The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-30


tlcally absolute.
General Rosdmaster Morris, of the N. Y,
+. IL o.. will tomorrow leave to take the
position of chief engineer of the Erie road
proper. 1t Is understood that w. Z. Irwin,
formerly chief engineer of the Bee-line.
Will succeed Mr.. Morris on the n. Y, p.
e. o.
I'm talking about worlds fair rates."
says q passenger man. 1.-The thirty-ive-
hour trains from New York to Chicago are
spoken of in a scornful manner vet only o
few years ago thirty-six-hour trains be-
tween those cities were thought to be very
luxurious"
Grading has been resumed on the extern
sion OF the Chicago Southeastern road to
Brazil. Fifty teams and a hundred men
are engaged in the work. and IL. Moore.
general utility man CT the road. says tue
grading will be completed to Brazil by the
middle of December.
The rate war is beginning to affect local
rates of the roads In the Chicago and Ohio
River Traffic Association terrItory; the Mo-
non. for instance. must sell a ticket from
Frankfort 10 Cincinnati. or the Big Four
from Lafayette to Cincinnati. as low as
from Chicago to Cincinnati. $3.50.
The Youngstown Car manufacturing
Company is building several hundred coal
cars for the Lake Shore road. equipped with
contract last week with the Brooks locomO-
fireworks for ten engines, of the ten-wheel
type. to be used In passenger service.
Patrick Ryan, roadmaster Of the west
ern division Of the N. Y. p. 81 o.. with
headquarters at Gallon, D., has been on
as q section man. just after the company
was recognized from the Atlantic q Great
Western to the N. Y. p. 81 o. he was APP
pointed roadmaster of this division.
The closing of the outside ticket Offices
in the vicinity of the Union Station is
again heinu aUifatad Tba uanarat nQaaap.
ger agents admit that they are but little
else than scalping Offices. aud, therefore,
rate demoralizers. Rates are named every
day in these offices which an agent in an
uptown Office would not think Of offering
or selling a ticket on.
The Hartwell Railway Company. Of
Georgia. has been placed Id the hands of u
receiver. Judge Newman. of the United
states Court. has issued an order appoint
ing l.. Ii. Benson to take charge of the
property. which is a branch of the Rich
mond IL DanvIlle road. The petition for a
receiver was in the name of T. j. Libden.
The receiver will take charge Dec. 1.
III. NJ. Mounts yesterday received news
from j. b. Stafford. formerly with the
M0non. now q division su pe~rintendent on
a Pennsylvania road, stating that his wife
had been very i'll with diphtheria, and that
his daughter Bessie died with the same
disease on Saturday night. The remains
Will be shipped to Madison for burial as
them.
The Central Traffic Association has passed
resolution defining how much baggage
a road Will be permitted to carry free. The
trainers of the resolution seem TO have for
gotten that the soliciting passenger agents
make all baggage contracts with theatrical
and military companies, and the year 1898
will form no exception. When the time
c0De to make q contract the resolution
will be- most certainly disregarded.
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lines. writes q friend in this city that the
Fitcnburg road. on which he is the super
iDtendent of the eastern division, is doing
the heaviest business in its history. It
has outgrown it's equipment and its track
facilities, although it has seveEty-hve
miles of double track out of Boston.
The crowding of freight interferes with
the movement of the passenger trains to
an annoy ing extent.
A traffic manager of q road not in the
citation remarked yesterday that he
thought if q road showed an in
crease in passenger earnings. even if
such a fight was in progress. it was moth
ing TO boast of. Said he. Were any i'm
portant station on our line to fail, each
month. to show ar increase in passen ger
earnings over the corresponding month of
the preceding year | should at once inves.
tigate and ascertain the cause"
meeting of the rate clerks of Chicago
anu OulO hlVtT llu6S, anu OF the southern
Passenger Association. is in Progress at
Savannah. Ca. The object of the meeting
is to establish divisions of winter tourist
rates to Florida and the Southeast for the
season of 1928. Yesterday 1t was def
nitely settled that oil roads south of the
Ohio river and ST. Louis should participate
in the cost of publishing u rate-sheet,
showing the divisions of rates from the
regular rate basing points, CINCINNATI, Ev-
ansville. Louisville and st. Louis.
Jndno Rlodgatf hos ;o.nan as, orIar - 81,
United states District Court. at Chicago,
vacating the judgments In contempt de-
creed against Charles Counselman and j.
Z. Peasley. vice-Dresident of the Chicago,
answer questions ~propounded by the grand
jury in the interstate cases last year. The
judgments were fines of $500 and commit.
ment until paid. They stood in the nature
OF perpetual liens upon the gentlemen.
Judge Blodgett entered the order of vaca-
ton in pursuance of the decision of the
Supreme Court In the Counselman case.
The Pennsylvania Railway Company, az
sOOn as Congress and the local authorities
grant permission, will begin a system OF
improvements in and about Washington
which will cost in the neighborhood OF
$1,000. 600 before they are completed. The
question of reducing the time between New
York and Washington to four and one-hali
hours Is an important one TO the PennsyI
vania officials. and they regard the idea al
an entirely practical one. In the pursuit
of this end the engineers of the company
have been investigating the road, and fol
some months past extensive alteration
have been in progress.
Six of the general officers and eight OF
the division snper~intendents on the Bis
-Four commenced as telegraph operators
There are ten chief neutrality-suspicious. or
the system who receive BIS per month. ar
average of six tra~in-dIspatchers to each
division who receive 500 per month, anC
some l40 agents and telegraph operators al
stations on the system who receive from
$i5 to S1c0 per month. according to the i'm
~portance Of the station. In speaking o.
this an official of the road said that no DO
sition in railroad service brought abour
more promotions than does the telegraph,
department.. Ii an operator is bright and
disposed to be exact IN his work, he soor
finds himself advancing in position ant
salary increasing.
Articles of incorporation were lied, yes
terdsy, In the Illinois Secretary of State
office for the Sc. Paul., Gettysburg &
Southern Railway Company. which pro
poses to construct q railroad from q pOin-
on the northern line of Illinois, In 10 Da
viess county. in q southeasterly direction
to Waverly. Morgan county, with n brancl
at q point IN Fulton county TO Peoria. ant
another branch from the same point, in
soutnwesterly direction. to a point on tn,
Mississippi river. The principal off CO will
be in Chicago. The capital stock is Sc, coo,
600, and the lncorporstors are: John A
Gray and A. &. Atherlon. of Lewiston, III.
William NJ. Van Northwick. of Batavia
ILL.,; Edward A. Temple, of Des Moines, la.
T.. NJ. Stuart, s. LII. Mallory and D.. ]