The Indianapolis journal., 1896-02-18

nit to the board OF managers his annual
report for 1895.
The Illinois Car Service Association now
includes twenty-six roads and looks after
demurTage charges at fifty-five cities and
towns in the State.
There is excellent authority for stating
that Drexel & Morgan have no connection
with the reorganization in progress on the
Baltimore & Ohio lines.
l.. s. Coffin, OF Iowa. president OF the
Home for Aged and Disabled Railroad Men,
on Sunday addressed several hundred men
at a meeting at Columbus, -.
William n. Jackson, secretary OF the
Union Railway Company. continues TO I'M
prove, but is still very weak. He hopes TO
be at work in ten days or two weeks
J. l.. Harris for years general live stock
agent of the Wabash, has been appointed
general live stock agent in Texas OF the
Chicago Union Stock Yards and Transit
Company.
Freight officials of Illinois roads will meet
in Chicago to-day TO consider rate matters.
both local and through, especially between
Chicago and Peoria and Illinois points and
the seaboard.
The Erie Railway Company last week
placed contracts for 300 cars of different
styles The contracts were awarded TO the
Michigan Peninsular car works, Detroit,
and the Buffalo car works.
W. r. Crawford, general solicitor Of the
Chicago & Southeastern. who has been very
i'll for four months, has so much improved
that he has gone to Thomasville, Ga, TO
remain some weeks for the benefit OF his
health.
f. c. Smith, trainmaster of the Chicago
g. Rock Island at Horton, has been APP
pointed superintendent of the Western d-
vision. with headquarters at Colorado
Springs. A. L. Abbott succeeds Mr. Smith
at Horton as trainmaster.
A ruling was made yesterday by the
chairman of the Western Passenger AS
ISOLATION that the minimum rate from the
Missouri river for homeSeekers' excursions
must be 81. same as that agreed upon in
the territory OF the Eastern committee.
Train II over the Chicago division of the
Big Four arrived yesterday from Chicago
half hour late, the first time ii has been
as late in the last four months. 1t is
claimed that this train runs nearer on its
schedule than does any other through train
coming into Indianapolis.
Trains 8. 6, Z and 20, on the Pennsylvania
lines and Fandalia, are carrying large
number of passengers. Train 6, which has
been run thirty years on about its present
schedule. has greatly increased its popular,
ity. Ii leaves St Louis at 10:30 p. m. and
reaches indianapolis at 5:45 a. m.
The Railway World, published in Phladei-
phia, has printed in book form "Reminis-
cences of Railroad Engineer, written by
interesting publication, going extensively
into details of early railroading, and Is re-
plete with stirring personal incidents.
East-bound business out of st. Louis is
only eighty to one hundred loaded cars
being forwarded from st. Louis proper per
day. The Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City
continues TO get large percentage of the
business being forwarded, and, Receiver
Peirce says, carries it at full rates.
The Erie people, who in years past have
made no pretensions to making fast runs,
have OF late come TO the front. Last Fri
day Train hauled from Winfield TO
Rochester, sixty-one miles, in sixty-three
minutes. making one stop at railroad
crossing. The train was hauled by one of
the company's new passenger engines.
Col VIM. Shaw. general travelling pas
senger agent Of the Chicago. Burlington g.
Quincy. IS in the city. He states that the
business the Missouri river lines are doing
is highly satisfactory. General Passenger
Agent Wakely is fast getting affairs in
good shape and some OF the companyS
finest passenger equipment is being run on
those lines.
Stephen Little. an expert accountant. is
now examining the books and accounts of
the Baltimore * Ohio. 1t is safe TO say
that he will find everything correct, for the
reason that j. V. McNeale, who for years
Was auditor of the Indianapolis Decatur &
Western, has been practically the general
accountant of that road since leaving the
L., ID. & w.
The extension of time for the equipment
of freight with safety appliances ex
pired on Saturday. The executive commit
tee of the Master Car-builders' Association
has decided that a loaded car which does
not conform to the requirements of the
law may be delivered 10 a connection and
forwarded TO it's destination, but after re-
lieved OF its load. must be rebuilt TO con-
form TO the law.
The December earnings of the Lake Erie
4 Western We're: Gross, Sl0,720, an in
crease of A,530 net, S49.sSS, decrease
of 81 sSs; surplus, ss9,ss2, decrease of s2.-
2i7 The report for the year ending Dec
81 shows: Gross earnings, $3.5i9104. an in
crease of Sl73.701; operating expenses, 81
9l6ll5, an increase of s50263: net earnings,
81, ,602 9S9. an increase of $123, ABS; balance,
s80s. 2o3. increase of s104,6S4.
Local passenger circles are a good deal
disturbed that the Lake Erie & Western,
day took two theatrical troupeS from this
city for the east. The arbitrary action of
the passenger officials at their recent meet
ing in Chicago will, without doubt, be of
benefit 10 lines not in the association how
ever, General Passenger Agent DAILY claims
to have carried these troupes at full rates.
p. A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania lines,
says the putting on of fifty-five-mile-an-
hour train between indianapolis and Louis
vile has been deferred until three inter-
locking signals and switches can be put in
one at Franklin, another at Seymour and
third at the crossing of the Baltimors &
Ohio southwestern, near Louisville This
done, he thinks there Will be no trouble in
making such speed safely.
The Erie Railway Company last week
tested us monster snow pl0W, and Ii worked
satisfactorily. 1t is of the rotary pattern.
With the plow the from Hornellsville
10 Dunkirk was made at a speed Of thirty
miles an hour, and the machine cleared the
ca and Dunkirk it encountered huge snow
drift. fifteen feet deep and three hundred
| feet long. in a cut, and the plow went
through * at speed of fifteen miles an
| hour
The Chicago committee of the Central
Traffic Association had meeting yester-
| day at which the ruling of the board of
| managers of the Joint Traffic Association
was gone over. Ii was agreed that the
| ruling was worse than useless. Instead of
roads. il made inequalities more glaring
| than before. After wrangling all day over
| the matter, the lines decided to refer the
whole matter back to the board OF man.
| ayers for further consideration.
| III. c. Moore, general utility man of the
| Chicago southeastern, says the rumors
| regarding that road and its employees have
| been greatly exaggerated, most of them
originating, he says, with az employe who
| was discharged for drunkenness. The com
pany has been disappointed in its earnings
| from it's coal traffic, so mild has been the
winter. and bad country roads have re.
suited in cutting down the grain movement
| sharply. He says three months of. good bus
! mess will put the road on it's feet financial.
/ ~.
A meeting of the advisory committee
\ of the Western immigrant clearing house
| was held in Chicago yesterday. The Colo
/ RADIO Midland road was admitted TO mem
| bership in the clearing house and assured
an equitable division of the business. The
| Colorado Midland made its membership in
| the transmissouri committee of the West.
ern Passenger Association conditional or
! its admission to the clearing house. AS il
has been admitted TO the clearing house
! il is taken for granted that 1t will now
become a member of the transmissour
! committee.