The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-26

Gay next. During the recent nne weather
superintendent Simms has pushed the work
on the structure with vigor.
In the case of the Lafayette Lumber
Manufacturing Company against. the Big
county decioed in favor of tin: defendant.
The court held that the railroad companies
had a right TO collect demurrise charges
For some years past the president of the
a salary of $4,000 per annuna, which. with
the salaries of the receivers at the present
TIME. makes a large inroad into the earn
Fe.
c.. e. Schaff. assistant general manager
OF the Big Four, and G. w. Kittredge,
ing en- route TO Cincinnati from ST. Louis,
where they had been TO look after some
contemplated terminal improvements at
East st. Louis.
The Oldest officials about the Union Sta
ton state that they have never before
known the trains of the several roads to
for the last sixty days. A late train now
Is a surprise. Track conditions and the
weather all favor making good time.
The official freight classification commit
lines. Central Traffic Association and New
England roads finished its work yesterday.
The committee had been in session IN New
nual report TO the joint committee In jan
uary, 1895.
Judge Sanborn. of the United States Dis
lrlCl COURT, 10 WnOm was relerre0 Jne
traffic agreement between the Chicago.
Burlington & Quincy and TIE Northern
Pacific roads. has indicated that he will
next Sunday open its extension to Billings,
a point on the Northern Pacific.
In the first three weeks of October there
statement, on the Big -Four system III, $50
loaded cars, against 105, i34 loaded cars in the
corresponding period Of 1893, and against
1890 in the corresponding period of 1892.
This in an increase over last year of H.
OIL loaded cars. and but S5 fewer than in
the corresponding period of 1892
NJ. E. ingalls,, president of the Big -Four,
who has been in Cleveland for three or
four days attending a railroad meeting,
goes to New York to-day to remain a .cou-
meeting In New York of the Vanderbilt
people, when it is expected the successor
to the late John Newell as president of
the Lake Shore will be decided on.
The Minneapolis G. St. Louis Railway
Company has paid to r. p. Flower & Co..
as fiscal agents of the Chicago. Rock
pany for equipment bonds of the Minneap-
oils & st. Louis company, held by the Rock
der the Minneapolis & ST. Louis reorgani-
zation plan, and settles a claim of long
standing.
The receiver of the Toledo, St. Louis &c
Kansas City Railroad Company reports
total receipts from May %, 1898. the date
of his appointment, to Sept: 80 of this year,
at $o,o9o,Jlb, OF winch $,S0f was caSn on
hand when he took possession of the prop
erty, and S167.542 received on accounts out
standing prior to his appointment. The
total disbursements Of the receiver foot up
8, 619, 92I, of which S572, $40 have been ON ac-
count of claims incurred prior to his APP
s2S,sa5.
Col. James Barker, general passenger
agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
railroad, has officially announced that the
more harvest nxcI1rSiOOC then the Western
Passenger Association has authorized. The
additional excursions will be run on Nov.
% and Dec. 4 and is. The usual harvest
excursion rate of one fare plus 81 for the
round trip will be put in on the days
named; This action ON the part OF the
the association, and it may be that a bitter
rate war will result.
The Big Four will run another excur sion
next. 81 for the round trip. which will make
three excursions to indianapolis on that
day over Big Four lines-one from Chicago,
another from the Michigan division as far
north as Wabash, and the one from Gin
cinnati. The Big Four will also run an ex-
cursion from Acton and points east 10 Gin
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton expects to
take several thousand people from here and
cinnati on a one-dollar round-trip rate.
II. NJ. Bronson, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Big Four, yesterday COM
menced his forty-second year of service
WIN Railways, ne commencing on the MAD
river road at Sandusky, o., which is now a
part of the Big Four system. He remem-
bers the first locomotive brought west of
the Alleghenies. the 'Sandusky." II was
built by Rogers & Ketchum. and was four
feet eight inches gauge, and ON its arriv-
ing 1t was discovered that the track was
four feet ten inches wide. About seventeen
miles of the road was built, and 1t was de-
cided TO change the gauge OF the road
rather than the gauge of the engine.
Time Is teaching railway arrangements
that in securing rights of way it is not
best TO take too great a width, as in many
States legislatures are passing laws COM
polling roads to take care of their rights
of way. keeping them free from weeds and
dead grass, and, where the right of way
Is over one hundred feet, ii is quite an eX-
pense to do SO. One hundred feet is ample
width for even four tracks. One case is
cited where a Pennsylvania road owns a
right of way 80 feet in width. and the COM
pany has given the farmers through whose
land their right of way lies the use of a
portion of 1t If they will keep it fenced
and comply with the law as regards keep
ing IL in order.