The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-27
Personal, Local and General Notes.

TeESOmuls LOCai LII uCmCEA
j. A. Barnard, general manager of the
Peoria G. Eastern, has gone to New York.
j. J.. Turner. vice president and general
manager of the Vandalia line, has gone to
P~ittsburg.
The successor of General Auditor w. X;
Gillette, of the Santa Fe, is to be elected
next week In New York.
Pay-cars of the Baltimore & Ohio lines
are going over the system paying the en-
ployes for February service.
F. s.. Higbld, road master of the Eastern
division of the Erie, has been promoted to
assistant 10 Chief Engineer o. w. Buch-
holZ.
Leslie Farmer, passenger commissions OF
the trunk lines, yesterday attended the
Joint Passenger meeting In Chi
cago.
A meeting of the advisory committee of
the migrant clearinghouse of the Western
Passenger Association will be held in Chi
cago to-day.
d. McLaren, superintendent of the Mon,
tana Central, has resigned. and 1t is stated
will accept a position on the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton.
The private car of ex-President McKeen,
Of the Vandalia, is just out of the shops.
remodeled, making it a very complete and
handsome car. Vice President Turner will
use it.
Andrew Stevenson has been appointed COM
mercial agent Of the Baltimore & Ohio. at
Baltimore. For some years past he has
been commercial agent of the Nickle-plate
President Fish. of the Illinois Central. will
address the South and West Trade Congress
in Charleston, s. c., April %, taking for his
subject 1.-The Ways and Means to Facilitate
Business Between the West and South"
To check the operations of the scalpers
the Chicago-St. Paul Minneapolis lines have
second-class tickets sold at $1S. so for pas
sage between st. Louis and st. Paul, via
Chicago.
The transcontinental lines decline to accept
the recommendation of the Western Pas
senger Association as to the fare for old
soldiers. The latter proposed to give them
half rates, but the transcontinental lines
want full fare.
All the railroads which are members of
the Kansas City Passenger Association have
entered into an ironclad agreement to issue
no more half-fare tickets in their territory
except to actual railroad employees. 1t Is
claimed that the privilege has been greatly
abused.
The contractors have completed the Kan
sas City. Pittsburg & Gulf road through the
Choctaw nation, and have contracted to
build twenty miles additional south Of the
Choctaw nation line to Arkansas. The road
will be then completed from Kansas City to
Shreveport, La.
1t is stated that it was through the infu-
ence of New York men interested in the
Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis that
George t: Jarvis was appointed receiver:
with HIS ability as a railroad man when he
was on the Baltimore & Ohio.
A JOINT meeting of the lines of the Cen
line passenger men was held at Chicago yes
terday for the purpose of reaching an
agreement on a number OF matters relating
to rates and the handling of business in
which both sets of roads are concerned.
The Big Four is one OF the roads which
asks that the time for the new class rates
to take effect be extended to July l, but the
never. In the new tariff there are some
features which the Illinois Central also OBJ
jects to, and should the whole thing be
dropped again it will not be a surprise to
those informed of present conditions.
j. O. Van Wrinkle. general superintendent
OF the Big Four. said yesterday that the
new passenger trains will not be put on
probably until the spring timetable takes
effect, but the fast freight service will be
inaugurated. both east and west-bound. the
fiNy-three hours. In both directions the
time will be the same, and between Indian
apolis and st. Louis the fast freight train
schedule will be twelve hours, three hours
quicker than any previous schedule.
The statement of the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad Company for the month
of February. 1896. as compared with the
ating. S5O6, 95S; receipts from other sources,
SO. 4O4: profit for the month; s52e. $50; total
charges ,sss $3.50 Csc; 5 a deficit of Of ssa4, 272 s0o. P sSa
a deficit of s235, 671. The coal and iron com-
Gross receipts, I5e4 $40; gross expenses.
was sle9. 176. showing an increase this year
of s126. s72.
A ruling was made yesterday by the chair
man of the Western Passenger Association
to the effect that the association agreement
prohibited the sale of round-trip tickets at
reduced rates TO other than the points at
which the meeting for which the rate has
was called forth by the announcement that
several of the roads. whose agents were not
supplied with the proper tickets for excur-
tickets to the nearest junction point. The
chairman holds that this practice practically
makes the reduced rate applicable to an in
definite number of points throughout the
territory Of the association.
In passenger circles a belief prevails that
the Chicago Great Western is quite de-
iseminiS It Il oomme en- 2 p running f nsee chair hair
cars, contrary to the rules OF good rail-
reading. and now It announces that. at the
tickets will be good In first-cIass cars. In
speaking of this. a passenger man said yes
terday: The chair car is run to enable
ladies and other persons who do not care 10
ride with all classes OF passengers and who
desire TO have a seat reserved for them
selves. to ride comfortably. but admitting
all classes OF travel to the chair car gives IL
little. If any. preference over a common
coach. The travelling public is willing to
pay for the comforts and the convenience
the chair car affords and it is poor policy
to make Ii free to ALL"
The chairman of the Transcontinental Line
Passenger Association has discovered a new
form of crookedness by which passenger
rates are indirectly cut. He has found that
in consequence of competition In business
passenger agents have been in the habit of
advising persons travelling with children
ranging between the ages Of five and twelve
not 10 buy any transportation for them. the
probability being that conductors would
never ask for II. Such people have also been
advised tina for children from twelve to
fifteen or over half rates would be sufficient,
as no questions would be asked about their
age. From this looseness of practice the
roads have lost much revenue. and the
chairman now calls upon the heads of de-
narfmeufs m Issue nositive Instructions m