The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-11-26

district Of Missouri on Oct 81. The charge is
the violation of the law.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Wabash
Railway Company, the New York. Chicago ~ ST.
L~ackawanna * Hudson had established joint
tariffs OF rates and charges upon shipments OF
locomotive brakes over a continuous line and
route operated by them from East st. Louis 10
Philadelphia at 3Sl2 cents per hundred pounds.
The charge Is that the American Brake company
was allowed q rebate. a charge OF but 3ll2 cents
per hundred pounds being charged against II.
Nyckoff was released on 800 600 bail. which
was furnished BIZ Loyal Farragut. An exalnina-
ton VIII be had before Commissioner Shields on
Friday.
Personal. Local ami General Notes.
c. G. McNeal has been appointed commercial
agent OF the Flint & Pere Marquette road, with
headquarters in Toledo.
The Wagner Palace-car Company is asking
the assent OF its stockholders to increase is
capital stock from $I3. oO0,O 600 TO 100 900.
Traffic managers OF the Eastern trunk lines
are promising 70 relieve the Western roads OF
their great scarcity of cars by the 10th OF next
month.
Edgar Hill, who was general freight agent OF
the Big Four and received $4,000 a year. now.
as general manager OF a cordage company, gets
$4,000 q year.
The lines which haul the anthracite Goals out
OF Pennsylvania are moving the largest tonnage
ever known. the production OF the mines and the
consumption being unprecedented.
The Erie railroad Is now doing the largest east
u JAk ill IA Ao hActOIl. VII ~
day last l,s22 loaded cars. east-bOund, passed a
given point in the twenty-four hours.
The grand chief of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen announces that its rolls now show
a membership OF fifteen thousand. The organi-
cation Is but a little over two years old.
The Queen * Crescent company this week
placed an order with the Ohio Fails car-works.
Jeffers0nville. Ind, for four hundred new box
cars OF sixty thousand pounds capacity.
1t is stated that the ;reasurer's Office of the
Cincinnati. wabash ~ Michigan road will be re-
moved TO Cincinnati as soon as rooms can De
provided in the Big FOur's new Office building.
The New York Central is doing an enormous
business. and IL is said that It's net earnings for
October and November this year will be 5 per
cent In excess OF those OF the corresponding
months OF 1890.
The c., b. & @. has stopped temporarily the
loading or cars with grain on its western divis-
Ions until the blockade at Chicago can be par
uaIlS relieved. which Will be accomplished in
tT0 or three days.
It is now expected that by Dec. L the Balti-
more & Ohio road VIII use. ut Chicago, for its
passenger termina the Northern Pacific depot.
superintendent Wegg. OF the latter ROAD, is now
In baltimore arranging for the change.
The demand for Ohio coal is increasing the
earnings OF the Ohio Southern road. in which
several IndianapOlitans are interested. about
10000 a week. and had the road more cars the
exhibit would be even more favorable.
The mines OF Ohio are now shipping 800 car
loads OF coal a day, those of Illinois eight hun
dred per day. while Indiana mines. which should
be doing as much business as those of Ohio, are
shipping from fifty 10 seventy cars a day.
The troubles In the Clay county coalmines
begin 10 tell on the earnings OF the Chicago *
Eastern Illinois road. which for three months
past has been hauling from 200 to $50 carloads
q day 10 Chicago and other northern points.
The Lake Erie & Western is stringing a new
telegraph wire between Peoria and Sandusky.
TO be used as the company's private wire. The
business OF the road has become SO heavy that
additional telegraph facilities are greatly needed.
President Oakes, OF the Northern Pacific. who
was a Boston boy. has gone To New England to
spend THANKSGIVING To friends of the North
ern Pacific in New England he talks very hope
fully regarding the future of this great system.
Samuel Anderson has been appointed assist
ant chief train dispatcher OF the Pennsylvania
quarters at LoganspOrt. Mr.. Anderson began
telegraph service on the Big Four, at Lafayette,
Ind.
The manner in which the Nickel plate and Chi
cago 4 Alton are working together is creating a
good deal of feeling, and the general passenger
agents have asked vice-chairman Donald, OF the
Central Traffic Association, TO investigate mat
ters.
The immense freight traffic has greatly in
creased the demand for power. Every loco
motive-works in the country is now busy. and
those which had in the dull times constructed a
number OF engines have disposed of them ut good
prices.
The new shops of the Toledo, st. Louis & Kan
sas City road at Frankfort. Ind. are now In oper-
alton. The machinery Is new. and some very
good work is being done. When in full opera
ZION they viii be a valuable acquisition for
frankfort.
Seven American roads are now
with the compound bald OF locomotives. Three
locomotive-works are now building this type of
engines. the general construction OF which is
much the same. The great feature with the com
pound engine Is It's fuelsaying qualities.
The Chicago. Burlington 81 Quincy has dropped
out entirely from the board OF rulings and is
paying commissions openly. IT Is stated. to ticket
agents on the Lake Erie 4 Western. the Cincin.
natl. Hamilton & Dayton. the Monon, the Wa
hash and n number of other lines.
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contracted TO haul a theatrical troupe from Den
yer 10 Chicago I'm thirty hours or forfeit 800 FOR
every hour the train was late. IL reached Chi
cago six hours late. and n forfeit OF 5000 was
paid. leaving but little revenue for hauling the
train.
Train AZ on the Big Four line. which is the
aud Buffalo by the Big -Four. will he run east OF
indianapolis over the old Bee-line division. and
IL scheduled at twenty-five miles an hour. which
means thirty miles an hour much OF the dis.
tance.
Traffic Manager Parker. of the Lake Erie &
Western. takes this position on the commission
any road chooses to pay commissions to agents
on tho Lake Eric * Western he does not object
10 the ticket agent receiving them, so long as be
gets as long a haul on the l., T. * W. lines rs
could be gotten in routing the passenger.
ft Is announced that the new mail-train serv
ice over the Pennsylvania lines Will go into effect
Jan. i. The cars for these fast trains are now
building: Under this schedule mail from New
York. Philadelpnia. Baltimore and Washington
VIII DC received tnree 10 Tour hours quicker than
A now Is. The train will leave New York at . A.
n, aud reach Chicago at $50 A ~ next day
With the completion OF the viaduct on Virginia
avenue and the rearranging OF the tracks of the
Big Four road. the tracks under the Noble street
bridge viii be practically abandoned, doing away
with what has been one OF the most fatal points
on the Big -Four lines: thirteen men having beer
killed outright or dying from injuries received
by being struck with this bridge as trains passed
under IL.
Some large blocks OF Pullman stock have re-
Gently changed hands. and the superstition was
that the Nanderbilts, who own the controlling
stock OF the Wagner company. were buying it
and IN time IL would result In a consolidation OF
the two sleeping-esr companies; but persons who
claim 20 have positive knowledge say that &
IL the Standard OIL Company which is geitine
the Pullman stock.
William Miller. master mechanic OF the Column,
bus A Hooking Valley road, on Dee. l viii take
q similar position on tire Chicago s. Eastern iii
n0is. For twenty years Mr.. Miller was a machin
tEt IN the I. III. a / shops AT Terre Haute. Mas
ter Mechanic Cory, OF the c., II. < ID, who wa,