The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-04-24


any friction. For the present at least. the
Illinois Central will handle the Chicago
business OF the Baltimore 81 Ohio in the
same manner that it now handles the bust
ness of the Big Four. 1t is believed. how
cure other terminals and that its passen-
ger traine will soon be running into the
Wisconsin Central depot.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
John Rech, of the uptown Pennsylvania
ticket office, is SO Ill as to coniine him to
his ROOM
j. F. Wares has been appointed general
manager of the Burton Stock-car Company,
with headquarters at Chicago.
w. A. Read, agent of the Lake Shore at
in the Philadelphia IL Reading coal-traffic
department..
division of the Brotherhood of Railway
Conductors was organized at Dayton, o..
this week with twenty -seven charter men,
bers. 1t is to be known as the Gem City
Division.
William Ralston. for some time past
at Fostoria, has been appointed general
agent of the company, with headquarters
at Toledo.
w. b. Leeds, superintendent of the Rich
mond division of the Pennsylvania lines,
was In the city yesterday on official bust
ness. His division now extends from Gin
cinnati to Logansport, Ind.
The Vanderbilt inspection party, accom-
panied by NJ 4. Ingalls,. president. ana w.
NJ. Greene. general manager of the Big Four.
will leave Sc. Louis this morning, and ar
rive at INDIANAPOLIS at ?:l0 p. NJ.
The Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
earned in the second week OF April. 81, 146.
q decrease of S1470 as compared with the
corresponding week OF 1890. 1t IS the first
week this year in which decrease has
been shown.
At meeting of the Western lines yester-
day the Chicago, st. Paul 81 Kansas City
road withdrew Its demand for authority to
reduce the passenger rates from Kansas
City to Chicago to the basis of the cut rates
by way of st. Louis.
The Big Four are advertisipg personally
conducted train from Cincinnati, Indian
apolis and other points on the line to Salt
Lake City, with but one change of cars,
the distance from Cincinnati to Denver to
be covered in seventy-seven hours.
Representatives. of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, of LOGON olive
Eiremen. of Railway Conductors, hallway
Trainmen, and of the Brotherhood of
Switchmen will meet in st. Louis Sunday
next to discuss the federation question,
Since March there has been distributed
on the Lake Erie a. Western main line
500, 600 cross-ties, most of which are already
under the track. An expert railroad man,
who passed over the road a few days ago.
says that the track is one of the best cross
ing Indiana
stock are bringing business into this terri
tory from greater distances than ever before
known. Current prices will bear the pres
ent rates on grain and live stock and still
pay good price at the shipping point If it
be 5000 miles away.
H. Ii. Porter. chairman of the board of
directors of the Chicago IL Eastern Illinois
road, is in New York, and is quoted as say
ing that there Is no deal pending to ex-
change the common stock of the road for
Big -Four stock. and that no consolidation
of interests has been suggested.
The executive committee of the Order of
Railway Conductors, at the coming meet
ing in May, will recommend that wherever
their headquarters are located there should
be erected a building pleasantly fitted up
for hospital for injured conductors. and
home for conductors who have grown old
in the service.
George T. Gunnup, general travelling pas
senger agent of the Atchison. Topeka IL
companied by II. j. Turner, who has been
assigned to this territory. Mr.. Turner has
Tor some years been agent of the Pennsyl-
vania Company at Xenia. and has just en-
tered the service of the Santa Fe.
The prospects are said to be good that the
Indianapolis. Logansport & Chicago will
be built. The company which has been in
corporated is made mp of good business
men, and the road capitalized ct q fair fig
ure-S4. 0OO.00 Whether tho Pennsylvania
Company IS behind the enterprise or not is
not known. but il Is understood that, if
built, it will make it part of it's Louisville
and Chicago line.
The present management of the Toledo.
st. Lonis d Kansas City is paying a good
deal of attention to building up its through
business, yet ono of the officers says they
are by no means neglecting local traffic.
They are encouraging the erection of ele-
vators and store-houses along the line. put
ting in private switches to any business
interest which will justify it. and making
rates which shippers show q willingness TO
pay.
The Lake Shore Is curtailing the mileage
on W hich it's 5.0UO-mile books ut 2 cents a
mile will be honored, These tickets will
not hereafter be honored on the Northern
Michigan lines; the Cincinnati. jackson IL
Mackinaw, only north of Bryan, o.; the
Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan. only
north of Elkhart, Ind: the Michigan Gen.
tral, between Toledo and Detroit only, or
on the Wabash, east of Butler. on the De-
troit division.
A deal is on which it is believed will re-
suit in the Ohio Southern road passing I'M
der the control of the Baltimore & Ohio
Four. it is stated. would like to own the
road. but its absorption would create an
antagonism on the part of other roads
which are now large feeders to the Big
er. if not so heavily bonded, would be val
liable property to any railway company
with which 1t connects.
Judge jackson. of the United States Cir
cult Court. is to be in Toledo early in May.
at which time the case of the New York
Trust Company and of Secretary Foster
against the Cincinnati, Jackson Il Mack
NAV road for the appointment of n new re-
ceiver will be heard. As the road now
stands in relation to the Cincinnati. Ham,
ilton x Dayton deal. it makes it necessary
that the affairs Of the former be straight
ened out as early as practicable. as il is de-
sirable that some action be taken at once
to protect the individual stockholders
against collision.
The New York Sun says there has been q
falling ont between the Maxwell brothers
and Austin Corbin, and that he will be
dropped from the Central railroad of New
| Jersey directory. On Nav .Ioseph Har-