The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-20

enough to pay it's fixed charges and oper-
ating expenses without any drain on the
pennsylvania Company.
A few years ago. under orders of Cen
eral Superintendent Miller, of the Pan
handle lines, $1,000 catalpa trees were
planted on the Indianapolis division. which
are now twenty TO thirty feet high and
are in full bloom.
General Manager Wood. of the Pennsyl-
vania lines west of Pittsburg. and General
superintendent Miller, of the
the Indianapolis & Vincennes on a special
train, accompanied by superintendent Mans
field.
A chapter on Mexican railways. compelled
from information derived from various
sources, forms an interesting feature OF
the report of the statistician of the De-
partment Of Agriculture for June. The
number of miles of railway constructed In
Mexico is put down at 1877.
On sunday next the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & indianapolis will run an excursion
to Woodsdale Island Park, expecting 10
have fourteen coaches, and the Brother
hood OF Engineers Will go 10
Blue River Park, and expect TO take ten
coach loads OF engineers and their friends.
OF the Big Four and the Vandalia and In
~dianapolis division OF the Pennsylvania
lines are showing much better earnings on
through business than at the correspond,
ing period of last year. In fact, seaboard
and New England pushes is seldom as
heavy as at the present time.
General Superintendent Waldo, of the Gin
c%innati, Hamilton & Dayton, states that in
the last twenty-four days the =, h. e. ~:
has taken north from the Ohio river 4.9.V
Fl. & DIS Toledo and indianapolis divisions
large increases in their earnings as com
pared witt many months past.
The meeting of the National Educational
Society at Asbury Park next month Will,
people ever assembled at a Xix affair;
Tickets by all the lines east bound Will
- - Til - - I-lw~ q mir FlU
16 unless an application is filed for an ex-
tension. and in such case the limit Will be
Sept. ].
1t is announced at Union Pacific head
quarters that the receivers would, about
Jul /, dispense with the services or twenty
five clerks and perhaps abolish one or two
departments as a result OF reduced WORK;
This Is regarded as the nrSt SUBSTANTIAL
evidence that the Oregon Railway and Nav
igation Company affairs are to be run sep
arately after July J.
The Boston car between st. Louis and
Boston over the Big Four, the Lake Shore,
the New York Central and the Boston &
Albany was put on again Sunday. and, 1t
Wabash has had great advantage over the
Big Four out of st. Louis in having a
through Boston car. 1t running over the
Wabash, the Lake Shore, the West Shore
and the Hoosac Tunnel line.
J. J. Fletcher. general freight agent. of
the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis,
sends the report of a fast run of a trop-
lCdl 4ull ian wv tAAot 1900
from Memphis to Kansas City, 4S4 miles.
in eleven hours and ifty-nine minutes,
or at an average speed of 4.4 miles per
hour. In several places a speed Of over
sixty miles an hour was reached. The
train consisted OF fifteen fruit cars and an
official car.
Arbitrators Chesbrough. De Haven and
Hall have awarded the Nickel-plate a %
cent differentiaI between Buffalo and Erie;
IS cents first class between Buffalo and
Cleveland and so cents second class; s1.5O
first class and 81 second class between
Buffalo and Chicago, applicable in both
directions. thus settling what has been a
bitter fight between the LAX Shore and
the Nickel-plate. Both roads are owned by
the Vanderbilts.
In speaking Of the movement to amend
the interstate-commerce act to admit of
pooling, ]. +. Goddard, chairman cf the
Trunk Line Association, says what the
public desires is a law which provides
reasonable rates for transportation and
guarantees to the public against unjust
discrimination as between persons and To-
calities. He thinks the spirit of antag-
onism to railroad companies in this coun-
try, which first became prominent in the
granger laws of the Western States
twenty years ago, has steadily declined.