The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-05-16

Company still hangs ire, the Ohio & Mis-
sissippi ma agement lighting his election:
however. II voted that he pe appointed
general manager. the position be has held
since leaving the Big Four.
The Terre Haute car works. which have
been shut down for TWO weeks for rep airs.
will resume operations tomorrow. These
are said to be the best managed car VOTES
IN the country. not only paying cash Tor
all the material they purchase but invari-
ably ~d,scounting their bills. lt IS SAID 10
be one OF the s0lidest manufacturing in
terests in the State.
The trunk-lins presidents have adopted
New York to Chicago. which is added to
the standard fare. On twenty-six-hour
trains the fare is Increased 80; on twenty
Observation-Disclosures trains, 81; twenty
two-and.one-half-ho hour trains. s.; twenty
snd-one-half-hour trains. $40. This makes
the maximum fare on the fastest trains $50.
Adispatch from Durango. Mexico. reports
thai the Atchison road is e~ndeavoring to
obtain u concession from the Mexican gov
eminent for an extension OF Its line now In
operation between Alfalfa and Cullacan. q
distance of thlrty-eight miles. Ii the con-
cession is obtained the road will be OK
tended TO Durango across the Sierra Madre
mountains and thence to Salinas
IN Sunday next the Pennsylvania and
the Vsndalia will go back TO the old time
with Trains l and II, the former leaving
New York f, $50 A.. NJ, reaching Indian
spolis at 1l:45 A. NJ. next day. and departing
at12 o'clock. noon. Train q. which now
leaves New FORK at IL noon, will not leave
until 2 P. NJ, reaching Indianapolis at 1913,
and leaving at ! P. NJ, and Train J. over the
Nnndalla. which since last fall has been
leaving Indianapolis at $40 A. NJ, will do
part at 7:30 A. NJ. forty minutes earlier.
The Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois earned
the brst week in May SIS. ZOO. an increase
over the corresponding week of 1892 of 81, ZOO:
since the LIST of January the increase shown
this year is SCI. 9i6. The Louisville. Evans
Vile d st. Louis earned the first week In
May s35. zoe. an increase this year of S6,007j
since the 1st of January the increase this
year has been S229. 49S. The Evansville ~
asrrs Hnute earned the hrst week IN May
S23.eS4, an increase over the corresponding
week of 1892 of S1.647: since the LIST of Janu-
airy the +. " L. II. shows an increase ove-
1892 of s26. 064
1t is believed that, with the Cincinnati.
Hamilton * Dayton taking contsol of the
indianapolis. Decatur 81 Western, the busl-
ness of the line will te largely increased.
1t will establish a line for St. Louis In con-
nection with the Toledo, st. Louis Il Kan.
sas City. and 1t is highly probable that the
l., ID. & w. will be extended to Boards
town. sixty miles, If not further. The Chi
cago. Burlington IL Quincy people have
made come very fattering promises to the
e., Fl. * ID. providing they will build or
canse to be built in it's interest the exteI.
sion TO Be&rdstown.
Tn Atchison. Topeka g. Santa Fe now
has two iiret-class Indiana railroad men at
the head of Its operating departments
General Manager Frey, who has just taken
hold on the main lines, and X. II. Wade.
general manager of the Southern Cali
fOfnia lines Manager Frey is but forty
seven yeals old. is of fine physique. and an
excellent all railroad man. Man
ager Wade left the Wabash on aocOunt of
his health. he having to go TO a mllder
climate than Indiana. The Wabash was
never better handled than when he was
with it in an official capacity.
The international Dispatch Transports
tion Company, which is to have its head
quarters at Indianapolis, has issued its
prospectus and offers the unsold stock for
sale. While the enterprise was inauRurated
by car service officers who know what
money there is in such lines, q number of
railroad officials have taken some of the
stock. The line is to carry furniture, car
riages and freight of a light. bulky nature.
The company will be capitalized at Sl40, 600.
or 1,4G0 shares at 800 per share. The GERS
Will be built to conform to the latest con-
gressional enactments on plans drawn by
the master car builder of one of the promi.
neDt trunk lines.
w. Z. DOddridge. who yesterday assumed
the duties OF general anager of the Mis-
souri, Pacific. begun his railroad career
WIN tne tIucR layers on the Union facluc,
when the line was built from Columbus
Neb.. to Ogden. He afterward became
superintendent of the Green River &
Ogden road. and later superintendent OF
the Ogden * Silver Bow division of the
Union Pacific. When Charles Francis
Adams's Observation-Disclosures it's hold on the
Union Pacific he established q bank al
Park City. from which in five years he
retired and became general manager of the
Cotton Belt. o position which Oscar Muir
ray was offered before he became con.
nected with the Big Four.