The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-12-03

lgan Central. S,l02; Wabash, 3.4l1; Lake
6,44l: Baltimore & Ohio. e53s: Grand Trunk.
3.O0ls Nickei-plate. 1855: Erie, 5.o9e: Big
-Four. 3,2l6. The tonnage was made up as
1852; provisions lard. etc., IL .s29; dressed
beef 1855; fiaxseed, 423; butter, 1851; hides,
1850; lumber. $3.50: miscellaneous. eol.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
The Western Passenger Association agree
ment, as recently perfected, became effec>
tive yesterday.
In conformity to the laws of Ohio. the
Its lines in Ohio.
The Afonon will begin building new cars
In its own shops whenever the repair work
does not keep them busy.
c. l.. Schaff, assistant general manager
OF the Big Four. was in the city yesterday,
going from here to st. Louis
Between Pittsburg and Columbus. o.
Train 3, over the Pennsylvania lines, runs
In two sections of nine cars each.
The Baltimore 4 Ohio Southwestern, 1t is
said, Will soon be in the market for 600
cars. divided between box and coal cars.
The Brooks locomotive works yesterday
began the building of ten locomotives for
the Nickel-plate, all Of the ten-wheel type.
Robert Campbell, representing the pas
senger and freight department OF the Wis
consin Central, is in the city on official
business
The Grand Trunk and the Canadian Pa
government TO restore the duty on inn
ported bituminous coal.
w. III. McDoel. vice president and general
manager OF the Monon lines, was in the
city, yesterday. going to Cincinnati TO at
tend meeting to-day.
George Bradbury, vice president and gen.
eral manager OF the Brice system of roads,
who was called to New York last week by
President Brice. returned yesterday
In the federal courts 1t Is held that the
fact that the local rate is higher than the
corresponding part of the through rate II
not In itself proof Of unjust discrimination.
In November. on the indianapolis di-
vision of. the Pennsylvania lines, thirty.
four OF the employees became members of
the Pennsylvania Voluntary Relief Associa-
ton.
The stone traffic of the Monon from the
Bedford quarries continues heavy beyond
precedent, the road now taking from sixty
to seventy carloads of stone north and
south daily.
tive power of the Big Four, has gone to
Tioga Falls, ~. Y, 10 inspect the new ma
chlnery to be shipped west for the new
Interested roads have agreed to acccde
to the wishes of Kansas City merchants
and Will restore grain rates from Nebraska
points as a result of recent charges of UNI
just discrimination.
Edward Cost assistant general freight
agent Of the Big Four at Chicago, is in
the city to arrange for the funeral of his
brother, the engineer killed on Sunday
the Illinois Central.
Since the Toledo Peoria & Western has
been operated Jointly by the Pennsylvania
and the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy its
business at Peoria has increased. it Is
stated, very handsomely.
The Brooks locomotive works on Saturday
last shipped two ten-wheel engines TO the
Big Four, completing the order for four or
vile terminal and in hauling trains over the
bridge.
The Office of auditor of motive power and
machinery on the Southern Pacific has been
has been made the general managers
assistant of the Pacific system, dating
from Dec. 1.
George b. Flanders, city passenger agent
Of the Northern Pacific at st. Paul, has
been offered position on the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton which may bring him
TO indianapolis as his headquarters should
he accept it.
Harry Drew, of this city, the moving
spirit in the construction of the Chicago.
Indiana & Eastern. is in New York en-
deavoring to get some Eastern gentlemen
interested in the enterprise. which just now
is under financial cloud.
The lines of the Western Passenger AS
ISOLATION have decided to increase the sal
airy OF Chairman Caldwell to $4,000 per an
num. The increase was decided on without
consulting the chairman in any way and
was voluntary on the part Oh the roads
On the 10th of this month j. T. Foley,
& vincennes at Martinsviile, goes to the
Vandalia to be city passenger agent at
Terre Haute G. McElheney. telegraph
operator, will succeed Mr.. Foley as agent
at Martinsville.
1t is noteworthy fact that although
there number of vacancies among the
contracting agencies of the. Trunk and
Central Traffic Association lines no ap-
pointments are being made TO fill them,
and prominent official says such vacancies
will not be filled.
4 freight official who has been in Louis.
vile for several years said to Journal
reporter yesterday that in the last eight
years the volume OF business done by the
ness consists largely of cotton, whisky.
lumber slaves and tobacco.
y special meeting of the new Western Pas
senger Association will be held at Chicago
Today for the purpose of considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of running additional home
seekers excursio $, making lower rates 10
the Atlanta exposition and several other
matters mostly of routine nature
New through mail service was established
on Sunday between New York and Detroit,
Mich, over the New York Central ana
Michigan Central roads. This is the first
passed through Canada by special arrange
ment with the Dominion government.
hy-wheel twenty-eight feet in diameter.
weighing 10000 pounds. cast at Phla,
, delphia foundry, Is en- route west over the
Pennsylvania lines. consigned to the Joliet
steel rail mills. The monster is carried on
two cars or the BALDWIN locomotive works
at a speed not 10 exceed eight miles an
hour.
c.. y. Nicholson, chief engineer Of the
Queen & Crescent, has on exhibition a rail
made in 1879 by the Edgar Thomson steel
works, which was i'm service twelve years
where traffic was the heaviest an average
of twenty-five trains passing over ii daily.
and it's head is worn down but one-sixteenth
of an inch.
With some Of the passenger men an inn
preston prevails that several of the strong
lines which have been quite liberal in the
use OF interchangeable mileage, honoring
the mileage to abandon the practice and
are about TO abandon the practice and will
will return to having mileage good only on
their respective lines.
The advisory committee of the emigrant
clearing house was in session at Chicago
yesterday preparing proposition TO be SUBJ
mi.ted to the officers of the Southern Pacific
i'm New York. A committee of the members
of the Western Passenger Associat ton will
go TO New York the latter part of this
week. or the first of the week after, 10 SUBJ
nit the report.
From official sources comes the informa-
ton that Charles II. Hays. assuming
the general maIagership OF the Grand
Trunk. will completely reorganize the sew
eral departments. As a consequence, SUBJ
ordinate officials are anxious to the
permanency OF their positions, which they
have held unmolested. in many eases, from
thirty TO forty years.
Fl. G.. Holabird, general Western agent Of
the Erie lines. and r. w. Buskirk repre-
senting the Erie lines at Chicago. are TO