The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-27

lne fennsylvanla Company Will at once
begin the erection of an immense freight
station on It's grounds in ST. Louis. AS now
planned the building will be 105 feet long
by sixty wide, with stone foundation.
brick walls and slate roof. 1t Is to be a
hreproof building.
Yesterday General Manager s. III. Smith,
OF the Denver 81 Rio Grande railroad,
handed IN his resignation to President Mof-
fatt. 1t Is thought that TINS is done in
sympathy with President Moffatt, who re-
signed q few days ago. 1t is rumored that
other designations will follow.
improvements to the track of the Louis-
yille, New Albany d. Chicago road are not
by any means at a stand-still. Under" the
present management new ties are going
into the track by the thousands, and gravel
trains are distributing ballast at the rate
OF W hundred carloads a day.
i. ID. Riddell. the new commissioner of
the Indianapolis Freight Bureau, is taking
hold in a manner which will bring out the
usefulness of the association If it has any
fields to look after other than those already
occupied. The bureau, so far as Indianap-
oils is concerned, is still an experiment.
81. r.. Spellman has been appointed gen.
eral agent of the Illinois Central at New
Orleans. Mr. Spellmsn was formerly super
intendent of the indianapolis, Decatur &'
Springfield road, but for several years past
has been on the New Orleans IL Gulf road,
first as its general manager, then as re-
ceiver.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
arranged to treat the freight representa-
tives OF the roads in the freight traffic as
sociations very handsomely on their gath
ering at Cresson, Pa. on Sept. 9. Free
transportation will be given to the wives
OF the members, good to return until
Sept. so.
Arumor Is current in New York that the
Brice syndicate are about selling the Lake
Erie a. Western road TO another syndicate,
which will extend the line to st. Louis.
leaving the main line a little this side of
Peoria. Officials connected with the road
at this point know nothing of o contem-
plated sale of the road.
Yesterday morning there were over
twelve hundred loaded cars on side-tracks
at terminal yards and points on the lake
Erie d Western road. Every elevator and
grain to their utmost capacity, and it will
require several days to get the business
back to its normal condition.
Eastern papers say that Sidney Dillon is
to resign as president of the Union Pacific
to make room for a man named by Morgan.
Drexel az Go. This firm raised the money
for the company to bridge over it's financial
crisis. 1t is limited that NJ. f. Ingalls, stands
so high as a railroad man with these bank
ers that they will possibly put him at the
head of the company.
Charles p. Craig, now general Eastern
p1ooOhkOk okOhb vi tAO IA III
road, has just closed his thirty-sixth year
in railroad service, commencing o. the
Erie road in 1854 as telegraph operator.
He was with the Erie twenty-five years.
now holds. But few men in passenger
circles are so extensively known as is Mr..
Craig.
All ak of trouble on the Peoria q East
ern on the part of the employees over the
question of overtime, says one OF the off,
Gals, is without foundation, as the power
of the company is so distributed that trains
are being run on time. and any overtime
which is likely to be made will come under
the provisions of rules already in opera
tioG. A train man is entitled to pay for be-
ing delayed.
trail Traffic Association, the Western Pas
senger Association and the Ohio-riyer lines
will have q conference in Chicago concern
ing the reconstruction of passenger rates
from Cincinnati to the Pacific coast. A re-
adjustment of these rates has been asked
for, with a view to doing away with certain
inequalities that are complained of by some
of the lines in interest.
An important change is TO be made in
operating the Denver Rio Grande West
ern road. At present IL is operated in three
divisions. These will be- consolidated into
two. an eastern and western division. The
eastern division will be 1T miles long. ex-
tending from Grand Junction to Helper;
the western, Isl miles in epgth, extending
from Helper to Ogden. TIE step is taken
as an economical measure.
The Baltimore & Ohio has reduced it's
rates on second-class passengers from
Cleveland to Chicago to $3.50, the same as
| the Nickel-plate. This has stirred up the
Erie. which Will make q similar rate. What
the Lake Shore and the Pennsylvania will
do now that the war has been opened, even
on q limited scale. is not known. The Penn
sylvania can hardly afford to meet it. as il
would AFFECT its local rate too much.
The passenger department of the Chesa-
peake IL Ohio road has sent out very
unique invitations to members of the Gen
eral Ticket and Passenger Agents Associ-
alton, Offering free transportation on q spe-
cial train over the Z. & o. road to Old
Point Comfort, where the semi-annual
meeting of the association Will be held on
Sept. Is. A special train will be run for the
accommodation Of the members/6 the as
ISOLATION and their families.
The excursi on rates from Cincinnati to
| Atlantic City, and to New York and return,
| low as they were. proved n disappointment,
to the various roads making them. The
number of excursionists that took advant-
age of the rates was comparatively small.
and the enterprise has been unsatisfactory
The several roads engaged III this rivalry
have decided to end the rate war and have
accordingly announced that they will
return to their normal rates of fare on and
4 dItcI lO-Qdy-
A board of arbitration composed of Gen.
eral Passenger Agents J. Francis. of the
Burlington ~ Missouri River: w. T.. Davis
of the Chicago ~ Grand Trunk. and &. s
Fee. of the Northern Pacific. was in session
at Chicago yesterday. hearing evidence
and arguments in the appeal of the Rock
Island from the decision of Chairman Fin,
ley filming it 500 for malicious prosecution
of the Santa Fe. The case Is one in which
the Rock Island made q charge against the
Santa Fe for doing a brokerage business.
From present indications there will be a
severe ~freight-car famine all over the West
before the crops are safely transported
Already the lines in Iowa are beginning to
experience much difficulty IL getting cars
as fast as needed. The immense crops art
beginning to move n every car available
has been pressed in service. Never ha,
there been such scarcity as now exists anC
the demand is growing daily. Iowa rail
road officials are much worried over tn,
situation as it means not only loss of much
needed traffic. but loss of grain men.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton 4 Dayton com
pany is expanding money with a liberia
hand in the converting Of the Dayton. For
WAYNE * Chicago int q tirst-class road
such as the c., III. ~ ID. people seem de
termined to make il. The officials of tn,
road are very confident that in the not very
far future this will be q valuable acquisi
ton for the c.. III. X ID. Those acquainted
with both roads predict that the result
from operating the d.. 1T. w. & G.. will b.
much more satisfactory than the results o
operating the Cincinnati, Jackson ~ Mack
lnaw.