The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-06

j, Of this year. After that date he fixes
says thai he allows the $4,000 in a lump
to the three because the various factions
of stockholders insisted on having three
ever. that two of the three receivers had
better resign, as one is sufficient, and he
will allow compensation for but one.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
George +. Sturtevant, has been appointed
assistant general passenger agent of the
Boston G. Maine, vice F. n. Chase, resigned.
The Terre Haute Car Manufacturing Com
pany has, in the last few days received sew
eral good orders which will keep two hun
dred men busy for three months to come.
Notice is given that the special rates from
Missouri river to Western points placed in
effect at the beginning of the worlds fair.
and since used as a basis will be cancelled
Feb. 10.
The Grand Rapids and Indiana shows an
increase in net earnings. for December,
1894. over December. 1893. Of SIG, '736. The, net
over 1888 of sSs. ia.
George A. Burt, of New York, an ex-
perienced railroad and steamboat company
manager of the Ohio-river railroad, with
headquarters at Parkersburg.
Freight traffic is SO heavy over the PAN
handle, east from Chicago, that six freight
locomotives have been transferred from the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago to the
Panhandle's Chicago division.
Grand Chief Clark. of the Order of Rail-
way Conductors, states that out of a total
or twenty-three thousand conductors in the
United NStates, Twenty-Five thousand are
members of this organization.
The Indianapolis Passenger Association
yesterday issued joint rate sheet No. 200,
which goes into effect Feb. Is, giving the
advanced rates to PACING coast. Colorado,
Utah, Nevada, Wyoming anu Washington.
The passenger earnings Of the Monon
lines for the last week in January were
$l5,2lO, an increase over the corresponding
for the same week were S45, 222, an increase
this year of SIC, 304.
The Ohio Falls Car Company will to-day
begin work on seventy-fve box cars for the
Evansville & Terre Haute, and when these
are completed on $50 ventilated cars for the
Southern Railway Company. In the pas
senger department but little is being done.
F. c.. Raft, who has been appointed COM
merciaI agent of the Indiana, Illinois &
Iowa, with headquarters at South Bend.
was for many years ticket agent of the
Lake Shore at South Bend, and was dropped
when the excitement over the commission
question was at it's height.
There are no indications of the rate war
on coal between the Chicago g. Eastern
Illinois and the Monon ending at present.
The Monon has discovered that the former
has entered into long contracts to carry
coal at cut rates, and it is difficult to see
how the matter can now be settled.
Since the severe, weather set in work on
Four is interested, over the Ohio river from
Jeffersonville, is moving slowly. Some
trouble has been experienced in getting ma
terial to replace that damaged by the wreck
of the bridge, when partially completed.
R~oadmaster Wright, of the Monon. is now
loading the forty-five miles of light steel
to give place to a heavier rail, at the rate
OF ten cars per day, and shipping them for
distribution on the Bedford & Bloomfield
division, which is to be converted into a
standard+guage road.
Recent decisions seem to favor the idea
that any town can insist on all passenger
fra ms CfnnninO at itS 6annt To lot no cS1no
on or off. If this is to be enforced it will
put an end to the running of fast trains,
as under the most favorable conditions
every time a heavy express train stops
three minutes of time is lost.
The passenger representatives of the Cen
trail Traffic Association lines met in Chicago
differential rates in all portions of the as
ISOLATION territory. After a. long discussion
" Mit MAS : b besiqed Of 10 sr aii1W the IN matter al aom to rest
of three members, which are to be selected
later.
1t now looks as if the Western Trunk
line committee, the successor of the West
ern Passenger Association, would be a sue
cess. Now that the Missouri, Kansas &
come members, the Wabash. under promise.
Wust become a member; All the roads in the
VIII be In the organization.
There were a large number of representa-
tives of Western lines in the city yesterday,
1Rnolndi IYE r. Z r Z; Jones, of the Chieago &
ANONH SAahu AoI3dc &oiiiEDCb, I'll tAS WlS-
consin Central; F.. l.. Martin of the Mis-
souri,. Kansas & Texas; Harry Brandt, of
the Great Northern: A. w. Moves. of the
Chicago Great Western, and ]. F. Valliery,
of the Chicago, Burlington G. Quincy.
An order has been entered in the United
States Court at Atlanta ordering the sale
9Th of March next. Lawyer G. T. Palmer
has been appointed commissioner by Judge
take place in Atlanta. The least amount
that viii be accepted as a bid for the prop
erty will be Sis, 900. while $4,000 in cash
must be deposited by the successful bidder
in the hands of the commissioner.
The continued cold weather has caused
s a blockade fsrn of peri Isl bic freights at the
lines. 1t is said hundreds Of carloads of
such freight are being held at Chicago. The
ears loaded with p~erishable freights. The
Chicago q Erie has in it's round house at
Fifty-first street, Chicago, twenty carloads
OF lemons and oranges, and other eastern
lines are providing warm storage for hun
dreds of loaded cars, awaiting nlilder
weather.
eral manager of the Lake Erie & Western,
last evening received a telegram from w.
T.. Hackedorn, general solicitor, stating
that the meeting of stockholders which
was to have been held in Peoria yesterday
to vote on the question Of purchasing, the
postponed until Feb. u. The failure of the
stockholders to act in the matter yesterday
deal. although Vice President Bradbury
does not express himself further than to-
say that the Lake Erie & Western option
on the property does not expire until
March J..
Next week there is to be an important
meeting in New York between the higher
railway officials and the managers of the
lake craft. The purpose is to discuss east
bound freight rates after navigation again
opens. Every year this question comes up,
and little has been accomplished, but it is
hoped this year to do something TO prevent
the general letting down Of east-bound rates
when lake and canal navigation opens. 1t
is feared that the reduction of grain rates
to a M-cents-per-one-hundred-poundS basis
from Chicago TO New York will so cut into
the prospective business of the lake craft
that their managers viii endeavor to check
the movement by contracting at very low
rates if shippers will wait until navigation
opens.