The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-07-28

terday on his train were thirty-fve pas
eengers on full tariff tickets for New YORK.
Other condu ctors, he stated, were noting
the increase in east-Jound business on
their trains since rates were restored.
lis stated that hereafter 1875 is to be
the rate either way between Indianapolis
and Chicago, or cents per mile. the Penn
sylvania Company declining to take any
Steps looking to restoration of rates to
tariff.
ID. j. Mackey, president of the several
Evansville roads, tells the people in New
1 ork that there Is not the least grounds Tor
the report that the Chicago * Eastern ILL.,
nois Is TO parallel the Evansville q Terre
Hautv road between Evansville and Terre
Haute.
l.. A. Boyd, general Superintendent of the
Indianapolis Decatur * Western road, who
has been confined at home for thirteen
weeks with rheumatic troubles. Is to be
taken to one of the health resorts OF WIS
eonsin. He will be carried in the private
car of President Hammond.
What the rate will be next month to
Denver still seems to be unsettled. The
Santa Fe can hardly be blamed for taking
one of the Denver lines paid $500 rebate on
the advertised rates TO secure one division
of the knights Templars in Indiana
at Indianapolis It requires twenty nine
engines TO do the day and night switching
In the Big -Four yards TO the Belt road and
switches. At Cincinnati 1t requires nifty
to do the day and night work. At Indian
apolls 50 per cent. more cars are Swltcneu
than at Cincinnati.
J. w. Conney chairman of the executive
committee of the National administers AS
ISOLATION. who has been on the Pacific coast
since the annual meeting at Lincoln. Neb..
returned yesterday. While on the Pacific
coast several new divisions of the associa-
tion were organized, one at San Francisco
numbering thirty persons.
DIT. Talbot, medical examiner OF the
Pennsylvania Voluntary Relief Assocla-
ton, states that never in the history OF
the organization, three years. has the MEM
bership increased as rapidly as 10 has this
month. Since July 10 he has passed forty
nine of the employees, and yesterday he re-
ceived twenty applications.
The projectors of the Columbus 81 San
dusky Short-line. paralleling the Big Four,
are experiencing good deal of trouble In
securing the rieht Of way, having to con-
denim most of IL. The road Is not needed.
consequently the feeling is bitter against
1t on the part of many OF the property
holders through whose ground 1t passes.
The Indianapolis * Vincennes is re-
ceiving several miles more of steel rail. and
by Aug. the road will be laid with steel.
with the exception of ten miles. from In
dianapolis to Vincennes. and Su perrin
tendent Mansfield is laboring dIlig emily
with General Manager Wood. of the p enn-
sylvania Company, to send enough rails to
complete the work next month.
As trouble often arises from persons " no
60 to Bethany Park. on the In indianapolis "
Vincennes road, failing to get their tickets
stamped to return on, little explanation
will help matters. 1t is the Bethany Park
people. not tho |. IL V. company, that re-
quire that tickets, to be good to return OH.
must be stamped, for the reason that this
coup pom is the one the park people settle on
with the railroad company. Last year peo-
pie were put off of the train for not getting
their tickets stamped properly. which they
have ample time to do, on the. grounds.
Train 5, on the Indianapolis division of
the Pennsylvania lines, IL now the fastest
scheduled train between Richmond and In
dianapolis. its schedule time being one
hour and thirty minutes from Richmond to
anapolis, and as it seldom leaves Rich
mond on time, as " as the case yesterday, 1t
daily does some fast running. Yesterday
the run from Richmond to the Belt road
sixty-hve and q half miles, was covered In
one hour and twenty minutes, stops at rail-
road crossings at Cambridge and Dunreith
to be deducted. Flfty-seven miles OF the
distance was covered In exactly ffty-slx
minutes. The train is fast mail train, and
hauls but four cars.
Under the reorganization of the freight
department. of the Pennsy ly ania lines west
of Pittsburg there are to be two general
agents, ID. L. McCabe. as stated yesterday,
TO be general freight agent of the p. C., g.
IL st. L.. tSouth westerDl system. and L. u.
Colo general freight agent of the North
western system. As the creation of the
| position of freight traffic manager of the
Pennsylvania lines west of PittsburR is eX-
citing some surprise it might be we'll to
| state how the step was brought about.
William Stewart. general freight agent of
the Pennsylvania Company. was offered an
increase in salary of $1,000 per annum and
the title OF freight traffic manager of n sys-
tenn which is a strong competitor of the
ux-Ix 10 N4rx, n afofx n
| in the service of the company, he being a
freight man of unusual ability. his salary
was advanced to the figures offered by the
competing lines, and the position of freight
traffic manager created and he appointed
to fill 1t.