The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-24
PULLMANS FOR VETERANS
One Road Alone Hes Chartered Niue'y-Six
Palace Ca-s-Rig Suit Against the Nonon
Prosperous Division Of Firemen.

Palace Ca-s-blg Suit Against the Aonon
Prosperous Division of Firemen.
Passenger men are now turning their at
tention to the Grand Army of the Republic
business, and tho rush to Washington
promises to exceed that to Denver, Kansss
City or the political conventions Mr..
BrunEer. of the PENNEY lvania lines. states
that already ninety-six Pullman cars have
been chartered west of here for this bust
Dess TO 60 to Washington over their lines.
Dir. Bronson states that twenty-six sleep
Ing cars have been engaged for this iDime-
date territory TO go over the Big Four and
the Chesapeake a. Ohio roads. On the 18th
and 18th the Chesapeake & Ohio will run
but few freight trains il any, as there will
be twenty or more scheduled passenger
trains on those days over the road. Tho
Lake Erie x Western threw o bomb into
The passenger camp by proposing TO take
the u. A. X. people IRON here over tnelr
line. turning them over to the Baltimore az
Ohio at Fosforia, and certain passenger
men were greatly relieved W hen telegram
from. General Passenger Agent Scull said
that the Il. q q. had all the business 1t
conld take care of. Ii leaked out yester-
day that but one OF the local Grand Army
W
take for Washington.
Prosperous Ore animation.
George p. Kern. secretary of Eureka
Division of the Brotherhood of Firemcn, of
Indianapolis, stated yesterday that at no
time in the history of the organization have
matters moved along more smoothly than
now. He had talked of late with repre-
tentative men of this divisIon, and all
beemed satisfied with their pay and the
treatment they were receiving from the
railroad companies. This division has be-
come one of the largest in the brotherhood.
SOW having POS mem hers. increasing seven
~ In the last eight months. In its treas
nry It has 5000. and there Is no fri ction
between the membership. The executive
committee oil this division has arranged
with the Cincinnati. Hamilton Day ton
for n grand excursion and outing at Woods
dale Island Park. Ohio, on Sunday. sept.
IL. The train will leave at 7:3O >. ". max
ing stops oaly at Nashville and Conners-
vile, and the low. rate of sl.50
"trip. The Grand Lodge will be
In session during the week ut Cincinnati,
when there will assemble abont five hun
bred Delegates from all parts Of the United
lodges of that city and this have arranged
the proposed picnic The c.. II. & ID. has
placed At their disposal train of ten cars
in addition there will be run train every
hour from Cincinnati TO the park; fare for
round trip 50 CENTS The session OF the
Grand Lodge will DO more than usually
interesting. The grand officers terms ex-
pire. but It 10 expected all tho old officers
will be reelected. Few changes will be
made in the constitution aud bylaws.
the present laws, which were adopted at
MINI ca polls in 1883, have given good salts
faction. The order Is in prosperous con-
dition, having over ". 900 members. The
growth has been healthy. averaging sbont
i've hundred members every three months.
Big Suit Against the Monon.
Suit to compel the Louisville New Al
bany & Chicago Railroad Company to rem
der an accounting of its taxable property
was begun By Attorney general Hunt in
the United States Circuit Court at Chi
ssgo yesterday. The action ia one of debt
and damages aggregating $3.50, 1000. The
declaration sets forth that the defendant
corporation was incorporated under the
Iawsof the State of Indiana in 1896 IL has
twenty miles or more of tracks in Illinois,
together with locomotives, side-tracks and
rolling stock. Under the law the defend
ant Is required to file with tue State Audi
Tor an itemized list of It's property In Hi
uois together with It's capital stock, mar
ket value, total indebtedness. ETC.. for tax
able purposes. During the six years of the
existence of the road, It Is declared. the
corporation has failed and refused to OBJ.
serve the law. for what reason is not
stated. and the dams ges asked would about
compensate tho people of Illinois for the
trouble occssIoned by such refusal.
Ouiwittine the scarpers.
A special meeting of the Western Psssen-
ger Association was held at Chicago, yes
terday. to consider o proposition of the
Chicago. Milwaukee a. Sc. Paul road to
make an east-bound rate of 90 between
Omaha and Chicago. The object of the
proposed reduction was to meet the rate
made by brokers in scalping the return
portions of Denver excursion tickets issued
on account of the Knights Iempla con-
clave. The So. Paul was induced to with
draw its application by an agreement on
the part of its competitors to take immedf-
ate steps 10 stop the manipulation of these
tickets. The plan adopted Is to order con-
ductors to take up the return portions of
the tickets when presented on trains leav-
ing Denver. and to give each passenger q
train check good only for continuous pas
sage to Chicago.
Personal. Local and General Notes
An official of the Terrs Haute car works
reports plenty of business. On Monday
last there were i've thousand cars under
contract
Freight traffic on the +. H. 81 l.. division
of the VandalIa has so increased that four
heavy freight engines have been ordered
for this division.
In the week ending Aug. 20 16.1S7 cara
were transferred over the Belt road and l.
04l carloads of stock were handled by the
Belt-road engines.
The Chicago IL Eastern Illinois company
is using q couple of hundred colored men
on the work of doubling it's track with
very satisfactory results.
The Chicago & Western Indiana CON-
PAM has purchased several tons of steel
rail- weighing eighty pounds to the yard,
to place IN Its main track.
It lie announced that all the property Of
the New England Terminal has been pur-
chased by the New York, New Haven IL
Hartford railroad for 3. "a. 600.
Assistant General Passenger Agents
Dering and Chesborough. of the Pennsyl.
wanna and Vandalis lines. were in Louis
vile yesterday on Official business.
William Mulleins. general purchasing
agent of the Pennsy lvania Company. has
resigned, and the vacancy has been filled
by the appointment of Z. b. Tayl or.
The traffic of the Pennsylvania lines at
Richmond has so increased that an addi-
al cir nd m