The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-05-22

Trust Company, of New York. trustee for
$4,000.
Harry Crawford. jr., general manager of
the Chicago & Southeastern. was in the
city yesterday TO purchase from the Big
-Four or the Panhandle lines two light loco
motives. Last week the company purchased
from the Big -Four two coaches.
The Local Ticket Brokers' Association OF
Chicago alleges that the Chicago. Mill
waukee & St Paul secured the passage OF
the law prohibiting the scalping of rail-
road tickets. and the scalper= give notice
that they will boycott that road
The fast Train 81 west over the Penn
sylvania lines was annulled yesterday on
account OF damages east OF Pittsburg from
the flood. All the bridge carpenters of the
Panhandle lines were taken east yesterday
on special train TO aid in repairing bridges
east Of Pittsburg.
The Lake Shore and the New York Cen
tral will put on their new twenty-four train
between Chicago and New York. each way
sist OF buffet smoking and library car, a
private compartment car and a twelve ana
sixteen section sleeping car.
r. NJ. Case. compiler for the rate sheet
of the indianapolis Passenger Association,
has gotten out In neat pamphlet form pas
senger fares and divisions from Indian
apolis TO all important railroad points,
which went into effect May 20. The work
Is done much more Systematically than ever
before.
For some time past pile driver has been
strengthening the approaches TO bridges by
driving more piling. Thus far 400 piles have
been driven This road has now got in
shape to protect itself from washouts from
high waters unless something more serious
than they have had yet to contend with
comes UP.
The local ticket scalpers have been given
TO understand that no more mileage books
or tickets Of the lines in the Chicago and
Ohio River Traffic Association will be
furnished to sell. as most OF them have
n q
scalpers remarked yesterday: This thing
will last only week or two, and our pres
ent stock will bridge over that time"
The American Express Company has a
twenty-five hour train between New York
and Chicago, over the Vanderbilt lines; the
Adams Express, over the Pennsylvania
United States Express Company has ar
ranged with the Delaware, Lackawanna q
western, In conjunction with the Lake
Shore, TO run a. twenty-five hour train made
up of only express and mail cars between
those points.
Z. o. Mccormick, passenger traffic man.
ager of the, Big Four, spent yesterday In
TO attend meeting to-day of the passen-
ger department of the Chicago and Ohio
River Traffic Association, which Mr. Nc
Cormick says is now we'll established and
has commissioner who will, without doubt,
make IL enc of most effective of the passen-
ger associatiOns.
There are three systems of roads which
have a larger mileage than the Pennsyl-
vania. The Pennsylvania has 6,767 miles;
the Chicago Burlington & Quincy, 1920;
the Chicago & Northwestern, 1866. and
the Atchison, Topeka K Santa Fe 9.14l
miles The Pennsylvania system has the
advantage of being located in a much more
thickly settled portion of the United States
than the other systems named.
For April. on the regular through bust
ness, the Trunk line statement shows that
the New York Central brought west 3, 430
passengers; Pennsylvania, 1.729; the West
Shore 213: the Erie. III; Ontario & Western.
90: the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western,
2f5; the Lehigh Valley, 455; the Baltimore &
Ohio, 35l, and the Chesapeake e. Ohio, 149.
The business of the C.. & o. between
Washington and the West makes a much
more favorable exhibit than from New
York.
The older railway organizations as they
hold their annual meetings, are taking
up the new organization, the American
Railway Union, and acting very cautious
ly as to members leaving the old brother
hoods to become members of the new asso-
citation. They argue that the Debs scheme
is yet In its infancy and untried. They
claim TO fear afflliation with this general
movement would tend to weaken the old
organizations in their allegiance; in other
words, that the all embracing organization
would flourish at the expense of the sepe-
rate organizations composing it.