The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-02

and earnings Of the transportation depart
most most Of his time u IN New York, o and the
the hands Of Mr.. Barrett.
On the lines of the Pennsylyania road
there were employed last year 1o9. 400 men,
against 13s, 1856 In the previous year. q de-
crease Of nearly 24.000 in the working force:
to So, go, ss while in the previous year they
reached 9,73S, 93, showing that IN 1874
there were paid to its employees $ls'aSf'oH
J. r. Cavenaugh, superintendent of car
service OF the Big -Four lines, commenced
railroad service as messenger boy when
was made bill clerk, and when fifteen years
old was appointed car accountant Of the
since that time has been in some official
railway position continuously.
1t is stated that E. o. Hopkins. receiver
of the Louisville, Evansville & St. Louis. is
soon to retire. and that the position has
been offered to G. j. Grammar, now general
freight agent OF the Lake Shore; It Is
was at one time president and general man
ager of the. L., E. a. st. L., and under his
management the road was very prosperous.
The Chicago Freight Bureau Is one of the
most thrifty organizations in the West. 1t
has been in operation eleven years, and has
done valuable service In the adjustment of
claims and in bringing about amicahle re-
lationS between shippers and the railways.
The indianapolis Freight Bureau. which re-
fortunate in not securing man adapted
to such work, sand never filled the mission
that an organization of that character
should.
A rumor was current In Chicago, yester-
day, that John Egan, last summer president
of the General Managers Association, had
been appointed general manager of "a
Western line" The general opinion was
that. the road. was the. Colorado Midland.
AT the Office of the Atchison, however, moth
ing was known of the appointment. Pres
ident Robinson is in California and Receiver
Office of the road in Chicago had any in
formation on this subject.
The report of the New Jersey Central
eor tine year snsss Dee m 1854
President Maxwelps report states that the
decrease. in gross earnings is mainly due
anthracite coal He regards the situation
as merely temporary and due largely to the
country. Consequently the board OF direc-
tors feel justified in continuing the payment
of the regular dividend of per cent.
The statement of the earnings OF the
falling off in all departments save one. de-
spite a decrease in the operating expenses
showed an increase was that of mail and
miscellaneous earnings, where there was an
January Were s.. 254,52s , decrease Of $751;.
45f: operating expenses were $1,544 7S9. de-
crease of I95 767; net earnings were s7os.-
month was 1858, against a surplus of
sss.177 for the same month of last year.
The East-bound freight rate situation
Chicago roads are carrying grain at 10
cents per 100 pounds, Chicago to the sea-
board, cut OF cents. and provisions at =
Peoria, st. Louis and Indianapolis some of
the roads, it is stated are meeting the cut
the Cleveland agreement has been disre-
garded. The Big Four freight officials claim
are doing would indicate that the line is
very popular one If it can get business
against such odds at full agreed rates.
Chairman Caldwell, of the Western Trunk
Line Passenger Association, received a tele-
gram from General Passenger Agent Town
SEM Of nr the Missouri raeirle saying avn that
sentative of the Missouri Pacific will be in
Chicago to-day and confer with the members
of the Missouri Pacific in the committee.
Chairman Caldwell at once issued a call
did so that the conference with the trunk
lines would be terminated. 1t is probable,
howeyer that the trunk t lines WILL h 5iase
in time to permit the latter to hold their
own meeting
Within short time the tearing down of
the old Terre Haute & Indianapolis pas
senger station at Terre Haute will be COM
meneed, and the ground where It stands ll.is
by Chauncey Rose when ,e president d of the
company. and enlarged and improved dur
ing the time that e. j. Peck was president
roads running into Terre Haute forced the
Vandalia to erect union passenger sta
ton of more modern and commodious char
acter, and the city now boast of hav-
z ing one of the most complete and attractive
structures of this kind in the country. There
are larger structures but none more appro-
pirate to the railway center where built.
E. o. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four lines, is an earnest
advocate of the interchangeable mileage
book. He says commercial men have been
demanding such a boo. for years. and it
Is q great convenience to business men gen.
orally, as by purchasing two of the mileage
books now offered person can reach. at a
2-cent-a-mile rate. every railroad town of
Importance in the Central Traffic Associa-
ton territory. The mileage book good over
SO large number of roads accomplshes
several good results. Ii stops the clamor-
/ ing of the commercial men for 2-cent-a-
mile rate; 1t more or less prevents its use
to so great an extent by scalpers; 1t creates
a better feeling between the roads in the
same territory, and really gives a 2-cent-a-
mile rate to the persons who are entitled to
it, for the reason that they are liberal
patrons of the railways.