The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-16

says such talk is the sheerest nonsense. and
that in his opinion the Wabash will be
made more of q Chicago line than 1t has
ever been.
East-Bound Rates to Be Advanced.
At the meeting of the freight department.
of the Central Traffic Association at Chi
cago q resolution was adopted recommend
ing that rates on live hogs be advanced to
the basis of 90 cents per one hundred
pounds. Chicago to Now York, and that the
rates or grain and grain products. pro-
visions and bulk meats be restored TO the
basis of the Official classification, taking
effect Monday, Oct. 10. This proposal will
be submitted to the joint committee of the
Trunk-line and Central Traffic associations
for approval.
PERSONAL, Local and General Notes. ~
II. C. Diehl, general manager of tho In
t~erstate Dispatch, is in the city on official
business.
Joseph Ramsey, jr., general manager OF
the Big Four lines, returned from the East
yesterday.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day ton will
have five special trains out of here on Satur-
day and three on Sunday for Washington.
they coming to them from the Vandalia
and Monon.
j. Fl. Martin, ticket agent at the Union
Station. has gone to Salt Lake City, and IL
IL nO0eTstOOQ tDat DeIOre he returns ne VIII
marry a young Indy from Indianapolis who
il visiting friends there.
James McCrea, first vice president of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg. and
other high officials on the Western lines
are in Chicago looking after the extensive
Improvement in progress there. o.,
}. III. Barrett, formerly general superln-
tendent of the CINCINNATI. Hamilton IL
Dayton. has assumed the duties of general
superintendent of the Buffalo. Rochester &
Pittsburg. vice Geo. w. Bartlett. resigned.
Austin Bulman, the Peoria g. Eastern
conductor recently discharged. has had his
case reopsned, and will have a rehearing
to-day, as will tho engineer who was rum
ming the train of which he was the conduc-
tor.
Thomas Meegan has been cashier of the
chops of the Pennsylvania Company at
Fort Wayne for thirty years. and the COM
pany has voluntarily given him an assist
ton.
The new freight engines which the Big
Four has contracted for will weigh. engine
alone, ID 900 pounds; tao passenger engine
will weigh 1921 900 pounds. with $1,000
pounds resting on the drivers and $4,000 on
the engine truck.
Although the roads over the West refused
at first to give any stop-ovcr privileges on
the G. A. K. tickets west of Washington,
il is learned that a number of lines. the
Ohio Il Mississippi being one of them, have
%repudiated on such an agreement.
The St. Charles car,works will. next
week. delivering new coaches TO
the Vandalia until the order for ten IS
filled. Those coaches are guaranteed to be
the most complete In every respect ever
turned ont by any car-worko in this coun-
try.
Samuel Thomas, president. and other
Eastern capitalists interested in the Louis
Vile. New Albany Il Chicago. will be in
the city on Wednesday TO attend the an-
nual meeting of the stockholders. after
which the party will make On inspection
of the lines.
improvements to its waterways on the
Eastern division. At Saltwater river and
several other streams stone abutments are
to take the place of piles. on which the
bride es now rest. which were driven when
the road was built.
ST. Paul and the North west is a deeper one
than has been supposed. The first-class
rate ia now 81 cents: formerly IL was Sl.20
per one hundred pounds. and much the
same ratio is the cut on the other i've
classes of west-bound freights.
The Big Four yesterday was obliged to
decline G.. A. r. business for Washington,
every sleeping coaSh that the company can
provide having been chartered aud also
fifty of the company's passenger coaches.
Al oDlb0 1op0o w " ouul-
tional equipments by this morning.
Train 81 on the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton. running between Indianapolis and
Cincinnati. has been in operation two
years. and has become q paying train. 1t
is the fastest tram run in the West. and
seldom runs into Cincinnati late, never. if
it gets Its ST. Louis connection on time.
Sumner Collins, general superintendent
of the Louisville, New Albany * Chicago.
was in the city yesterday, spending most
of the time at the fair grounds. The COM
pany has just completed two platforms,
each two hundred feet long by thirty wide,
upon which TO unload heavy machinery
and live stock.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton
management Is pushing improvements on
the c., Ii. 81 l.. division. A seventy-two-
pound steel rail has been laid between
Hamilton and College Corner. more is TO
be laid this side OF College Corner and q
now iron bridge at Connersville. over
Whitewater. has been contracted for.
The new engines built by the PennsyI-
vania Company, ut its shops in Fort Wayne,
are making n remarkable record, hauling
thirteen to fourteen cars over the fifty-foot
grades of the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne *
Chicago at q speed of fifty miles an hour.
The engines are of the t~en-wheel ype,
have 6s-inch driving wheels. l9x24-inch
cylinders, 23-inch ports and the Allen link
motion.
With yesterday the low rates west bound
ended. unless some road breaks Its agree
ment For some time past So 10 has been
the selling rate TO Kansas City and the bas-
ing rate TO all Western points, but begin
ming with TODAY the selling and hasing
rate Will be sl2.5 30. indianapolis to Kansas
City Cheap travel on Knights TempIars
and knights oil Pythias tickets east ard
ended with yesterday.
IL is stated that the tickle agents of all
the lines are now taking commissions as
freely as ever. None of the roads is pay
ing as large commissions as before the at
tempt was made to abolish their pay ment.
| Even the liberal Chicago & Alton has heen
loath 10 pay COMMISSIONS on business which
has been carried at the low rates of the