The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-21

Old Colony system, has been appointed as
New England, and will, on July /. succeed
j. t. Odeu, general marager.
George l. Bradbury, vice president and
general manager OF the Brice lines. says ne
has as yet taken no steps TO nh the position
of traffic manager of the lines. made va
cant by the death of II. C. Parker.
Attorneys are taking evidence I'm the fore
closure suit OF the Toledo, st. Louis 81 Kan
ests that it is thought 1t will be many years
before the courts get the snalls straighten-
ed out.
Train q on the Panhandle lchicago d.
vision) a day or two ago was hauled by
Class p engine from Logansport to Chicago.
III miles, In two hours and twenty-seven
minutes. A stretch OF forty-one miles was
covered in thirty-eight minutes.
On Sunday the Panhandle had two long
sections Of passenger coaches carrying ltai,
ian immigrants. who have been promised
work in railroad building In the far West.
Another large party of these Immigrants
will pass west over the Panhandle to-day.
An official of the Wagner Palace Car Conn
pany says the company Is transferring
some OF its best equipment TO the Big -Four
lines, and he Is confident the Wagner serv-
ice on the Indianapolis lines Is equal. II NOT
superior, to that of the Pullman company.
The last number OF the Railroad Gazette
contains excellent pictures OF the BOARD OF
Arbitration and the managers OF the Joint
Traffic Association, with a complete his.
tory OF the organization and sketches OF
the lives Of those in authority in the asso-
citation.
1t is stated that the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton declines to carry out the class
rate agreement which was TO have gone
compete in ats territory will now withdraw
the new tariff and go back to the former
. class rates.
The Chicago & Rock Island has just built
at its shops and put into service q locomo-
tive specially designed for high speed. 1t
was built after plans which, Ii is believed
viii enable the engine to run from eighty
to one hundred miles an hour with several
cars attached.
Clinton Igler was appointed foreman Of the
Vandalia shops and roundhouse at INDIAN
apolis in January, 1857, by T. J: Peck, then
president of the Terre Haute q indianapolis.
and the absorption of these shops by the
Pennsylvania Company. 1t is stated, Is likely
to leave him without employment.
The Woodford syndicate is said to be
much pleased with the purchase or the In
diana, Decatur & Western. There has not
been a month since they took control of Il
that there has not been an increase in earn
ingS over last year, and as yet no special
efforts have been made to increase the traf-
fic.
1t is stated that the position OF division
superintendent on the Columbus G. Hooking
Valley is to be abolished, and that NJ. s..
Ccnners, division superintendent, is to be
made general superintendent, and will APP
point r. s. Quigley and e. w. Costello
trainmasters. being promotion in both
cases.
Already the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton evfnces warlike spirit as to the Big
Four entering the Toledo and Detroit terri
tory. and fast time and cut rates are likely sl
Four and the Toledo & Ohio Central have
not as yet revealed how they would meet the
c., H q ID. in its warfare against them.
The passenger pooling arrangement OF the
roads operating between Cincinnati and St
Louis, there being three lines. Is likely to
go to pieces. Competitors of the Baltimore
is not conforming to the agreement. This
pool is of long standing, and without ques-
ton one of the lines is seeking an excuse
to get out of the compact.
of the e''f brides ID father No. 81 Woodruf
Place. Miss Nettie Louise, adopted daughter
of Mr.. E. H. Trip. was married to Mr.
BRIDES 'e grandfather, Elder Brazieton of the h
Christian Church Of North Vernon, per.
formed the ceremony Mr.. and Mrs. Yer
barg will be at home at North Vernon after
June /.
Foreign roads have fallen into the prac-
tice of running cheap excursions for ball
games and other amuserQents. Last month
the CALIFORNIAN road ran an excursion from
Aberdeen to Glasgow, 153 miles, at $1.0S for
the round trip. or 31a mills per mile. and
over 1,5oo passengers were carried to wit
ness bail game. and for an extra Is cents
the excursionists could remain over an ex-
| ira day.
| The executive officers of the roads in tn,
| Central Passenger Committee were in ses
! sion at chicago yesterday considering tn,
proposition of mileage books. The meeting
lasted all day and nothing had been done
| at a late hour. The general sentiment O.
| the lines was in favor OF two-thousand
| mile book. TO be sold at $50. with a rebate
| OF $40 on the return Of the cover to Chair
man Donald. of the committee.
| Probably there is not a railway official 81
this country who is more determined tina
| when a railroad company's representative
| enter into an agreement that they shall liv
strictly up to Ii while IL exists than is Geo
| Blanchard, chairman of the Joint Trafh
| Central Traffic Association in Chicago n
| made some enemies, or at least incurre
the III Will of some of the railway officials
| A NJ. Schoyer, OF Pittsburg, superintend
| ent or telegraph Of the Pennsylvania line:
| and the Vandalia, was in the city yesterday
| Recently on the Vandalia 700 miles of new
copper telegraph wire have been strung. Mr.
| Schoyer said there Is no foretelling what tn
| roads would do in the way of Improvement
| II times became good and business heavy
improvements which will cost millions ar
| contemplated by the Pennsylvania and othe
| big systems.
Roads In the Southern Passenger Associa
| ton have been notified that tickets readin
over their lines from st. Louis to Kansa
i City are being sold at Atlanta, Ga, by IN
brokers' there and that they are demoraliz
ing the rates to the West These ticket
| have two days limit and the Southern road
have been notified that hereafter ticket
| reading by this route must have a limit O
| DuL one DAY ana IL this Is done the Wester
roads will insist on having their full loca
| rates from st. Louis to Kansas City a
| their proportion of the through rate.
The twenty-third annual meeting of tn
| stock and bondholders of the Pittsburg For
| Wayne q Chicago Railroad Company wa
held at Pittsburg yesterday and the follow
| Ing directors reelected: Charles Laniel
| Henry Amy. William G. Eggleston, Ney
York, and James McCrea, of Pittsburg Tn
| report OF the president shows the incom
for 1925 was 81, 1o2. 92s 80: expenses of op
Grating and maintaining. s7,44S. s03 80, leavin
Railroad Company, lessee. paid TO the For
| sS,69S, 66S. There was represented at tn
meeting sSS6C0.000 OF the $51, 900 600 of tn
stock and bends.
1t is not a favorable time for the commit
tee appointed by the Joint Traffic Associa
| ton TO confer with the Cincinnati, Hami
ton & Dayton people as TO their becomin
the management over the opening of tn
! Toledo and Detroit line by the Big Four.
connection with this new departure of tn
Big -Four some complications are likely
| arise. 1t is understood that the Big Fou
will honor the mileage of the Toledo & Obi
Control and vice versa. This being the cas-,
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton passer
ger department, which is an aggressive on.
Will resume the sale OF INTERCHANGEABLE mile
age books. The book they placed on sale wa
the most popular one sold when interchange
able mileage was in operation, so many goo
roads was IL honored on.
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