The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-23

ond week OF February 81, 6S046. an increase
eyer e,s1o the corresponding week OF 1884 OF
I w. Z. McHenry has been appointed ticket
and freight agent of the Vandalia at De-
ccatur. and L. p. Hale to the same posi-
ton at Irvy-
H. Trim, formerly master mechanic on the
Ohio Southern, il to be appointed suEerin-
tendent of the shops Of the Peoria q East
ern, vice 0. Jackson
Dewey Drake, city passenger agent Of the
Big -Four. has just completed his thirtieth
year in railroad service, he commencing on
the old Decline in 1866.
Surveys have been completed for road
the. Chesapeake & Ohio. The line promises
to be a valuable feeder TO the c. & O.
e. w. Wren. recently appointed passen-
ger traffic manager of the Plant system,
has been offered the position OF chairman
ton .As new N01''sA a97eei ''0e'A
v N. MCGEE, who has been a draughts-
man with Al. w. Mansfield, OK the Indian
apolfs Il Vincennes, has accepted posi-
Vandaiia
On his second. trial H. S. Robinson, the
Fort Worth ticket scalper, who forged
ticket and sold 1t as being of the Atchison
issue. has been sentenced to two years in
the penitentfary.
an air brake industrial school, and pas
senger conductors and brakemen have been
the near future.
The New York Central has notified West
ern lines that certain classes Of large fur
portation over that line on account of the
tunnel at Sing Sing.
Representative Haughen, of Wisconsin.
to extend the provisions of the interstate
commerce act to include express companies
acting as common carriers.
NJ. e. ingalls,, president. and Oscar Muir
ray, vice president and freight traffic man.
ager of the Big Four lines. who have been
II Chicago since Wednesday, will be in
The official report shows that in January
there were loaded at stations on the Big
-Four system 1sni. 1920 cars, aginst s654s in
lines, 1929 loaded cars, against 2s.679 in
The election OF f. W. Vanderbilt as one
wanna & Western is abundant proof that
the road is drifting. into the hands of the
in the directory.
The Pennsylvania lines are now inter-
changing business with the Chicago, Bur-
lington e Quincy at Chicago. Peoria and
st. Louis. and everything points 10 the two
great systems in the not distant future
working as one interest.
rived and departed at the Union Station
handling 24,12S cars, against 3,497 trains
Crease ia nu s h nf his ears a
in number of cars, 3.146.
General Passenger Agent Fisher. of the
another departure. He is issuing a five
hundred-mie mileage book for So The
book VIII De o OF new pattern an improve
mileage.
Owen Jackson. formerly master mechanic
of the Big Four at Brightwood. leaves to-
day for California to take a position Of
fered him by A. G. Wells, formerly divi-
sion superintendent on the Big Four. now
Pacific
Careful comparisons show thet the through
indianapolis lines have since the LIST of
more dressed meats In refrigerator cars
than in. the corresponding SIX weeks. of
1874. and W per cent. more live stock than
last year.
j. Harvey Minor, who had been in service
on the New York, New Haven & Hartford
Since in the service Of that company he
has been an engineer, master mechanic
run on the road.
Chairman Caldwell. of the reoreanized
Western Passenger Association, visited
him to sign the agreement for his lines,
which means that the association will be-
gin its new existence on a more solid basis.
The Chicago & Southeastern is said to
months, and trouble is expected. Friends
| score could once be cleaned up the road
| Is now earnng enough to keep it's en-
ployes promptly paid and Keep up its other
Conservative freight men are disappointed
that at the meeting in Chicago, after fail
ure to furnish proof of cut rates on east
bound business. the railroad representa-
tives did not establish system of rates
on all commodities that would be reason
able and fair, and at the same time give
the carrying companies proper amount of
profit
The Indiana & Illinois carries the mails
so irregularly that the government has
| asked for bids for carrying the mail from
Linton to Switz City. This is the first in
stance on record where an Indiana railroad
/ has han a ha fnYs q tn Olfa ha
new Arrangement takes effect. March u.s.
| The track OF the Indiana & Illinois South
ern is SO bad that eight miles an hour
| over it is hardly safe. and it's rolling stock
is in bad condition
Citizens of South Bend begin to talk of
that point being a railroad center The In
DIANA Illinois & Iowa has just reached
! the city, and during the present year it is
Benton tna' Habor
get in there. The direct East ,., is now
Talse Shore or the CHICAGO Grand Funk nlse
to the north extends the Michigan Central
and it's branches, and southwark the Van
dala
Terre Haute feels that it has claim on
| the Big Four to erect new passenger
| station in place Of the present dilapdated
| increased in popularity with the citizens
| of Terre Haute, and figures will show that
booker express receiving more liberal pa
| tronage than on the part Of Terre Haute.
Possibly President ingalls, has an idea
| nois will become part of the Big Four sys-
| tenn. and in that case n handsome union
| station might be erected.
A railway official who seldom makes a
! statement which Will not bear investiga-
| ton said yesterday that there was not
/ another railroad center in the United States
which was wide open in competitors as
is Indianapolis. There are over two hun
| dred and fifty switches leading tot the va
| rious industries. and although 80 Der cent.
| of them are located on the Big -Four, the
| Lake Erie e. Western and the Belt road
and Union tracks, there is not switch
| though controlled by the roads named. and
, would be found at any other point
The stockholders of the Northern Pacific
| railroad gained a point in the United States
Court at Milwaukee yesterday, order
being entered by Judge Jenkins permitting
Johnston Livingston, Charles h. Nostrand
and Edward II. Adams. chairman of the
committee OF bondholders. to be made par
ties defendant to the suit of the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company in the interest of
the bondholders represented by them At
| the same time the court took occasion to
reprimand the trust company for failing to
/ make certain disclosures to the court The
! decision is an important one, and promises
to add serious complications To the already
| complicated suit and then prolong the liti-
| CATION indefinitely.
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