The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-06

no. D limited IdSI mail, DIS us HdIne III
dicates, is one OF the lake Shores famous
fast mail trains. With the exception of the
New York Central limited it Is the fastest
train between Chicago and New York. 1t
runs by the way of the old road and Nor
walk divisions. stopping only at principal
stations. The schedule is taken from the
latest time table.
The Wabash figures refer to the west
bound fast mail from Toledo to St. Louis,
arriving at st. Louis at 2:5) a. m. In addi-
ton to the record given above, this train,
which carries passengers. ETC.. covers a
stretch of lis miles in two hours and thirty
nine minutes; and another stretch of 249
miles in five hours and forty-nine minutes.
Train No. II, the "White special" over
the Big Four, makes the run from
Cincinnati to Indianapolis in two hours and
forty-ive minutes, and from indianapolis
to Chicago in five hours.
The official figures of the Wabash west
bound fast mail from Toledo to St. Louis,
the Big Fours Knickerbocker from st.
Louis to the East, the Vandalia-Pennsyl-
Lake shore limited, the New York CentraTs
North Shore limited and the Southwestern
limited over til IN Ne Bic York Fork Central &c It I the
produce the following averages:
40 miles-46 miles per hour.
11S miles-43.9 miles per hour.
100 mileS-46 miles per hour.
$40 miles-41.1 miles per hour.
265 miles-43 miles per hour.
40 miles-42 miles per hour, by two diff
ferent trains.
4ss milesA2.s miles per hour.
$40 miles-s9.5 miles per hour.
5S miles-4S miles per hour.
Quincy No. G. which runs daily. is as fol-
lows; For the entire distance. 4S2 miles.
just eleven hours. or thirty-four miles per
Galesburg. 1853 miles. three hours and six
teen minutes, or fifty miles per hour. The
t tbs' B= mail from r S1; i 1fs1h miles 5H sh an = fwo b oyer
and forty minutes, or at the rate of AZ.
miles per hour.
Ticket scalpers Most BENEFITED.
The ticket scalpers are jubilant over the
breaking away from the agreement Of some
of the roads on the interchange Of mile
age. as no one thing more favors the
scapler than does the mileage book, good
over several roads. This is one Of the rea-
sons that the Indiana, Decatur & Western
shows such a large sales of mileage books.
that company's book being good over twen-
ty-one roads. A rumor was current yester-
day that the Big Four would. within a
short time, arrange to interchange mileage
with a number of roads. but this could not
be traced to a reliable source. and it is
questionable, with the relation the road
bears to the Joint Traffic Association, if
the Big Four could take such q step for
the reason hat the board of managers of
that association looks upon such action as
rate demoralizing. There Is one class of
mileage Look which not only general pas
senger agents but merchants generally
would favor, and. If properly presented be-
fore the board OF managers, it Is thought
Ii would meet with their approval: this is
a mileage book good for 5000 miles at $10O
and good on any of the association lines.
Many of the merchants take the position
| that were the roads to adopt a 5.000-mile
book 1t would put a stop to the demand for
a two-cent-a-mile rate on all Indiana, Ohio
and Illinois lines.
Clash with the Union Pacific.
The Union Pacific and the emigrant
clearing house of the Western lines have
clashed. At the recent meeting of the lines
which are members of the clearing house
in New York city a decided stand was
taken on the proposition that under all cir
cumstances no emigrant agent should take
instructions from any agent of any road as
TO the routing Of business. He was to be
guided By the rules and instructions of the
manager of the clearing house, and was tc
pay attention to the orders of nobody else
This pc sition the Union Pacific has now as
sailed and has instructed the emigrant
agents that they are to be guided by the
instructions o. it's general agent in New
York The matter will probably be settled
at a meeting OF Chairman Caldwell, of the
Western Passenger Association, with rep
reSentatives of the clearing house and OF
the Union Pacific. The meeting will be
held in Chicago next Wednesday,. The ad
visory committee of the clearing house is
determined to enforce the rule, that It's
agents is to be supreme in routing the bus