The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-13


travel on such transportation. Two years
ago not 20 per cent. of the passengers
Travelled on mileage books.
The Big Four management contemplates
ILL.,, largely increasing its side track ca
pacity at that point and erecting a large
transfer and freight house
Seldom does the Chicago division of the
Panhandle lines do as heavy a business as
1t did last month. During March there was
not wreck on that division, which is I'M
usual when business Is at its ordinary VOL
ume.
A. III. Wagner, district passenger agent
of the Chicago e. Northwestern, has re-
turned from quite extended trip through
and the prospects for passenger business
improving.
Vice President Murray, Assistant General
Manager Schaff and General Superintendent
Van Wrinkle, Of the Big -Four, who have
been out on the line all the week, will re-
Sandusky division.
First Vice President Thomson and Gen.
Sewall of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
Thomson's visit is SUI UNDERSTOOD n9 to be prin-
cipally on business for the company. He
expects TO be absent two months.
a movement is on foot looking to the
Ind. An effort is to be made to get the
yandalia, the Monon, the Lake Erie 4
Western and the Toledo, st. Louis & Kan
sas City to combine and build it.
c. w. Cook. general freight and pas
senger agent of the Indiana, Illinois &
Iowa, has resigned His successor is :. ;.
Is for a long time. Mr.. Whteheads APP
pointment becomes effective April 10
John McKenna, master mechanic of the
Indianapolis. Decatur & Western shops,
has rendered his resignation to take effect
May l. He will be succeeded by j. w. Con-
naty, foreman of the shops. Mr. McKenna
has been with the l., ID. & w. ten years.
L. d. Bartholomew, who has been ticket
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio at Newark,
@, for thirty-one years, has obtained a
spend the time travelling. His son will
look after the office during his absence
William Harper, who for forty years was
was buried at Chicago on Thursday. A num-
Der of the general officers of the road at
tended the funeral The pallbearers were
selected from the deceased's late associates.
ID. 3. Robinson, general manager of the
Santa Fe lines. has returned from the
West. He denies the report that the Santa
Fe will build $50 miles of road to make a
connection with the projected road from
San Francisco southwark. but thinks a new
road will be built from San francisco TO
Southern California
An official statement. made public yes
terday by the Pennsylvania Voluntary Re
iaves west Of Pittsbmrs % per Cent of the
officials are members of the organization,
46 per cent. of the telegraph operators 80
the brakemen, SO per cent of the engineers,
s per, cent. of the firemen. Sc per cent.
or the SnOp men, IS per cent. OF the track
men and 100 per cent of the yard men.
E. 0. Mccormick. passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four, has the whole of
northern Ohio in state of turmoil over
the efforts his representatives are making
to capture from other lines the G. A. r,
business for Louisville, KY. He is getting
lions favoring the Big -Four lines; at the
same time his representatives are in a
quiet way trying to secure the cream of the
Knight Templar and Christian Endeavor
business for Boston.
e. o. Mccormick passenger traffic mana
ger of the Big Four, was in the city yes
rerday. He was present at the meeting in
New York on the 9th of presidents, gem
eral managers and general passenger
agents, and comparison or notes showed
that not in many years had rates in the
Trunk-line and Central Passenger Associa-
ton territory been as well maintained as
at present, and resolutions We're passed
pledging the passenger officials to continue
to so conduct the business.
Indications are that the Knicke rbocker
express will have to haul two sleeping
cars from st. Louis to accommodate the
business. Several times of late a second
sleeping car has been required, which makes
leaving Indianapolis. The Lake Shore and
New York Central are treating the South
western lines in a much more businesslke
manner and good results follow In years
past Chicago business was first and St.
Louis and Indianapolis business secondary
The Panama Steamship Company is reach
ing out for business from the Pacific coast
in a manner that is liable to cause the
railroad companies some uneasiness A
new rate on wool shipments to Boston from
Portland and San Francisco has been an
nounced of Is cents per one hundred
pounds on wool compressed in bales. As
the rate by rail is ST.. for greasy wool and
$3.50 for secured the cut by the steamship
company will make big difference to wool
shippers. The rate goes into effect at once.
Surprise is often expressed that as a rule
the passenger train crews on the Pennsyl-
vania lines are of SO excellent a class. In
explaining this an official says that the
not promoted from the lower ranks as on
many roads, but on the contrary, are
selected from other sources. Applications
are received from men wanting to become
brakemen, and they are selected on ac-
great many applications are always on
file, and there is never a scarcity of material
to select from.
The Pennsylvania Company is with each
year paying more attention to encouraging
business offering their patrons better facfii-
ties. Until the last year the company mas
given but little attention to building
switches to industries on it's lines when
compared with other roads, but competition
Instructed to look more Closely after in
dustries along the lines and inform the
superintendents of the respective divisions
where it is thought switch can pe put In
which would be a. profitable investment for
the company in the way of securing bust
ness
The Evansville & Terre Haute, under its
present management. is rapidly being put IN
physical condition to compare with the best
roads in the West. Last year thirty miles
was reballasted heavily with gravel, $4,000
new ties put in and several miles of new
steel rail laid. This year the company will
put in $4,000 ties and reballast thirty miles
more of the road and several new bridges
will be built On the Evansville & Indian.
apolis the company will do a good deal of
work in the way of new ties, ballasting,
etc The company shops at Evansville are
running full time and full handed, and the
nut in excellent condition. Within the last
thirty days the Ohio Falls car works have
delivered seventy-ffve new box cars to the
E. & T. H.