The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-10

and bonds as may be necessary to carry out
any plan of reorganization. The amount OF
stocks or bonds OF the new corporation is to
be limited to S100.000.o00.
superintendent Zion. of the Union Rail-
way Company, Is making some radical
changes in disposition OF the Union Sta
the train callers and gatemen have taken a
month about in working day and night.
Now the men longest in the service are to
be on duty regularly in the day. time and
the younger men in time Of service will be
on nights regularly. This will place depot
master Frank Rogers on duty in the day
time, he having been in the service or the
Union Railway Company seventeen years.
1t is stated that a heavy shipper asked
Traffic Manager Murray, Of the Big Four,
for the rebate on some large lots OF cars
of freight which he had been ustomed
to receive in the past. 1t was refused.
The shipper then offered wager or s. 900
that he could get a rebate from one OF the
other roads in the Joint Traffic Association.
He was told that he could not, but that IL
he could and 1t was found out, II would
cost the road that granted 1t 5000. 1t is
asserted that every road In the association
Is adhering strictly to the new agreement.
An official OF the Pennsylvania lines said
yesterday that when the Pennsylvania takes
control OF the Vandalia some marked
changes VIII be made at Indianapolis The
changes will include consolidating offices
and yards, as far practicable. on the
ground or economy. The freight business
of the Vandalia, at least the through bust
yards, and the Vandalia yards, on West
street, would. he thought, be utilized for
trackage of passenger equipment, and build
ings viii be put up in which to house and
clean coaches.
William Duncan, second vice president and
traffic manager of the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern railway, with headquarters in
st. Louis, has resigned his position owing
to the pressure of private business. Presi-
dent Bacon, in accepting the resignation, ex-
pressed his regret at the step. which causes
the loss of one of the railroads oldest, most
efficient and popular officials. Mr.. Duncan's
business interests in st. Louis are very ex-
tensive, and it was to enable him to look
after these and embark in other enter
priSeS that he severed his connection with
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, with
which road he has been identified for many
years.
In n few days there will appear on the
fast through trains of the Southwest sys-
tenn of the Pennsylvania lines some of the
finest vestibuled coaches that have ever
been run on any railroad in the United
States. The cars were built at the Column
bus shops of the Panhandle, and the great
est care was taken to make them as per-
feet in all their features as skill and the
proper combination of the best materials
could possibly accomplish. They are mod
els OF perfection, and when they appear on
roads. 1t is likely that they will be used
on Nos. 70 and a. which are two of the
most popular trains in the country, and
that the veStibuled cars now running on
these roads Will be sent to the shops and
thoroughly overhauled inside and out. 1t
is the intention of the company TO renew
the entire equipment of the fast through
trains, and before many days the St. Louis
limited will be greatly improved in it's APP
pearance.