The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-07-14

Lewistown reservoir is drawing q hsnusome
revenue for the company, as il Hunts
grove. In Msgnesia Springs the road has q
resort at which hundreds OF invalids re-
gain their health yearly.
A meeting of the transmissouri commit
tee of the Western Passenger Association
will be held in Kansas City next Tuesday.
The principal matter before the convention
will be the recent reductions in tr8nscon-
tiDental rates made by the Union Pacific,
Northern Pacific and Great Northern.
Hon. CALVIN 8. BrIce. president of the
Lake Erie IL Western. was IN the city q
short time on Wednesday. He was accom-
panied by bis family. While here he spent
an hour at the general Offices, and congrat-
ulated the officials of the road on the hand.
some business the line had been and was
still doing.
President Clarke. of the Union Pacific.
who for four weeks past has been resting
In the mountains of Pennsylvania, writ es
that he IS ia Didly regaining his health. All
business letters are kept from him, and III
a sense he 10 isolated from the world, only
his Intimate friends knowing where he is
III the mountains.
The Central Traffic Association lines
have adjourned their meeting at Chicago
without taking any action REGARDING the
hotels. The matter will be settled as an.
other meeting to be called in q short time.
the interested lines pied ging themselves to
take no action In the meantime.
7. B. Atkins. of New York. who was In
the city yesterday to attend the meeting
for the reorganization of the Indianapolis
Decatur ~ Western, states that Il. Is.
Hammond. who for many years has been
president of the road. dating back to 1871.
has partially recovered from his psralytic
troubles and is able TO 20 about.
The Pennsylvania Company is disposed
to keep Its shops In the West in operation
to as large IN extent as practicable. An
order was issued this week th at the shops
in Fort Wayne. in addition to the repair
work. build one hundred box and one hun
dred gondola cars. and in the machine
shops they are building several large en-
gines.
John Andreag. passen ger conductor on
the Big Four. who has been OF the road for
twenty eight years. says on the main line.
between Cincinnati and Chicago. NOS q
passenger has been killed in twenty-five
years. Tralnmen have received mortal in
luries. and tramps. but not q single psssen-
ger has been killed who was riding on one
Of the compsny's trains.
H. &. Parker. traffic manager of the Lake
Erie IL Western, says there Is increasing
inquiry for cars to move the new wheat
crop. but IL 10 By no means what it shonld
be. On hat line So cents 10 paid for No.
Q red wheat. Mr.. Mansfield. superintend-
they are now loading eight TO ten cars Of
wheat a day against fifty to sixty q day ct
the corresponding period last year.
1t is charged that the Des Moines e.
Northwestern has beer dealing with
brokers and c~uttlngrates generally. Chair
man Caldwell has notified the general
manage of the road tn at the evidence is
sufficiently strong to justify him in order
ing q boycott OF the road, but that he will
withhold the order long enough TO give the
road q chance to mend it's ways. If it does
not do this the boycotting order will be
issued ut once.
A. d. Shaw, recently appointed yard.
master on the West Side for the Peoria Il
Eastern, says the report that Theodore
Snyder. late yardmaster on the West Side.
was dismissed to make room for him, Is
false. Mr.. Snyder. Quit of his own accord
TO 70 into another business. which promises
well. j. Q. Van Winkle. general superin-
tendent of the Big Four. confirms MIR.
Shaw's statement. and says MIR. Snyder is
an unusually competent man for the posi-
tion vacated. Mr.. Hicks says he put Mr..
Shaw In that position because he was an
old Decline man. and ranked as one of the
most competent yardmssters in the coun-
try.
A representative of the Journal met
James Barker, late general passenger agent
OF the MonOD. now holding q like position
on the Missouri. Kansas * Texas. MIR.
Barker Is greatly pleased with his new
held and the officers with whom he is as
sociated. He is gwen n loose rein and told
by his superiors to 60 into the field and
gather the harvest. and already the earn
ings of the passenger department are in
creasing. 1t Is q system where there is a
great opportunity to build up q local as
well as through business. The open. frank
manner in which Mn. Barker meets and con.
verses with people is said to be O great
card in the new territory he works In.
A committee consisting of r. G. Rolston.
chairman. GeorN Coppell. of Maitland
and Phelps IL Co., NJ. L. Scudder, of Chi
cago, w. Howard Glider. and Ernest ID.
Dichman. of New York. has consented to
represent the Interests of the first mortgage
bondholders of the Toledo. st. Louis 81
Kansas City Railroad Company now In de-
fault. These appointments have been
made by X. G.. Rolston. president of the
Farmers Loan and Trust Company, trus-
tees of the mortgage in accordance with q
resolution passed without dissent at a
recent largely-attended meeting of actual
owners of the bonds. A bondbolders'
agreement Is now being prepared by the
committee n Will be ready for signatures
in q few days.