The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-08

been all winter. practically on schedule
time main line and branches. st. Paul to
The Columbus & Hooking Valley has pur-
chased ten miles more of rails. sixty feet
IN length. so we'll pleased are they With
those laid last season
Official changes on the Cincinnati, Jackson
q Macksnaw are rumored. General Pas
senser and Freight Agent SCHNEIDER being
one of the officials affected.
Chairman Caldwell has issued a complete
list OF all those entitled to clerical half-fare
permits during 1895. The list Is greatly re-
duced from that of former years.
On Tuesday the Nickel-plate company
placed its depot at New Haven upon skids,
attached two locomotives to 1t. and moved
1t one-fourth of a mile in one hour.
The roads running north from the coal
fields of Indiana and Illinois, which have
been slashing rates, have all agreed to ad-
vance them to the old tariff on Feb. 10.
NJ; e. Ingalls,. president of the chesa,
for 81 branch road to Guyan Valley, which
will open up extensive coal and timber fields.
The Wabash has such a heavy run of
freight eastbound that the company has
every freight engine in service and has put
a number of the heavier passenger engines
into freight service.
The Improvement in coal business is prov
ing of decided benefit to the coal CARRYING
roads, The Colum sss, q, s Hooking Valley !
January, 1894, of SIG, 124.
The Lehigh Valley management has de-
cided to further reduce it's expense account,
this tipe reducing the salaries Of the high
have been slated for discharge.
1t is stated that Chief Justice A.. H. Hor-
ton, of the Supreme Bench of Kansas, will
succeed Senator-elect John NJ. Thurston as
general solicitor of the Union Pacific on
the Senator-elect vacating the position.
s. Fl. Kneeland, representing the first
Louis & Kansas City. who has been in the
city for q couple of days in conference
with receiver Peirce, returned to New York
yesterday.
The remains OF Capt. J. NJ. Phillips ar
rived at Jeffersonville last night, and the
funeral will take place to-day at 2 p. m, in
the First Presbyterian Church at Jefferson
Vile. A number of local railroad men have
arranged to attend.
The Wabash, the Paducah & Memphis,
bash road to Altamont, ill.,. together with
the Tennessee Midland. are to form a trunk
line which will come in direct competition
with the Illinois Central.
er have been invited to visit Purdue Uni
versity, Wednesday, Feb. 10, to inspect the
locomotiye plant; The engine viii be under
steam all lay. The party will meet at the
Lahr House in the morning.
June &c has been set as the day for the
opening of the International Railway Con-
gress In London. 1t Is proposed to make this
a leading event in railway history. A num-
Der Of officials of the Pennsylvania and of
this meeting.
The Northern Pacific will on Sunday put
into effect the fastest schedule yet estab-
lished between New York and the Pacific
coast, shortening the time between st. Paul
and the coast to such an extent as to en-
able a passenger to go frqm New York to
the Pacific coast points in one hundred and
eleven hours.
G.. G. Henion, travelling passenger agent
of the Southern Pacific, Is in the city. He
states that their Sunset Limited, run every
Thursday, is a great success. A telegram
received last night stated that there were
leans tn the Pacific Nnaqf Yesterday all
well loaded, and the train was run in two
sections.
liberty to publish which make it evident
that the Pennsylvania Company has not by
any means abandoned the plan of building
q grand. union station at Cincinnati, nearer
the busiess center of the city than any of
the present depots, which would greatly in
crease their passenger business from that
terminal.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Compan
now advertises a freight rate of 50 a ton
from San francisco to Puget sound ports.
to cut under these figures. and also under
the cabin passenger rate of SIC The oppo,
sition line is doing a good business and
announces that its rate to the sound will
be permanently reduced.
j. T.. waterhouse, who was injured on the
recovering. Mr.. waterhouse began his rail-
road career on the Louisville g. Nashville in
Madison g. Indianapolis, and ten years later
to the Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis
He was one of the first to become a men,
Der of the Order of Railway Conductors.
The stockholders of the Cincinnati, jack
son & Mackinaw railway at their annual
meeting elected the following directors for
the ensuing year: Calvin S. Brice, Samuel
Thomas, Nelson Robinson, John G.. Moore.
George L. Bradbury and Richard T. Will
son, jr., Of New York; Walter B. Richie,
of Lima, and N. H. Swayne and Frank B.
Drake. of Toledo. The date for the organi-
zation and election of officers, which will
take. place in New York. has not yet been
decided.
There is a growing belief in railroad cir
cles that the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton will not secure control of the Queen &
Crescent, as the citizens of Cincinnati and
the friends of the c., H. & d. had hoped it
would. That the Southern Railway Com
pany is ready to resort to any scheme to Sc
cure control of the Queen & Crescent is
daily becoming more apparent, say those
who are watching the moves of this power
full syndicate. Should the c., III. & d. fail
in securing control of the property it will
be a disappointment to the well wishers of
the road.