The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-03-28

dred, $4,000. The company is four months
in arrears. but is slowly paying up.
The Big Four yesterday brought over
from st. Louis on its Knights OF PythiaS
excursion train BIS people.
Bellamy Sutton, ex-superintendent OF the
Cairo division OF the Big Four, yesterday
accompanied by his wife, left for San Fran
cisco, expecting to be absent a month.
The work Of grading the Eaton & Man.
chester road has begun, and is under the
supervision of a. l.. jenkins, OF the en-
gineering department of the Panhandle.
Q. p. McCarty, general passenger and
western, will remain in Florida two or
three weeks for the benefit Of his wife's
health.
George W. Stats, private secretary Of
dianapoHs & Vincennes. who has been i'll
for a couple of weeks, was at his post
again yesterday.
Charles c. Curtice, who represents the
quarters at Fort Worth, Tex, Is in the city
visiting relatives. He brought North with
him party of ten persons.
All indianapolis lines are now adhering
to the rate of $3.50. Indianapolis TO San
Francisco, one way. first class. there being
no second-class tickets sold. of $3.50 the
round trip good for sixty days.
The Chicago & Alton offers $50 reward
to the passenger conductor who, during
1884, takes up the largest number of time
and annual passes which are used by per-
SOuS 10 WuOIn luey 40 not DeiOnB.
President Parry, of the Fort WAYNE,
Richmond & Cincinnati, who was very i'll
for some weeks, has recovered his health
so FAR as such a thing Is possible for one
who in a few days will be eighty years Old
The Pittsburg Cincinnati, Chicago & St
Louis on Monday paid $4,000 to satisfy
a judgment which Robert Sherrard. jr,
had secured against the Panhandle for the
value of his stock. he having refused to
enter the consolidation.
Messrs. McNair & Barcey, contractors,
are getting their material and men to-
gether at Bluffton, preparatory to begin begin
City q Chicago road working in both di-
recticns from that point.
Harry Townsend, representing the pas
senger department of the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern, is In the city. He states that
their through business is now comparing
favorably with March, 1898, but in local
travel the earnings are off.
Yesterday the Toledo e. Ann Arbor
passed into the hands of the Eastern stock
holders. and the Ashleys retired from the
management. The Ashleys are said to have
lost a good deal of money in the property,
and are glad to be relieved.
The Ohio Supreme Court yesterday, at the
outset of the case in which the State is
attempting to recover land on which a
depot stands in Cincinnati, overruled a de-
murrer. the effect of which Is a victory over
the p, c., G. & st. l.. railroad.
Z. V. Debs, president of the American
Railway Union, left for Omaha yesterday.
He denies the report that he favored a
strike the Union Pacific. He says that,
so far as the union of which he is presi
dent is concerned, it is much opposed to
strikes.
The Toledo & Ohio Central has secured
the right of way TO take its passenger
This company Is also negotiating with the
Lake Shore to run through trains from
Columbus to Detroit, with sleeping and
dining cars.
Superintendent Mansfield of the Indian
apolis & Vincennes, states that the ship
ments Of corn off of the line at the pres
the last years crop was Mt for the market
The coal traffic of the road has increased
considerably OF late
The general passenger and ticket agents
have commenced returning home from their
trip to Lake Worth, Fla, to attend the
annual meeting of the association, and re-
port having had good time, the Queen
make the trip one of pleasure.
Mort Pierson, late with the Vandalia.
returned from Pittsburg yesterday. He
to meet Grand Chief Ramsey, of the Broth
erhood of Railway Telegraphers, was not
correct Before doing anything. he says,
he VIII take good rest, the first In thir-
teen years
w. H. McDoel. general manager of the
Monon, has been in Lafayette for couple
Of days adjusting matters with the city
authorities regarding the building of the
new shops there and as all the conditions
of the. original proposition of the citizens
is probable the improvement will soon be
commenced.
The new road projected between Chicago
and Cairo is said to be independent Of all
other links between those points and
backed by S9.OOO,Oo0 of capital. of which
every cent of the money is pledged. The
movement are withheld. The new line will
pass through territory which is not now
provided with the railroad facilities it
should have.
cles, is Boosting of the Louisville, New AL
bany & Chicago railways future on account
of it's prospective business in hauling stone
from Bedford TO Chicago, and through its
connections TO many other points. The in
dications that this year the road will
do more in this line than in any. former
year, as already over $500 carloads of
stone have been sold.
An impression prevails that c. c. F. Bent
on leaving the Ohio & Mississippi to take
his present position on the Baltimore &
Ohio, was taking a step backward, but an
official of the road says he now holds the
most important position he has ever held in
his railroad career-that of superintendent
of the Baltimore & Ohio. between Philadel-
phla and Baltimore. and being the conf
Dental man Of the higher officials, who look
upon him as being a man of unusual rail-
road ability.
Owing TO an era of economy that has
commenced in Southern Pacific affairs,
thirty-one clerks have been discharged from
the general freight office. and the superin-
tendent of the western division has dis
charged fifty tfalnllen. fOfIy OF the latter
were dismissed in one day. At a meeting
of heads of departments, yesterday, 1t was
ordered that, commencing April l, the eX-
penses of this division must be cut down
81 900 month more 1t Is also reported
that general reduction of wages Is con-
templated by the Southern Pacific.
President Perkins, Of the Burlington. sub
mitted his annual report yesterday. The
gross earnings per mile for the year end
| Ing Dec. 81, 1898, were 1852, against $6,043
| in 1892 The total freight earnings were
S196S9 1876, a decrease of $3,07S511; total pas
senger earnings, SS,H9079. an increase of
decrease of S1.1356S1. The report declares
that railroad troubles chiefly due to
| hard statutes which have prevented trans
portation being done upon business princi-
] Piles, have seriously crippled that great
| Industry, and in that way helped to pro-
| duce the existing depression
| The first step to break up the Trunk-line
Association was taken by John Newell,
president of the Lake Shore road, not by
| George Roberts, president of the Pennsyl-
vania lines, first stated. President Rob
| erts, however, seconded the resolution. AT
| a previous meeting Commissioner Blanch-
ard, of the Central Traffic Association,
| stated that the Wabash, the Nickel-plate
| and the West Shore roads inaugurated the
low rates and these were the roads which
| inaugurated the s. passenger rate from
| Chicago to New York. j. d. Laying. of the
| West Shore denied this, and asserted that
| 1t carried between Buffalo and New York,
| which would leave but 81 for the Nickel
| plate or the Wabash. Some facts were then
| presented which caused Mr. Laying to back
down from that position
| In railroad circles the remarks published