The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-03-23

being put in excellent condition. The engines
purchased a few months ago are doing eX-
cellent service.
A. NJ. Stewart. general live stock agent of
the western division of the Erie lines, Is
IN the city on official business
Stock OF the Chesapeake & Ohio this
week advanced five points; Big Four stock
in the last ten days, three points.
The Panhandle now has in service at the
indianapolis yards seven switching engines
and crews by day and five at night.
Warren Lynch, private secretary of E. o.
M~cCormick. passenger traffic manager of the
Big Four lines, was in the city yesterday
George Daniels, general passenger agent
of the New York Central, on March / COM
pieted his thirty-ninth year in railroad serv-
H J. Graham, general agent of the Lake
Erie & Western at Peoria, was in the city
yesterday to confer with Traffic Manager
Parker.
The Lake Erie & Western WINS 1905 re-
frigerator cars, and orders have been given
to run them through the shops for general
repairs.
The Western New York G. Pennsylvania,
on April /, will pass out of the hands of
receivers into the control of the reorganized
company.
On the LIST of the month work will be COM
menced on the extension of the Calumet q
Blue Island to South Chicago, and pushed
vigorously.
General Counsel Cary, of the Chicago.
milwaukee, & st. Paul., is completely pros
tANt(a ~ OihdN tfOhDlSC, lax AOo0Ab
of rheumatic govt.
West NJ. Holt, superintendent of the din
ing and sleeping cars of the 500 railroad,
died at Milwaukee Thursday night from
the effects OF a surgical operation.
Passenger Agent McDevitt, of the Pam
handle. who has been off duty four months
on account of illness, is much better, and
will resume work within a few days.
The passenger department of the Big
-Four has sent out $1,000 postal cards to bus
mess houses and residences announcing the
Improvement in their passenger train SorV-
ice.
At the hospital of the Wabash at Peru,
Ind, there are now twenty-five injured and
the average heretofore having been about
twelve.
The official report shows that on March
/ the Big -Four had in service IL, l65 freight
cars, 214 cabooses, 1913 miscellaneous cars
and 1888 passenger coaches, largely new or
recently rebuilt.
r. r. Bentley, general baggage agent of
the Vandalia, is this week settling with
persons who lost baggage in the recent
gage car partially burning.
James Barker, general passenger agent
of the Missouri, Kansas q Texas, says he is
go sSn dm nro the a road = will u e earn this g gear s sis;-
enty miles more road than d year ago.
The Macon. Dublin & Savannah railroad
has purchased the Atlantic Short Line, in
vannah, for $3.50. 900. About thirty miles of
the Atlantic Short Line has been built.
1t is expected that the officials of the
Michigan Central will to-day accept the ex-
tension of the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa
from South Bend to their tracks, and at
once, after accepted, they will be put in use.
In spite of the incomplete condition of the
Western Passenger Association, 1T is stated
that rates are being absolutely maintained,
and complaints of manipulation of east
bound California rates are no longer made.
Stockholders of the Columbus, Sandusky
e. Hooking railroad yesterday elected ID. 5.
Gray, P w; Huntingdon, F. c. Hubbard
Andrews, of GAINESVILLE, directors. The old
officers were reelected.
The Erie. as well as the Pennsylvania,
has decided not to discontinue the issuance
of reduced-fare permits to clergymen under
the ruling of the Trunk-line Association,
which left it optional with each road to
continue or abolish this privilege.
1t is stated that there is a much better
understanding this year than ever before on
AXE AXE a fra,e ran r rates; than ana rates a een the p cemins
season will not go down to the nonpaying
figures in force at times last summer.
The Lake Shore road takes about one-
third the live stock out of Chicago for the
East. This has led competitors to report
that the road is to take off it's fast stock
trains, which meets with a positive denial
from General Freight Agent Grammar.
Train s, on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne C
Chicago, it is claimed, is the fastest sched-
uled train, considering the number of cars
it hauls, in this country. The train con-
sists of thirteen or fourteen cars, and is
scheduled at thirty-six miles an hour, stops
included
Beginning next Monday, March %, the At
lantic Coast Line and Plant system will
decrease the running time, north bound, OF
their New York and Florida special YES
tibuled trains, leaving st. Augustine, Fla,
at 1885 "A. m, instead of $3.50 a. M, and
arriving at Eastern cities on present time.
General Passenger Agent Fuller, of the
Chesapeake a. Ohio, has almost recovered
from his recent injuries. His Western trip.
se1edI IN friends on every hand are com
graduating him on his rapid recovery from
what it was feared might prove fatal in
juries.
The Baltimore & Ohio still
insists that it will withdraw from the presi-
dents agreement on the 18th. Ticket agents
are becoming anxious as to what the road
will do as to payment of commissions, it
having been demonstrated that to compete
with the strong lines the road must have
a differential or the privilege of paying COM
missions.
Freight officials who have just returned
from Chicago state that despite reports to
the contrary east bound freight rates out
of Chicago are daily reaching a higher
basis, and the exclusively low rates quoted
If there is any shading done it is but trifing,
and by lines that are behind in their pool
per cents.
s. o. Pickens, attorney of the Indianapolis
& vincennes, yesterday received a letter
from Pittsburg which stated that j. L:
Brooks. second vice president and legal
has been away several weeks on account
of illness which caused much anxiety
among his friends. Is much better and has
returned to Pittsburg.
Contracts were let this week for two
boats to establish the longest car ferry
service in the world. The boats will ply
between Peshtigo, Wis, and South Chicago.
Each boat will have the capacity to carry
twenty-eight loaded cars, and they are ex-
pected to make a round trip every three
days in the year. They will be equipped
with machinery to crush ice foes.
Trainmasters on the Panhandle lines met
yesterday at Columbus, o., to inspect a
new cabin car, which, on other lines, is
called a caboose. The new car is looked
upon as quite an Improvement over those
now in use, as it is much more commodious
and will ride easier. The trainmasters are
to pass on the new cabin car and offer sug-
~gestions which will aid in future construc-
ton.
O. D. Ashley, president of the Wabash
road. says the net earnings of the line for
February will show further Improvement
over those of last year. General business,
he says, in the Wabash territory is reflect
ing a more hopeful sentiment, although
there is yet much to be desired in the situa-
ton. Reform Is also promised by some of
the rate cutters of Western and Southwest
ern lines,
C. L. Schaff, assistant general manager,
and ]. @. Van Wrinkle. general superinten-
ent of the of the Big -Four lines, who have
been in ST IouiS for two or three DAYS. re-