The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-16

can be reached on SO low basis Of pas
lines Invariably make.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton is
distributing on the Indianapolis division ten
miles OF new steel rails and $1,000 ties. and
will distribute in reballasting this season
5000 cubic yards Of gravel.
S. p. Shane has been appointed assistant
general freight traffic manager or the Erie
lines. including the Chicago & Erie, and
as general agent at Cleveland.
w. II. Brill was yesterday appointed trav-
cling passenger agent OF the Illinois Central.
with headquarters at st. Louis, and {. Z.
ScCartv division freight agent. whose head
quarters will also be at st. Louis.
The Big -Four Gazette has just entered its
fourteenth year and Is now the Oldest pub
LEGATION OF that character printed. Each
year has improved its mechanical appear
ance and the quality Of its information.
The Big Four has Just completed a very
substantial iron bridge on its Whitewater
division, just below Connersville, over a
creek which has In the past given the COM
pany much trouble when there were freshets.
The fast express train over the Panhandle
lines which arrives at Indianapolis at a. m.
two locomotives. The time is so fast that
one locomotive Is unable to make IL.
Frank Barnes, who has been one of the
Pullman car conductors nearly thirty years.
remains of his mother, who died Monday
night; en- route for Harrisburg. Pa. for
burial.
A meeting of the Western roads has been
called to meet In Chicago on the sd of this
month to consider the question of the pay
ment of commissions TO the agents OF roads
running personally conducted excursions to
transcontinenta1 territory.
James G.. Mooney has been appointed trav-
cling passenger agent of the Chicago Great
Western, with headquarters at Cincinnati.
He will have as his territory Ohio. Kentucky
oodT Of linz 6rox trcrl,
Richmond and Terre Haute.
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
earned In the first week of April SCI .07S,
isSn snd aSsns es in & The week &C.
c. & st. L. earned in the first week s229. 154,
1854 ''''' - -'''' anu A'A' $4,000 -
General Passenger Agent DAILY. of the
Lake Erie & Western, in commenting on
rates on passenger business, said the roads
had got to do one Of two things: get higher
rates for business carried than those of
the last two years or take OF some OF the
trains.
President ingalls, and track experts who
accompanied him on his inspection trip over
the western division of the Peoria & East
ern were greatly surprised over the excellent
condition OF the road, but few, If any di-
visions in the Big Four system, being much
smoother or more solid.
1t is claimed that seventy-three miles of
road on the Lake Erie & Western between
Indianapolis and Peru is the best paying
passenger service on any like mileage with
the same number of trains of any road in
averaged $1.36 per mile run.
z. B. Hutchinson, claim agent of the Pan
handle lines, yesterday returned from Maine.
where he went on business. He states that
the high waters of the last six weeks have
made bad work of the railroad, eTnbank-
ments, bridges. etc. The Boston & Maine
Is now doubling its track between Boston
and Bangor.
Z T. srbovool~,,,S ea,,araI s,,,ar;rtandant
of the Peoria & Pekin Union railway, on
Tuesday closed contract for an interlocking
signal plant at the crossing OF the P; +. U:
junction. 1t will be the largest and most ex-
pensive plant in Illinois outside of Chicago,
having thirty separate levers.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the New York Central & Hudson River
railroad was held yesterday at Albany.
Some S.. 0000 900 of stock was voted on The
change. Annual meetings were also held
by the West Shore company and Mohawk
& Malone company There were no changes
Malone F. p. Freeman being chosen to fill
a vacancy caused by the death Of Samuel
Barton.
Mr.. z. w. Titus has been appointed secre-
Association at coiumbUs. Ind. and passed
through this city yesterday to take charge.
Mr.. Titus was for some years telegraph
operator and train dispatcher on the Chi
cago & Northwestern, and became a secre-
tary of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton about three years ago. Quite number
of Pennsylvania employees reside in Column
bus, and II Is the headquarters OF the Mad
ison and Cambridge City branches. Assoc
citation membership, however, is open to all
young men of the city.
Oscar G. Murray. receiver and vice pres-
dent, and w. H. Greene, general manager
Of the Baltimore & Ohio lines, who have
been in Cincinnati for several days. returned
to Baltimore yesterday. Mr.. Murray admit
ted to Journal reporter that he had
big task before him TO place the Baltimore
e. Ohio well upon its feet. but he had I'M
dertaken to do so and proposed to accom-
plish what he had undertaken. adding that
in short time the roadbed and equipment
of the Baltimore & Ohio would be equal to
those OF its competitors. He spoke en-
thusastically OF the operations of the Joint
Traffic Association and seemed confident 1t