The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-24

work, which was suspended a few months
ago on the Pennsylvania. will be revived
and pushed vigorously.
On May 1 o. J. Hammond will take the
position. of commercial agent of the Pitts
burg. Shenango & Lake Erie and of the
Grand Trunk at Pittsburg, Pa.
1t is stated officially that the receipts
from sales of tickets over the Big Four
road at Indianapolis are now up to those
of the entire month of April, 1894.
To-day the headquarters of the auditor
and car-service superintendent of the West
Virginia Central IL Pittsburg will be re-
moved from Cumberland to Elkins, w. Va.
The Missouri Pacific has notified the pas
senger department of the Hutchinson &
Southern that it will not honor their tick
cts, alleging that the road is dealing with
scalpers.
w. A. Terry has been appointed general
agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton and the Cleveland. Lorain & Wheeling
at PIttsburg, the appointment taking effect
yesterday.
The Big Four has let all the contracts for
new cars 1t will at present, the Indiana
Car and Foundry Company being awarded
the last contract contemplated, to build
two hundred cars.
Truss Boyd, of st. Louis, was in the city
yesterday en- route to Philadelphia to spend
a couple of weeks with George Boyd, his
brother, assistant general passenger agent
of the Pennsylvania.
Chairman Caldwell, of the Western Pas
lines between ST. Paul and Chicago must
not honor exchange ticket orders of the Ca
madam Pacific for tickets via Chicago and
Detroit.
General Passenger Agent Edwards, of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, has settled
o OH guest question a Tor oe,, tn tick season n o o, in nird,ls ing
hfbitions on their lines at one fare for the
round trip.
Coal rates from Indiana and Illinois
mines north will be advanced May /, and
on that date the Chicago e. Southeastern
will enter the Clay county coal field as a
competitor for some OF the business for
northern points.
For the first time in the history Of the
Lake Erie & Western it's west-bound volume
of business is heavier than east bound, and
the company is running engines and train
crews eastward to haul the surplus west
bound business.
M. E. ingalls,, president, E. o. Mccormick,
assistant general manager of the Big -Four,
nave gone to New York to confer with the
tables on through service.
The Union Railway Company is making
a decided Improvement on the eastern end
of the buildings. substituting stone for
plank platforms and walks. The vacant
ground east of the depot is to be graded
and sodded and made more attractive.
c. F.. Gardner, late master mechanic of
ley, has accepted a position with the Pitts
burg locomotive works as its general agent,
and and on his first trip secured a contract to
town & Trinity, now building.
The heads of departments and division
superintendent of the Big Four system
yesterday held their regular monthly meet
ing in the office of j. @. Van Win
kle, general superintendent. There were
some thirty in attendance, and Transports
ton matters were discussed in a general
way.
Edward Parmalee. the veteran telegraph
f1 % aftend t Tho f;; came o. oyer + from mo 81, Louis c59as
operator at Indianapolis, returned yester-
day. When the Western Union opened it's
office here Mr.. Parmalee was one of the
first operators, looking after the railroad
work.
The threatened freight rate boycott by
lines is likely to prove a failure, the Erie
and the Pennsylvania having notified the
Chicago & Alton that they would resume
road between Joliet and East ST. Louis
and on transmississippi business.
The Northern Pacific has received advices
from Prague, Hungary, that one of the
worlds fair commissioners, who visited the
United States in 1893, and Yellowstone Park
thirty-seyen of his countrymen to the
United States this summer principally for
a tour of the Park.
John F.. Lacey. of Chicago, and c. J.
King, of Trenton, No. representing $50 en-
gineers of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific railroad syystem; yesterday visited the
dent St. John. of the Seaboard Airline.
and presented him with a magnificent gold
watch. Mr.. st. John accepted the gift of
his late su~bordinates in a brief speech.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern con-
templates making some important changes
in train service with the taking effect of the
summer time table. One is the putting on
Of two fast express and mail trains be-
tween st. Louis and Cincinnati, making the
run in eight hours. stopping only at inn
portant stations and hauling only a mail
and express car, a day coach and a sleeping
car.
The ST. Louis Post-Dispatch announces
that suits will be brought at the earliest
possible moment against the members of
the bridge combine to secure the forfeiture
nf their charters and n1Infch their nfioorc
for participating in an unlawful combina-
ton. The action in the courts will be
pool, which has been brought out before
the Illinois Senate investigating commit
tee, sitting in East st. Louis.
c.. S. Crane, general passenger agent of
the Wabash lines, has asked the following
representative lines to meet him at Indian
apolis to-day in the Office of George P.
Maxwell, district passenger agent: p. f.
Dombaugh, of Toledo; r. c. Thompson, of
Fort Wayne; L. S. Mcclellan, Of Louis
Wood, of st. Louis, and Edward S. Swift,
of Cincinnati. The question Of territory is
will be brought UP for discussion.
The through passenger business of the
Baltimore & Ohio is suffering at st. Louis
through the putting on of the fast noon
and the Vandalia. The Big Four was first
to inaugurate this popular service, and
will likely tEa hold the lead "a 1T It now has al;
PENNSYLVANIA is doing a very satisfactory
and increasing business, but it is question:.
able should the Baltimore & Ohio South
western put on its talked of train whether
it can be made a paying enterprise.
General Passenger Agent Stone. of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois, has placed in all
of their dining cars music boxes which play
twenty-four airs. They were imported from
Switzerland, having been made especially
for the purpose, and owing to the superior
workmanship they will stand the motion of
the cars without injury to the instrument
and without the loss of any part of the
music to the passengers. The idea is en-
tirely original with the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois, and undoubtedly will prove a source
of great pleasure to patrons of their din
ing cars.
The action of the Chicago & Alton in
giving notice to Eastern connections that
it would cancel through billing to Illinois
points west of Joliet and East st. Louis
will, it is stated, benefit merchants of Chi
cago, who have been complaining to the
railroad commissioners OF Illinois because
jobbers of Indiana and Michigan were able
to undersell them by reason of proportional
rates, taking the official classification as
against the Illinois and Western classical
ton. The Eastern lines are now attempt
ing to get even with the Alton by cutting
off all prorating with it, but it is questiona-
BILE if they will make anything by doing so.
The record of the Alton in fighting boycotts
would indicate that the road has nothing to
fear on that score.