The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-10-15

months ending Sept. 90 12i roads show
this year OF 14,S $50, 156.
ID. j.. Sergeant, who is TO be replaced as
general manager OF the Grand Trunk rail-
way by Charles Nj. Hays, of the Wabash,
system, will become the Canadian advisor
10 the railway board in London, retaining
his present salary.
f. o. Mccormick. passenger traffic man.
ager OF the Big Four, was in the city yes
terday. He Is much sratihed with the man
ner passenger business is showing up. He
says he had feared that after Oct. 1 travel
case.
Instructions lave been issued by the
Southern Pacific road to all its agents that
hereafter the sale OF second-class tickets
southern California must be be strictly
confined to the most direct routes and be
made good for continuous passage only.
James McCrea. of the Pennsylvania: J..
NJ. Whitman, of the Chicago & North
western, have been selected for the COM
mitee TO consider the ACCESSIBILITY of es-
at Lyons. ILL.,, and to suggest plans for its
operation.
f. c. Fargo, whose headquarters is at
Indianapolis, now has the supervision of
the business on 400 miles of road and $50
express offices of the American Express
Company. His division has the largest
tendent and he is one of the busiest men
in this territory.
Mrs. F.. G. Darlington states tina the re-
port that Mr. Darlington, superintendent
handle lines, was having trouble with his
throat, is not correct. His illness, she
says. is entirely OF a malarial nature and
his physicians prescribed absolute rest from
duty and an ocean trip.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois earned in
the first week of October 100000. against
and XIII AL In tho p0rPncnnnlfpp wppk nf
1893. But few Chicago roads have for some
months past shown as large earnings as in
1888, but now a time has been reached when
worlds fair earnings cut no figure.
Thirty years ago last Thursday the last
spike was driven which completed the
Missouri Pacific to Kansas City. The
in 1865. ID. r.. Garrison invited a party of
friends 70 make the first trip from st.
Louis to Kansas City on that occasion.
The State law of Texas compels railroads
TO hold their trains at stations five minutes
and Ii Is proving a great annoyance TO the
talk until about the time for the train to
move, and then jump from the trains, maxi
ing il really more dangerous than III the
methods on Northern roads were in vogue
Russell Houston, chief attorney of the
Louisville & Nashville, whose death was
recently announced, had been connected
with that road as director and vice presi-
dent since 1867. Owing TO his advanced
age the last five years his position has been
an advisory one, he being too old for hard
service. AT his death he was eighty-six
years old.
The Wagner Palace Car Company has at
last secured a foothold in the Southern
States. where only the Pullman company
Next sunday Wagner sleeping cars will be
put on between Atlanta and Charleston via
the South Carolina & Georgia and the
Georgia Central lines. a distance of three
hundred miles.
The Montreal Stars London correspondent
says that the statement is utterly untrue
that the Duke of Marlborough. now In the
United States, is about to join the Grand
Trunk railway board. The elaborate state
ments published that the vanderbilts will
thereby get a grip on the Grand Trunk and
throw off their Canadian Pacific alliances,
falls, therefore,. to the ground.
Notice has been given by the Great
Northern that all second-class rates on its
lines from Montana points to Minneapolis
For several months past these rates have
been in a condition of the utmost demorali-
cation and 1t is welcome news to the com
petitors OF the Great Northern that Ii has
agreed to restore rates to tariff.
A dispatch from Denver says the Santa
Fe made another slash in freight rates,
cutting to 20 cents from the Missouri river.
2 "a cents Its from ron s.; Louis: and T5 30 CENTS affsa irom
Union Pacific. Burlington and other roads
have met this quotation and will continue
to do so until the meeting of vice presi-
alAAto III OAAAN0oO I'll VII 1NOR
the war.
A railway official, yesterday, in COM
menting on the ability of Charles Hays,
who leaves the Wabash probably to become
general manager OF the Grand Trunk, said
he was one of the ablest railroad men in
the West. but makes no effort to create
such an impression. In meetings he seldom
says much, but when he does speak he
commands attention and what he says is
full of meaning.
The Pennsylvania Company is watching
xrfTh a nn0h deal nf TnfanDGf h r III q
demand for the oolitlc stone of Bedford,
and, in Eastern cities. During the past
three years the shipments OF this stone have
been increasing at a rapid rate. and at
present the Panhandle lines are handling
from 100 to 15O carloads each week. Huge
blocks Of stone from the Bedford, Qnd),
quarries pass through Pittsburg almost
every day, bound for Philadelphia, New
York and other seaboard cities. Il is a
splendid stone for building purposes and
very easy to work into any desirable shape.
The name is derived from the Greek word
Simplifying an egg, and another word which
signifies a rock. 1t is made of minute
fossils resembling the roe of fishes, hence
its name OOlitic.