The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-17

portance, IA its coal costs but s1.a0 per ton,
but on roads where coal costs s. to 81 per
ton it would be quite an item in the life of
an engine.
On the Big Four system. not including
the Seneca division or the Peoria q East
ern lines. there have been placed under the
track. IN the last ten months, $4,000 cross
ties, and 10 miles of heavy steel rail laid.
On the Peoria & Eastern. In that time.
q .c00 cross-ties have been put in and hf-
teen miles of new steel rails laid. but not of
so heavy a>pattern as that laid on the Big
Four.
The Big Four has q genuine freight block
ade. Last night IL had over six hundred
loaded cars here for st. Louis, and its east
bound business is equally delayed. Yester-
day. for lack of yard room. sixty loaded
cars were put on side tracks of the Penn
sylvania Company, and so heavy Is It's pas-
senger business now that but little head
way can be made with freights before next
Monday.
Orders have been aiven that Train IS. on
arriving from Chicago over the Bug -Four,
shall leave Indianapolis on time for Cln-
%cinnati. and If it's connections have not
carry the business. Train 81, on the Gin
%cinnati, Hamilton X Dayton. is to leave OF
time, letting the Monon's Chicago and Gin
cinnati train do the business of connections
for CINCINNATI.
There is no ground for the report that
the feQHsylVanla company QaS 1D1ugufdteQ
n war upon the order of Railway Telegraph
Operators. beginning at Toledo. John w.
Matthews was discharged. and from this
the rumor started. j. s. Morris. superln-
tendent of this division, says he has never
inquired whether a man belonged to the
order or not. and A. T.. WeIrch. division
operator. told a reporter of the Toledo
Blade that Matthews was discharged for
good reasons.
w. NJ. Grafton, who has been appointed
N IN az A 0fnaap IN oharna nf rho fnfar-
locking signals and switches at the Worlds
Columbian Exposition. has not severed his
connection with the pennsylvania Com
pany. as has been intimated. Mr.. Grafton
has developed the art of lnterlocking into
q science. and is at the head of an indie
pendent department on the Pennsylvanis
lines west of Pittsbnrg. The exposition
management is fortunate in securing q
share of his ime for next year.
1t Is . disgrace to the Pennsylvania Com
pany that its trains on the Chicago and
Louisville division are run with SO much
irregularity. The official records show
that already eight times this month
Train 10 has missed all its con-
in Louisville two to four hours late. and
last month seventeen times was this train
late. Were the Monon to make such a REQ
ord the papers would spread 1t broadcast.
1t Is time, say the patrons of the road, for
Superintendent Miller to take this matter
mp or take . back seat as regards the line
being q first-class one.
After the close OF the conference Of the
grand chiefs of the several brotherboods of
railroad mon with the Philadelphia &
Reading officials, Grand Chief Arthur said
all was satisfactory. 1--WE had q very
pleasant conference, and found in this case,
what / have always thought and believed,
that when two men get together who are
fair-mlnded and wish to reach q fair
decision. it does not take them very long to
get at one" He then said that of the three
men whose discharge had formed the grew
ance presented. one claimed that he was
ignorant OF the company's rules. and
did not disre gard them In Intentionally" This
man WAS accordingly reinstated. The
other two had signed the company's rules,
q their signatures were produced. These
men were not reinstated. President Mo
Leod agreed that the questions asked of
applicants for positions, as to connection
with labor organizations and willingness
to join the ResdinR Beneficial Society, will
not be asked upon the leased lines. but
will continue to be asked on the Reading
itself. This result shows that both sides
took a common sense view of affairs, aud
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