The Indianapolis journal., 1896-03-04

St Louis VIII occupy the same freight and
| passenger depot at Jacksonville, Ill.
| J. NJ Johnson. general freight agent Of
the Chicago. Rock Island a. Pacitlc rail-
| road has been appointed freight traffic man
| ager 10 succeed the late William NJ Sage
The r1n1ors that the EandcTbits are try
| ing 10 secure control of the Union Pacific
| railroad in order to have clear line from
| coast to coast continue with great persis-
/ tency.
| The illinois Central is now receiving from
the Brooks locomotive works three loco
| motives per week on an order for forty OF
| the mogul type. with nineteen by twenty
| six-inch cylinders.
/ President Ledyard. of the Michigan Central,
/ has announced the appointment of b. b.
| Mitchell as general freight traffic manager
! of the Michigan Central. The appointment
| becomes effective at once.
| The estimated gross earnings of the Rock
Island system for the month or February
| are s1,i17,55e. an increase. as compared with
| the estimated gross earnings of the same
| month last year. of <lU,e2j.
Charles Richmond, passenger conductor
| on the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville. who
| fever, Is reported to be better and his re-
-covery Is now thought probable
| There were handled at the Union Station
baggage rooms in February 31,364 pieces of
/ baggage, against %, 800 in February, 1896.
| but in February this year 7,1s2 fewer pieces
| Of baggage were handled than in January.
| The Brooks locomotive works are build
| ing for one of the divisions of the New
/ York Central system a mastodon type en-
| gine TO weigh, exclusive of the tender 1885,,
| 0c0 pounds. 1t will have cylinders q by 70
| inches
| Col. H. p. Pope, Western passenger agent
! of the Chesapeake & Ohio, has designed a
4 special form of round-trip ticket which he
| asserts cannot be scalped and will afford
| additional protection to both railways and
| passengers.
Howard Hussey, who has been agent of
| the Chicago & Alton at Blackburn, Mo-,
/ for some years has been appointed cashier
l and chief tolQgranh Of the road
/ Peoria, Ill.,. where this company opened
| Offices March l.
The single-driver locomotive which the
Reading road is handling fast train so
satisfactorily that duplicate has been been
| are Sf4 inches In diameter.
| A boycott Is threatened against the Fitch
| burg road by the lines of the Joint Traffic
Association. The F'itchburg is not a member
of the association. and. it is claimed, has
| they are stopped the boycott Will be declared.
J. w. Sherwood; who on the 18th will be- be
come superintendent % Of OF the Western di-
City, was in the city last evening. He had
| just returned from an inspection OF the en-
tire road, and expressed surprise over its
excellent physical condition
| A Cleveland paper says that Austin Cor
| bin is still after the Cleveland, Canton &
| Southern. He tried recently to have Re-
/ ceiver Wardwell removed and himself ap-
| pointed. The paper adds that Mr.. Corbin
proposes to block the reorganization
scheme and foreclose the mortgage.
F. P. Sargent. grand master of the Broth
| erhood of Locomotive Firemen, has returned
from an Eastern trip, in which he says
much good was accomplished for the order.
| While East he stopped in Cleveland and
| had conference with Grand Chief Arthur,
| of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers.
]. j. Turner. vice president and general
manager Of the Vandalia lines & Is SO, quoted ass
tied whether he will make Terre Haute or
| St.. Louis his headquarters. Under the
| charter OF the Terre Haute & Indianapolis
the general offices must be located at Terre
Haute.
c. Z. Schaff, general manager of the Big
| Four lines, returned yesterday from his ex-
tended Southwestern trip. having been abb
| sent four weeks. While absent he went all
over Mexico where points of interest could
| be reached by rail, travelling in his private
car, accompanied by his wife and other
| friends.
C. J. Pinkney, an engineer on the Lake
| Shore, has devised a useful self-regulating
oil cup which is being tested on the Lake
Shore with satisfactory results; A loose %
is regulated by the shaking Of the bal ball fro, from
stops the feed is entirely cut off.
| There seems to be something in the report
that another road is to be built from Chi
| cago to the rich coal field near Westvile,
III survey OF the ill line Wv, VIII - De nla DeEnn
! ILL.,, and that city is to be asked TO vote
| a subsidy to the enterprise Much of the
| distance it would be a competitor of the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois.
| The Engineers Journal and the Fire
/ mems Magazine contain the full decision of
Judge Ricks regarding the voluntary relief
case of the Pennsylvania railway, in which
| the court decided that receiving relief from
| the association did not debar an employe
from collecting damages for injuries aside
| from that the rule of the Voluntary Relief
| Department of the company affords.
d. b. Martin, general passenger agent OF
| the Big Four. and ID. G. Edwards, general
| passenger agent of the Cincinnati. Hamil-
| ton & Dayton, passed through the city last
| night en- route to Chicago to attend the
meeting of the Central passenger commit
tee. At this meeting another attempt Will
| be made to get the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton and the Louisville, New Albany x
| Chicago to become members of the associa-
tion.
| & Evansville management established its
| own line of parlor and sleeping cars be-
tween Peoria and Evansville. fitting up the
cars handsomely and invitingly, but maxi
ing a much lower price for seats in the par
lor car and berths in the sleeping cars than
does the Pullman company, and as a result
its business has steadily increased between
| those points until the cars have become
profitable to the company.
The Peoria & Eastern is again working
with the Chicago, Burlington 4 Quincy in
passenger traffic. A few years ago the In
| diana, Bloomington & Western and the
Chicago. Burlington & QUINCY had heavier
and Western lines. seldom a day passing
that the interchange did not reach seventy
| five to one hundred passengers, largely
Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska travel. Last
| week one Peoria & Eastern train turned
over to the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy,
at Peoria, twenty-one passengers.
Almost daily III. NJ. Bronson, assistant
general passenger agent of the Big Four,
is called to furnish transportation to
some person who is out of money or in
trouble of some kind, and his experiences
in that direction have sometimes been ex-
pensiye, as he has had to pay out of his
own pocket for tickets, which he furnished
on the promise of being fully paid as soon
as the person reached his destination. He
has now become more cautious. On Satur-
day the Indian chief Red Jacket called on
Mr. Bronson, told him he had been robbed
of his money and had none with which to
purchase ticket to Danville. ILL.,. but il
| he could furnish ticket the money would
| be returned on Monday. His story and de-
| pertinent were such that Mr.. Bronson ad-
| vanced the required fare, and the Indian
| went his journey. Yesterday the Indian
chief sent the money and 70 cents In addi-
| tion-