The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-26

somely fitted up parlor car, and, instead of
the usual uphoistering, the chair cushions
ly lessons the jolting and Earring when the
train is moving rapidly.
The men in the employ of the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton who were in the wreck
al Glenwood ten DAYS ago and were serious
~ injured are in a fair way TO recovery,
except fireman Hughes, who is still in a
critical condition.
The Wabash general passenger agent has
perfected arrangements with the Lake
Erie q Western by which the tickets and
mileage books of the Wabash will be hon
ored on the Lake Erie & Western between
Peru and Indianapolis.
The general superintendent of the CAL
weston, LaPorte q Houston has requested
the engineers 10 pay one-half the damages
claimed for stock killed on the company S
right OF way They iatly refused to do SO,
and conferences are being held.
George F.eTyler died yesterday at Phila-
delphia- lie was. in the early history Of
the Norfolk & Western. prominently identi-
fed with the management of the property,
and for several years president of the COM
pany. His age was seventy-four years.
There is one item in the annual report
of President ingalls, of the Big Four, which
has gone without special notice in former
ending June 80. 1856, there was $4,000 less
money paid out for personal damages than
in the year ending June so, 1898.
A. J. Radcliffe, travelling passenger agent
of the Union, Pacific. with headquarters at
Indianapolis, has returned from business
trip, going over his entire territory He eX-
presses the opinion that after election IS
over travel to California points this fall and
winter will be the heaviest in several years
NJ E. ingalls, president of the Big Four
was in the city yesterday and in the att
ernoon went to Chicago. Mr. ingalls, speaks
of traffic as increasing somewhat on the Big
Four. but it is by means so large in
volume as it would be were the country
in more prosperous condition, SO large are
the crops to be marketed.
The remains of A. W. Dickinson, who was
connected in official capacity with the
Missouri Pacific for twenty years, VIII De
buried at Seymour, Ind, this afternoon
For many years he was general superin-
tendent of the road. Three years ago, on
account of poor health, he retired from ac-
tive service. He was in early days asso-
ciated with the late ID. f. Whitcomb In
railroad service, and the two were very
warm personal friends.
A meeting of the advisory committee of
the emigrant clearing house of the western
Passenger Association will be held in Chi
cago next Tuesday for the purpose OF con-
si6ering the commissions paid on emlSrant
business by the Southern Pacific and the
opening of Galveston as a gateway Tor
emigrant traffic. 1t is not expected that
the Southern Pacific will be represented at
the meeting, but. steps will be taken to ar
range for a conference with it soon after
the close of the meeting.
A railroad attorney. who is well informed
in affairs of the Brice syndicate, states
that there is little probability of the Brice
people consolidating the Lake Erie q West
ern with their Ohio lines recently pur-
chased, as the stockholders of the Lake
erty to burden it with weak lines. He eX
pressed the opinion that the several lines
they now own in ohio, and the Ohio South
ern, which they win doubtless own after
the foreclosure sale, Will be connected and
then consolidated.
The vote of the Western lines to recall
all their orders out of the territory of the
Central Traffic lines is one of the most
serious blows that the ticket scalpers have
received, and is more damaging than the
doing aWay to such an extent with inter-
changeab!e mileage. The orders have been
a continual source of trouble in Central
Traffic Association territory. Another Sc
we're blow at the scalpng fraternity is that
the transcontinental lines have agreed that
after Oct. 81 the payment of all commits
sions, except to authorized ticket agents,
shall be discontinued
Since Oscar Murray became receiver and
vice president OF the Baltimore & Ohio he
has given official position to six men off
the Big -Four and two off the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton. f. A. Hustled, who
leaves the c.. H. & d. to go to the Balti-
more & Ohio, began railroading in Evans
vile On the Evansville & Terre Haute, as
a messenger boy then telegraph operator
and train dispatcher. He came to the Gin
cinnati Hamilton & Dayton in 1883 as train
master; in 1890 he was appointed superin-
tendent of the Indianapolis division, IN 1881
he was appointed superintendent of the
Dayton & Michigan division and few
months ago superintendent of the more i'm
portant Cincinnati division.