The Indianapolis journal., 1896-08-28

land. Akron & Columbus. with a view of
securing business TO northwestern Ohio, Is
greatly exaggerated.
John Miller, chief clerk in the Office of
Trainmaster Greenen. Of the Panhandle
lines is OF on few days visit TO friends
I'm the eastern part OF the State.
G.. E Schaff. general manager of the Big
Four. is a. Blum Point y. g.. attending a
meeting OF the comn>ttee oil safety railway
appliances Of the American Railway Asso-
cia ton.
One OF the Garstang engines yesterday
hauled Train IL from Cincinnati to Indian
apoliS in two hours ana forty minutes
there being ten cars, including two private
cars.
N j. Elliott who is to succeed c. II. Hep
burn. deceased as agent OF the Empire and
Anchor fast freight lines, has been in the
twenty-three years
The interchangeable mileage-book ques-
tion is again at the front, and ticket scalp-
ers are much elattd over report tnat
several of the Central Passenger Committee
lines will resume their use.
On account OF the management having
closed the Hotel Victory at Put-in-Bay the
September meeting or the Central Passen-
ger Committee. called to be held there next
week. Will be held in Chicago.
Vice President Bradbury. OF the Lake
Erie & Western lines, now has two prl-
vate cars on his hands--the Lake Erie &
Western and a nearly new one built for the
Cleveland. Akron < Columbus, q Brice line.
A committee of engineers Of the OHIO
Southern on Wednesday waited on Genera
superintendent Burgoon and requested him
to restore the 10 per cent reduction made
in their wages when George Saul was pres
iGent of the road.
Earnings of the Monon for the third week
I'm August were $56.949. an increase OF
$l0.431 over the same week of last year.
From July gross earnings were $4oS.s2I. a
decrease of S12,995 from the corresponding
period of last year.
Among freight men considerable interest
is manifested as to how the Joint Tarin AS
sociation will meet the Erie in the deter
nina ton not to carry out the ruling or the
board of managers in regard to the mini
mum weight OF cars.
Freight traffic is so heavy on the Mich
igan division of the Big Four that empty
cars are being taken from other divisions.
At Benton Harbor. on Tuesday. there were
one hundred or more carloads OF freight
held for lack of cars.
An idea of what the Chicago. Burlington
& Quincy has done in the way of cutting
down its operating expenses is shown in
the fact that in 1892 they We're s2l .20l coo; in
the year ending June 80 1896. SIS 435. 094, or a
reduction from $i,1l4 per mile to S2,9l6 per
mile operated.
For the first time in many years the Bal
timore & Ohio led all other lines last week
in the tonnage forwarded from Chicago.
carrying 7.219 tons. Through the manage
ment OF Oscar Murray the Baltimore q
Ohio seems TO be making large gains in
freight traffic.
The shops OF the Big Four at Mattoon.
H., now rank as the second largest on the
Big Four system. employing over three
hundred men. Usually from five TO seven
locomotives are being built or rebuilt. Some
very fast engines have been turned out at
the MattoOn shops.
Among railway officials there Is a gen.
eral expression that it would be unfortu-
nate should the Big Four people drop the
Peoria & Eastern, as IL would doubtless go
back to its old style OF doing business and
be free lance, a class of roads of which
there is still too many.
A few weeks ago an official Of the Chi
oago a. Great Western returned from
Europe with 81 600. 0t0 to be expended in
Improving the physical condition of the
property AMI the work is now in progress.
AT Chicago and Des Moines extensive i'm
provementS are contemplated.
So many very competent engineers have
been dismissed or given other positions on
the New YORK Central lines on account of
the result of the color tests that the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers may
ia Ike the matter up, alleging that the tests
made by the oculists are unfair.
One Of the passenger officials Of Cincin-
one-dollar round-trip excursion rate be-
tween indianapolis and Cincinnati the
trains have been carrying between 500 and
600 excursonists. When it dropped below
goo the rate was s1.50 for the round trip.
The Western roads have again refused to
make an open reduced rate for congress
sional conventions and political meetings.
The result of this action is that separate
propositions viii be submitted for every
convention and meeting they are held.
The matter will be taken up at the next
regular meeting of the association.
a call has been issued for the regular
monthly meeting of the Central Passenger
Committee. TO be held in Chicago next
Wednesday. BESIDES the regular routine
business to come before the meeting the
o.d trouble over the orders of the Western
roads In the territory of the committee
lines will be taken up once more and an
effort will be made to have them removed.
An official of the Pennsylvania lines says
the criticisms of the silverites charging
that railway employees are intimidated In
to joining sound-money clubs is unjust.
The truth is that the employers are taking
an active part and are deslrouS that the
employees should JOIN such associations. bus
not the least attempt has been made to
silvertes who were in the company's en-
ploy who had no fear of losing their jobs.
1t was announced at Chicago yesterday
that the Lake Superior lines had again
reduced the freight rates to st. Paul. This
last cut is said TO have been reduction
to five cents on all c asses of freight below
solutely confirmed, but the railroads de
clared that they would take steps TO meet
the cut 1t was not met yesterday by the
! Lake Michigan lines either. but the gem
eral opinion is that they will come down
| to-mGrow low as the Lake Superior
I lines have gone.
At the close of the worlds fair the Chi
cago. Burlington & Quincy inaugurated the
European plan the passenger paying rea-
sonabe prices for the articles he orders,
and il worked so we'll that between Chicago
and st. Louis and the West all
dining cars are now operated on this plan.
II is stated that one hundred persons now
go into meals at regular hours where twen-
ty-five or thirty would on the old plan of
charging 81 per meal, and the arrangement
has done much 10 popuiarize the road as
through line.
The train over the Cincinnati. Hamilton
& DAYTON the Indiana, Decatur & Western
and the Monon between Cincinnati and
Chicago via Roachdale has now been on
Roachdale thirty-eight miles, il Is
scheduled to make the run IN forty min
utes, but in the sixty days it has been on
rseldom has il left Indianapolis on the min
ute consequently thirty-two times the
train has covered the thirty-eight miles in
thirty-six to thirty-eight minutes. The
train is a light one. consisting of baggage
car and two coaches.
On Monday last the New York New Ha-
ven & Hartford commenced ieveling the
former passenger station at Benton OF
the New York & New England road. This
company has just comp eted its elevated
tracks through Providence. on the South
Shore division. and its trains commenced
Monday TO run over them. Many of the
improvements the New York, New Haven
&. Hartford has had under way for some
/ time on different parts of its system in
New England are nearing completion. espe-
I cially the work of arranging to have their
/ tracks above or below grades of the high
ways they cross.
/ While what are known as the Brice lines
/ are not amalgamated. they operated
under one management, George Bradbury,
of indianapolis. being the vice president