The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-03

may put stop to the construction of
electric passenger railways in the country,
running through towns and CT meeting one
borough with another The Supreme Court
has held that the passenger railways have
not the right of eminent domain and there
lore cannot condemn ard appropriate prl-
vate property for their use The court also
holds that a passenger railway cannot con-
struct part of its road unless it has
obtained the right from property owners
and township and borough officials. to build
the entire line, but roads that have al
ready been constructed. and where the
people have tacitly permitted large
to be distui bed. The decision has put a
check on some of the big schemes that
were being hatched.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Most of the Panhandle shops on Monday
commenced working ten hours a day.
The Ohio Falls works on Monday COM
menced running ten hours and considerably
increased it's force.
J. s. Minor yesterday was appointed
agent. OF, the Big Four at Burneys, Ind,
vice J. l.. Doll, resigned
Passenger conductor Brissenden of tile
Monon. Will next month be married
young lady of Lafayette, Ind.
The Big Four, on the fst of the month,
reopened Culvers Station for business and
appointed Theodore Moore agent
In March there were handled on the Big
Four system 465,326 passengers, an increase
over . the number handled in February of
1t is stated that J. Hanley, formerly
freight traffic manager of the Santa re,
may succeed w. w. Finley as traffic man
ager of the Great Northern.
Charles Lynch, who was buried at Terri,
Haute on Sunday, carried an insurance
with the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men TO the amount of 1880.
w. S. Martin, WHO has been appointed
division superintendent of the Louisville
& Nashville, was formerly on the Louis
vile. Evansville & st. Louis.
be loyal to the new order of things and
are earnestly stunying up The standard
rules OF the Pennsylvania lines.
S. II. H. Clark, president of the Union
which gives color to the statement that he
is going back to the Missouri Pacific.
Earnings of the Chicago Milwaukee &
st. Paul road for the fourth week in March
were s731,9J5 "a decrease of $103,99S from
the corresponding week of last year.
d. A. Gould. superintendent of the Wa
day from the south. Mr.. Gould was much
benefited in health by his months stay Iii
a milder climate
The Missouri transportation committee
for the Christian Endeavor societies have
arranged to go to the convention to be
held in Boston. in July next, over the Big
-Four and Vanderbilt lines.
n. K. Elliott, general superintendent of
the VanGalia lines, was in the city yester-
day. He states that freight business is i'm
proving every day. and that the company's
power is nearly all in use.
The Georgia Southern g. Florida rail-
road was sold at Macon, Ga, yesterday,
under an order of court. The upset price.
$3.ooc.000, was bid by. the bondholders' COM
mittee, and it was the only bid made.
John Wise, passenger conductor, who
was injured in the Gainesville wreck ON the
been in Florida for month. returned yes
terday. He expects to take his train in
few days.
One of the locomotives. a baggage car
a Four an1,a Of no T,,,1s ~1Is o
Vincennes have been sent to the Columbus
(Oo shops of the PENNSYLVANIA Company to
be rebuilt, so crowded are the indianapolis
shops with work.
A meeting has been called, to be held in
Chicago, June 8, to organize an associa-
ton to be known as the central associa-
ton or car service officials, to be composed
or car service officials in boundaries con-
troiied by standard time.
The approach 10 the new bridge eter the
Ohio river between Jeffersonville AMI i-..sis-
vile on the Louisville side is nearing ccIr-
pletion. Everything indicates that the Big
-FOUR can begin using the bridge as carly
as the contractors for the work promised.
The Wabash general passenger agent has
applied to the board of rulings for read
justment of the frst-class passenger fares
from New York to Chicago and St. Louis,
and the matter is to be taken Up at the
meeting of presidents and general man.
ayers in New York, April g.
The Chicago Il Eastern Illinois has Issued
a new form of 1vO0-mile tickets which will
be accepted for passage, excess baggage,
and for meals on the lining car. The nile
age of the Evansville & .erre Haute will
also be honored III the same manner. Tie
new mileage looks were placed on sale
Monday.
In March the Vandalia handled the larg-
est number of refrigerator cars loaded with
California and tropical fruits of any month
since this business was inaugurated. Sell
dom was there day that there were not
received at indianapolis ten to twelve car
loads of fruits and other California prod
uctS
1fo1,f IL
take freights at the low basis of the Chi
cago roads. One road refused one shipment
of thirty-fve cars and another a shipment
of twenty cars, and as the freight was not
sent out it is supposed that no Indianapolis
line would take it at the rate the shipper
offered.
Nettleton, president and general manager
of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis,
has been appointed master superintendent
of motive power of the system. vice j. S.
Crum, resigned, on account of i'll health.
Mr.. Crum was. for years in the shops of
the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis.
The local passenger agents associa-
ton held meeting yesterday to consider
rate matters. 1t was voted that a rate of
one fare for. the round trip be given TO del
egates to the annual State gathering of
the Knights of Pythias. in this city, on
atlo on will be asked to approve Of their ae
1t is stated that more corn has been ex-
ported Via Newport News, IN the last 1Our
months. than from any other seaboard
point. Shippers in this State and Illinois
are paying l to cents more per bushel
will pay, the shipments being made from
points on the Big Four over the Chesa-
peake & Ohio.
In the first three months of 1895 the Big
Four handled more loaded cars on it's sys-
tenn than in any former first quarter of the
year since the consolidation Official fig
ures show 34l,739 loaded cars handled in
the first three months of 1892 1863 1876 in
1898, 344, S23 in 1894 while in January. Feb
ruary and March, this year. 1884, 446 loaded
cars were handled on the system.
The statement has been made that loaded
cars did not average. the year round more
than twenty-four miles a day under favor
able circumstances This excited some sur
prise, but the truthfulness of the state
ment Is shown in the official report of the
Big Four, which shows that in 1892, the
average miles per day, per loaded car,
was 2l.2 in 1898, 1871. and in 1894. 2l.5.
Since the passage of the anti-lottery law
the American Express Company has sent
circulars TO its agents containing the fol-
lowing instructions: You will hereafter
decline to handle lottery business from your
Office, and II any matter of a suspicious
character is offered you Dy persons sus-
pected to be engaged in such husi,,tss you
will require such persons to open the pack
age and disclose its contents"
General Superintendent Magee of the
Wabash. travels IN the same ear that *
Fl. Wade form arly did, and later George
Stevens. IT is che of the heaviest private
cars running. being ballasted with rails
beneath the floor until the total weight of