The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-11-28
emigrant rates from Canadian points to the
Northwest, as against the Canada.

through car now between indianapolis and
Dayton
Representatives of the Mexican National
road are In the North making arrangements
for some excursions this winter to points
reached BIZ the Mexican National railway.
Albert Cline. ex-presideBt of the Rail
way Agents Association. who has been i'll
for months. died on Thanksgiving at Alle-
gheny. Pa He was the founder OF the as
ISOLATION.
and General superintendent Neilson. of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton d Dayton. will be in
the city to-day for q conference as regards
train service.
General Manager Ramsey. of the Big Four
lines, has gwen orders that a depot. to cost
in the neighborhood OF $1,000. be built at
Parkers. on the old Bee-liDe. The depot at
that point was burned some years ago.
The friction over the Big Four securing
control of the White River road. which
leads to kingan x Co.'s establishment. has
died out. The roads. are paying the 81
switching char Ze to the Big Four without
grumbling.
superintendent Whitcomb's report shows
that the belt road engines. on Tuesday,
ba ndied at the stockyards 343 carloads of
stock, the largest number ever handled IN
any twenty-four hours since the yards were
established.
Orders have been given that Travelling
Auditors j., w. Hewitt. L. e. Scarf, j. L.
Reagan and L. j. BaRley. of the Big Four.
should make Cincinnati their headquarters
after Dee. !, the auditor being located at
that point after that date.
The cause of the resignation Of George
w. Ristlne as general manager of the Erie
fast-fTeight lines is a matter over which
there is considerable 1t was
supposed that q better position was open
to him. but lie says he has nothing special
In view.
At twenty important stations on the
Chicago, Burlington ~ Quincy road not o
carload of corn has been loaded in the last
ten days. On account of the scarcity of
cars. Elevators. homogeneous and all
available space are filled with grain await
ing Shipment.
G. C. Waite. president Of the Columbus
& Hooking Valley road. has not yet Sc
lected a successor TO &. II. Rockwell as
general superintendent. In speaking of
his delay in the matter he says he has SO
many applicants who are good men that IL
is difficilt to reach a decision.
Active steps are being taken to organize
q veteran association of the Older employees
of the PENNSYLVANIA lines. Andrew Car
negIe. a former superintendent. is taking
great interest in the matter, and will aid
financially in placing the enterprise on q
good basis. A committee to prepare q con-
stItutioD and bylaws has been appointed.
A time wal has been inaugurated between
the Southern lines. On Sunday next the
Queen and Crescent Will put on a vestlbule
train between Cincinnati and jackson
vile. Fla, which will make the run in
twenty-eieht hours. four hours quicker
than it is now made. 1t is claimed that its
track has been so improved as to admit of
this increased speed.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will
probably change one of its afternoon
trains from Indianapolis, sending one out
at 7:3O A. VI. TO connect with the new fast
tram which the Queen and Crescent is TO
put on Sunday, which leaves Cincinnati at
1l:3O A. NJ. The Big -Four now has o train
that will make this connection, which is an
important one during the winter months.
The Savings Fund Institution, which the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company has in
operation, is gaining friends among the
elm ployes rapidly. and some are laying up
money who never did before. 1t has been
In operation four years. A short time
after the money is deposited it begins TO
draw 4 per cent. interest. A wise pro-
vision is that an employe cannot draw
money without giving ten days notice.
A new timetable goes into effect on the
Chicago ~ Alton Sunday. The Pacific ex-
press, which has heretofore left Chicago ct
1:s5 p. M. daily, except Sunday. will here
after leave at l p. NJ, arriving IN Kansas
City at 4 a. NJ. instead of $50 A. NJ. The
Kansas City and St. Louis night express
will leave Chicago at 11:30 r. NJ, instead of
at 11:2O, arriving in St. Louis at 10:45 A. NJ.
and Kansas City at $40 p. NJ, as at present.
The Pullman Car Company, in the last
year, ser ved on it's dining-cars over five
million meals. and, il IS claimed. at not one
cent profit. A reform needed on dining
cars, says q railway superintendent. Is
palmer and more simple meals, at lower
cost. Ninety per cent. of the travelling
public would rather pay so cents for a good
piece of beef-steak and a baked potato,
good bread and q cup OF coffee. than 81 for
such lavishly-spread tables as are now in
vogue.
The officials of the Louisville & Nashville
road have Just completed an inspection of
the entire system. This company is said 20
have the most completes inspection car on
American railways. The Cur has fifteen
detectors for special purposes, arranged
like water-gauges. Every low joint. MISS
ing spike OF piece of track out of alignment
is noted. These detectors also show the
length of switches. the speed at which the
train Is moving and any unusual vibration
of a car.
Passenger off cials of the B. g. o. railroad
In Baltimore are in receipt of official An
nouncement that on Dec. / the Grand Gen.
trail Station In Chicago will be occupied as
the passenger terminus of that company.
The contract also covers freight terminal
facilities. The Grand Central is one of the
most conveniently located stations in Chi
cago. 1t Is now the terminus of tho Chi
cage IL Northern Pacific. the Chicago, st.
a IL Kansas City. the Chicago Il South
western and the Wisconsin Central rail-
roads. g..
George 3. Sipp, superintendent of the car
service on the Chesapeake Il Ohio road,
spent Thanksgiving with his brother in
this city. Hestates that the loaded-car mile
age Of the e.. X o. in October. 1891, was 707.-
Ss5milesin excess of that of October. 1890. In
October. this year. there we're handled on
the lines S9.5l3 LOADED cars. against 76, 424 in
1890; increase this year. 11.0o9 cars, while
there was an increase during the month of
only i.206 empty cars, which elbows a re-
markably even movement, IL both direc-
tions, of loaded cars.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
so pressed with BUSINESS that it retains for
service forty engines which were built at
Altoona, Pa, for the lines west of Pitts
burg, and which the division superintend-
ent of the lines west of Pittsburg had ex-
pected to help them through the heavy fall
and winter traffic. consequently it is diff
cult for them to keep business moving as
smoothly as if they had this additional
power. Nineteen of these new engines
were to 60 TO j. j. Turner. superintendent
of the division from Pittsburg to Column
bus.
President Reynolds. of the Mexican
Central road, who has been spending sew
eral weeks in Mexico, tells the friends of
the road in Boston that prospects are good
hat Mexico will take of the duty on corn,
which means large shipments of that grain
from the United States over the Mexican
Central. as 1t passes through the territory
where the corn crop was a failure. He
states that there Is a steady and healthy
increase in freight business between the
United States and Mexico, each year, show
ing O large increase in tonnage over the