
talsts is denied by General Passenger
Agent n. w. Clark. who says that such ne
gotiations were pending. but are now off.
Hrhe Chesapeake g. Ohio earnings for the
fourth week In August show an increase of
Sl2.1l5 over the same week last year. From
Jan. to Aug. 81, inclusive. the earnings of
this company show the remarkable increase
of S5Sl, go.
TIE new Union Station at Louisville. KY,
will be formally opened to the public to-
day. 1t cost about 81 ,00O, 900. and i = almost
exactly like the station in this city. 1t
will be used by the Pennsylvania, the L.
81 N. the L., N. A. Il T.. and the st. Lonls
Airline.
The work of donbe-tracking the Pitts
burg d Lake Erie will be completed, it is.
thought. this year. The old road followed
the general line of the hills. while the new
one follows that of the valley. Among the
expensive and heavy changes made are sew
eral long viaducts fifty fest in length.
The earnings of the Ohio & Mississippi
railway. for the fourth quarter in August.
are sos, 552 Is. aud for the same period last
year. S104, 4l5.33 an increase of s5,137.32.
For the month of August the o. q Nj. earn
ings are S4l2. 592. 10. as compared with S411,-
l04.45 for the same month last year, an in
crease of 81 .4S7.74.
Some local railroad men are quietly work
ing to get J. Sterling Morton. of Nebraska,
appointed TO the vacant place In the Inter
state commerce Commission. He Is the
father of Paul Morton, formerly general
passenger agent of the c., Is. Il @. lr Is
understood that the appointment will GO
TO some Western Democrat.
THAT Is a pretty fair story" said Lake
Erie ~ Western official 1.-The Big Four and
other Chicago lines tell about bringing
back hundreds OF the excursionists over onr
turns show that with the exception of o
few. all the tickets we sold were taken up
on our trains on the return"
Mr.. j. T.. HenniQes, now chief rate clerk
in Col Brent Arnold's Office. general freight
agent Kentucky Central. and superntend-
dent of terminals of the Louisville Il Nash
Vile. is to receive the appointment of trav-
cling freight agent of the Big Four TO sue
coed Mr.. T.. II. Marsh, who resigns to go
with the Farmers and Drovers' Stock-ya Yards
Company.
Charles p. Craig, now general Eastern
passenger agent of the Baltimore a. Ohio
road. has just closed his thirty sixth year
in railroad service. commencing on the
Erie road in 1854 as telegraph operator. He
was with the Erie twenty-five years, and
in Juiy, $780, accepted the position he now
holds. But few men in passenger circles
are so extensively known as is Mr.. Craig.
It's reported that the Louisville & Nash
Vile has purchased from the American As
ISOLATION the Knoxville. Cumberland Gap
& Louisville railroad. The road is seven.
ty-tve miles long. running from Middles-
borough to Knoxville. 1t connects at Mid.
Peterborough with the Louisville d Nash
Vile and at Knoxville with the Marietta
& North Georgia. The deal was made, as
is reported. because the Louisville e.
Nashville was DESTROYS of getting tunnel
on the road through which the Louisville
g. Nashville connects with the Northern
Il Western. The tunnel is the longest in
the South, being 3,7Ol feet from entrance to
entrance.