The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-29

vertsing book. the c. H. & ID. being only
incidentally mentioned.
Several sections of freight trains. hauling
TWO hundred carloads OF grain. all IN new
cars. passed over the Panhandle Wedncs-
DAY ana attracted a good deal of attention,
SO uniform an appearance had the several
late been receiving new cars at the rate OF
thirty per day. The statement that the
company Will soon be In the market fJr
more cars Is officially denied.
Hereafter, on the PENNSYLVANIA system
east. no employe on the tracks or bridges
VIII be allowed to wear shirt jacket. sweat
er or coat OF a red shade. AS is we'll known.
a red signal displayed is a positive order
TO stop. and Is never disregarded by an en-
glneer. Several cases are cited where en-
glneers have brought their trains under
control TO stop when approaching bridges
where carpenters wearing red garments
were at work.
The Chicago & Northwestern has provided
at ITS more important passenger stations n
corps OF assistants. They wear blue uni
forms. with red caps. and IL is their duty
10 carry hand baggage. assist persons in
feeble health, and make themselves useful
10 passengers in every, way possible. These
attendants arc not allowed to accept tips
"A i've minutes stay at the Union Station
would convince anyone of the great need of
just such service here.
Most of the railroad companies require
their passenger conductors to give a guar
antee bond for honest service. and this
bond Is now Of more Importance than at
any former period. as. whenever railroad
pany that IL will no longer stand good for
the passenger conductors honesty, the COM
pany has an excuse for Diminishing him and
ne cannot come back upon the railroad
company for damages.
Ohio papers have much to say about
what an effective competitor of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton a. Dayton the Brice lines
will be with the completion of the Lima
Northern. The amusing feature of this is
that the Lima Northern was offered 10 the
Woodford syndicate, owning the Cincinnati,
Hamilton d Dayton, on the most reason
able terms, but the syndicate showed no
disposition TO purchase. If ii likely to
be such formidable competitor the c.,
III. ID. people would doubtless have Sc
Travelling Freight Agent Smith. of the
Cincinnatf Hamilton q Dayton. has just
returned from an extended Western trip.
He states that as soon as the roads become
passable the railroads will have plenty of
business. He supports this assertion by the
statement that Monday last there were
received at Peoria AGO carloads of corn as
result of the roads being in an improved
condition. but after the rain of Tuesday,
when the country roads became soft again,
but ll5 carloads Of corn were received at
Peoria on Thursday.
o. H. jackson, formerly master mechanic
or the Peoria a Eastern, now master me-
chanfc and purchasing agent of the Santa
Fe. Prescott q Phoenix, Is in the city for
few days. He has just returned from q trip
east. Where he contracted with the Brooks
locomotive works for five ten-wheel freight
locomotives for the Santa Fe. Prescott a.
Phoenix. Mr.. jackson states that this COM
pany will extend it's line from Phoenix to
Calabas. where connection will be made
with the Sonora railway, which will enable
the company to reach the deep-water har-
Dor at Guaymas, Gulf of Mexico.
The case of DR.. A. f. Huddleston against
the Big -Four Railway Company has been
on trial at New Castle for nearly two
weeks. Judge Elliott and NJ L. Forkner of
New Castle, representing the company.
The case is a long and tedious one, involv-
ing the Introduction of much expert evil
dence. The Doctor claims $4,000 damages
on account of injuries received at Winches-
ter about a year ago. He was i'm the tele-
graph office at that place when a passing
engine left the track demolished the office
and injured several persons, one of whom
has since obtained verdict for 5000.
A meeting of the Western roads with the
Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific has
been arranged for next Wednesday at
Montreal. The meeting of Thursday i'm
relation to the differences i'm regard to
emlgrant traffic which have existed for
the one side and the Western roads and
the Canadian Pacific on the other went
far toward paving the way for settlement
meeting of next wednesday will finally di-
vide the. emigrant traffic to North Pacific
coast points In manner that will be sat-
lsfactory to all concerned.
The Baltimore Journal of Commerce has
Just issued its forty-sixth annual edition.
giving a review of the commercial. financial
and shipping interests of that city. Several
pages, with illustrations, are devoted to
showing the facilities the Northern Gem
trai, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
baltimore line, offers shippers. The COM
panys three elevators at that point have
storage capacity of three million bushels
of grain, and tracks are laid on the piers
where vessels unload shipments of ore d.
rect on the cars. The company has i'm
mer1Se sheds on these piers, where fruits
and vegetables are unloaded for distribution
TO all points on their lines. There are also
three freight houses, 90 feet wide by $50
feet in length, and from one of these houses
full trainload of oyesters Is sent out every
night. Side tracks and terminal facilities of
all kinds are on the same extensive and
well-arranged scale.
The Wabash company has just been
person being injured, although not a pas
senger, by jumping off train when it
was in motion, and this has led the COM
pany 10 instruct its agents that the law
of Indiana should be vigorously enforced
Notices have been posted at all their sta
tons and yards publishing the State law,
Section 2l69, which reads as follows: who
ever, not being a passenger or employee,
either climbs, jumps or steps, swings on or
attaches himself TO any locomotive, engine
or car while the same is in motion or
switching upon the track of any railroad of
the State of Indiana. shall be fined in any
sum not more than 49," There is not a
day that this law is not disobeyed on the
Union tracks, Indianapolis. From morning
to night boys can be seen at street crossings
jumping and off of trains and the
parents of the same boys would want
damages were they injured.