The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-02

Dor and between Chicago and Louisville.
both new departures in train service.
The sleeping car which has been run be-
tween Cincinnati and Peoria over the Big
-Four and the Peoria & Eastern will here
after be run only between Indianapolis and
Peoria over the Peoria & Eastern, leaving
at 11:10 p. m.
The thirteenth annual meeting of the Old
Reliable Conductors Association will con-
yene to-day at Columbus. O. The associa-
ton has an insurance feature and is COM
posed exclusively of trainmasters conduc-
tors and yardmasters.
Chicago merchants are following in the
example of New York merchants by de-
mandlng of the lines running into Chicago
that they give reduced rates TO their coun-
try customers who visit Chicago TO buy
goods in the spring and fall
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois is running
its shops TO their full capacity. In the car
department workmen are equipplng hum
dreds of coal cars with automatic couplers
and air brakes, and the power is being
brought up to the highest standard.
Ten days ago the running time of Train
20, between st. Louis and Indianapolis, over
the Vandalia, although very fast was
time is readily made, although the train
consists Of eight cars, including three sleep
ers.
To-day Frank Wilson, chief clerk of j.
Q. Van Wrinkle, general superintendent of
the Big Four. will be married at Lafayette
to Mrs. Lillian Arthur. The bride is the
only daughter of H. II. Lancaster, general
agent of the American Express at La
fayette
B. Sipp. superintendent of the White
water division of the Big Four, was in the
city yesterday. He states that on sunday
last this road carried to Whitewater Park
over 1850 people and the park is engaged
for large excursions every Sunday until
Aug. l.
]. d. Moore, who left Kansas City on
Monday to take the position of superintend-
dent of the Iron Mountain Railway at Lit
tie Rock, Ark. was, just before leaving,
presented by his late associates on the Mis-
souri, Pacific with an elegant gold watch
and chain.
The general manager of the Pennsylvania
denies the report that the company will
adopt electricity generally as a motive
power on its lines, either the third rail or
trolley system. The company's trolley line
from Mount Holly to Burlington continues
in successful operation.
George T. Gunnip, general agent of the
passenger department of the Santa Fe lines,
was in the city yesterday. The new time time
schedule on the Santa Fe went into effect
on Sunday. The run from Chicago TO the
Pacific coast is made fifteen hours quicker
than under any former schedule.
Opposition to the reorganization of the
Peoria, Decatur & Evansville has mani
tested itself, the first mortgage bondholders
not being disposed to have the interest on
their bonds scaled down. This may lead to
a foreclosure sale of the road and its being
bid in by the first mortgage bondholders.
Charles Rockwell general traffic manager
of the G., l. l.. and ID. q; Ed WARDS
passenger tra1flc manager OF the OluCln-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton lines, will be in
the city to-day to arrange for remodeing
their outside ticket office and to consider
matters in relation to the joint train serV-
ice.
S. NJ. Hice, city passenger agent at In
dianapols, has been appointed travelling
passenger agent of the Big Four route at
Cairo, ILL.,, in charge of the Cairo division OF
the company and contiguous territory. Mr..
Hice succeeds c. l. Hilleary, promoted to
district passenger agent, with headquarters
at Columbus.
John P. Ramsey, formerly engineer OF
maintenance of way on the Indianapolis
division of the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Day
ton, now general manager of the Rio
Grande Sierra Madre q Pacific, writes
friend that he has 115 miles of new road
under construction which Will be ready 10
run trains over by July 10.
Train 81, between Chicago and Baltimore,
over the Monon, the Cincinnati Hamilton
& Dayton and the Baltimore q Ohio lines,
put on few months ago. 1t is stated mas
true between Chicago and Cincinnati.
Through day coaches as well as sleeping
cars are now hauled on this train.
Citizens of Lafayette are renewing their
efforts TO induce the Big Four and the Lake
Erie & Western to build a new passenger
station at that point. A gentleman who UNI
derStandS the situation says that whenever
a step is taken in that direction the Wa
bash and the Monon should be included as
all have inferior passenger stations at that
city.
for the month of April were $685. an in
crease of SOS, $3.50 over the same month of
last year, when there was deficit of $1ol,-
933 in the net earnings From the peglnnlng
of the year to April 80 the net earnings of
the road were $92S671, an increase OF $S92,-
395 over the same period of the preceding
fiscal year
Yesterday was one of the dates selected
by the Western roads for the running of
their homeseekers excursions, but the eX-
cursion was a fiat failure, as there was
practically no additional business done.
The fact that tickets could be bought TO
any place in the West at the rate of one
fare for the round trip, Plus ~, ndu not the
slightest effect on the traffic
The Peoria g. Eastern has just completed
at its shops, in Urbana Ill., steam DER
rick which will raise readily ooVVO POUNDS,
and it is so constructed that the car can
be propelled at speed OF ten miles an
hour by its own engine: OF course, When
locomotive but can be handled readily by
its own propeling power When on the
ground.
A special train yesterday passed over the
the medical men Of the Northwest to Phila-
delphia to attend the tiftfeth meeting or
the American Medical Association. The
special train carried 126 physicians and
surgeons and consisted of eight Pullman
cars, a dining and baggage car 1t is ex-
pected that 1000 delegates Will be IN at
tendance at this convention
The annual meeting of the Chicago q
Western Indiana road was held in Chicago
Yesterday and all of the old officers were
reelected The only change in the board OF
directors was that E. p. Ripley, president
of the Atchison road, was elected In the
place of D. B. Robinson, the former presi-
dent of the Atchison, who is now the presi-
dent of the st. Louis ~ san FRANCISCO Inc
regular quarterly dividend of Ia per cent.
was declared.
A corps of surveyors yesterday morning
commenced the work of running a line for
the extension of the Findlay, Fort Wayne
& Western Railroad eastward from Find
Law O. The objective point is not dlVulged,
hit il is supposed the line Will extend
through Ohio and make connection near the
Penns ylyania line with a trunk line TO the
seaboard The survey west from Fort
Wayrne 70 a connection with the Illinois
Central at Kankakee, H., has just been
completed.
The first time Oscar Murray made an IN
snection trip over the Baltimore OHIO
after holding an official position on 1t ne
said he noted seven curves in West Virginia
which had given the ROAD the name WIN
travelling statesmen of the Pretzel route. He
decided that the track must be Strengthened
and on June 10 trains, instead OF going over
these sharp reverse curves, VIII pass over
an airline track laid by cutting through
the mountains. 1t has been an expensive
work. yet in the after years VIII De seen 10
have been q wise Improvement.
Vice presidents and general managers of
most of the lines composing the Southwest
ern Traffic Association met at St Louis
Yesterday to perfect a reorganization. OW-
ing to the misrepresentation or the South-
ern Pacific and one other company IL was
found to be impracticable TO proceed with
The reorea nization and the meeting adj
iourned to the Auditorium Hotel, chicago,
Iune Chairman Day, having resigned to
become general manager of the Minneapolis
& st. Louis Railroad, II was deciaed 10