The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-30


information as TO what is going on. mum.
Der of Indianapolis shippers are I'm it."
but are not foolish eDough to answer iu-
quiries where information is likely to be
used in report TO Chairman blanchard.
Runor had it last night that the Wabash
and the Toledo, st. Louis IL Kansas City
were to meet the rate made BY the Wanda
liza; should they do so. this would let down
the bars and low rates would prevail Just
as the new crops begin to move actively.
The report is hardly probable. as the past
rail-and-water rate of the two lines Is
more profitable. IN each case the l.. st. L..
IL X. Z. getting the haul the whole length
of their lines.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
1t is stated that within the next ten days
grading for the Indianapolis. Logansport
* Chicago road will begin.
William n. Jackson. secretary of the
Union Railway Company, left yesterday
for Vermont, to be absent two weeks.
r. l.. Willard, general agent of the Rail-
way Officials and Employed Association
for the Northwest, is in the city on official
business.
with having the largest excursion 10 Mag
ara Falls thus for this season, carrying
2, $50 people.
survey of a road from Gallon. on the
Big Four. Decline division. to Millersburg.
o.. is n progress. The road is TO be called,
Al ou1it, buc EbotcIu OcutIbis
The earnings of the Whitewater road for
June were 60 per cent. In excess of those of
June. is91. an increase In both freight and
passenger earnings being shown.
1t is believed that Lafayette will to day.
by large majority, vote in favor of giving
$50, 600 TO the Louisville, New Albany ~
Chicago road to locate its shops there.
The Pennsylvania Company yesterday
announced $50 round-trlp rate, Columbus,
o., to Denver. and 1t will not be surprise
If to-day some road drops below that rate.
S. ID. Mason, assistant chief engineer of
the Northern Pacific road. formerly of
Logansport, Ind, has been appointed as
sistant purchasing agent of the Northern
Pacific lines.
Edward Watson, who was chief clerk of
John Evan at the time he was superin-
tendent of the second division of the Monon,
Is to be his chief clerk on Mr.. Evans re-
turn to the Monon.
T. X. Beeson, freight agent of the White
water road at Connersville. has resigned
and is succeeded by a. E. Dow. agent at
Laurel, VINO in turn is succeeded by X.
Tracy. of Metamora.
l. l.. Lockwood, who represents the N.
Y. c. & st. l.. road at Chicago. and one of
the directors of the company, is in the city,
accompanied By his family, who are the
guests of Mrs. A. nj. Noe.
The official report shows that nearly
twice the number of loaded cars were
handled In June on the private switches
leading to Indianapolis industries that
there were In June. 1891.
The employees in the shops of the Penn
sylvanla Company at Fort Wayne will
have their annual picnic on Aug.6. 1t will
require twenty-fou coaches to carry the
employees and their families.
The citizens of Marion aud Somerset.
Ind. are moving to induce the projectors of
the new road from Cincinnati to Chicago to
IN OIL hai va W. WI hi oh
are little off the originally laid-out line.
The Big Four has advertised for bids for
seventeen-lever lnterlOcklng signal and
switch at the crossing of the st. Louis di-
vision of the Big Four and the Belt road.
The plant complete will cost nearly $4,000.
John Asbury, the engineer of the Penn
sylvania Company who was injured In the
yards of the company at Logansport. q
few days ago, Is in a critical condition.
His father and mother, who reside in Ken
tucky, have been summoned to his bedside.
Monday last Trainmaster Matthews. of
the Chicago q Indiana Coal road. issued an
order To the effect that ali employees found
intoxicated or lettering about saloons
would be discharged. On Wednesday five
of the trainmen were discharged for having
paid no attention TO this order.
w. f. HOW'LL. who has been in the serv-
| ice of the Delaware. Lackawanna & West
ern road since June i, 1868. and for the last
| twenty years general passenger agent of
| the road, is preparing TO spend q couple of
months In Europe, the first rest of that
length of time he has ever taken.
| The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engin-
GERS, Trainmen and Order of Railway
Telegraphers of the roads in Pennsylvania
will meet at WIlkesberre tomorrow. to
consider the formation of State federation.
Committees from every division of the
orders named in the State will be In au.
tendance.
1t is probable that the headquarters of
the superintendent of the Indianapolis d.
vision of the Louisville. New Albany &
Chicago road, which position John Evan
takes on Monday next VIII be IndlanapO-
lis, it being the proper place for such an
official TO be located. The matter had not
been fully decided yesterday.
| An official of the Pennsylvania lines Is
quoted as saying that the Pennsylvania
lines lost 100000 through the late east
bound rate war. He says it could not have
come in worse time for them. inst as their
| summer-tOurlst and AtlantIc-coast busl-
ness set in. which would have been carried
at full rates but for this rate war.
| Morris Wuerpel. of St LOUIS. an old and
well known railroad man. has devised q
| pneumatic interlocking signal and SWITCH
| which is highly spoken of. land a company
has been formed to manufacture it. +. T..
Lapham, formerly with the lndiAnapOlia
| Switch and Frog Company. has been APP
| pointed general manager of the new COM
| pany.
| The Louisville, New Albany 81 Chicago
| road earned In the third week of July S6i,-
| t65; increase over the corresponding week
! of 1891, 1926. The Toledo, ST. Louis 81
| Kansas City. $4,000; increase this year,
J S4.2S4. The Chicago IL Eastern Illinois,
] So. 600 increase this year, 800. The Lake
Erie Il Western. SG6. 6O6; decrease this ear.
| SS.067.
A contractor who has been investigating
| the matter says that there will be more
railroad building in'Indiana 81 Ohio in the
! next eighteen months than In any year
since 1877. He THINKS four hundred miles
| will be completed in this State including
| the $50 miles which the Wabash people are
| now building across tbs northern part of
| the State.
| A certificate of consolidation of tho New
| England Western railroad with the
/ Poughkeepsie Bridge and Railroad Com
| pany, forming the Philadel phia, Reading ~
| New England Railroad Company. has been
| filed with the New York Secretary of State.
| The capital of the new corporation is So 600 :
/ co.,. At the head of the directors is A. A.
| Mcleod as presidents.
| The hearing of the charges of the Wa
| bash against the Missouri Pacific railroad
of transgresslng the limitation OF rate
| regulations of the Western Passenger AS
| ISOLATION set for yesterday at the
Southern Hotel in st. Louis. but was con-
| timed on account of the unavoda liable alb
| sence of the chairman OF the ASSOCIATION,
| Caldwell The dispute originated over the
| limitation of tickets from Kansas City to
| the East.
! The Mackev lines beino short of oral