The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-29

a failure before really undertaken. Three
OF the lines have withdrawn from the
until Jan. ! it is thought no line will act
In the matter further. The whole trouble
was over the payment Of exorbitant com
missions on passenger business
General Superintendent Deul, OF the
Union Pacific, has been appointed by Re
civer TruInbuI a superintendent of car
service of the Union Pacific, Denver q Gulf
railroad.
Jan. 6 has been settled as the date for
the arbitration proceedings between the RIO
Grande Western and a number OF It's con-
n relation ba os 20 sre the
Missouri Pacific Burlington and the Atch-
ison.
One of the Garstang type of engines in
Four. No. 49,. yesterday hauled the South
western Limited from Paris to Terre
Haute, nineteen miles. in eighteen minutes
cen miles in seventeen minutes Ihese
engines are developing remarkable speed
with heavy trains. The train hauled yester-
day was equal to hauling five Pullman cars
\ statistician In railway matters has
looked Up the default In interest on bones
railways the LAST twelve months. ana mas
that the bonGholdeTs will receive Sl2, Wo,0O
less interest on bonds they hold in the year
which will end with June 80, 1885,, than tney
did in the year ending June 80, 1893. The
statistician, In speaking OF the matter, SAID
If the bondholders are to suffer 20 sucn an
preferred or common, come in?
Edward B. Wall, who, during the cor
tinuance of the worlds fair, was assistant
to First Vice President McCrea, OF the
Pennsylvania Company, will on Jan. 1 take
the position OF assist ant TO General Man
ager Wood, with special supervision over
the purchasing department MIR. Wall is an
expert in all things pertaining to motive
power, having been superintendent OF mo-
tive power of the southwestern system for
several years. On the same date ii. Orv1lle
Hukill. who for many years has been as
sistant purchasing agent, will become pur>
chasing agent. Mr., Wall, who IS now IN
Europe, is expected home the early part OF
next week.
The advisory committee which controls
the workings Of the emgrant clearing
house i'm New York. which begins active
operations Jan. 1, was in session at Chicago
yesterday considering the best methods
OF dividing the business among the dIiIer-
ent roads. No effort will be made TO keep
the roads on equal proportions at the end
of each month. but matters VIII De 9e equal quail
is any great discrepancy between the
amount of business given TO the different
roads. Meanwhile. some OF the roads de
clare the agreement will not last year,
and they are looking for the long end early
in the proceeding
Capt E. T. Ciapp, private secretary of
Joseph Ramsey. jr president or the Peoria
Louis terminals, writes that the Peoria 81
Pekin is In good shape and is doing the
heavy business that has recently come to
it in great style. The terminal, as shown.
has plenty of business. December will
show a handsome increase of earnings over
tor of the Norwich e. Worcester, now part
of the New York Sc New England. Re-
garding the latter he says: Il see the
n Y & n. Z. has again gone into re-
cslvers' hands. 1t has a varied history:
then 1t was the Midland Land Damage
Associations property. 1t has been in re
csivers'. trustees, and most everybody's
where after leaving Boston. Providence or
Hartford It's lease of the old Norwich &
Worcester gave 1T a water line (Long
Island sound TO New York. but 1t run
mostly through a territory with little local
business and can't even earn its bread and
butter"
f. o. Mccormick. passenger traffic man.
ager of the Big Four, has a larger ac-
passenger official in the country. In speak
ing OF this, a friend said yesterday, that
he had method of making friends which
few men possess. In illustrating this he
cited the fact that when he came on the
Big Four, a few months ago, he practically
knew none of the conductors on the several
divisions; now all are known by him, and
they in turn feel a warm friendship for
him. A majority Of the conductors he has
met and talked with, telling them he Is a
warm personal friend of the conductors,
and wishes them to reciprocate by giving
careful attention to passengers who travel
on the Big Four lines and try to make
them feel at home on the trains. Mr.. Nc
CorInick takes the position that the ticket
agents and conductors OF passenger trains
can do more than passenger agents 10 make
n road popular and increase it's business
more. even. than low rates. He says a
gruff expression or sour look from a ticket
agent or passenger conductor when IN
formation is asked may make an enemy
to the road for years, and in turn infiu-
ence the friends OF the agSrieYed party
against the road.