The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11

ton, being $40 cents for 1896, against .561
for 1895, aginst .572 in 1894 and .5S7 cents in
f. P. Turner, who has been appointed
general passenger agent of the Texas &
Pacific, has been with that road eighteen
years, commencing as city ticket agent at
Dallas.
w. II. Rosevear. of Montreal, car service
superintendent Of the Grand Trunk, is in
the city seeking information as TO the man
ner the car service of the Big Four is
operated.
Commissioner Blanchard has granted the
requests OF the Central Passenger Associa-
ita for the round trip to the Junior o. u.
a. NJ, at P~ittsburg, Pa, June 16.
John Dwyer, commercial agent of the
Chicago, Burlington q Quincy, died on Sat-
the lines in western Nebraska and northern
Kansas, Beatrice being his headquarters.
1t is now stated that T. c.. Purdy, who re-
Gently retired as president of the Missouri,
Of some of the owners of the property being
dissatisfied with the manner in which mat
ters were drifting.
The Big Four and the Chesapeake & Ohio
Will next month run q special train from
Chicago to Old Point Comfort to carry the
master car builders and master mechanics
who viii attend the annual conventions to
be held at that place. The special train
Will leave Chicago at l p. M, June b.
Oscar Murray, receiver, is at the bottom
of the move by which the Baltimore * ONO
gets extensive dock room at Milwaukee Tor
its lake line via Fairport. AT Milwaukee
the company gets two large warehouses,
enc 800 feet long by 200 feet wide; the other,
on the Menominee river, has a wareroom
325 feet long by so wide.
President ingalls,, OF the Chesapeake &
Ohio and the Big Four, is expected to be
present at the meeting of presidents of
roads in the Joint Traffic Association in
New York on Friday, which will probably
be the last meeting before Mr.. Depew, pres
ident of the New York Central and OF the
association, goes abroad.
job Scott, travelling passenger agent of
the Baltimore d Ohio Southwestern, was in
the city yesterday. He states that III the
last two weeks there has been a marked
Improvement in their passenger business.
The damage from the flood a few weeks
ago have all been repaired and there are
no slow orders against trains between st.
Louis and Cincinnati.
The large Schenectady engines on the Van
dalia arc making remarkable records OF
speed in hauling the fast express trains.
said: on our fast time, with. Trains 20
and q, we seldom make a trip without haV-
ing to run slow to be on schedule between
stations" He spoke strongly in favor of
the long runs for these engines.
One of the striking features of passenger
business on the Big -Four for the month
OF April, as to earnings, was that It's
through business was about 80 per cent. in
excess of April, 1896, while it's local bust
ness was about per cent. less. The I'M
favorble local exhibit is doubtless due to
NALC A0A - ~ S&AAN - ~ ~ 1870
now rides on mileage books or exchange
tickets.
The passenger department of the Erie
lines has issued a booklet on streams and
lakes on their line. 1t gives the distances
in tabulated form, the varieties OF fish
caught, the cost of boats and all other
needed information. Many of the streams
described have been stocked by the United
States Fish Commission, and the company
sees that the fish get proper protection in
the closed season.
1u,1 T-J;cno DoAo&,,z q ECocrA1Y1 W q n a 90
ment has asked that with the publishing
of it's next time schedule the through train
between Chicago and Cincinnati via Roach
dale, be placed on the schedule. 1t being
a connecting train of the Cincinnati, HAM
ilton x Dayton and the Monon betWeen
Indianapolis and Roachdale, it has not
been scheduled, although daily running
faster h any road in the country over
the thirty-eight miles.
Commissioner Blanchard, of the Joint
Traffic Association, has written seven arti-
cles on railway pooling, the article appear
ing in the Journal yesterday being the first
of the number. The succeeding papers, VIII
be on Competition Compared;' q third,
The, Interstate-commerGe Act y, the
fourth, What Railway Pools Are|' the
fifth, Railway Claims to Legal Relief
seventh, Foreign Railway Rates and
Pools"
The following changes and appointments
are announced by the Grand Trunk: r.
Paterson is appointed master mechanic of
the Western division, with headquarters
at Fort Gratiot, Mich, vice FL. Robert, re-
tired; J. A. Slack, assistant master me-
chanic, Battle Creek, Mich, caves the
service, and the office is abolished. FL. Ben
nett, car foreman at Detroit, has been
placed in charge of freight as We'll as the
passenger car repairs, vice w. WanlesS,
assigned to other duties.
From a reliable source it is learned that
the change in programme by which John
Chesborough continues as general passen-
ger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio South
western was brought about pm the advice
of Oscar Murray, receiver of the Baltimore
q Ohio, who. while being a warm personal
friend for Mr.. Chesborough, acted some
what on the suggestion of ID. +. Martin,
manager of passenger traffic of the Balti-
more & Ohio, who knows Chesborough',s
ability as well as any passenger man in
the country,
1t became known yesterday that the Joint
Traffic Association, under date of Saturday
last, sent out a circular letter which in eff
feet virtually abrogates all existing rates
between New York and New Orleans. The
circular was intended to be confidential,
no little perturbation when they learned
that It had become public. They would not
discuss the significance Of the circular,
which has already excited considerable in
terest in railroad circles.
The Kansas City & Northern Railway
last week let the contract for the laying
of the rails between Pattonsburg and Tren-
tablish a new line between Quincy and
Omaha. Recent events have demonstrated
that the late II. 3. Hammond, when Presi-
dent of the Indiana, Decatur IL Western,
was right when he predicted that Quincy
was to become an important railroad CEN
extend the Indiana, Decatur & Western
tO that point.