The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-23

week of sxty-five loaded cars.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton han
died last week at Indianapolis $40 cars. beb
being loaded. an increase over the preced-
ing week or fifty loaded cars.
The four Pennsylvania lines handled at
Indianapolis in the week ending NOV N0v, ~ -
5,413 cars, SOL being loaded. an increase
over the preceding week Of 500 loaded cars.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
James A. Davis has been appointed in
dustrial commissioner of the Santa he, his
HEADQUARTERS TO be Chicago.
Grand Chief Wilkinson, of the Order or
Trainmen, is visiting the lodges along the
lines Of the Pennsylvania system.
On Saturday Train Z, on the Panhandle,
left Pittsburg in two section and the Sec
ond section hauled nine cars of express
matter.
The Des Moines Northern & Western has
agreed to act in harmony with the Western
Passenger Association, although not
member.
1t is stated. seemingly officially. that the
boycott of the Toledo. ST. Louis IL Kansas
City by the. Joint Traffic Association lines
has quietly been dropped.
The Chicago Great Western expects TO
open for business its new line to Mantor-
vile, Mimi. Dec l. II is oranch from
the main line and promises TO be valuable
feeder.
The Mexican Central has leased the Mon
terey & Mexican Gulf road for long term
of years. and will take charge on Jan. 1.
An extension of the road from Travini to
MaDimi Is under contemplation.
W. II. Young has been appointed travel
ing freight agent of the Lehigh Valley &
Wabash fast freight line, and viii he To-
Gated at Lafayette. Mr.. Young was form
erly with the Pennsylvania lines as solic-
iting agent.
John Mcconnell. one of the best-known
passenger conductors in the West, who has
been running on the Missouri, Kansas d
TEXAS the last ten years, was ourisd on
Friday at sedaiia, he dying from stroke
of apoplexy.
It has not been fully settled what amount
of freight the new Vandalia engines will
haul. as neither OF those which has been
| delivered has been fully tested, although
thew have hauled some very heavy trains
over the road.
On Friday the Northern Central a divi-
sion of the Pennsylvania lines, had stand
ing on sidetracks at Baltimore $500 cars
loaded with grain for export, and there
was neither elevator room nor steamships
in which to unload it.
1t is stated that every line except the
Lake Shore doing business out of Toledo
opposed the five-thousand-milei interchange
able mileage book. The Lake Shore has a
five-thousa nd mile book good on it's own
| and several other lines, now in use.
The Tennessee Central. projected from
Nashville 20 Knoxville. and but partially
built Is to be completed 1t now extends
| miles of the Cincinnati Southern, with
which 1T will connect at Knoxville.
The court has authorized the receivers of
the Wisconsin Central TO purchase one
thousand new cars and the contract has
been awarded to the Haskell & Barker car
works. at Michigan City, the purchase in
volving an expenditure Of s519. 442S0
In the last sixty days the Baltimore e.
| Ohio has promoted thirty-three fremen to
| be engineers. AS yet, the company has en-
ploved but two engineers who came to it
| from other roads prefering to promote
! their own men when they were competent
| There has been a break In ocean rates
| which for some time past were the highest
/ on grain In years. The freight rate on
wheat from Chicago to Liverpool on Satur-
| day was 16 $500 cents per bushel. against
| 1919 cents a week ago, decline OF s5-1OO
| cents.
1t is stated that George Fl. Graves SUI
| perntendent of the Indiana. Decatur &
Western now on a Notwithstanding trip. will
on his return be given supervision of the
| Cincinnati. Hamilton q Dayton terminals
at Indianapolis in addition to his present
| duties.
William Garstang, superintendent of mo-
| tive power of the Big Four. has returned
| from Philadelphia, where he went to at
| tend meeting of the executive committee
! of the Master Car Builders Association.
| The next convention will be held at Old
| Point Comfort In June.
Twenty of the new locomotives of the
Baltimore & Ohio are monsters weighing
eighty-fve tons each. and provided
| with 22x2s-inch cylinders. These engines
are used division which has an as
! cent of 1893 feet in seventeen miles. aver
/ aging III feet to the mile.
| The Wabash is a bidder for some of the
| passenger business between Fort Wayne
and Chicago. Through arrangement
! with the Erie II has established a fast line
| to Chicago via Huntington The distance is
l66 miles and is covered by fast train in
| four hours and twenty-five minutes.
| The second section of the new bridge of
| the Panhandle over the Ohio river is in
| position and the false work has been taxi
| en- away. leaving navigation free. There
| are three short spans yet to be erected.
which IL is believed will be accomplished
| so that the bridge can be used by Jcn. /.
The Joint Traffic Association has issued
/ a circular which makes effective Dec. ; the
| river and rail different!al rate authorized
by the board of managers, the water rate
not to exceed cents per one hundred
| pounds below the authorized all-rail rates
! to Eastern markets.
| At no point reached by the Pennsylvania
| lines has there been so much of an Increase
| Cleveland. Since Jan this road has hand
| led at that point 53153 loaded cars. The
Erie comes next with a 515. the Lake Shore
| third with 41.044. the Big Four next with
| S7.2l3 cars. The other lines fall consider
| ably below the above figures.
An official of the Big Four states that
until one makes a trip over the Cairo
! division of that system it is not possible to
/ understand what improvements nave been
made to the roadbed in the last four
years years When S6 the 3, Big Four our, took S it It'll, the
| could not run faster than twenty miles an
! hour: Now the track is well up. most of it
| DalaSteu. ana the trains OFTEN run
| at a speed of forty-five and fifty miles an
| hour with perfect safety.
| Jan. l. 1857, will put stop to many peo-
Dle travelling on passes. Commencing with
! Jan. ] no pass. neither time, trip or an
nual. will be issued to any railroad en-
| ploye without 1t comes through the general
| manager or general passenger agent Of the
| line with which the applicant is connected.
| Heretofore passes have been issued on an
| agents request. But this will all be stopped
| This rule takes effect with all hjIes vest
| of Chicago. Decatur and st. Louis. Ii is
| understood the lines in the Central Traffic
| Association will adopt the same rule.
| Much interest attaches to the report of
| the committee on uniform classification APP
| pointed by the national convention OF rail-
| road commissioners which has just been
| made public. The committee reports that
| one of the difficulties standing in the way
| of universal uniformity is the power of the
| ton for State shipments. They therefore
| refrain from expressing any opinion upon
| what basis classification should be made.
| excepting that two points should always be
| kept In mind: First. that equal Justice
| should be done all shippers and discrm-
| ination prevented in every rrn: seco, H.
| that the revenues of the companies should
| be preserved. so that money honestly and
| iudiciously invested will receive a proper
| return on investment.
The annual report of Edward r. Bacon
president of the Baltimore x Ohio South
| western, shows that in the year endine
| June 80 the road was operated on e6I4 PEI
| cent. OF its gross earnings. In closing his
| annual report MIR. Bacon says: 1T is hard
| ~ necessary to call your attention to the
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