The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-12

the gas belt territory of late. The Big
-Four is again running freight trains on
It's Michigan division in two or three Sec
lions.
dusky & Hooking Valley, 10 relieve the
anXiey of the employees, yesterday started
The, pay car over the line, paying the rolls
of May.
The Toledo, ST. Louis & Kansas City
earned in the first week of June $40,739.51, an
Increase over the corresponding Week or
1895 of S85l07. Since July l an increase OF
$2l9 1908 is shown.
John Turner. district passenger agent of
the Northern Pacific. with headquarters at
Indianapolis, was last evening called to Mil
ford, o. to bury his father, who died yes
terday, aged eighty-one years.
1t is stated that there is not an important
place on the Michigan division of the Big
-Four which is not showing an increase In
tonnage of freights in and outbound over
the corresponding period last year.
The Christian Endeavor rate from Indian
apoliS to San Francisco $3.50 is the lowest
ever given to the Pacific coast For the
midwinter fair at San Francisco the rate
was dropped to $56 but the Christian En-
deavor rate is not cent mile.
The Big Four will on Sunday next run an
excursion to indianapolis over the Chicago
division from Sheldon and points this side;
also, 81 round-trip excursion from IN
dianapolis to Cincinnati and one to Louis
vile from points on the Michigan division
Coke Alexander has resigned as district
passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific to
take the position of general agent of the
Louisville, Henderson x St. Louis and agent
of the Cumberland Gap Dispatch, with
headquarters at Evansville, Ind. The resig-
nation takes effect June 80.
The receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio
will to-day ask the court for permission
to issue additional certificates. The apph-
cation, it is stated, will precipitate legal
fight, as the Mercantile Trust and Deposit
Company is opposed to the issue, as are
j. z. Morgan q Co, of New York.
All the roads in the Central Passenger
Committee have voted in the affirmative on
the proposition to create q mileage bureau,
the same to begin operations July l, Chair
man Donald to have charge of it's opera
tons. The new 1,000-mie book will sell at
$50, with $40 rebate when the mileage is
used.
The Wabash Railroad Company is de-
PENDANT in a suit at Delphi for $4,000 dam
ages, brought against it by the relatives of
Henry Oregon, who was in 1898 on an ex
Cursion train and as the coaches were
crowded, he climbed to the roof of a car
and was knocked off and accidentally
killed.
The announcement that the Wabash, in
it's track lease over the Grand Trunk, is to
handle business for local points as well as
passenger fraternity, as it indicates that
the rights the Wabash has secured over the
Grand Trunk are much more important
than at first supposed.
Col. Frank Hugh of Roanoke, Va SUI
perintendent of transportation of the Nor
folk & Western Railway, died suddenly at
apopleXy. Colonel Hugh was one of the
Oldest officers of the road. He served with
distinction as colonel in the Cenfederacy
during the late war. He was sixty years Of
age.
The situation between the Chicago-St.
Paul lines has become so serious that a
call has been issued for a meeting of the
executive officers to be held at Chicago on
next Monday. One of the methods of adj
justment that will be considered at the
meeting is allowing a differential to the
w
ages.
The concert given by the band of the
Monon shops at Lafayette, on Wednesday
night, drew a large crowd and was a sue
cess. 1t is suggested that it would be a
good idea for Frank Reed, general pas
senger agent to send this band around CIV
ing concerts at such points as Indianapolis,
New Albany and Louisville. Lafayette
people are loud in their praise of the band.
The board of managers of the Joint Traf-
fc Association have approved of special
fares to the Republican state convention at
Toledo, o., June 22-23; the Democratic state
convention at Columbus, O., June 29-3O; the
Ohio state camp meeting at Mount Yer
non, Aug. 1913; the centennial anniversary
of the city of Steubenville, o., Aug. 24-25;
the Ohio state fair and industrial exposi-
the Veteran Union and Womans Relief
Union, at Urbana, Oct. 1921.
The industrial department of the Sea-
board Airline has adopted a unique plan
for stimulating good husbandry in its terri
tory. The company is fitting up train of
cars for the purpose of conducting travel
ing industrial training school They will
employ experts in canning, preserving, pick
ling, butter and cheese making-in brief,
will have experts to teach people how to
save every farm product, and will make
exhibits of agricultural machinery and
household conVeniences, so that the people
along the road may learn of the advantages
gained by using improved implements. They
will have in operation machinery for the
Improvement of country roads, and have
through which the line passes see the i'm
provements that can be made on the roads
by the use of machinery. The Sea board
Airline bears the expense of maintaining
this enterprise, not even asking the manu-
facturer who exhibits his machines to pay
freight on what he exhibits.