The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-22


dation of Southern railways, the largest Of
the kind ever contaminated in the South.
The consolidation will comprise three
great systems. with lines In eleven South
ern States-Maryland, Virginia, North Car
DINA, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennes-
see and Kentucky. The sale OF the Rich
nond & Danville contains the keynote. and
Drexel Morgan & co. are the central fig
Richmond & Danville, the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia and the Cincinnati
win be very friendly to the organization,
and will be operated so as TO secure the
s sesl essu IL is az afir Doed w siKi'f be the sd presil
dent OF the new system.
Personal, Local and Genera Notes.
Capt. John B. Grover, Of Logansport, has
been placed on the pension list of the Pan
handle.
Large numbers of people are taking adj
vantage OF the tourist rates to northern
pleasure resorts.
The Big Four announces Fourth Of July
rates at one fare for the round trip be-
tween all stations.
Commencing June Is, all passenger trains
| Of the. Pennsylvania will stop at Cresson,
including the fast limited.
II. r. Dering, assistant general passen-
| ger agent of the Pennsylvania Company,
has gone East for a few days.
Inc CINCINNATI, Hamilton q Doyton mas
entered the field to run excursions to Mi
agara Falls, commencing with the first
week in August.
Thomas Wilt formerly with the passen-
ger department. of the Pennsylvania lines,
now with them in Chicago, is in the city
for a day or two.
John Wise. a veteran passenger con-
ductor OF the Yandalia- who had been laid
up several days with a swollen limb, yes
terday reported for duty.
For three days in succession Train 10 over
| the Big -Four, via Cleveland and Buffalo.
has hauled a carload of fine horses for Buff
falo or other Eastern points.
The Monon has a steam shovel, a large
number OF graders, sixty-five teams and a
gang OF track-layers at work at Lafayette,
grading the ground for the tracks and the
new shops.
In the carpenter shops Of the Vandalia
lines half of the force is working one week
nine hours a day, the other half the fol-
lowing week. This will continue until bust
ness improves.
The Randolph County Commissioners
have made their tax levy for special taxes
Union City & Cincinnati railroad. a new
railroad now under construction from
Union City to Huntington.
Travel northward over the Big Four Is
now so heavy for northern Indiana and
Michigan pleasure resorts that arrange
ments will be made to have train Is stop at
Colfax,. that passengers may catch the
| Vandalia'S fast train north.
N. Monsarrat has been appointed receiver
Of the Valley road, taking the place Of
]. X. Bole, deceased. Mr.. Monsarrat has
& Columbus. but was left out in the recent
overturning of that property.
General Roadmaster Wright, Of the In
/ dianapolis division OF the Monon. has. this
the Indianapolis division, and expects 70
| have fifteen miles of heavy new steel rail
to lay in the next sixty days.
J. A. Barnard, general anager of the
L Peoria e y Cfarn Vn<far[1aV annnintn6
Charles A. Paquette engineer of mainte-
rance of way. vice E.. T. Mcconnell, retired.
This was "a promotion for Mr.. Paquette,
who is a young civil engineer OF ability.
E. B. Wilson, commissioner Of the freight
bureau at Cincinnati, which benefited the
merchants and manufacturers Of that city
$4,000 a year or more, was formerly gem
eral freight agent of the Cincinnati South
ern; in fact, the first general freight agent
that road had.
NJ. d. Wooiford and Alfred Sully, of
New York, Eugene Zimmerman, of Hamil-
ton, and C.. W.. Fairbanks, of Indianapolis,
are said to be the big four who held the
controlling stock OF the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton, and. through 1t, the control
of the Queen & Crescent.
]. T. Brooks, second vice president of the
Pennsylvania Company; John f.. Davidson,
fourth vice president, and Secretary Lig-
gett have gone to Philadelphia to attend
q meeting Of the directors of the Pennsyl-
vania Company. and also a meeting of the
Panhandle board OF directors.
Commissioner Goddard, of the Trunk Line
Association, is a strong advocate OF the
English policy that no railroad shall be
built until 1t can be shown that there IS
a legitimate demand for IL. He says this
eliminates the purely. speculative roads,
which must become a burden on the public.
Next week the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company will put on eight extra trains
each way between Jersey City and Jersey
seaside resorts to accommodate the sum-
be that three are to be express trains,
making no stop between Jersey City and
Long Branch.
A special train was run on Monday last
over the Chicago & Alton and the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul. from st. Louis to
Milwaukee, carrying delegates to the Trav-
~'ers' Protective Association, in nine hours
Id three minutes; distance. 57 miles. The
run from Chicago to Milwaukee was made
in one hour and forty-seven minutes.
The Lewis Thomas division of the Broth
cent. Of whom are Big Four engineers. are
making great preparations for their picnic
at Blue River Park next Sunday; En-
and Martin are the executive committee,
and they state that no intoxicating liquors
or gambling will be allowed on the
grounds.
The Vandalia, in connection with the
Chicago q West Michigan. will, on Monday
next. put on a line Of Pullman sleeping
cars between Terre Haute and Bay View.
The noon train of the Panhandle line leav-
ing Indianapolis will connect at Logans-
port with this train, SO that passengers
IL ct OOA VII ICdCA Day lew
at z O'Clock next morning.
Col William Shaw. representing the pas
senger department of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy, was in the city yesterday.
He states that the Missouri lines in the
&c" system. every month this year, have
shown increased earnings over correspond
ing months Of preceding years, and, having
completed terminals of its own, there is a
great increase of business out Of St. Louis.
d. T. McCabe, general freight agent OF
the Pennsylvania Company, was in the
city yesterday. For some time past the
relations between Colonel Gray, division
freight agent at indianapolis, and F. G..
Darlington, superintendent Of the Penn
sylvania lines. have not been of the most
friendly character. The three were in con-
ference yesterday, and ii is stated har-
monious relations were renewed.
Paul Rainier. chief Of the inspection and
weighing bureaus, was in the city last
evening. He says the talk that Indianap-
sense One set of rules governs all points
East, West. North and South. TIL In
dianapolis bureau is well managed, but by
no means are freights so closely inspected
as at Chicago or st. Louis. At these points
every way bill is scrutinized. and no favors
shown to any road or shipper.
Passenger men interested say that about
five thousand persons from this and adj
joining States will go to Denver to-day
and tomorrow, and all will be carried at
81 less per head than the rate which the
Denver lines interested agreed to make. The
blame for the break in the agreed rate was
placed on the Lake Erie & Western and the
Chicago & Alton. This has aroused Gen
eral Passenger Agent Charlton, of the Chi
alization to the Atchison. Topeka Sc Santa
Fe. which really las no line of It's own To