The Indianapolis journal., 1893-11-11

road. which furnished them a special train
TO go TO New Orleans, and on which they
will return TO Chicago Nov 16.
California business has set in in earnest.
On Thursday sixteen travellers purchased
tickets here for California points, on Fri
day twelve more, and next Monday party
or twenty-seven will leave on special car
over the Big Four and the Chicago & Alton.
William a. Baldwin has been elected pres
ident and general manager of the Cleveland
& Marietta, which recently came under con-
troll of the pennsylvania Company. Mr..
Baldwin was president of the old company
before it passed under Pennsylvania con-
troll.
Traffic officials express the belief that at
pooling days, have Western roads been OBJ
tanning as near tariff rates as at present
This state of affairs is the result of East
railroad financiers taking hold of the
rate question.
1t is highly probable that o. P. McCarty,
general passenger agent of the Baltimore &
ters removed to st. Louis. Charles Scull,
Ohio proper, viii then be at the east end
of the system and Mr.. McCarty at the west
end, the most important points.
Eastern financial papers say that the Chi
cago q Eastern Illinois will absorb the
There is question to that being the
best way to harmonic the present antagon-
ism, say those who are well informed as re-
CARDS the relations between the two COM
panies.
The Union Pacific has issued notice that
in order TO meet the competition of lines
outside the Western Passenger Association
it will be compelled to pay regular commits
sions on east-bound California business.
This will tend to demOralize business, but
the Union Pacific insists that such is not
its intention by any means.
The committee of the American Railway
Association, appointed TO consider the sub
ject of block and interlocking signals, will
meet in New York next week. This COM
flxra Fr1rr-
ner of the Pittsburg division of the Penn
sylvania Company, and &. Moorhead, gen.
eral superintendent of the Erie, are men,
berS of that committee.
f. Fl. Goodman, who for many years was
superintendent of the Pullman Car Com
pany in this section, now superintendent
Of the Union Switch and Signal Company,
was in the city last evening in company
with several friends, who will this morn
ing go down the Indianapolis & Vincennes
road hunting The party travels in the Pull
man car Davy Crockett.
The gross earnings of the Illinois Central
for the three months ending Sept, 80 were
$5,S19, 409 an increase of S1,O66OO2 over the
corresponding period OF lest year; operating
expenses and taxes, $3S9S,941, an increase
of $156, 5S5; net earnings, 1870. .46S, in
crease of $3.50, 147. The gross receipts for
the month of October are estimated at
3, ,5S0,224 an increase of S702, la over the
same month last year.
The Big Four will soon receive ten addi-
tional freight engines, ten wAeelers, from
senger engines will be transferred from the
Brooks works one OF the latter will be
put in service on the Indianapolis division
and another on the St Louis division and
three of the large Garstang type of pas
senger engines will be transferred from the
Chicago division to the St. Louis division.
The official report of George Bender. SUI
perintendent of the Chicago division of the
Big Four, shows that in the six months
ending Oct 81 there were handled on that
division 146273 local passengers and 60.O96
passengers turned over TO them by connec-
tions a total of pos, 1863. against 1887 local
passengers in the corresponding six months
of 1892, and $500 through passengers, a to-
tai of 1927 for the six months ending Oct.
81, 1892; increase this year, ,436 local pas
SengerS and 81 ,0O6 passengers OF connecting
roads, making the total increase of local
and foreign passengers this year 159, Az.
A number of locomotive engineers were
cent rear-end collisions on the Columbus &
Hooking Valley road and the Chicago &
Rock Island, and among the number were
two engineers who run on roads where
electric headlights have been put in use on
night express locomotives One of the num-
Der remarked that in either of the cases
named, or in twenty he might name in the
last three months, had the locomotive of
the second train been equipped with an cleo
trio headlight such accidents and loss of
life and property could not have occurred
Another of the engineers said he thought ID
second only to the air brakes as appli-
ance for the safe movement of trains.