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

tee to have jurisdiction over local business
only. The committee will meet at Chicago
within a few days to formulate an agree
ment under which the roads of the old asso-
citation were working. 1t will have penalty
clause and will require the redemption al
full tariff rates of all tickets issued at re-
duced rates by any member OF the COM
mittee. 1t will also require deposit to be
made by all members and all fines and
penalties will be taken from this fund.
1t is expected that the present Ohio River
Association will be joined to the committee.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
A number of the Panhandle engineers in
December made thirty-six days.
The Cincinnati. Jackson & Mackinaw ex-
poets to be running its passenger trains into
Cincinnati by Jan. 20.
The New York Central earned in Deem
Der $4,026, Si6, an increase over the CORE
spending week Of 1894 OF s375,S5O.
j. r. Turner was yesterday appointed
agent of the Big Four at Falkland. and w.
G. Fox at Eaton, on the same road.
On Wednesday the working time OF the
shops on the Baltimore az Ohio Southwest
ern were reduced TO six hours per day.
The Vanderbilt lines last week carried
$50 per cent. of the shipments of flour,
grain and provisions from Chicago east.
A. j. Simmons has been appointed general
New England passenger agent of the Balti-
more & Ohio, with headquarters at Boston.
A movement is on foot looking to the adj
yancing by the transcontinental lines of
east-bound freight rates from the Pacific
coast.
Fl. II. Porter chairman Of the executive
committee of the Chicago * Eastern Illi-
nois. will sail for Egypt tomorrow for a
long vacation.
The Toledo, ST. Louis & Kansas City is
handling so much of the theatrical bust
ness of late that competitors allege it is
not carried at agreed rates.
Il. G.. Cole. whose resignation as master
mechanic of the Baltimore 81 Ohio becomes
effective Feb. l, will accept service with a
MISUNDERSTANDING concern.
The indianapolis & Vincennes is having
heavy livestock traffic. For several days
past this road has been bringing il from
twenty to thirty carloads per day.
\ Next week the Cleveland & Pittsburg. a
Pennsylvania line, will begin work on it's
new ore docks at Cleveland. The new
docks Will have lake front of 1,S00 feet.
j.. ID. Bartholomew, who has for thirty
years been the ticket agent at Newark, o.,
retired on Wednesday, and his son, Frank
{. Bartholomew, has been appointed agent.
On the new Beech Creek road the grades
are SO favorable that in many places one
locomotive can haul sixty-three loaded cars
which is remarkable for a road in Pennsyl-
yania.
"A new book of rules is now i'm effect on
the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pittsburg &
Western similar to the book of rules of
the Pennsylvania lines. Ii went into effect
Jan. /.
The Illinois Steel Company has been shut
down since the first of the year for repairs
Last year the works turned out one million
tons of steel rails and other railway sup
plies they manufacture.
In 1895 the Lake Erie & Western earned
,16o, an increase over 1894 of sl75,O2S
rms is S5,O28 in excess of the sum that
III. c. Parker, traffic manager OF the lines.
said the increase of 1895 would be over the
preceding year.
The Commercial Travellers Association
has decided to support the suit OF J. w
Ccrcoran against the Rome, WATERFOWL q
Ogdensburg road for being elected from a
train after offering a mileage book in pay
ment of his fare.
The New York New Haven e. Hartford
is running its own line of sleeping and par
Tor cars between Boston and New York.
and although the charges are one-half less
than those of the Pullman cars the COM
pany nnds the business very profitable
No class of men is more interested in the
war news than are railroad men, especially
those in the freight service, as they have
an impression that it would set the grain.
flour and livestock traffic moving very
brlskly IN case such an event should occur.
The Lehigh Valley company is making a
success OF its pension fund for old and
crippled employees. The company donates
handsome sum to the object. the employees
pay one-half cent per mile when riding on
tho trains of the road, and the money thus
paid goes 10 the pension fund.
1t Is now five years since dlning-car serv-
ice was established on the Big Four, and
c. b. Coles, in charge OF the commissary
department. states that in 1895 the service
was self-supporting for the first time since
introduced, and that the service OF 1895 was
better than in any former year.
The first engine ever built at the shops
or the Big Four at Delaware, o., has Just
been completed. and made its initial trip
on Tuesday, hauling a train between Della
ware and springfield The engine was built
under the personal supervision or J. A
keegan. master mechanic Of the shops at
that point.
There is a rumor that the name OF ex-
Governor Frank Brown, of Maryland is
having in charge the selection of a success
sor TO Charles +. Maher as president of the
Baltimore & Ohio road. Governor Brown
has been very successful in the management
of the Baltimore Traction Company. OF
which he is president.
Under the new time schedule which takes
effect on Sunday the day express from Chi
cago To Cincinnati will leave over the Mo-
non at 1910 noon, reach Indianapolis at $40
p. m, depart over the Cincinnati Hamilton
A Dayton at $50 p. m. and arrive at Gin
cinnati at 9:45 p. m. No 80 over the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, now leaving
indianapolis at $50 p. m, will leave at $50
p. m. an hour earlier, and do all the local
work.
A bill was introduced in the Virginia Leg
islature yesterday TO authorize the reorgani-
cation OF the Norfolk & Western Railroad
ceivers The bill Is 10 enable the purchasers
at a foreclosure sale to organize new cor
poration and 10 acquire all the railroads or
properties of the Norfolk e. Western, with
authority to create such issues OF stocks