The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-24


a decrease. as compared with 1892. OF sS2,-
S73,52S
The excursions to indianapolis, Cincin-
natl Cleveland and St Louis over the Big
Four lines Thursday were a decided sue
r. y. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four.
The Peoria & Eastern has received from
the Richmond locomotive works two more
OF the consolidated engines these works
have been rebuilding. Five more OF the
old L.. y. & w. engines will probably be
sent there to be rebuilt.
Work on the great railroad bridge over
the Mississippi at New Orleans will begin
next week, the Southern Pacific having
completed the letting of all contracts The
longest span Of the bridge will be 1,O9S feet,
and none of them less than $50 feet in
length
Frank Semple has been appointed gen.
eral ticket and passenger agent of the
Union Pacific, Denver * Gulf railway. Mr..
Semple for some years the Pan
handle lines. later on the Louisville K
Pacific lines.
1t has been discovered that number of
the private cars used by theatrical
parties have false ends. so that several
persons can be concealed and ride free,
and hereafter conductors are instructed to
closely examine cars of this build for con-
cealed passengers.
A quiet move is said TO be in progress
between the higher officials of the trunk
lines looking TO the reduction of the num-
Der by combining interests under fewer
arrangements. SO often has this been
dertaken that freight men take but little
stock ia the report.
The business of the New York Central
falls so far below its usual volume that
the company is still reducing expenses by
dropping men and reducing wages to an
extent which could not have been done six
months ago. IL is stated by one of the Of
hctals, without a strike.
1t is stated that the Louisville schem-
ers, not satisfied i'm getting enough of the
first mortgage bondholders to demand
removal OF the present receivers Of the
Louisville, Evansville q St. Louis, they are
now trying to induce the second mortgage
bondholders 10 take hold of the matter.
A gentleman well informed as regards
the affairs of the Chicago * Eastern Illi-
nois states that road in the country
are the trainmen organized and federated
so thoroughly as on that line, and the train
men have an idea that the new schedule is
a step toward breaking up their organiza-
ton.
II. r. Bowsher. who is to look after the
passenger business of the Missouri, Kansas
q Texas in this territory, is in the city.
he states that on the LIST of April passen-
mence running into the Union Station at
81. Louis, placing the line on a par with
it's competitors.
On the Vanderbilt lines. between Chicago
and New York. on the fast trains the
sleeping car conductor, for some years past
has taken up the tickets. but on April I.
on these trains, the company will go back
to the old custom Of the regular conductor
taking up the transportation and issuing
a card in its place.
The eastern division of the Peoria &
Eastcrn is now in excellent physical condi-
ton, and along the line people say If the
company would give good train service ii
would soon have much heavier traffic.
Between Indianapolis and Springfield, o.,
the tSins are run at as inconvenient hours
they well could be-
The four heavy passenger engines which
the Peoria * Eastern received a couple of
months ago firm the schenectady locomo-
tive works, Superint endent Riley SAYS, are
DONG good Work, ana III required VIII make
sixty miles an hour with five cars. They
are five tons lighter than what is known
as the GarStang engine.
George Blanchard. chairman of the Cen
trail Traffic Association, arbitrator ruled
In favor OF the Ohio coal roads allowing
6hia ere rate OF 132 cents as 3stws1n
ferential between Pittsburg and West Vir-
ginia 212 cents, which gives the Ohio lines
an increased differsntial Of cents over last
years basis with West Virginia, thus set
Ting what has been a rate disturbing ele-
ment for many years.
The gate system on the Chicago 6. Alton
in Missouri has proved so much of a sue
cess that il will be extended TO trains run
in Illinois. 1t has been found that the
gate system has increased revenue, and
has in several cases prevented what might
have been serious accidents IL prevents
passengers getting off or on train while
| il is in motion. This is the system which
| the Alton had so hard fight over with
the railway commission of Missouri, and
won.
A railway official remarked yesterday
nat were the LouisviIle and indianapolis
civ isions of the Pennsylvania lines placed
w. or Harry Miller he would have but 406
| tend not as much as y. X. Elliott, of the
| Vandalia. who has 4e3 miles, nor as much,
Brs iViyso as b5 has Rg ri the but ti
carries into Pittsburg the business of all
| the western divisions of the Panhandle
lines.
1t is stated that there has not been
| winter in the last ten years In which the
fast mail trains between New York and
| the West over the Pennsylvania and Van
| dalia lines have been run 50 nearly on
| terminals in either direction behind their
| scheduled time and the fines will be ,rifling
| last ten years. The railroad companies,
| however, in the end pay but few fines for
| good reason is shown for the delay and
| the fines returned TO the road
| 1t is stated that the Pennsylvania Com
| pany has about completed arrangement for
| the establishment of a new passenger and
| freight route from Erie. Pa, to Cincin-
natl. The plan proposed is to run the
| Pittsburg, Youngstown & Ashtabula and
| Plttsburg, Fort Wayne q Chicago, thence
to Canal Dover via the Cleveland & Pitts
| erstown over the Cleveland & Marietta, a
| line recently secured by the Pennsylvania
| where connections will be made with the
| Panhandle for the Southwest. 1t is claimed
this route will shorten the time between
| Buffalo. y. V, and Cincinnati eight hours
| for passengers and twenty-four to thirty
| six hours for freight, compared with the
| present system.
| The railways which run through the
| fertile but sparsely settled territory of the
\ Southern States are making earnest
| effort TO turn the tide of immigration in
| that direction. representative of the
| passenger department of the Queen &
| Crescent says the South needs blood,
| il needs the thrifty farmer, and now that
| so many new manufactures are starting
| up in the South there is nothing more de-
| sirable for a healthy development of that
| country that an influx OF this class Of i'm
migrants. Before the. war;, he said. the
| South kept well up in railway construc-
| ton: since then 1t had almost stood still
| until within the last few years and he was
| confident that within the last three years
| the Improvement in Southern roads had
| been fully as marked and extensive as on
| Northern lines. He cited the Queen &,
Crescent. which has practically been built
| in the last two years, and equipped fully
| up 10 the standard Northern roads; 1t has
even worried the Louisville & Nashville.
| with its GgSressiveness, to keep pace with
| the Queen * Crescent.