The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-07

pected that the rate viii soon be advanced
to 25 cents, the rate TO go into effect June
Is being 22ls cents.
VIM. n. Jackson. secretary of the Union
his e~ightylifth birthday. Recently he
reached his fiftieth anniversary in railroad
service, all performed In Indiana
Mark K. weakley, ticket agent of the
Big Four at Lafayette, has obtained two
will visit the East. This Is the first va
cation Mr.. Weakley has had in fourteen
years.
The Wabash system earned in May $751;
1893, OF S252, 400. Since Jan. / the system
has earned $4.5O5, 662. a decrease. as COM
pared with the corresponding hve months
OF 1893, of $S16, 39S.
Western passenger officials are uneasy
over the excursion rate situation. Daily
developments show a worse and worse con,
dition, cut rates having been made by even
some OF the strong lines for nearly every
large event for months to come.
The passenger conductors who now run
through between Cincinnati and Chicago
over the Big Four are rather pleased with
the plan. 1t Is a hard round trip TO make,
but between each trip there is a lay on
at terminal of forty-eight hours.
A prominent Chicago railroad official has
come out in a very pronounced manner
in favor of transferring freight and pas
senger soliciting agents to other duties, as
he thinks with them in the field any pool
ing agreement cannot be maintained.
Ford Wood. general freight agent of the
Peoria & Eastern, thinks there was never
when fright rates were so well maintained.
and H. G. Parker, traffic manager or the
Lake Erie & Western, takes much the
same view.
The Western Passenger Association, it
Is stated. now feels that It Is in a position
to put the screws TO the 500" line; which
roads. The new pool will be established
and maintained whether the 800" comes
in or not, IL is stated
- H., L.~@-n4~ en-.
perintendent Of the Grand division Of the
Atchison, Topeka 81 Santa Fe, is not yet
thirty years old. He began ~railroading
when quite young as a telegraph operator,
and through competency has risen to his
present high position.
The Peoria q Eastern passes through
eleven county seats in Illinois. Indiana
and Ohio, ali good towns or cities. 1t is
not surprising that when times are good
the local passenger business of the Peoria
covered, is not exceeded by many Western
roads.
The Jersey Central management has de-
cided 10 create a new position, that OF
traffic manager. The position has been
offered j. Lowrie Bell. at present Second
Assistant Postmaster-generai, and it is I'M
a a9d Rss t tende ne ni his ae Tesigna tx aet to- the
President. Mr.. Bell Is an old traffic official,
and was formerly identified with. Western
roads
General Superintendent Van Wrinkle, OF
the Big Four, expresses the opinion that
there is not a system in the country own-
ing the number of engines that the Big
Four does which has them in as good con-
dition for service as are those of that
company, and the freight and passenger
equipment entire Is In remarkably good
condition.
The roads centsring at Cincinnati will
hold a meeting tomorrow in that city to
try and overcome the differences which ara
likely to lead to Generalization in rates If
not adjusted. Harry Fuller, General pas
senger agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio,
which Is said to have prevented the or
ganlzation of the passenger pool, will at
tend the conference, and ALSO e. 4. Ford.
general passenger agent of the Pennsyl-
vania lines.
F.. B. Drake, general manager of the
Cincinnati, Jackson 81 Mackinaw, in com
menting on the report sent out from Gin
cinnati to the effect that the Big Four
had purchased the c., j. & NJ. said:
Newspapers have simply revived that
somewhat ancient pleasantly. Four years
ago we did try TO sell the road to the
can buy 1t now. Il they please. but they
do not seem to want it, and the point has
now been reached when we expect TO have
a line OF our own into Cincinnati"
The resolution introduced by E. A. Ford,
Of the Pennsylvania lines, In the Central
Traffic Association to furnish free trans
portation for a band or drum corps of
OF two hundred or more Grand Army men
ment in September next was not acted on
but referred to representatives OF the
Plttsburg terminal lines and their c0nnec-
tons. There is no reasonable doubt that
this liberal proposition on the pare OF me