The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-24

industries have been laid. OF these
SWltenes l5l are located on tracks of the
Big -Four system 1t is stated by one who
mas looked into the matter that at no rail-
road center In this country. except Chicago.
can as many switches leading TO industries
be found
with about 80 per cent of their usual force
and are building $50 cars for the Vandalia
and doing a large amount of repair work.
Earnings of the Chicago. Milwaukee &c
81. Paul for the third week in October
amounted TO S655,O5l, a decrease OF S24l,595
from the corresponding week of last year.
The Pennsylvania Company has contract
ed with the Ohio Falls car works TO equip
one thousand cars they are building for the
pennsylvania Company with the Wagner
grain door.
The report that the coupons of the Louis
vile, Evansville e. st. Louis are being paid
Is denied by telegraph from New York, and
II Is said that holders Of these coupons can
not collect them.
Commencing with the first of the month,
the dining cars run over the Nandalia and
the Pennsylvania lines will run between
ST. Louis and Newark, o., instead OF stop
ping at Columbus, as has been the practice.
The recent additional issue of s2,5oO.Oco
first collateral trust mortgage 4 per cent.
gold bonds on the st. Louis division OF the
G, G, c. & st. l.. makes the total amount
listed 50. 5000
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton pas
senger department expects to carry three
or four thousand people into Cincinnati
next Sunday on the 81 round trip rate from
indianapolis and other points on the In
dianaPolis division.
Judge Bacon, general Western agent of
the Chicago & Rock Island; George It.
Fe, and G. C.. Merrill, Southwestern pas
senger agent OF the New York Central, are
In the city on official business.
There Is a heavy demand for freight
equipment, and General Agent Wagner says
that all the equipment companies are doing
their best TO supply 1T. Not in the last two
years have the equipment companies en-
Joyed as good a business as at present.
The train schedule of the new union sta
ton at Boston, which Is occupied 10y the
Boston a. Maine, the Eastern and the
four hours 558 trains arrive and depart. In
one OF the morning hours fifty-eignt trains
are handled in sixty minutes.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois earned in
the second week of October $S6,171, a de-
crease as compared with the corresponding
week of 1888 Of $27,2S3. A light coal traffic
and a lighter passenger traffic than in the
corresponding week last year are the
causes of the unfavorable exhibit.
The contractors who started to build the
Cincinnati, Union City & Chicago road
are said to have gotten on to their feet
financially again, and expect to soon re-
sumo the building of the partially con-
structed road. Seventeen miles are now
tributed.
The order of the general manager, to the
eject that any employe of the Northfin
Pacific who has anything to do with poll
tics should be discharged, is a more serious
matter than the frst reading Of the item
might convey. 1t IS. stated that over thirty
or the employees have been nominated for
some public office by political parties.
The Vandalia is filing up with broken
stone the ground where their loading and
unloading tracks, at the corner of Penn
sylvania street and the Union tracks, are
located. These tracks will be a great con-
venience to the commission merchants, as
the Vandalia will place all its cars shipped
In here loaded with tropical fruit on these
tracks for unloading.
s. H. III. Clark. president and one Of the
receivers of the Union Pacific, has so far
regained his health that he is devoting his
whole time to the interests Of the road.
Receiver Mink has gone to Boston to nego-
tiate with the Oregon Railway and Nayiga-
ton management regarding a division of
to accomplish what he desires.
A stockholders meeting of the Southern
Railway Company was held at chmon
elected as follows: Charles ii. Coster, III.
c. Fahnenstock. Samuel Spencer. Samuel
Thomas, Anthony j. Thomas and j. Hood
virgil, OF y, New tbS Ei YORK S. a. IL RsnH
Skipwith Wilmere, a prominent lawyer of
Baltimore.
A number of missionaries en- route to
Japan and China passed through here yes
terday, coming up from Louisville. They
were taken in charge by District Passenger
Agent Turner on reaching indianapolis,
who went with them as far as st. Paul to
see that the Northern Pacific, which he
represents in this territory. started them
properly. There were eleven in the mis-
sionary party.
The fast train the Big Four recently put
on, known as the Knickerbocker, is sur
prising Passenger Traffic Manager McCor-
mick by the large number of passengers
Ii is carrying. Since Mr.. Mccormick
went TO the Big Four Ii has been a favorite
Idea with him TO have an afternoon train
out of St. Louis and an evening train out
of Indianapolis. At Anderson, Muncie,
Union and other points where the train
stops 1t is meeting with much favor.
The TWO factions who respectively repre-
sent the Protective reorganization COM
mittee" and the general reorganization
now at Topeka. The former Is composed
of ex-Secretary of the Navy B. F. Tracy.
Theo. W.. Meyers, Newman E. Smith. e.
B. Taylor. VIM. p. Smith and II. d. Kyle.
and are at the Hotel Throop. The latter is
Tracy said that he looked for no excite
ment or friction at the meeting Thursday.