The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-18

ployed in the shops of the Pennsylvania
company forty years
1t is stated that all the Eastern lines are
again cutting rates on packing products
from Missouri river points east.
On Tuesday. B. Howard Payne assumed
the duties of assistant general passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific lines.
The Indianapolis Belt Road and Stock
Yards Company y paying ila per cent.
quarterly dividend on its preferred stock.
The directors of the Lake Erie & West
ern will meet to-day and will declare
IA per cent. quarterly dividend on the pre-
ferred stock.
commerce Commission, has resigned to en-
gage in other pursuits, the resignation TAX
ing effect June /.
The 15-cent rate on corn and oats. which
some of the Chicago roads have been max
ing to New England points. will be with
drawn on Saturday.
made it's first shipment of twenty-five cars
on a contract to build $50 ventilated fruit
cars for the Southern railway.
of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, for
this territory. was married, Tuesday. to
Miss Mabel Vinson, of Jerseyville, Ill.
The all-rail rate on secured wool, from
the Pacific coast to Boston is $3.50 per one
hundred pounds The Panama Steamship
Company is offering to carry 1t at 20
cents
William Garstang, superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Big Four, returned last
evening from Chicago, where he went to at
tive power.
L. p. stlmson, passenger conductor on
the Evansville & Terre Haute, who has
days, he being seriously ILL., yesterday re-
turned to duty.
The. ST. Charles car works are building
five elegant paror cars for the Wabash
road to be placed in service between st.
Louis and Chicago. Their finish will be of
the highest type.
The Union. Railway Company. of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, this week received bids for its
new union station, the estimated cost of
teen firms have sent in bids for the work
A. j. Smith, general passenger agent of
the Lake Shore, who was recently re-
Agents Association, has been elected to
that position seventeen years successfully.
Albert Rokusek, at one time general pas
later general freight and passenger agent
of the Cleveland Canton & Southern rail-
road, died in California Tuesday night of
consumption.
The Big -Four will to-day send out the
plans and specifications for the new shops
at Wabash, asking for bids on the work. 1t
bidders, judging from inquiries regarding
the Improvement.
J.. F: Walter & Co., contractors have
North Carolina 1t will be cut on the
Michigan division Of the vandaa and M
are erecting in North Carolina.
w. II. Frye, who figured in breach of
promise suit brought by Miss Belle Rogers,
Of equipment Of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford. Mr.. Frye was formerly with
the Pullman company at Chicago
Charles H Holdridge, for the last six
partment Of the Chicago & Great Western.
west to the Pacific coast, has resigned, the
resignation to take effect April so.
A. s. Knapp, superintendent of trans
portaton of the Peoria e. Eastern, was
feeling Ill yesterday and stepped into a
drug store to get some medicine. While
there he grew, much worse, and It was nee
his hotel.
An official of the Lake. Shore who was
that tna ey On ner
less expense than any other road in the
central and trunk-linee. territory, from the
fact that it has such light grades and was
so free from curves.
AS soon as freight rates get patched up
in one direction the war breaks out in an
other One of the biggest cuts ever made
will go into effect to-day, when the rate
ON nails will be reduced, between Chicago
and Denver, from $1.O2 per one hundred
pounds to 27 cents.
w. S. Brown, representing the passenger
department of the Lake Shore road, is in
sylvania lines, is looking after the Knight
TIemplar ana Christian Endeavor Boston
proving with the Lake shore and that its
business is carried at full tariff.
Homer Fulton a well-known expressman,
dled, at mis- residence, yesterday, OF pIleu-
monia. He had been in the employ of the
American Express Company for. twenty
four years. For several years he was agent
of the company at the Union Station office,
but, for few months past has been rum
ming as messenger. He was one OF the
company's most competent and faithful
employees.
The Monon people have decided to make
an addition, to their new shops at Lafay-
wheels. The roundhouse is now completed
and in use, the office buildings are about
ready for occupancy, the machine shop and
foundry are under roof. and by Saturday
night the car shops buildings will be under
roof. 1t is hardly probable the machinery
july Jul, be :. in position ready to start before
The appointment of w. H. Green as gem
eral superintendent of the entire Southern
chief engineer in place Of Mr. Bolton has
been officially announced by President
Spencer. j.. A. Dodson has been appointed
general roadmaster and d. w. Lum super
intendent of bridges and buildings. Mr..
J: s. B. Thompson has, been appointed as
at Atlanta, and Mr.. n. j. O'Brien super
intendent first division, vice Thompson,
promoted.
have charge of the locomotive and car
building departments will next week leave
pine q asets Of soosh ' Tsey ye w
leave Chicago over the Illinois Central,
e New s hg g Visit the
object of the trip is to Investigate the mat
ter thoroughly and to ascertain which par
ticular locality produces the best and most
durable timber. The party will be absent
two weeks.
Samuel Moody, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Pennsylvania lines, with
headquarters at PittSburg, is in the city
looking after Knight Templar and Chris
tian Endeavor business for the gatherings
in Boston and the @. A. r.. business for the
meeting at Louisville. Mr.. Moody states
that the business of the PENNSYLVANIA lines
all over the system is highly satisfactory
and in excess of the passenger business
at the corresponding period last year, and
he predicts a heavy summer travel, basing
his prediction on the fact that business
generally is improving, money is becom-
ing more plenty, or, at least, circulating
more freely.
The abolition of west-bound differentiaIs
from the seaboard has had the effect of
advancing tranScontinental line freight
rates from the East The trunk lines argue
that this advance. together with certain
arbitraries that charged on west
bound business. has cut down their propor-
tionate through rate and that the rates
by the water lines are so much lower than
the all-rail lines through Chicago and Sf
Louis that the business will drift to the
water lines. The trunk lines say that they
would rather haul west-bound transconti-
mental line business from points as far
west as Buffalo and Pittsburg back to the
seaboard and there give ii to the vessels,
as by such an arrangement the roads would
get local rate for the short haul which
would be larger than their proportionate
rate all rail via st. Louis or Chicago