The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-07-18

AS a freight station it has assumed some
importance.
The Toledo, st. Louis. & kansas 80 81
earned in the second week of july ,s,ses
an increase over the corresponding "eeA
of 1895 Of 81. S60-4.
The Evansville & Richmond is having having
trouble from the tunnel near ihuian
Springs caying in Passengers have TO De
transferred at the tunnel
Indications are that the Cincinnati RAM
ilton & Dayton will be obliged to-nhorIow.
TO run their excursion train 10 SihciIila'i
in three sections 10 carry the business
General Travelling Representatives ). r.
Vallery, OF the Chicago: Burnnstonn q
Quincy. and Harry Brandt, or sne u h
Northern, are in the city on ofncial pus-
mess.
The employees at the shops of the Penn
sylvana Company at Columbus nars
erected Flagstaff 125 feet high, from WHICH
floats a flag thirty-six feet long by twen-
~ wide.
The Railway Age has announced that II
will take active part in the political cam
paign this fall. 1t will labor In behali OF
the gold standard and against the Iree-
silver men.
The Lake Erie & Western will tomorrow
run an excursion train from It's Fort
Wayne division to Cincinnati via Connefs-
VILE, in connection with the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton
Four minutes after it was discovered tnat
the roof of one of the buildings In me
Panhandle shop yards was on nre the
shop FIRE department had a stream OF
water on the flames.
H. Hamar. for many years conductor
on the Michigan division of the Big Four,
later trainmaster on the Wabash. now mas
a good position on one of the roads run
ming into Denver, Col.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton has
placed several construction trains on tne
main line to distribute gravel ballast from
Dayton to Toledo. The work will be con-
tinued most OF the season.
The Pennsylvania Company is remodel
ing several of its depots on the LouisNliie
division. among the number the depots
at Seymour and Crothersville. Both are TO
be made modern structures
The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
has the roadway for a third track graded
only waiting for the business depression TO
pass off before commencing the laying OF
the rails
of the Cooke locomotive works and who
has been with that company for thirty
one years. has resigned TO become secre-
tary of the National Association of Loco
motive Builders.
special train on the Panhandle carry
ing the Baptist Young People to Mil
waukee made the run from Pittsburg to
Chicago, sos miles, In twelve hours ana
fifty minutes. being one of the fastest runs
on record between those points.
Placing additional trains on the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton main line has
led to the promotion of several conductors
who run between Cincinnati and its sub
urbs. OF the number are George Conroy,
William Morgan and George Piston
the Vanderbilt fast freight lines was in
the city yesterday. Judging from the In
auiry for cars the last two or three days
Mr.. Sherman is of opinion that business
will improve within the next ten days.
AS result of the Postmaster-generars
order prohibiting the carrying OF un-
stamped railroad mail in baggage cars, the
Chicago Railroad Exchange has been
closed. The exchange has acted as q dis
tributing center for mail for fifteen years.
The Pennsylvania has issued a new book
of instructions on the Westinghouse air
brake, made necessary by cartain changes
in valves which would improve the air
brake and signal system The new books
are smaller than those now carried BY
The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton is
putting in an engine at its new elevator in
Toledo which will also be used to haul
cars from the yard In connection with the
gravity tracks. 1t is stated that 200 car
loads of grain can be transferred at this
elevator per day.
scalpers visit the outside ticket Offices in
dictate that the relations between the roads
and the scalpers are not so strained as
one would think when reading the reports
of the meetings of the general passenger
agents and the passenger associations
statements.
The Pittsburg Fort Wayne e. Chicago is
obliged TO run it's fast trains through New
Brighton for nearly mile and a half at
speed limit of ten miles an hour. The
company has asked the privilege of fenc-
| ing the road on both sides, that the speed
| of trains may be increased. The double
| tracks are in one Of the streets of New
| Brighton the entire distance.
| The round-trip rate to the Grand Army
| encampment. to be held at st. Paul, will
| be, from Indianapolis, Sn.70: from New AL
| bany S13.75, and from other points a pro-
! Albany and JeffersonviIle being higher on
| account of the greater mileage than from
| any other Indiana point.
Ollie Munroe passenger conductor on the
| Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
! lines. on Thursday evening celebrated the
tenth anniversary of his marriage. One
| hundred and twenty-five of his friends in
| Jacksonville and New Albany called dur
ing the evening and the couple were the
recipients Of many useful and unique pres
ents.
Transmissouri roads have refused to
| make all tickets destined to Colorado COM
mon points good for continuous passage
| ticket il was hoped that the Decentralization
| existing In rates from the Missouri river
to Colorado common points could be got
/ rid of. The roads, however, have refused
| to try the plan.
Several of the roads have notified con-
nections that hereafter they will not
| ceive mail matter from such connections
unless it is stamped to conform to the re-
cent order of the Postoffice Department
c. K. Schaff, general manager of the Big
Four, thinks there will be no trouble over
the matter. the roads being willing to con-
form to any orders from this department
| that are just and reasonable.
George Bender. superintendent Of the
| Chicago division of the Big Four. in COM
pany with Thomas Morris, assistant chief
| engineer. has this week been going over
| his division of the Hartley &
| Teter bicycle inspection cars. They made
| the run on il from Indianapolis to Lafay-
| cite on Wednesday in five hours and were
some time in examining culverts, bridges,
| etc.
1t is stated that the relations between
| the Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City and
| the roads in the Joint Traffic Associa-
| ton are not as much strained for some
| time past terms having been reached
| which are satisfactory to both interests
| 1t is stated that ample evidence has beer,
divulged to show that ii the shippers
| who expected that forwarding their bust
ness over the Clover Leaf would disturb
| matters that the Joint Traffic Association
| would weaken.
| The KnickerboclSer special of the Big
Four was on Tuesday delayed twenty-five
minutes at ST. Louis for the private car
| of the treasurer of Mexico and his party
| Engine 1ss, engineer Kirby and fireman
| krohm. took tire train from st. Louis to
| Nation. al miles. in three hours and
| Engine 1879, engineer Welch and fireman
| McCullen, took it from Mattoon sixteen
minutes late, arriving at indianapolis on
time running the 129 miles i'm two hours
/ and forty minutes. The engines handling
n tyaf. Nol.r L..