The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-28

in good condition.
Saturday night Sharsig's men leave for
Sioux City, where they play Sunday and
MoEday-two games the latter day. Cross
will have TO brace UP tomorrow and pitch
be disciplined. The management is tired of
his Indifferent work. Pepper and Phillips,
with a weeks rest. should be in shape to
give Minneapolis some trouble. Phillips
had a very sore thumb when he went away,
the result of continuous work during the
hard week preceding the clubs departure.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
NJ. f. Ingalls,, president of the Big -Four,
is expected in the city at noon to-day.
]. Mitchell has been appointed agent of
the Vandalia at Mount Zion. on the Peoria
division.
The American Association of General
Ticket and Passenger Agents will hold it's
thirty-ninth annual meeting at Quebec Tues
day, Sept. Is.
w. p. Elliott, agent of the sleeping-car
companies at the Union Station, has gone
20 Elmira, n. Y, TO visit his son, an Erie
railway official.
William r. McKeen, President of the
Vandalia, who has for two weeks been in
Colorado, accompanied by his family, is
expected home this week.
Daniel Stewart & Co., of st. Louis, were
yesterday awarded the contract TO build
the new Big Four roundhouse at Mattoon,
Ill. The improvement is to cost $12,00e.
On account of the Texas passenger rate
war from Texas points East, last Satur-
Jay IlChelS SOOu lTOm houston 10 new Ut
leans, S2 miles, were selling at % cents.
The Lake Erie q Western is expanding
considerable money in laying side tracks
to industries already located or to be To-
Gated in Eaton, Hartford City and Mont
pelier, Ind.
The floral tributes which accompanied the
remains of France Chandler, general pas
senger agent of the Wabash, cost SEQ, and
Louis, it is stated.
n. X. Elliott, general superintendent Of
the Vandalia, is in the city. He states that
on the Vandalia everything is moving
smoothly, and the road is now handling a
goOd-paying business.
The card sharks who gave the Michigan
Central so much trouble are now working
passenger trains OF the Lake Shore road,
and the company is making an effort to
drive the swindlers from its trains.
In railroad circles it is thought that the
reelection of Major Stahlman as commits
sioner of the Southern Railway and Steam
ship Association means a restoration in
rates and their better maintenance.
Passenger conductors say the hay fever
travel has now set in. The MOnon yester-
day took north fourteen persons who were
seeking a better climate for that trouble.
William Herod was one of the party.
Said an attorney of one of the Indianap-
oils roads: I'VE feel relieved that the State
assessing board has completed its labors.
Our taxes were not reduced, and we are
now thankful that they were not increased
The time for the reduced six-mills-per-
mile car mileage rate TO take effect has
been extended to Sept. l by orders Of the
respective committees of the ~Trunk-line, the
Central Traffic, the Western and Southern
Traffic Associations.
Cyrus f. Sisler, late trainmaster of the
Wabash road, was buried at Toledo on
Sunday. For several years he was a pas
the death of G. II. Wilcox was promoted to
be trainmaster of the Eastern district.
France Chandler. late general passenger
agent of the Wabash, had been in railroad
service at the time of his death forty years,
and, it is stated, he was the most widely
known passenger official in this country.
c~ulation.
Engine 4O5 of the Lake Shores new
freight locomotives last Saturday hauled
seventy-eight cars. thirty of them loaded,
from Chicago to Elkhart in four hours and
thirty minutes. The company is now reap
ing the fruits of cutting Town its grades
across northern Indiana.
George Bender. superintendent of the Chi
cago division OF the Big Four, who a few
days ago left for a two weeks vacation,
was called home on Sunday by the death
of Mrs. y. ]. Smith, mother of Mrs. Ben
der. The remains will be buried to-day at
| Spring Grove, Cincinnati.
ON Thursday last Boston held 4S3. 462
shares of the stock of the Chicago, Burling-
ton * Quincy road; New York, 32S.654 shares
and Chicago 1911 shares. Within the last
three months Boston parted with sos
shares and Chicago with 25 shares, all of
which went to New York.
a locomotive. bought at
/ PittSburg, Pa, for $3.50, was delivered at
Samaca, Colombia, for $3.50. with $40, 9O4
cars, costing $i9i4S. reached their destina-
ton WITH a bill of $3.50. A turbine wheel
worth $70S cost, when carried within $50
miles of Samaca, So, go.
The Chicago q Southeastern has arranged
with the Big Four to work its Chicago
business via Lebanon. When the road gets
into Brazil, which will be i'm a few days, the
company expects TO ship a good deal of
coal to Chicago, and by working with the
Big Four it would get a seventy-mile haul
and get the benefit of the Big Four equip
ment.
1t is stated that the Big Four company
will award the contract to build thirty-five
coaches, to take the place of those burned,
TO Barney, Smith x Co, Dayton. o., and
that the Wagner cars burned will be re-
built by the Wagner company at it's shops
in Buffalo. The Big -Four company is great
ly in need OF the coaches, as travel is
heavy on all parts of it's system.
The engineer of maintenance of way of
the Peoria < Eastern has completed his
statement asked for by President Ingalls,.
giving the amount of money expended on
the =. & T.. since the Big -Four took con-
troll of it,; March 1. 1880, and it foots up
81, 2e6.420. This is a much larger sum than
would have been expended had the former
management kept control of the property.
Cyrus Dixon, formerly city passenger
agent of the Big Four at Indianapolis, has
become a prominent passenger man in the
Northwest, being general agent of the pas
senger department of the Great Northern
IOdu. y ICllt JUS received announces
that the portion OF the Oregon Railway *
Navigation system lying east OF me Cas-
cades had been attached TO his district.
adding much more territory to his already
large field.
Mr.. f. L. Hamilton. one Of the railroad
secretaries of the international committee
OF Young Mems Christian Associations. has
been assisting the railroad association a.
Columbus, Ind, during the past few days, and
is also cooperating with L. T.. Stacy, State
secretary, in the investigation of the rail
road field in and about indianapolis. There
is a strong desire on the part Of the rail.
road employees for a railroad branch al
BrightwOOd. as well as elsewhere in the
city. The State convention is to be held
with the Columbus railroad association
Nov. Sill.
An expert. speaking of the recent hnan-
cial wreck or the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe road, said that American rail
road history did not record such a case unit
the Santa Fe expose. where a management
deliberately mlsstated the three items OF
cash, bills payable and bills receivable. Not
even in the days of Gould and the Erie die
such a thing happen. The granting OF re
bates, although contrary to law, has ths
cOunfenaQCe OF long usage. and is looked