The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-08

company expeditiously during the world S
tram dispatcher for the removal of both
their Offices to kankakee next Monday.
The Evansville people are worrying lest
should the Louisville & Nashville get con-
troll or the Chesapeake Ohio a. Southwest
ern. Evansville Will lose the extensive to-
baccO traffic which passes through there.
Under the new schedule of the Chicago
division of the Big Four the passenger
crews of Trains 2. Is and 10 taccommoda-
ton trains) make their headquarters at
Lafayette while the through train crews
are TO be at indianapolis.
Three weeks ago the preferred stock of
the Big -Four was selling at 76; yesterday il
touched g. As il is a 5-psr-cent. per annum
dividend payer, az 81 it IS an excellent In
vestment, and is being purchased by some
OF the employees on the road who nave a
little money TO invest.
Yesterday fifty-three Quakers left Indian
apolis for Greensboro. y. c., going by the
Big Four and the Chesapeake & Ohio. the
their destination, This is the third party
which has gone east to attend the annual
gatherings in that State.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern COM
pany now in control of the Ohio & Mis-
sissippi, has extensive plans under consid-
GRAFTON for improving the physical condition
Of the o. & NJ, the money now being in the
treasury to make such improvements In
the way of new rails bridges and stations
there is large room for Improvement on
this line.
AS a freight train on the Pittsburg, Fort
inG Mayne Seas Ie% gn's se Ta
that one of the trucks under a freight car
was gone and the train men were not aware
and the track walkers soon reported 1t
about two miles back, they finding 1t in
the dilch.
railroad man of twenty-five years ex-
perience says were the railroad companies
TO strictly enforce the old custom of the
operators reading to conductors and en-
gineers the orders, and then the engineer
and conductor signing the order as read
duced. On many roads this standard rule
is not now needed.
II. b. DuBarry, claim and tax agent OF
the Pennsylvania lines in the Southwestern
the war, entered the service of the Penn
sylvania Company, and has been with IT
since. IN the army he lost one of his arms
and received othoc wounds, and his present
illness is from wounds then received. Mr.
DuBarry is we'll known all over the South
western system and is highly esteemed
The strike on the Cairo division of the
Big Four is over, but there was a phase
If il which has not been noted by the press.
George Conger attorney for the company,
obtained an injunction against the strikers,
enI9nng If 5ee fpa lrU r9ad bv the but
before the writs were issued the men went
TO work and called the strike on, ana the
injunction proceedings were dismissed.
number or the leadlng business men
of Cincinnati met yesterday and passed
resolutions against removing r. NJ. Fraser,
who has been appointed general .relgnt
agent OF the Baltimore & Ohio Southwest-
ern, from Cincinnati TO st. Louis. Mr..
Fraser has been in railroad service since
1853; in 1855 he came TO the Cincinnati,
Hamilton q Dayton, and since Snat time
has been connected with some Cincinnati
road.
The report that the Santa Fe is seeking
another alliance with the Jacksonville
Southeastern has reused President Rhein-
saying that II would not take the Jackson
vile Southeastern as gift, and the re-
ports of its connecting with our system are
annoying and place us with our competi-
tors as acting in bad faith. II We wanted
q St. Louis connection we would take the
Wabash or the Chicago q Alton. and not
road which begins nowhere nor ends no
where"
If the Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
could continue TO earn as handsome rev.
enue the year round as in the quarter end
ing Sept. 80, il could pay, 1t is stated, 20
percent. dividend on its preferred stock.
But few roads profited more through the
worlds fair business than did the M0non:
Eastern papers are booming the stock or
this road by reporting a recent run over
the main line, where over a goodly portion
of the road the train ran sixty-siX miles an
hour, and consequently they argue that lts
physical condition must be excellent
G. ]. Grammar ex-traffic manager of the
Mackey lines, was in the city yesterday
coming In at 1O:30 p. m... and leaving at
he stopped. To a friend he seemed very
cheerful, and remarked that in time things
would come round all right me dnterest r;iSI J.
& Terre Haute is increasing. The friends
of Mr.. Mackey are fearful that his imam
cial backing may not stand oy nm nm p,as: 70 the
syndicate will. President Mackey has done
so much for Evansville that the undercur-
rent there is in his favor.
\
Lake Shore very reluctantly take off their
twenty-hour train between New York and
Chicago. known as the exposition flyer,
which is to be done on Nov. 10. In rail-
road circles generally there is a feeling
that il is a backward step, and that in
stead of the Pennsylvania demanding that
on a train to meet it, But the argument
then comes in that the competing lines.
which could not make the run in twenty
hours, would offset this speed by cutting
rates. and end in the general demoraliza-
ton of rates. Chicago and New York bust
ness men do not take kindly to the ar
Iangernent as time is so valuable to them
that making the run between New York
and Chicago in twenty hours, instead of
twenty-siX. justified them in paying the ex-
ira fare.
a good deal of interest is taken in the
meeting of the officials of the roads which
fer years past have formed the Chicago
and Ohio River Traffic Association in Chi
cago to-day. AS President Ingalls,, Of the
Big Four, has made. no arrangement to
attend, il is feared little will come of the
the meeting, as without the Big Four as a
member II would be burdensome for the
other roads 70 support ii. In railroad cir
clos there is a growing feeling that these
associations might be run on n more eco
n0naical basis and accomplish equally good
results, as is evidenced in the Cincinnati
and St Louis Association. of which w. L.
s;hattuc is commissioner. This association
Is doing good work, and at small expense.
There are a number Of roads which live UP
to the association agreements, such as the
Lake Erie q Western and the Chicago *
Erie, but will not become members, So
great is the expense.