The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-28

Waterman. Speaking of the matter yes
terday. Murray said he had no transactions
whatever with Waterman since several
years ago. when Waterman was his clerk
In a trans-mississippI railway Office.
The latest report is that the stock of the
Evansville * Terre Haute and of the
Louisville. Evansville x ST. Louis roads
will not materially change hands. but Mr..
Mackey will retire from the presidency of
both and men will be elected who will
4 Eastern Illinois. Messrs. Mackey, Hop
kins and are still in New York
city.
Never in the history of the Pennsylvania
lines west has the freight blockade been so
general as at the present time, the remark
applying to every division. On the Louis
willie X Chicago division six more engines
conld be used TO great advantage: on the
Indianapolis division fifteen more, and on
all Chicago divisions the need of more pow
er Is more apparent than on the divisions
named.
The Lake Shore. the Baltimore & Ohio
and the Big -Four have begun n fight at
Sandusky. o., TO prevent the Colum bus IL
Sandusky Short-line constructing suitable
terminals at that point, and some sharp
litigation Is looked for. The three roads
have obtained an injunction restraining
the City Council from granting certain
privileges given by an ordinance passed at
the last meeting OF the Oo1ncil.
On the first of December Howard l.. S.
Bean. nov in the offic e of General Superin-
tendent Peck. of the Big Four. goes into
the office of John L. Rose, superintendent
of transportation. as his assistant. and C..
r.. Irwin. chief clerk in the maintenance of
way office. also BECOMES chief clerk of Gen.
eneral Superintendent Peck, and on that
date a Dumber of other changes In minor
positions which arc In the line of promo
ton will occur.
There is an effort making to induce the
Big Four people to extend the Aurora
branch to Madison. over the line once sur
veyed by the Madison, Bedford IL Browns
town company. which went to pieces be-
fore the road was built. 1t is hardly prob.
able thatAPresiden Ingalls, will make any
move of this kind until he sees if the Big
-Four cannot arrange to get into Louisville
over the Ohio 81 Mississippi from North
Vernon. A few weeks will doubtless de-
eide the latter question.
James Carlton, general passenger agent
of the Chicago & Alton. created a smile
last week in the meeting of general pas
senger AGENTS held at Chicago by. in the
course of his remarks on worlds fair
rates. alluding to them as varying all the
way from q high and respectable rate
down to the partial insanity rate of one
dollar from New York to Chicago, as pro-
posed by the Mail n Express, of New
York city. He added that some of the
propositions are superlatlvely prepos-
terous.
The Pullman and Wagner companies run
o line of slee jointly between st. Louis
and Washington over the Big Four and the
Chesapeake & Ohio roads. The latter has
put in the line two of it's new aud elegant
slcepinG-cars. while the Pullman com pany
continues tn run o couple of rebuilt Wood
run cars, which is causing unfavOrable
among the patrons of the line.
The Pullman company seems to still cling
to the idea that. with a majority of the
indianapolis lines, its second class equip
ment will do.