The Indianapolis journal., 1895-12-26
Personal. Local and General Notes.

The aldermen oe Peoria want annual
city,
Those who are on the inside say that the
Southern Pacific will, in 1896, build to San
Diego. ''''
The general baggage agents VIII hold
thelr fifteenth annual convention, Jan. Is,
In San Antonio, Tex.
George Daniels, general passenger agent
Of the New York Central spent Christi
mas at his old home, Elgin. Ill.
George w. Parker. president and general
manager of the Cairo Short-line is ar
weeks.
The Chesapeake G. Ohio has handled this
year ,266 tons of coal and coke, 1sS, ,322
more tons than in the corresponding Pc
The general superintendent of the Wa
bash lines, on the day before Christmas,
sent checks to the employees who gained
prizes under the annual inspection of the
entire system.
The Illinois Central on Sunday last, put
in effect a new time schedule between Chi
cago and Sioux City and Chicago and Du-
buque. materially shortening the running
time in both cases.
L. o. Faulkner will, on Jan. 1, become
vice president and general manager Of the
Pecos Valley road, which, in few years.
VIII be an important connecting link of a
direct line between St Louis and the City
of Mexico.
The Seaboard Airline has given the six
ty days notice required of its withdrawal
the bD m esnt oYsr tbe
lection Of arbitrators proposed when the
association was reorganized-
The officials of the New York, New Ha-
ven & Hartford, have made arrangements
with the city authorities of Bridgeport,
Conn.,, which will enable the company to
lay its four-track main line through that
city, an improvement which will cost the
company S0O0,000.
Under the terms OF agreement between
the officials OF the Missouri. Kansas &
Texas and the International & Great North
begin to run its trains from st. Louis to
Galveston over the tracks of the Interna-
tional e. Great Northern.
In the thirty-six hours ending at mid
night Monday sixty-four sections OF freight
trains were handled on the Pittsburg d-
vision of the Panhandle lines On Sunday
sixty carloads of dressed meats and one
hundred carloads Of live stock were turned
over TO the Pennsylvania at Pittsburg for
the East
An Eastern financial paper says that the
Baltimore & Ohio railway management
eontemplates, sooner or later, considerable
extensions of It's system, and that the
recent Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton pur-
chase OF the Indiana, Decatur & Western
is more or less in the interest or the Bal
timore & Ohio.
When the new Joint Traffic Association
becomes operative Ii Is believed there Will
be a gradual falling off in the income OF
tourist agencies as we'll as that of scalp
ers. According to the new agreement there
will be little no occasion for tourist
agents or scalpers, because the managers
and other officials or the new organization
will see that the various lines maintain
their share of business. Soliciting agents
will be used to make up shortages and the
| creation of Joint agencies will obviate the
necessity of keeping Independent offices on
| freight and ticket business. Still II becomes
| an important question whether the tourist
| agencies are to be recognized, and the
| future Of the scalper, so far as the Joint
| Traffic territory is concerned, is In serious
| danger. The scalper, regarded as the pi-
| rate of the railroad business, has been
| created. fostered and sustained by 1t. even
| though ignored in the official gaze, and he
| has done much in the past to swell the
| earnings Of differential lines. He has come
i a. IL ,ronn rdad as a NECESSARY evil.