The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-30

ness to- other lines at Chicago. Mr.. Astor
and his party left Findlay last evening IN
from there will proceed to kankakee, ILL.,,
getting as close to the surveyed line as
possible.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Monon yesterday placed on sale the
INTERCHANGEABLE mileage book, becoming
full fiedged member of the agreement.
Barney, Smith & Co. are building one
capacity. for the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton
Train 6, on the Panhandle, is the heaviest
train that leaves Pittsburg, and has been
run of late in two sections, one With nine
the other with eight cars.
The Michigan Central has contracted with
the Michigan Peninsular car works for 100
more box cars of the same pattern or the
$50 recently delivered to that road
The passenger department of the Illinois
Central has issued new folder, which, Tor
convenience in ascertaining the time OF
trains, could not well be excelled.
George E. Allen, late railroad editor of
the Buffalo Courier, and a well-knoWn ex-
traffic official, has established in New York
a railway news and information bureau.
NJ E. ingalls,, president of the Big -Four,
and James McCrea, vice president or the
Pennsylvania Company, are in Chicago TO
attend a meeting to be held there to-day.
r. B. Joens, general agent of the Chicago
& Rock Island, is in the city on olnclal
business. lie says the BUSINESS VI THESE
lines continues to be limited by the cars
which can be commanded.
The Haskell & Barker car works will, on
Dec 1, begin the building of l,5UO box cars
for the Illinois Central. THESE WORKS ere
now employing the largest NUMBER OF men
at any time since beginning operations.
Chairman Donald, of the Central Passen--
ger Traffic Association, yesterday sent out
circulars authorizing the roads IN the as
ISOLATION to make a rate OF fare ana one
third for the round trip for holiday travel.
The Big Four in not stopping Train So. in
the morning, east bound, over the Bee-nne
division, is inconvenenlcing g6o Tnl many
mornings is 1t announcement Tor traVelng
statesmen.
H. N Miller, a supervisor on the Penn
sylNania lines, is a weekly contributor to
the Roadmaster and Foreman, published IN
Chicago, and shows himself to be very
instructive writer on the subject OF mantle
nance of way.
stop at the new station established at the
Belt road junction. This will prove quite
a convenience for people in the northeast
ern part of the city who wish to take
Monon trains.
Directors of the Chicago & West Michi-
gan road have decided that coupons of the
5-per-cent bonds, due Dec. ]. be paid $2O
in cash and s. in ten-year coupon scrip,
instead of cash and scrip in equal amounts,
as was the case last year.
Col W. H. Blodgett, for thirty years
ticket agent OF the GncdSO N NOIlHWeSI-
tired on a pension He was the oldest en-
ploye on the road in time of service, COM
mencng as brakeman in 1850
Some of the passenger officials think that
the Sebastian form of ticket, adopted by
the Western Passenger Association, is SO
popular that the Central Traffic Associa-
ton may yet abandon its interchangeable
mileage ticket and adopt the Sebastian.
If the weather the next eight weeks is
favorable to railroad construction the Co
lumbus & Northwestern will have its trains
running from Columbus to Lima, via Belle
fontaine. The contractors have advertised
for two hundred more teams, purposing to
push the work.
A special train on the Big Four on Sum
day, carrying a theatrical troupe, made the
run from Indianapolis to Chicago in four
hours and fifteen minutes, making seven
stops for water and to meet other trains
1t is claimed the distance was covered in
three hours and forty-SeVen minutes, actual
running time.
j. X. Cavanagh, car service superintend-
ent of the Big -Four. yesterday inaugurated
the holding of a conference Of thirty min
utes with the fifty or more men employed
in the car service bureau once month, to
hear suggestions that any person in that de-
partment may offer which will simplify or
improve the system of work.
The Railway Passenger and Freight Con-
ductors' Mutual Aid and Benefit Associa-
elected as officers: J. c. McColl, of the
Rock Island, president w. H. Clark, of the
Michigan. Central, vice president; John B.
Witty, of Indianapolis second vice presi-
dent and H. M. Mounts, of this city, Sec
rotary and treasurer.
e. O. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four lines, yesterday is
sued a circular announcing that he Big
Four would make a one-cent rate from all
points on its system to Indianapolis on the
occasion of the Knights of Pythias Grand
Encampment next August, and a one-cent-
rate TO the Grand Army of the Republic
Encampment at Cincinnati few days later.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul Rail-
road announced yesterday a seven-dollar
into effect Dec. l. The Wisconsin Central
and the Chicago & Northwestern roads
S4.5l A meeting of the Western Passenger
Association is called for this week in Chi
cago to try TO restore rates.
East bound freight shipments from Chi
cage for the week ending Nov. % amounted
to 1861 tons against 479Ol the previous
week and 6l,S66 last year, divided among
the differrentr roads as follows: Michigan Mic ge
bash, 4045; Lake Shore, 5,2l3; Fort Wayne,
6149; Baltimore G. Ohio, 2,076; Grand Trunk,
SlS2; Nickel-plate, S,5O9; Erie, 1872; Big
Four, 3,065. The lake lines carried 106, 682
tons.
The trackage agreement between the Erie
and the Falls Brook road was a master
stroke on the part of the Erie people 1t
the Philadelphia & Readings westward
traffic, particularly of anthracite coal,
Wnlch mas htherto Deen carried over the
Lehigh Valley The Erie uses the Falls
Brook tracks only between Corning and
Newberry Junction, where connection is
made with the Reading road.
A meeting of the executive committee of
the Western Passenger Association has
been called for at Chicago on Thursday
of this week. There is a long docket up
for consideration, and although many of the
matters are of a routine nature, they are
Of considerable Importance. The chief mat
tiers that will be before the meeting are
rates changes n
paying commissions, sleeping car rates
standard and tourist, for reduced rate meet
ings and greater fines in the local associa-
tons.
A railway superintendent yesterday re-
marked that September, October and the
month closing to-day had been the most
prosperous months for Indianapolis lines in
many years with an unparalleled exemp-
ton from accidents He did not think there
had ever been three months in which trains
had been moved with more promptness