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

future, instead of 717,000, az originally. pro-
posed, the figures will reach nearly ST.
coo. co.,
President Ripley. of the Santa Fe. has
gone East for conference with the owners
of the property.
The Peoria & Eastern is distributing five
hundred tons of new steel rail, which will
be laid near BrOwnSburg.
General Manager Schaff and General SUI
perintendent Van Wrinkle, of the Big Four
are expected home from New York to-day
John F. Miller, general superintendent of
the Pennsylvania lines Southwestern sys-
tenn, has gone to French Lick Springs, to
spend week.
Official circulars have been issued APP
agent and E. 3. Ober assistant general
freight agent of the Chicago St Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha.
M. S. Connors, general superintendent of
the Columbus & Hooking Valley, has issued
an order that all station agents station
baggagemen and telegraph operators must
by Nov. 10, be uniformed.
1t is understood that H. r. Rogers. COM
mercial agent of the Baltimore & Ohio at
Cleveland, will look after the business of
the Central States Dispatch and the Con-
tinental line at Cleveland.
The Amalgamated Association of the In
ternational brotherhood OF Trackmen and
the Independent Brotherhood of Trackmen
will hereafter be known the Brother
hood of Trackmen OF America
Passenger earnings of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago and the CLEVELAND &
ton, are footing up handsomely and over
coming all deficits in freight earnings.
Fl. D. Bennett. special agent of the trans
portation department of the Pennsylvania
Southwestern system, returned yesterday
from a months vacation. which he spent
with other Pennsylvania officials in North
Dakota
The crew of a special train run over
the Wabash. on Wednesday, claim to have
covered mile in forty~seven seconds, and
several miles in succession in fifty Sec
OndS. or at a. speed of Seventy-twO miles
an hour.
The New York Central earned in septem-
September 1895. of $477o: Since July the
road has earned 81 269. 500. decrease, com
pared with the corresponding period of 1895,
of 1890, COS.
auditing department of the Erie Dispatch
lines from Cleveland 10 New York This is
done that, in conjunction with the aud
itor of the Erie railway. a sort of clearing
house can be established
Dalton Bridges. yardmaster of the Big
Four who was killed in the companys yard
at st. Louis. on Tuesday, was buried yes
terday at his old home in southern Illinois
He was brother of James Bridges, pas
Senger conductor on the Vandalia.
At the meeting of the American Railway
Association. held in New York the past
week, 252 railroad companies were repre-
scented, which operate 154 600 miles of road.
Nov. 10 was fixed upon as the date for the
winter time schedule to go into effect.
The meeting called to consider the ques-
uDn OF reducing rates on anthracite coal
from the East to Western points has been
indefinitely postponed. New York COM
panies are disposed to consent to reduc-
ton. but the Pennsylvania lines are not in
favor of such action.
The Brooks locomotive works will to-day
ship two locomotives TO Japan. They were
set up in this country and tested. then
stripped. taken to pieces. packed and
shipped to New York, and there loaded on
a steamship which Will carry them direct
to Japan via Suez canal.
The Toledo. St. Louis & Kansas City is
the only road in the territory IL strikes
duced its force or pay of men. This road.
in train service and in its yards. has for
months past had more men employed than
az any period in its history.
The directors of the Santa Fe have au-
thoriZed the general manager to close a
contract with Frederic Harvey for furnish
ing dining car and restaurant service on all
of the company's lines for ten years The
company's coal properties in Kansas have
The Lake Shore has notified connections
on the j. cents per one hundred pound
basis. Chicago to New York, on corn for
export carried by the fast freight lines
operating over that road. This action helps
the White line. the Red line and the Mid
land fast freight lines out of bad d.
lemna.
1t was understood among the passenger
men that the Sunday excursion business
would cease after the first of October but
of suca excursion rates than during the
summer, consequently the roads are con-
tinuimg them. On Sunday the Louisville
division OF the Pennsylvania lines will run