The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-07

dropped in, a short time. He iss practi-
cally. performing the duties Of general
manager. and. therefore, it is said the pre-
fix of assistant should be dropped.
J. Cory Winans has been appointed dis
trict passenger agent of the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton. with headquarters at
Piqua, O., the appointment taking effect
to-day.
The earnings of train men for December
on Indianapolis lines will be to 10 per
cent. lower than for November owing to
the decrease in freight traffic the last half
Of December
The Adams Express Company is advance
ing its rates for transmitting currency.
For years the rate between Boston and
New York has been % cents per 1900;
now 1T is to be 40 cents.
The most prosperous railroad branch of
Indiana is at Fort Wayne, there being 400
members. In fact. it is stated at no rail-
road center is there branch with as many
members.
The Big Four will soon ask for bids on
one hundred stock cars, two hundred coal
cars and five hundred fiat cars. The Big
Four handles a good deal of stone on its
system, and a large per cent of its fiat cars
are past safe service.
The sleeping car hauled between Indian
apolis and New York on the Big Four
three weeks, and nine is the lowest number
of berths occupied on any trip East; the
average has been sixteen.
The car-builders in the shops of the
Pennsylvania Company, at Fort Wayne,
have just completed fifty stock cars
equipped with apparatus to feed stock
without unloading, and this morning will
begin the building of one hundred furniture
cars.
Hereafter the Pennsylvania will print it's
annual passes ON bank check paper, cutting
out the number of the sheet and also print
ing 1t in red ink. This is done to prevent
the transfer of these favors to- scalpers or
other parties not entitled to such transpor-
tation.
The Adams Express Company has es-
tablished an independent office at Denver
and appointed c. NJ. Day, an old express
man, agent. The Adams now reaches Den
Yer over the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy.
operating. in connection with the Penn
sylvania lines
An impression. which is not correct, is
out that A. j. Gibbons, engineer of main
tenance of way of the Vandalia lines. on
M. e. Downing taking that position, will
be displaced This is not the case. He is
to be promoted, it is understood, to chief
engineer of the entire system.
E. b. Stahlman. commissioner of the
Southern Passenger Association, has little
hopes of harmonizing the differences be-
tween roads in the association; which ,a goes
it being organized in 1886, with Col. NJ.
Slaughter as its commissioner prior to Mr..
Stahlman.
on the New York Central are much ex-
ercised over the radical action taken by
he having instructed agents. to sdicontinue
the issuance of clerical permits, either trip
or or annual as the privilege has been gross
NJ. j. Murphy, roadmaster of the Monon
main line, has been promoted and, in adj
ditiOn to his former duties, has now charge
of carpenters on the division. j. M. Cald-
well, formerly master carpenter of the
second division. has assumed the duties
as Inspector of buildings, bridges ETC.,
over the entire Monon system
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern peo-
pie are considering the building of fifty
miles of road which, would shorten the line
of the B. & o. S. W.%seventy- eight miles
ject is now known as the New Albany,
Fredericksburg, Paoli & Shoals road. When
undertaken it will probably be given
shorter name, the present one being the
principal points it would touch.
General Manager Cox, of the Terre Haute
car works, was in the city on Saturday;
He states that the works have just secured
a contract to furnish the wheels, axles and
trucks for seven hundred electric motor
from the Brill Truck Company, of Phil
adelphia A Westerns mandatory furnish
ing trucks for cars of Eastern States is
complimentary to such works. For some
weeks past the Terre Haute car works have
been engaged in rebuilding eight hundred
cars for the Chicago & Eastern Illinois.
A number of Ohio roads are protesting
against the reduction in freight car mile
age authorized by the trunk lines and the
Central Traffic Association. When the
change of car mileage is about equal the
matter is not so important, and an injustice
is not so apparent; but with the coal and
live stock roads cars go to other lines, while
them. In consequence, the road which
handles a good deal of coal or live stock coll
lects but little mileage, while paying out
good deal. A. reduction of 20 per cent. on
the end means that the road which owns
the fewest cars and pays mileage is the