The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-10-26

from Indianapolis to California points is
now $50, good TO return until July l. which
offered.
II is said that at the coming annual meet
ing the directory of the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western will be made up largely
or Vanderbilt men. The annual meeting
does not occur until February.
At the Northern Pacific general office in
St Paul. yesterday, the report that the
Acknowledgements branch of that road had
MED as an unheard of proposal.
The smoke consumer invented by Master
Mechanic Delaney, of the Monon. is per-
forming SO satisfactorily that all Of the en-
gfnes used in passenger service on the
Monon are to be equipped with it.
AS yet there is no falling off in world s
fair tSavel over the Indianapolis lines. and
indications are that the business of Sunday
any day since the exposition opened.
The Union-line dairy-product car took
the first prize at the would's fair. This
car was built in the Fort Wayne shops.
and was awarded the first medal over a
dozen or more of other refrigerator cars.
The Monon to-day runs low-rate excur-
sionS to the worlds fair for the pupils and
teachers of the schools Of Greencastle and
cago two days each, twenty in charge of a
teacher.
Passenger agents at this point are re-
ceiving notices from their respective gen.
eral passenger agents informing them that
rates in all directions will be restored to
tariff Nov 10, and there must be no devil
alton therefrom.
Il. O. Hopkins vice president and general
manager of the Louisville. Evansville &
ST. Louis. states that money will be forth
coming to place the roadbed In the best
physical condition and increase the roll
ing stock of the line.
The Western Association lines have en-
tered into a solemn compact to absolutely
maintain freight rates after Nov. Is. A
dcu Of d he do r1rS
some of the losses of the last few months
from light traffic and low rates.
G. 3. McCaull, who has been with the
Armour Packing Company for twelve years.
has returned TO railroading, accepting the
position OF Northern travelling freight agent
for the Paducah, Tennessee * Alabama
and TIE Tennessee Midland loads.
. A. II. Palmerton, formerly superintendent
OF the Peoria q Eastern. now with a Men,
phis road, who was seriously injured a few
months ago, and who was removed to his
nome in this city as soon as able, is out
again, but goes about on crutches.
The Lake Erie & Western has amazed
the township TRUSTEES of Marshall county
by insisting on working out $2'640 of road
perfectly legal but is the first time it has
been practiced by railroad company.
The Cincinnati and Bedford branch OF the
Ohio a. Mississippi railway has completed
telegraph wires and erecting a temporary
station building there. Mr.. Harry Agnew,
of Vincennes, has been appointed agent
The annual meeting of the Cleveland Gin
cinnati. Chicago & st. Louis Railway Com
pany for the election of five directors was
held yesterday in Cincinnati. The directors
chosen were George Bliss II. Mex. Twom-
John T. Dye. The latter is in place OF
Mr.. s. j. Broadwell, deceased, and is the
only new member elected.
In 1883, before Harry Fuller was ap-
pointed general passenger agent of the
Chesapeake * Ohio, the road carried 740,-
Sl passengers; In the year ending June 80,
1893, the road carried 2.466, 2s9 passengers,
an increase of 233 per cent. In 1888 the road
carried 2,5SS,o6S tons of freight; last year,
5,69S.SSl tons This year the passenger rev.
enue will largely exceed that of the year
ending June 80 1895.
Peoria e Eastern between Jintown and
Ross station IS about completed, and the
steam "a: shovel was YESTERDAY taken away :
over a year, and the stone piers for the
new iron bridge over the Wabash river are
about completed. This bridge will be con-
structed in four spans, $50 feet each in
length. and will be one of the most sub
stantial structures of any road whose track
crosses this stream
Said a freight conductor: eff any set of
men will be glad when this worlds fair is
over il will be the freight crews. They are
laid out so much nowadays that it has
to be the general understanding that
when q train takes a side track to let some
passenger flyer go by they are, in meas
ure, lost sight of, being slowed away in Il
safe place, where they are likely to re-
main until several sections of passenger
trains pass. To be on the road twenty of
the twenty-four hours after man starts
on his run has become a common occur
renee"
A prominent Kansas clergyman has writ
ten a letter 10 the press acknowledging the
courtesy of the railroads in giving half
fare permits to clergymen. and thus con-
tributing literally to the cause He writes
as follows: 81 have now in my posses,
sion Cbeing travelling. evangelisD annual
half-fare permits over eleven different lines,
and each of these permits contains the
number of clergymen who have received
like permits UP to the date when mine was
issued. The aggregate shows, In round
numbers, Sc, 734 preachers who are annually
travelling over these roads at one-half the
regular fare And who pays the other halfl
The railroad men give it to them. Then let
us see what they give. Suppose that each OF
us would pay these companies only $40 each
year land that is very low estimate), tho
amount would be the handsome sum OF
S567, $40 paid or rather given, by railroad
men TO the support of religion. And this
only represents a few of the many rail-
road systems, and only po:tially repre-
sents those few.