The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-26

In session all day. and it was late when all
the routine work had been finished. To-day
the committee will have a joint meeting with
roads Of the trunk line committee, with a
which both organizations are interested
William Harris, who for twenty-eight
years was an engineer on the indianapolis
Smyrna, Ga. He retired from the road about
a year ago and went 10 Georgia to live on q
in bed, dying Of heart affection.
The Wabash has now arranged it's train
service TO catch the through business at the
expense of its local business, which is much
the more profitable, and, as a result, at the
good towns along its line in Indiana there is
much complaint of the inconvenience of the
new time card of its local trains.
The suit of d. Worrall against the Penn
sylvania Company is on trial at Louisville.
1t is for SIS 900 damages for libel, and grows
out of the raid on WorralPs saloon, five
years ago. by railroad detectives and the
received stolen goods, OF which ne was &C
quilted.
c.. c. Waldo, general manager OF the Gin
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton, Is considered a
strong indorser of the standard code of rules,
but it is said that Ralph Turner, the new
general superintendent, is even a more pro-
nounced standard-code man, and is deter
mined that 1t shall be enforced on the c.. II.
& ID. lines.
J. r. Wood, general passenger agent of the
Pennsylvania road, passed through the city
JCoNC4AaIt Gil IOAtC AARiA LsOdAc " -
cago. He has been in the South for several
days. He will stop in Chicago a few days,
combining pleasure with business; Mr.. Wood
was for a long time connected with the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy.
The Illinois Central is planning to expend
a large sum OF money on the property IN tne.
next few months in doubling the track as
additional side track on the lines south OF
the Ohio river. and, In addition to the i'm
menSe elevator IL is building at New Orleans,
it is to build 1,600 feet of new wharves.
Homer Frost, assistant general freight
agent of the Big Four, was in the city yes
terday. He reports that the business the
Big -Four Is doing out out OF mouis men rs hut n fo
the railway officials, who would nave been
we'll satisfied IL In a year after the road had
been opened into Louisville such a volume of
business had been attained.
The attack on the ~scalping fraternity at
Chicago has brought to light crookednesS or
which the passenger Officials had no idea.
citation, it should be said that this crooked
ness has been found largely in the scalping
offices that are not members OF any organiza-
ton. But the recent discoveries have con-
WINGED the general passenger agents of the
Chicago roads that TO get rid OF even the
scalperS who work through no association
will be no easy task.
Foreclosure proceedings were begun in the
federal court at Grand Rapids yesterday by
George w. Weld ct al. OF Boston. holders OF
trust mortgages against the Detroit, Lansing
& Northern, the Saginaw az Western and
the Grand Rapids. Lansing & Detroit rafl-
roads. The amount clai ned is something
over $2,000,00 on first mortgage. This is the
first step toward a radical reorganization of
the roads, which are owned mainly in Bos-
ton. The complainants' bill also asks for
the appointment OF a receiver.
A railway official yesterday remarked:
I'VE are anxious to find some plan to ac-
commodate the travelling statesmen who act
honorably with the railroad companies as to
mileage books. but the Interchangeable mile
age system had become a curse to the rail-
roads which adopted it because of the ease
with which books were manipulated by
scalpers, and because the smaller lines so
easily raised money on them and were slow
in making payments to the stronger lines.
One of the mistakes of the travelling sales
men is in aiding the scalpers whenever OPP
portunity offers. 1 do not say that all do
so, but many of them have, and a point had
been reached when the roads were losing a
cent a mile on much of the passenger bust
ness they carried. As the workings Of the
interchangeable mileage becomes more ap-
parent the greater is the evidence that local
business Was being cut into by travel at 2
cents per mile which should have been car
ried at 8 cents"