The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-02-19

would be twenty-one days from date OF sale.
In The first instance thirty-one days was
agreed to as the limitation OF these tickets.
but to-day IL was decided TO curtail il by
taking off ten days.
j.. J. Turner. general manager OF the Van
dalia lines, is fast shaping up matters to
the Pennsylvania standard, and with this
dinate officials and employees. and his adj
ministration of the affairs OF the mpan
bids fair TO be as popular as that OF any
former management
Instead of adding any railway mileage
last year. Massachusetts actually lost 81
miles, as a result of Strengthening tracks
and remeasurement. The present mileage
of the State is 2.114 miles. which is equiva-
lent TO a mile OF road to every four miles or
area, Massachusetts being much better sup
piled with railways, in proportion to its
area, than n other part of the country.
Conductor Marble. on the Louisville. New
Albany & Chicago. met with painful injur-
les on Monday night while assisting his
crew In doing som switching at Frankfort.
He was on top of a car. when his lantern
went out and he walked on the end of
the car. He was picked up unconscious and
cared for by DIR. Charles Chittock. who
thinks the injuries will not prove serious.
The University of Wisconsin has published
in pamphlet form the address given BY, L. r.
Loree, general manager of the Pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg, delivered before the
students of the university. on Emergencies
IA Il II tah III III OOhlAo-
town flood, the Pittsburg strike and many
other things which have occurred in railway
operations which were emergencies it was
difficult 10 meet.
Now that commissions have been so gen.
orally cut off. the ticket agents at the out
side offices have a very meager amount OF
money per month for their labors, as the
roads have not increased the salary of the
ticket agents and the cutting off of COM
missions means a decrease in their month
ly income of from 800 to $40. and at som,
OF the best offices even more than the larg-
est sum named.
The New York. New Haven & Hartford
now has a communication system that Is
unique. Instead of selling trip tickets or
cards emitting the purchaser to so many
rides within a month between points named,
IL sells a pass. The buyer can ride over
the road as many times as he pleases within
the month for which the ticket is issued.
The conductor does not have TO punch Ii,
saving much time and trouble.
There is now i'm the Pennsylvania system
S,SS2 miles of main line, The mileage of the
pennsylvania is now but lib miles less than
tina of the Santa Fe, and should the latter
drop another of its nonpaying ines, as it
probably will. the Pennsylvania would take
the position of the greatest railway system
in the world in respect % mileage. Its capt.
tai and traffic already exceed those of any
railway system in this country.
The Big Four has received two of the six
parlor cars which the Barney-Smith car
works are building for the company. and
thtJ nav ottA ~ III Iii IL oiio - NC"
tween Cincinnati and Chicago. These cars
are richly finished. both exterior and in
terror. They are seventy feet long, the body
being the size of the regular Pullman Sleep
ing car, and they rest on heavy
trucks. There is a smoking room and a
compartment room for families, both large
and conveniently equipped.
The Boycott declared July 20, 1895, by the
Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association,
embracing jobbers i'm every Southern city,
against the Louisville & Nashville railroad
has been withdrawn. The circular a%nnounc-
ing the withdrawal fails to say whether or
not the corporation granted the demands
made b. the grocers, but reads: For sat
isfactory reasons shipping instructions d.
verting freight from the Louisville & Nash
Vile are withdrawn from this date. In
structions heretofore given are recalled.
The P%ittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago is
40 miles in length and Is looked upon as
one of the best railroad properties in the
West. Most OF the distance it has double
eteel track, finely ballasted. chiefly with brok-
en- stone, unexcelled equipment. unrivaled
cars, pays interested on its bonds and sinking
fund, Z per cent. on its stock, pays its debts
promptly and its employees handsomely for
portant links between the Atlantic seaboard
and the lakes.
Al a meeting held I'm Chicago yesterday it
was decided to ignore the cut recently made
in rates by the Wabash and Illinois Central
to points in southern Illinois. The sense
of the meeting was that rates ordered into
effect about a year ago by the Illinois rail-
road and warehouse. committee were too
low and that TO voluntarily reduce them
would be suicidal. The points covered by
the Illinois Central and Wabash cuts were
held not to be competitive and therefore the
cuts furnished no grounds Tor making
further reductions.
Charles NJ. Hayes, general manager of
the Grand Trunk railway and president
of the Chicago & Grand Trunk railroad.
called at the office of the Joint Traffic AS
ISOLATION in New York yesterday and gave
the managers Of the association his as
surance that the proportional tariff of corn.
oats and coarse grains in connection with
the lines in the Western Freight Associa-
ton from st. Paul to New England points
on the basis OF 25c per hundred pounds
would be Withdrawn very promptly. and
the statements in~the Western newspapers
that any of the Chicago lines had met
that reduced tariff are without foundation.
General Freight Agent Weed, of the To-
ledO, st. Louis & Kansas City, is receiving
numerous letters co~mplimenting him on the
road not acting Will the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation, and pledging their business to that
him: 'sThe policy of my firm is that as long
as there is a line of railroad or steamboat
line outside of this obnoxious trust our
goods shall be shipped by it. The great bulk
of our business from the West to st. Louis
is being handled by lines which are not
parties TO the presidents agreement. This
being the case. unless all of the lines south
of the c. & o. clear to the gulf are bought
up by the trust, we will probably fight the
thing for forty years, If necessary, without
inconvenience to ourselves. / see by the pa
pers that the Chicago lines nave met the
Grand Trunk cut of 5 cents in grain rates.
To my mind this is the beginning of the end.
If a break is made anywhere, it is like a
house of cards-the first cards fall forces
all of the rest down i'm short order"
J. H.. Button, formerly a conductor on the
Mexican International, has just returned to
L~ogansport, and furnishes the following in
teresting information regarding our Spanish
neighbors and railroad matters on the Pa
cific coast. He visited Havana and found
the city crowded with refugees from the
out districts, men who were afraid to take
ish soldiers are uniformed in a light cloth.
resembling the Confederate gray. and are
armed with a gun resembling our muskets.
The men are understood and swarthy. Mr..
Button remained in Havana but three days.
He could not get into the country, but was
well treated by the officers. However, they
took his kodak from him with the promise
to send il to him by mail; he has not yet
received il. In discussing Mexican railway
methods Mr.. Button said the Huntington
system. built without other donations than
grant of way, was now only 145 miles from
the Pacific ocean. Taking time and distance
from the Sandwich islands to Washington,
as compared with the same measurements
via San Francisco and the difference will
amount 10 about four days. He says if Mr..
Durango, capital of the State of Durango,
Mexico. 145 miles TO Mazatlan, he could
make continuous connections with his roads,
reaching from the Pacific to the Atlantic
coast.