The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-06-20

miles from indianapolis. to Cedar lake:
and the Monon people will make a rate OF
81 for the round trip.
The withdrawal OF the Chesapeake &
Ohio from IL proposition to enter the Trunk
line Association is looked upon by railway
officials of a conservative turn as being
unfortunate. and has greatly lessened the
prospects of a restoration Of freight rates
TO a profitable basis.
The shops at Denison. o., on the Pan
handle lines. are to be improved. They
are the oldest shops on the Pennsylvania
lines west Of PittsDurg. and were built in
the nftes. when the road was known as
the Steubenville & Indiana. Thomas Den
mead was the first master mechanic in
these shops.
The st. Louis & san Francisco and the
Gulf, Colorado 4 Santa Fe nave put o.
last vestibule train between At. Louis and
Galveston, Tex, via Paris. Dallas and Cle-
bourne. This is the first time that through
solid train service has been established be-
tween those points, and in both directions
the time is fast.
w. c. Higgins. one Of the Oldest passen-
ger conductors in the State. an employe of
the Nickel-plate, died suddenly at Colum-
bus o.. on Tuesday. Mr.. Higgins was
delegate to the late convention of the Or
der of Railway Conductors in Atlanta. and
was then in apparently perfect health, TAX
ing an active part in the meeting.
A special meeting of stockholders of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton x Dayton has been
called for July at Cincinnati TO vote on
the question OF consolidating all the prop
authorized capital of the companies Is to
be 100000. and the plan is TO make S..
100000 of common and 100000 OF preferred
stock.
Cincinnati, Hamilton a. Dayton, was In the
city couple of hours yesterday. Mr..
Green spent most of the time with his at
torneys. talking over the local freight de-
pot question in which the c., III. Z, ID. seeks
to recover damages as result from shut
ting out their depot from the business CEN
ter by the construction OF the viaduct.
Engine 40. which made such remarkable
runs on the Louisville division of the Penn
sylvania lines, is now in the shops to re-
ceive a new set of fiues and general re-
made the best record of any engine ever
run on the lines west OF Pittsburg. or
late Ii has been hauling the heavy fast
express trains OH the Pittsburg division.
5. T. Blizzard, superintendent of the Mich
igan division OF the Big Four, was in the
city yesterday for "a conference with Gener
al Superintendent Van Wrinkle. Mr.. Biz
card states that at Benton Harbor the road
is getting thirty to forty carloads of freight
day.. consisting largely Of -four, lumber
and salt. The passenger business OF the d.
vision northward is the heaviest in the his
tory of the road.
President. Brice. of the Lake Erie &
Western. makes a very favorable report,
the gross earnings for April being S2S5,535.
an increase over April. 1891, of $40.375; net
earnings for April, Sl2O,9S7; increase this
year 81, 46S. For the four months ending
April 80 the gross earnings of the system
were S1.110.9O3. increase Of sl25,309 over
the corresponding four months of 1891;
net earnings e $4se, $40. AN increase this year
of $Sl,329 The fixed charges for that period
were .499 leaving surplus of $269,0i9,
an increase over 1894 of S3,915.
There will be a meeting of the passenger
lines of the Central Traffic Association in
Chicago to-day, but it is not expected that
anything more important than routine mat
tiers relating to excursion tickets Will be up
for discussion. The Western lines are not
so sure now that they will hold any meet
ing in Denver on June "a. They cannot seem
to make any progress with the Union Pa
cifc and they cannot get along without il.
No amount of endeavor has been able to
extract from the Union Pacific people an
assurance that they will have anything TO
do with the reorganization of the Western
Lines Passenger Association.
n committee appointed by the central
association OF car service officers has
in a manner which means good results. At
Chicago and some other cities Ii is the Gus
tom for the receiving line to pay the trans
fer charges, while in INDIANAPOLIS Cincin-
natl, Cleveland and Buffalo the forwarding
line pays the transfer. This lack of uni
formity tends to an injustice in many in
stances, and TO remedy IL a committee has
been appointed to lay the matter before
the American Railway Association, which
is the highest authority in the country
on questions affecting transportation.
The special train over the Pennsylvania
road which President Cleveland was
carried from Washington TO Jersey City
consisted OF the private car OF Vice Pres
ident Thompson. of the Pennsylvania road.
and the private car of Senator Brice. The
train was scheduled as a special out of
Washington at 7:05 a. m, ten minutes be-
fore the regular fast train, and was run
as the first section. BY the Presidents re-
ques0 the engineer instructed not to
make any extra speed, but TO conform as
nearly as possible 10 the pace of the regu-
lar train which followed ten minutes be-
hind. carefully guarded by the block sys-
TEN. This was done for two reasonS-first.
to avoid attracting attention.; second. to
prevent unpleasant oscillation, which would
result from hauling so light train as two
cars occupied by three people when run at
high speed.
s. b. Lggett secretary OF the Pennsyl-
vania Company, operating the Southwest
ern system, of which John +. Miller is
general superintendent. furnishes the fol-
lowing tabulation of earnings and expenses
of the Panhandle lines for the month of
Nav: The PittSburg, Cincinnati Chicago
q st. Louis for the month OF May, 1895,
as compared with the same month of 1894.
shows an increase of gross earnings of Sl10,
S21 90, and an increase Of expenses of $24,
1851 and an increase in net earnings of
$S6 234. 6S. The five months of 1895, as COM
pared with the same period OF 1884, show an
increase of gross earnings OF 500 ,22l69. and
an increase of expenses of S23S, S20.S2. and
decrease in the net earnings OF $34.5S6.13.
Considering the great increase of expenses,
occasioned by the vast amount OF extra
work that required to put the differ
ent lines of. the system in good shape
after the effects of severe winter, the
report as given above. is a very encourag
ing one. and shows that for the balance
of the year the road Will show a handsome