The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-03-24

44S4SAE dA-Ds tiat O SACP -
erected for the manufacture or cars and car
wheels. The company Is in need OF such
extensions to some one of its shop points.
but has not recently felt very friendly dis
posed toward this location on account or
some decidedly unfair judgments which have
been rendered against Ii in the local courts.
The city proposition will be taken under
advisement."
Personal, Local and Genera Notes.
The annual meeting OF the P, c., c. e. st.
l.. will occur April IA, at Pittsburg.
NJ. Z. ingalls,, president OF the Big Four,
is expected home from New York tomorrow
General Manager Ramsey, of the Wabash
lines. is negotiating with the government for
Louis and Kansas City.
Ex-Trafic Manager Hanley. Of the Santa
Fe, Is mentioned as the man who Will get
the position OF commissioner OF the Trans
continental Line Association.
Samuel Dickson, Atchison's oldest settler
and one OF the first directors OF the Atcnl-
son. Topeka & santa Fe. is dead at Atchi-
son, Kan, aged eighty-two years.
The new two-million-dollar Union Station
to be erected at Boston will cover an area
Of 1,021. 3l3 square feet, and the present gross
value OF the ground required is $~2,7O5,7OO.
John G.. Winder, for many years vice
president and general manager of the Sea-
board Airline, was last week stricken with
paralysis and is now in a critical condition.
The Chicago & Alton yesterday commenced
handling freight between st. Louis, Peoria,
Pekin, Kansas City. st. Joseph. Atchison.
Leavenworth and other points South and
West.
The Edgar Thompson steel works last
government direct for. 10000 tons of steel
rails. This is the first order placed in Amer
lea by Japan.
r. f. Marshall, formerly with the Big
Four at Cincinnati, now with the Chicago
& Rock Island at Kansas City, Is in the
city. the guest of j. @. Hicks, superintendent
OF the Big Four yards.
]. A. Verne has been appointed contract
ing freight agent of the Kanawha Dispatch,
operating over the Chesapeake & Ohio road.
He takes the pace OF Capt. j. w. wheeler,
resigned, and ASSUMES his new duties April l.
Big Four. who spent Sunday in the city.
left yesterday for New York. While here
Assistant General Freight Agent T~iilinghast,
of Chicago. came down for a conference
with him.
The new train which the Wabash put on
Sunday makes the run from Kansas City TO
New York in forty hours and fifteen minutes,
which is three hours quicker than any other
train. At Toledo it connects with the New
York limited.
AT the shops of the Erie Railway Com
pany a four wheeled ,d connected passenger
very fast. IL Is expected that IL will haul
the fast express over the Susqueaanna di-
vision in three hours.
General Passenger Agent Chesborough. of
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, has is
sued a circular regarding mileage books SIM
liar to those Of the other lines in this terri
tory, ordering mileage not in the hands Of
bona fide purchasers taken up.
Gen. George H. Nettleton, president of the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis, is
critically i'll at his home in Kansas City,
Mo-, and ii is not thought he can recover.
A week ago General Nettleton suffered an
attack OF vertigo and since then has been
seriously i'll.
Thomas Noonan, general manager of the
Central States Dispatch, and who is to be
general manager of the Continental fast
.re-gh line after April /, returned from the
East on Sunday and reports that there is
nothing further TO say about the operation
of the two lines after the fist Of next month.
o. p. mccarthy. general travelling passenger
agent OF the Southern Pacific. was in the
city YESTERDAY He states that the Sunset
larger business than in any former season.
Service will be increased next fall and win
ter by running more than two of these fast
limited trains each way weekly.
L. r. Pomeroy, an expert of the Cambria
iron works, was in the city yesterday en-
The entire week at Pudue University making
some interesting tests with steel. Mr.. Pom
eroy. says the people of Indiana do not APP
any plant of this character in the country,
and there is none that he has not visited.
All passenger conductors Of lines In the
Chicago and Ohio river territory now have
Instructions to refuse to honor mileage books
neither are they to take them up, but COM
pei the passenger presenting such book to
pay his or her fare. This Is done with the
expectation that it win bring in the books
for redemption and get them off the market.
The Mayor of Charlotte, N. c.. proposes
70 enforce a law passed many years ago.
and has issued an order that no railway
company VIII be permitted 10 run any car
or train OF cars or locomotive within that
city's limits, except those which transmit
the United States mails, with or with
out baggage. Under the Mayors ~instruc-
tons trains that have started on Saturday
in order to reach terminus may run until
, a. m. Sunday. but no later, under penalty
OF a fine of 500 for each offense.
The conference between the lake trans
portation managers and the railroad traffic
eaiisfsetsr IaSt T Meef So Mas: on sne a wn1ie, fairiy
and rail rates for the season of 1896 was
agreed upon. From New York to Chicago,
to Duluth, i5 70 Gents 81 to een St. P Paul. l." 81 PO GENTS.
East-hound, from st. Paul to New York,
frst-class, "a cents, grain. % cents; from
cago. frst-ciass, 60 cents, grain, l7A cents.
The board of managers of the Joint Traffic
Association are looking for trouble before
long on account of some of the Chicago
roads indirectly shading east-bound rates on
grain through the business done by some of
the elevators. 1t Is claimed that although
they are incorporated as railroads they have
really gone into the elevator business and
make a practice of storing grain at low
rates for the purpose of drawing the traffic
10 their lines. The Michigan Central Is said
to be one of the roads which>i is likely to get
into trouble over the matter.
Z. o.. Hopkins and James II. Wilson, re-
ceivers for the Louisville, Evansville & st.
Louis and the Peoria, Decatur & Evans
United States Court yesterday. The report
for the p, ID. & +. is from Jan. Is, 1894, to
Jan. 81, 1896, and shows receipts of $,565,-
42.H and disbursements Of s., $50, 365. ~. The
report for the L., K. & st. l.. is for the
month of February. 1t indicates receipts to
the amount Of S1S5. AS. 70 and disbursements
amounting to $173, 554- 80. JAM. 81, the report
shows. there was a balance of s., 906. %, and
Feb. %, one OF 81, s10.S.
Two important rulings have just been
made by the board of managers of the Joint
Traffic Association. One is that rates on all
articles of iron and steel manufacture shall
be made on the basis of % cents
per 100 pounds. east and west,
between Joint Traffic Association points,
from April 10 70 Sept. 80. The
other is that no allowance in lieu of lighter
age shall be made at New York to shippers,
~consfgnees or outside lighters not employed
by the railroad companies for Tightening;
east-Dound or west-bound shipments of ar
ticles not to be contracted lighterage free,
whether within or beyond lighterage limits.
Judge Golf, OF the United States District
| Court. signed an order yesterday authorizing
the receivers or the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-
way Company to renew all the outstanding
notes, acceptances and Endorsements of the
company. The order was made on the peti-
ton of the receivers and with the consent
OF the Mercantile Trust Company. of New
York. the principal judgment creditor, and
under its terms the receivers are expressly
enJoined from Increasing the present obliga-
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