The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-04-12

William Cole for thirty years past ticket
agent of the Panhandle company at New.
heart failure. He was connected with the
road ten years before he was appointed
ticket agent.
The shipments of stone from the Bedford
uuarries over the Monon are now running
from eighty to one hundred carloads day
Yesterday 105 carloads were shipped. ana
were billed to fully half dozen cities
north and east.
The Cleveland and Buffalo Transportation
Company Will. on April %, begin the run,
Buffalo. Local passenger agents have
been instructed to begin the sale of these
tickets on that date.
of the locomotive firemen, is now making
an earnest effort to secure the headquar
the Brotherhood of Trainmen and the
Order of Railway TeIegraphers.
Local ticket agents are depressed over
the Baltimore & Ohio southwestern with
presidents agreement. The prospects of
getting good commissions again on east
bound business have been blighted.
The Terre Haute papers are confident that
the Terre Haute, Olney & Chester road
will be built. Had Indianapolis the spirit
of Terre Haute within two years there
would be three new roads into Indianapo-
lis and two of them are badly needed.
Purchasing Agent Peddle, of the Van
dalia, has bought already 10000 new ties
to be placed under the track this season.
A good deal of work in laying new rails
and putting in new ties is to be done with
in the next six months on the Vandalia
system.
With the opening of its Louisville line
the Big -Four VIII put on c snrongn ao cay
sleeping car at night between those points:
G. c. Henion, travelling passenger agent OF
the Southern Pacific, and George Gunnip,
general travelling passenger agent of the
Santa Fe, are in the city.
T. ii. Noonan, general manager of the
Central States Despatch, has gone to Ben
HHrhnr bIICinaGG
point This line gets a large amount of
business from Milwaukee by boat to Ben
ton Harbor. The rate to the seaboard from
Milwaukee via Benton Harbor is the same
as the rate from Chicago to the seaboard-
A freight train of twenty-five cars was
run recently from Andrews to .Tilton on
the Wabash road, 12o miles. in four hours
and eight minutes. II is credited with be-
ing one of the best runs ever made in this
country with a freight train. John Bruno
back, who recently left the Panhandle
to go with the Wabash, was the engineer
VINO accomplished the feat.
The Big Four people are still waiting for
the citizens of Wabash to furnish the war
ranty deed for the ground on which the
company ny proposes to erect Its new va sh9ps ops
main building will be $40 feet long. with
wings running back from each 81, end 2So feet
in length. The buildings will be con-
structed of brick, resting on heavy stone
foundation
Judge Lacombe. in the United States Cir
cult Court at New York, yesterday, handed
down an opinion on the application of the
receivers Of the Erie railroad to issue
s4ooo;OOo worth of gold certificates to carry
the business of the road. Judge La
combs granted the application. but said that
unless there be some reorganization or re-
adjustment he would dispose of the mat
ter in some other way.
A person yesterday made a test of the
local scalpers offices, and he states that
he found mileage books ts or tickets , ,, Of
every road running out of Indianapolis ex-
cept the Lake Erie & Western. From this
hot n,raI IDa-c
Agent DAILY. Of the Lake Erie & western.
has SO guarded that companys mileage
books that the scalpers cannot use them.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Illinois, Indiana Michigan Rail-
road Company was held in Michigan City,
Ind, yesterday. Thomas Hefferan, Will
Jewell of Grand Rapids, Mich; III. B.
Tuthill, of Michigan City; ]. E, Wyman,
ultimate object of the company is to con-
meet several Indiana and Michigan towns
with Chicago.
The board of directors of the Pittsburg,
met in Philadelphia, yesterday, and organ
lied for the year, by electIng the following
president ]. 7. Brooks; third Vice president,
j. E Davidson seereta ts,ns s. + L1 W5te
treasurer, T. H. b. McNight. and assist
ant treasurer, NJ. C. Spencer.
W. H. McDoel vice president and general
manager; General Superintendent Lowell
and Superintendent Parker, of the Monon,
spent the greater part of yesterday in the
over the Belt road. Mr.. McDoel is much
pleased with the business the road is doing.
The freight earnings the first week in April
were $2.942 in excess of those of the CORE
spending week of 1894 and the passenger
earnings 1852 in excess of last year.
A sharp rivalry is in progress between
Toledo & Ohio Central and the Big Four
on the c.. A. r. business next September
Gently u run special ' train carrying repre-
sentatives from counties in northern Ohio,
and they had an enjoyable time. The
Toledo & Ohio Central, in connection with
the Big Four, ran a similar excursion, and
now the c.. II. & d: announces a second
one from northern Ohio to Louisville.
The action Of the Southern Pacific, in
withdrawing from the sale of tickets to st.
Paul and other Minnesota points, by way of
M Psso Fort Worth a ana and Kansas Kansas Ely and
ated excitement in Chicago. None of the
roads was prepared to say what action they
Pacific and none of them seemed at all dis
turbed over the matter. The action of the
southern Pacific comes just at time, how
ever when any little thing is liable to
cause no end of trouble and confusion among
the Western lines.
A shipper writes the Bluffton Chronicle
complaining of freight rates.. and the
Chronicle answers his complaint thus:
Farmers and others who are disposed to
complain of high rates of railroad freights
should remember that there are citizens
of Button who remember very we'll when
45 cents per hundred weight was the regu-
lar rate for all kinds of grain from Fort
Wayne to the seaboard, with 10 to 12M
cents additional from Button to that city.
The present rate is frcm this city to New
York II to 16 cents per hundred weight.
In order to form correct conclusion as
to the benefit of railroads we only have
to recall the difference between the rates
forty years ago and now
An impression prevails that the Big -Four
is not doing SO much business in connection
with the Baltimore & Ohio as formerly.
This Is a mistake. The Central States
Despatch operating over the Big Four sys-
TEN, sends all it's business from Cincinnati
over the Baltimore & Ohio and the tonnage
of 1894 compared favorably with the best
year that the Big Four and the Baltimore
& Ohio have worked together. The BUSH
ness that the Chesapeake & Ohio gets from
the Big -Four is carried largely by the
Kanawha Dispatch, and if reports are true
it does not pay as we'll as the freight
shipped East over the Baltimore & Ohio,
but the Chesapeake & Ohio has steamships
running which must be loaded.
Charles O. Scull, general passenger agent
of the Baltimore & Ohio, was in Chica go
on Wednesday, and in speaking of the
rate situation with the Northern lines said
''The association which binds the Eastern
lines together is stronger than ever.
wish I could say the same about the West
ern roads. The detection of the Rock ISL
and means the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of their
association. No road could have been
more loyal to Mr.. Caldwells cabinet than
the one repreSented by Mr. Sebastian, and