The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-13

roads centering at that point. and ]. A.
Cavanaugh was in Peoria attending the
monthly meeting OF the Illinois Car-serv1ce
Association.
Superintendent Mansfield. of the Indian
apolis * Vincennes, Is of the opinion that
Will return to work He bases this belief
on reports he has received from the mining
district on that line.
Freight officials of the trunk lines will
meet to-day In New York TO consider the
action OF the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
and other Western lines in ceasing through
billing on present divisions. The step was
taken by the Western lines on account of
the trunk lines demand.
The Indianapolis and Terre Haute d.
visions OF the Brotherhood Of locomotive
Engineers announce that they VIII aid in
pushing the investigation now in progress
and VIII permit no cessation until the muir
derer of William Barr, the Vandalia en-
gineer, Is brought to justice.
The friends of Cyrus Dixon, who for
years was ticket agent of the Big Four
at this point, now assistant general passen-
panied to learn that he has been obliged
TO place his wife in an insane asylum, she
having become violently insane.
No branch of railroad service has felt
more seriously the depressed times than
the telegraph department. A division SUI
perintendent says there is not a day that
there are not eight or ten applications for
positions in that department, ard a large
Endorsements.
The decree of Judge Taft ordering the
Company, unless the interest and principal
OF the bonds is paid In twenty days. was
filed in the United States clerks office at
Louisville yesterday. T.. L. Haley was APP
pointed special master TO make the sale,
and the upset price is set at $l,O0O.000 in
cash or bonds of the road.
General Passenger and Ticket Agent Lo-
max, of the Union Pacific, declares that he
has withdrawn all side-trip privileges on
the rates to the Denver conventions, as
agreed by the Western PASSENGER Associa-
er line insists on selling tickets with the
side-trip privileges they will have TO pay
the Union Pacific full fare.
The regular quarterly meeting OF the
Western Passenger Association convened at
Chicago yesterday, but did very little out
side of routine business. Several organiza-
lions which have been granted low fares
for their meetings had representatives pres
ent, who asked for a longer time limit on
their tickets, but no action was taken on
any OF the demands by the association.
While East-bound rates at st. Louis and
Chicago, under the new pooling agreement,
are unquestionably held to tariff. at some
OF the junction points il Is alleged that
rates are being manipulated, Peoria being
one of the places named, and efforts are
TO be made at once to pool such points be-
fore IL leads TO a generalization ar the
more important Western shipping points
L. ID. Baldwin general agent of the Mo-
non and the Cincinnati, Hamilton * Day.
ton, who yesterday returned from the Pa
ciic coast, says that business with the far
Western roads is very light. except in pas
sengers returning east who went to San
Francisco on the low-rate tickets. In such
places as Seattle, Tacoma and Portland he
was surprised TO find how little was doing.
He returns much better satisfied with the
business Indiana and Illinois roads are do
ing.
tive power Of the Big -Four, left yesterday
for Saratoga, N. Y, TO attend the master
mechanics annual convention, and to-day
i. A. Lawes, mechanical engineer of the
Big Four; Division Master Mechanics Nc
kee and Hudson. of the Big -Four; William
Swanston, master mechanic of the Penn
sylvania shops at this point. and Master
Mechanic McKenna, OF the Indianapolis.
Decatur & Western, will leave for the same
place.
j. F. Tucker. commissioner of the Chi
cago & Ohio River Traffic Association. is
holding the membership in line with a firm
hand. The Big Four and the Cincinnati,
/ Hamilton & Dayton and the Monon secured
large bodies of men each to carry from Gin
cinnati to Chicago, and the PENNSYLVANIA
Company are said to have intimated that
the business was not secured strictly under
the agreement between the lines. Commits
sioner Tucker settled the grievance by au-
thorizing the Pennsylvania TO run an ex-
cursion from Cincinnati to Chicago to even
up matters.
Spoilers have been working the Wabash
road, and, as a result, passenger con-
ductors Dewey and Gibson have been ar
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irregularities in handling. the company's
moneys. Mr.. Dewey was for several years
agent Of the United States Express Com
pany at Wabash, Ind. Both say they will
be able to acquit themselves of the charges
preferred gains them: This is a new de-
parture FOR the railroad companies; hereto
fore passenger conductors have simply
been discharged when spoilers reports
were unfavorable to their honesty.
West-bound passenger rates are again be-
| coming somewhat unsettled. ~ belief pre-
walls that the Lake Erie & Western, in con-
nectiOn with the Chicago & Alton, is cut
| ting the agreed rates just enough to carry
considerable business. In passenger circles
there is a feeling that a boycott of tbs
tise its line, and TO take such action would
be unwise. Still, IL Is likely to lead to com
/ peting lines making as low rates as does
the Lake Erie * Western, the Chicago &
Alton and the Union Pacific to Denver or
any other point west, as the manipulating
confined to Denver business.
A number of local freight agents of In
diana roads left, yesterday, for Pittsburg,
al Association of Local Freight Agents,
which was organized seven years ago. The
| session will last Inree days. The subject of
refrigerator cars and the best methods of
transporting tropical fruits will be taken
UP, and, incidental to this, the question
whether an agent is justified in diverting
freight to a competing line if the contents
Of a car are refused on account of defects
in the car which cannot be repaired while
the car is loaded. The responsibility of a
company for freight will be another inter
| esting subject considered, and a number OF
papers will be read bearing on railroad
traffic.