The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-07-03

1t a large territory in the northwest TO draw
business from.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The fast mail service from St. Louis TO
Mexico VIII be inaugurated tomorrow.
NJ Barkely, chief mileage clerk of the
Big -Four for many years, is thought TO
be fatally ill.,
Stuvestant Fish, president of the Illinois
Central. says the backbone of the business
depression IS broken.
j. F. Cleveland has been appointed land
commissioner OF the Chicago d North
western, vice {. L. Simmons, resigned.
Twice in the last week the depot of the
Big Four at JonesborO, Ind, has been bur
glarlzed, In neither case did the burglars
get much booty.
The Pennsylvania. in connection with the
Nandalia, will run an excursion tomorrow
to Lake Maxinkuckee via Logansport, at
81 for the round trip
There were handled on the Big Four sys-
tenn in June l25,1S6 loaded cars, which was
:, rs more cars than were handled on the
lines in June last year.
j. r. Cavanagh, superintendent of car
service Of the Big Four goes to Eagle
lake to spend the fourth with his family,
who are summering there.
William Carey. one of the veteran con-
ductorS on the Penns ylVania lines, has re-
signed. OF late he has been running on
the Erie q Pittsburg division.
1t is stated that Samuel Felton, president
and receiver Of the Queen & Crescent lines,
presidency of the Lehigh Valley.
The Monon will on July 10, run a 81
round-trip excursion Indianapolis to Chi
cago, tickets good on any train going
Saturday and returning Sunday night.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton will
on July begin operating the Home-avenue
K4ailroad at Dayton extending from tie
Union Station to the Soldiers Home.
The Erie will put on a fast train out of
Cincinnati especially to accommodate its
Chautauqua lake business, which is now
quite heavy, and viii be for some weeks TO
come.
Business has so improved that the Penn
sylvania Company has instructed its sta
ton agents to give more attention to the
identifying of the grounds about the sta
tions.
On several of their fast trains the Big
Four on Sunday will inaugurate serving
regular meals on their dining cars. Passen-
gers can then have a light lunch or 81
meal.
The mechanical department of the Erie
is astonished at the economical results in
the consumption of coal which the i'm
is showing
Grand Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers says there is no
truth in the report that the engineers on
the Delaware q Hudson have under con-
temptation striking on July T.
The management of the Columbus &
Hooking Valley has taken advantage of the
low price for rails, has laid already forty
twenty more in the next sixty days.
The Baltimore & Ohio relief department
report for June. just compiled, shows the
men in healthier condition than for many
years, and only twenty-sx sick men were
carried over from June to this month.
1t is stated that the fast freight service
the Panhandle is giving east bound has
been the real cause of the roads large in
crease in east-bound business of late from
Western points, more especially Chicago.
In the month of June there were handled
on the Big Four system 496,946 passengers.
The decrease as compared with June, 1896,
of 2S,989, was wholly in local business,
through business exceeding in volume that
of June, 1896.
There were handled at the city freight
depots of the Pennsylvania lines in June
Al. 1876, no pounds of freight, representing A.
GAS cars against 35,37936S pounds in May,
representing 1864 cars The increase was
largely in local business.
D. w. Caldwell, president of the Lake
Shore road was in Columbus on Wednes-
day and was handsomely entertained by
number of the business men OF the city
who are warm friends of Mr.. Caldwell
when he was located there.
The free reclining chair cars which the
Wabash has put on its new line to run
between Chicago and Buffalo and New
York have crea,sd quite a breeze as it
was the first road to Introduce this feature,
and Eastern lines are opposed to 1t.
For the month of June the amount of
excess baggage money taken at the depot
of the Big -Four Company in Wabash was
1928 the largest receipts from this source
the station ever collected, and it is taken
as evidence that business is reviving, so
busy are the travelling statesmen.
The long runs for the locomotives On the
Big Four which haul the express trains are
arranged now as follows Cincinnati to
Kankakee, $50 miles: Indianapolis to Cleve-
land, 2SS miles; Cincinnati to Cleve!iaand, 26S
niles Indianapolis 70 ~ I Louis 700 miles,
The Youngstown Bridge Company has
just completed a steel freight car for the
Pittsburg e. Lake Erie and if the test
proves satisfactory large number will be
built. They are constructed entirely of
steel, no wood being used The car weighs
$4,000 pounds and has 100000 pounds carry
ing capacity.
The 500 line has entered into the fight
over the Elks business to st. Paul. 1t an
nounced yesterday that on business from
Michigan via Manistee or via Mackinaw
and Trout lake it Will participate in rates
where the difference in rates regularly con-
structed for this occasion is maintained
against any rates that are applied via Chi
cago
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul 4-per-cent.
gold bonds to the amount of 81, ATS 600 addi-
tional were yesterday listed on the New
York Stock Exchange, making Iaa l a total of
this stock up to date of $40 ASS, 600 Certih-
Gates of deposit for the Duluth & Manitoba
first mortgage bonds have been stricken
from the list. They are held entirely by the
Northern Pacific Railway.
t. c. Wells, representing the passenger
department of the Chesapeake & Ohio, is in
the city. He thinks it will require two sec
lions of the special train TO carry those
who will avail themselves of the $12 round
trip rate from Cincinnati to Atlantic City
on July S. The round-trip rate from In
dianapolis is $13 and palace sleeping car
will connect with these trains, leaving In
dianapolis over the Big Four at a. m.
Unless the spoilers on the Panhandle
make better cases than they have thus far
it would be more just to have the spotter
reported than the passenger conductors
one conductor, it is stated, was reported
for knocking down. as it is termed, and
with the company he ran no train, it being
his day off. In another case the conductor
was reported as smoking when on his train
and the conductor had not smoked a cigar
for many months and had quit the practice
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul yes
terday made a report of the action it has
taken toward clearing the market of the
tickets it issued from ST Paul and Mime
apoliS TO the Atlantic Seaboard TO compete
with the rates made by the 500 line. The
issued, of which 1865 have been redeemed,
the others finding their way into the hands
of purchasers. None of the return portions
of the tickets have turned up yet, and
tariff rates when they put in an appear
ance
William Garstang, superintendent of mo-
tive power and of the rolling stock of the
Big -Four, has had printed and distributed
the new rules of the company concerning
passenger equipment The Big Four was
the first railway to conform to the plan of
the State Board of Health and diSinfeCt
its cars. The notices have been sent to
every railway in the State when lay down
rules of sanitation and a cleansing process
by the new agent formaldehyde. One of
the rules adopted by the Big Four requires
that the seat arm rests be thoroughly
cleansed on each trip of one hundred miles.