The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-23

trains over the Big -Four and the Chesa-
peake * Ohio for Washington, Of the Gin
%cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton, in connection
with the Baltimore q Ohio. and the Penn
sylvania lines was taken.
The Wagner Palace Car Company has
filed in the railroad commissioners Office
shows gross earnings OF S4,963, 2J9.S5; eX-
penses, $3.50, 7O212.
The Indianapolis Rate Association met
yesterday and arranged rates by all lines
at one fare for the round trip from any
point within 100 miles of indianapolis TO the
STATE fair, the races and The Last Days
Of Pompaii."
Frederic Jansen. superintendent Of the
P~ennsylvania road annex line between Jer-
i'm BROOKLYN on Tuesdav last. He had held
that position since the lin was estaD-
Ished fifteen years ago.
"Pittsburg; a souvenir of the twenty
eighth annual reunion Of the O.. "A. r.
the passenger department of the Balti-
more e. Ohio road has just issued for dis
tribution among the veterans.
An official Of the Lake Erie e. Western
says the company now has every one OF
its locomotives in service, and could use
more to advantage. The fifteen hundred new
cars the company has purchased In the
last two years now come into good use.
Col. Samuel Moody. late assistant gen.
eral PASSENGER agent Of the pennsyIvania
volunteered his services as secretary Of
the transportation committee until after
the encamoment of the G.. ~ r. at Pitts
burg.
The stagnation in passenger business
continues to be as great as before. and
many, of the lines report 1T the dullest sea-
son they have ever known. There seems
TO be almost no traffic in sight, and what
to be absolutely no prospect of improve
ment in the near future.
Albert s. White, the new general man.
ager of the Erie Dispatch lines, who has
been on a short trip West, returned yes
far1ay RI Nauy Vnrk In a fau davis he
will return and give more time to the af-
fairs of the lines in TIE West. He says it
Is not probable that my changes or I'M
the lines in the West.
John Lazarus. traffic manager of the In
dianapolis, Decatur q Western road, who
official business. returned yesterday. He
saws some of the Chicago newspapers and
Chicago shippers talk about east-bound
rates being cut out of Chicago, but among
railroad men nothing is known of any line
cutting. All are busy without resorting to
cutting rates.
Western has been quarreling over the di-
vision OF worlds fair business of last year.
The latter line has refused repeatedly to
abide by the basis of division adopted by
the lines of the Western Passenger Asso-
citation. Recently an attempt has been
m ndopt tpo inS suo t TO AFTER fs defdsIop h,i an Il
has once more positively declined, and the
trouble will still go on.
The passenger department Of the Jack
sonville. St. Augustine x Indian River
road has broken the record for hauling
in one train the largest number of coaches
n,de + VIII bau PaSse tWer6 Gne c Oh lts i1 Iee o.
week from Jacksonville to st. Augustine.
having LOCO persons aboard. One of the
Memphis roads did a good deal Of boast
ing over hauling twenty-three coach loads
Of DeoDle in one train, and this was done
to break that record.
Samuel Spencer, president of the South
ern railway, has nut a check on all ru-
mors that the Southern Railway Company
was to gather in the Queen & Crescent
by saying that I'VE have nothing to do
with the Queen & Crescent. 1t ia not now
our intention nor ever has been to take
in that property" The fact is that the
q. & c. is owned by the same persons who
own the Cincinnati. Hamilton az Dayton
road. and unless they can make a hand
some sum on the investment 1t will be
held by them says good authority.