The Indianapolis journal., 1896-06-16

Chicago East-Bound Shipments.
The east-bound shipments from Chicago
last week amounted to 62202 tons. compared
with Ga los tons for the previous week. and
45,7s5 tons for the corresponding week last
year.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Cincinnati Jackson & Mackinaw has
contracted for sixty large furniture cars
The Big Four on next Sunday will run
an excursion to Cincinnati at 81 for the
round trip.
In the month OF May there were handled
at the Union Station train sheds 3,I5o
trains, containing 2, 154 cars.
The Erie will in a few weeks begin the
elevating. Of its tracks in Jersey City. at an
estimated expense of s., 900, 600.
The pay rolls show that the Louisville,
New Albany & Chicago has 800 men at
work in it's new shops at Lafayette.
On Sunday the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton took into Cincinnati off of the In
dianapolis division 1.16o excursionists-
The local agents have returned from
their annual meeting. The meeting next
year will be held In Washington, ID. G.
NJ. E. ingalls,. president of the Big Four,
will leave on Wednesday for Hot Springs;
w. Va, where he will remain week ana
then go to New York.
w. s. Lincoln. who has resigned as chief
engineer Of the Wabash line, and Is sue
ceeded by Sidney Emerson. had held the
position he vacates sixteen years.
The Vandalia will on Sunday put on a
fast train between ST. Louis and Mackinaw,
via St. Joseph. 1t will be known as the
st. Louis and Macxinaw express.
Harry j. Graham and A. A. Young, the
newly appointed assistant general freight
agents OF the Lake Erie q western VIII
make Indianapolis their headquarters
II. Cassidy, assistant general freight
agent of the Peoria. Decatur & Evansville,
is in the city on official business He re-
ports crop prospects excellent on that line
NJ ON,
the Southwestern system OF the Pennsyi-
vania lines yield better returns than do
the Pullman cars run on the Chicago d.
vision of the Panhandle.
The morning train of the Monon from In
dianapolis is doing good business, Is a
great accommodation to business men and
likely to become permanent arrangement,
say the passenger men.
1t is claimed by the transportation de-
partment that the fastest run ever made
with n freight train was made last week
between st. Louis and Cleveland with a
dressed meat train over the Big Four, the
533 miles being covered in twenty-four
hours and ten minutes.
The Joint Traffic Association manag gers
will this week take up the application of
the Wabash and the Big Four for relief
against the passenger traffic connections of
the Toledo. ST. Louis & Kansas City as
10 the cut-rate business east-bound carried
by the connecting lines that are members
of the Joint Traffic Association.
The Board OF Public Works will soon be
given opportunity to act on arranging for
an entrance of the Indianapolis, Logans-
port q Chicago through the city to a con-
nection with the Union tracks. IL is stated
that everything Is now ready to move IN
this enterprise. the arrangements to raise
money to build the road having been per-
fected.
The Tippecanoe Club, of Cleveland. on
Sunday was hauled from Bellefontaine to
indianapolis over the Bee line division, 142
miles. In two hours and fifty-eight minutes,
making five stops The eighty-four and six
tenths miles from Union City to stand
still in the Union Station at Indianapolis
was run in ninety-three minutes, making
two stops.
c. L. Schaff. general manager. and J;
O. Van Wrinkle. general superintendent of
the Big Four. will to-day meet in this city
a committee of engineers TO consider an
adjustment of wages. Some OF the engi-
neers claim that on some divisions the en-
gineers are not receiving as much pay.
proportionately. as on others, and they ask
for an adjustment
proposition is now under consideration
to abandon both the Western trunk line
pool and the Western Freight Association,
and in their place form an organization
similar TO the Eastern Joint Traffic Asso-
roads will be under the absolute control
of a board of managers composed of a
traff1c official of each of the lines inter
ested.
The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton will
next SUNDAY put in effect its new fast
time schedule between Cincinnati and De-
troit in connection with the Michigan Gen.
| eight hours and fifty-two minutes. Cincin-
natl 10 Detroit. under the new schedule will
be six hours and thirty minutes. Some in
terest is shown as to whether the Big Four
and the Toledo & Ohio Central will meet
this fast time.
Train 20 over the Pennsylvania lines is
credited with being the best paying train
run across the country from west to east.
When ii leaves Indianapolis ii usually has
nine cars often ten. When = leaves Colum-
bus it has nineteen cars and is run in two
sections to Jersey City. The first section
consists of two mail cars. one express car.
one baggage car a combination car and
two day coaches. The second section is
made UP of eight to nine sleeping cars and
a dining car additional from Pittsburg TO
Jersey City
The statement has been made that cer-
| tain roads the PENNSYLVANIA among the
| that they are not allowed to belong TO any
| secret order This is denied by railroad
| men who are alleged to have been OF that
| number. A Pennsylvania official says the
| company always insisted that its men
| should be recognized for their real merits
alone and that If a man was negligent. in
| competent or in any way unnt 10 hold q
position on the road 10 secret order that
| he might belong to could save him from
| being discharged. 1t was the policy of the
| company TO hold on to good men regard
| less OF their political. religious or socia
| affiliations and even IL man had no re.
| licfon at all his merits would be recognized
| ali the same If IL was proven 10 the sat
| isfaction of the general officers that PRO
| motion had been made in manner no
| consistent with the rules OF discipline the
| matter would be inquired into at once and
| Justice would be done regardless or any OF
| all secret orders.
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