The Indianapolis journal., 1896-02-12

Mountain Railroad Company for $4,000
damages for breach of contract and black
listing. the jury at Memphis, yesterday,
returned verdict awarding the plaintiff
81 l35 damages. This suit was brought by a
discharged engineer. Ii was based on an
agreement between the railroad company
and the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineerS.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
L. II. Johnson. of Chicago, superintendent
of the Wagner Palace Car Company for this
territory. is in the city.
In January there passed through Harris
burg, over the Pennsylvania lines, lbs S36
cars, z, 463 being loaded.
Passenger conductors John Andregg and
VIM. Chidester, of the Chicago division of
the Big Four, have been dismissed. The
cause was not given.
w. W. Kearsley, assistant auditor of the
Ohio Southern, and l.. w. Morris, chief
clerk in the freight department, have ten
dered their designations.
The Lake Shore, when it gets its order
for 2100 new cars filled. which will be within
ninety days, will have in service twenty
thousand cars of its own.
President Ripley, of the Santa Fe says
that before he gets through with his re-
trenchment policy he will work a saving
on this mammoth property OF N,0O0,OO0 a
year.
Peace once more reigns in the Western
Passenger Association. the last obstacle In
the way of adjustment of rates having been
removed by the Rio Grande Western COM
ing in.
The new freight tariff prepared by the
transcontinental lines goes into effect on
Monday. Rates on dozen or more staple
articles will be advanced cents per 100
pounds.
commission OF Kansas only two roads in
that State paid dividends In 1895, and thir-
teen out of twenty-four We're IN the hands
of receivers.
tracks and Belt road, has asked the board
of managers for permission 10 purchase two
miles of steel rail weighing eighty
pounds to the yard
John W. Loud. who has been traffic man.
ager of the Detroit, Grand Haven Mil
waukee since 1889, has been appointed gen.
eral freight agent of the Grand Trunk, with
headquarters at Montreal.
C.. w. Sells, who has been appointed gen.
eral manager Of the Pixies Peak road, sue
ceeds III. :. Cable. son of r. r. Cable,
who has been elected president or one OF
| the branch roads or the Chicago q Rock
| Island system.
Western roads have been called upon by
| the Interstate-comerce Commission TO ex-
| plain, on Feb. 20, an alleged violation OF
| States. Discrimination in rates is the basis
of the alleged violation.
The St Louis & Iron Mountain is said to
| be one of the best earners In the South
| west territory. and would pay dividends tc
| its stockholders were not its surplus money
| taken to pay interest on the heavy bonded
| debt of the Missouri Pacific.
| Antonia & Gulf Shore, has resigned and
| will turn his attention TO building a line
| from San Antonio east, which will shorten
| the distance between New York and san
Antonio, he states, two hundred miles.
| The organization of local passenger asso-
Citations at Denver, Colorado Springs and
| Pueblo, Col, and at Lincoln, Neb., has
| been perfected, and the associations went
1 m
| all subsidiary TO the Western Passenger
| Association.
| On March the Louisville Car-service AS
sociation will pass out Of existence, U ane
| ton Bureau is likely 10 share the same
fate: The Louisville. Evansville st
| Louis, IL is stated, refuses to bear its share
4 of the expense of the two bureaus.
| After three months of heavy business a
| the Clay county coal mines less is now do
| ing than at any time in the last two years
ing engines and crews by day, and but one
1 at night. Until quite recently there wer.
five employed by day and two by night.
| Employees in train service and In the yard!
| curity of their jobs. A color blindness eN
/ animation is IN progress and some have al
ready been dismissed; others. 1t is said, arr
| likely TO be. This is the first time the Biz
| Four has given this matter any attention.
The Toledo, ST. Louis & Kansas City
| earned in the first week of February S2S,
| 612.50. an increase over February, 1895, Of
| $2,179.47. This increase does not indicat.
| that the road is taking such an immens,
| business out of ST. Louis unless it be carry
| ing Ii at very low rates which leaves bu
| a small per cent. for the road after al
| lowing its Eastern connections the per cent
| they demand.
The board of managers of the Joint Traf
| fc Association has ruled that in territor,
under its Jurisdiction no more than $3.50 pc
car on oats and $1.50 per car on other grain
shall be allowed shippers for transfe
charges; and further; the cost of transfer
| and Eastern lines which handle the bust
| ness The Western lines have already giveI
| notice OF protest against any such arrange
| ment.
The Big Four. the Lake Shore and tn
| New York Central have under contempla
ton making solid trains entire of tn
| Knickerbocker express and the southwest
| ern limited between st. Louis and New
| York. painting the trains of one color ain,
| lettering them with the above titles, and th
| understanding is that the time between ST
| Louis and New York will be still furthe
| shortened with the taking effect of tn
| spring timetable, at which time the through
sleeping car between Indianapolis and New
| York will be restored.
Trains % and 81. the through fast express
! trains between New York and ST. Loui
| ever the Pennsylvania and the Vandali.
! lines. are now made up of new equipment
| are credited with being the finest passen
| ger cars in service in this country, am
| the Iuiln1dn has put on sOIn
| of its best sleeping cars. making a yer,
| handsome train. Ii requires ten of thes
| vestibuled coaches to make up the fiv
through trains They are painted Tuscal
red, handsomely striped and lettered ar
lighted with the Carburetter system, an
i have high backed seats. which are no
| cumberea with side arms. The window
open and shut by touching a spring. Their
| are lavatories for men and for women
| The cars are heated by steam, the aisle
are carpeted and all the inside finish is o
| the most attractive design.
The trunk lines east from Chicago hav
under contemplation a move which Is o
| more than ordinary interest to the traveln
| public and which will II adopted, be
| direct blow to the ticket scalpers. Ii is We
known that the unlimited ticket is the pre-
of the scalpers. East of Chicago there ar
| now but two forms OF ordinary first-clas
tickets the limited and the unlimited. Tn
former Is good for only a certain numbe
OF DAYS. The latter Is sold at higher rat
and is good until used. IL is now propose
TO not only entirely abolish the unlimlte
form but to restrict the use of the linite
tickets TO certain hours and specified trains
For example, a through New York ticke
sold in Chicago to-day would specify on II
face that IL must be used on certain mum
bered train leaving Chicago at a certai
hnur to-day: and. further. that. II the pas