The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-30

roads. has resigned the position to take ef-
feet July !, and the resignation has been
accepted.
The managers Of the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation have fixed number OF speclaII
fares, including the following: National
meeting, League of American Wheelmen.
tional Educational Association, Milwaukee,
July SO; sugar beet farmers convention,
grand encampment, Elyria, o.. July 1918.
and special excursions TO Chautauqua
camp meeting at Mountain Lake Park, Nd,
Aug. 4-24.
John Trindle now ranks as the oldest man
in time of service on the Vandaia lines.
He commented as q section hand IN 1927;
after one year he was promoted to freight
brakeman; then to freight conductor, then
baggaCemaster at Terre Haute, then local
freight agent, and for the last seventeen
years has run as a passenger conductor on
the fastest train run on the road, and dur
Ing his long service, like John wise, an
other veteran in the Vandalia service he
has never been reprimanded for any cause.
The Central Trust Company will on and
after July deliver TO holders of receipts
for Louisville, New Albany & Chicago pre-
ferred and common stock assessment paid,
the new securities to which they are en-
titled. On the same date there will be de-
livered to holders of certificates for Louis
new refunded bonds of the Chicago Indian
apols & Louisville Railway Company, in
accordance with the bondholders agree
ment of Oct. 6, 1896, and modification of
Nov. 10, 1896.
For some years the Big -Four and the Gin
clnnat, Hamilton & Dayton have been rum
ming six trains each way between Indianap-
Oils and Cincinnati, making twelve trains
for each road daily between these points.
One of the companies made proposition to
the other that they have friendly confer
ence and undertake to cut the service down
to four trains each way daily over the re-
spective lines, but at the conference the
officials Of the two lines Were unable to
agree as to what trains should be discon-
tinued, and the matter has been dropped.
Neither the Pennsylvania Company nor
the Cincinnati, Hamilton 81 Dayton will
rest until their passenger stations are
nearer the center of Cincinnati, and when
prosperous times come to the railways, as
they viii at no distant day, both companies
will carry out plans of improvement which
the directories of these roads planned ten
years ago. Both roads are at a disadvan-
tage in the way of easy access to passen-
ger stations and the projects of former
I years in that direction, says man well In
formed, will sooner or later be carried out.
President Miller, of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul, has no intention of resign
York to the effect that he intends to and
that Mr.. Edward Winter will succeed him,
are without the least foundation in fact.
1t is learned that Mr.. Miller, who is now
nearly fully recovered from his illness Of
last winter, is spending the summer at his
cottage in the Adirondack mountains with
his family and the sojourn there is as much
for the benefit of his young son as for Mr..
Miller himself. The former is just recov-
ering from a serious illness.
The board of control of the Joint Traf-
fic Association held a special meeting in
New York yesterday. All the roads in the
association. save one-the Ontario & West
ern-were represented. President and Re-
ceiver J. K. Cowen, of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad, acted as chairman, in the
absence of President Chauncey NJ. DepeW,
who is abroad. After the transaction of
routine matters the question of restoring
and maintaining east-bound rates was
taken up. This subject, it is said, will be
settled satisfactorily at the meeting which
will be continued to-day. A leading official
of the board declared that there is a gem
eral disposition to settle the rate question
for good and all and that the present state
of affairs indicates that this will be done.
1t is not believed the railroads will ben
eft to any degree through the granting of
low fares to country buyers who visit New
York or any other city, as cheap railroad
rates do not increase consumption. Not an
additional pound of freight viii be offered
in consequence of the reduced rates. 1t
would tend to reduce the number of travel
ing statesmen, who pay better rates. as the
goods they would sell will be purchased by
the merchant himself TT looks to me"
said a local travelling salesman, like
move to do away with drummers.' Fol
lowing New York and Chicago in this direc-
ton, the merchants of Boston are looking
into the matter, with a view to asking ia
Vors of the lines running into that city
and it looks as If it was an injurious con-
cession on the part of the roads to carry
merchants to the business centers in certain
months of the year at reduced rates