The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-14


" T. Malott receiver Of the Vandalia
lines left last night for Chicago, where he
will join the Pennsylvania Railroad inspec-
ton party and will be with them for several
days
The Wabash is fitting up all its cars run
ming between the West and Buffalo with
steam heating apparatus, as the laws OF
New York prohibit the use of stoves and
fires on trains.
At the annual meeting of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton q Dayton stockholders on Tues
day the old board Of directors was re-
elected. No other business of Importance
was transacted.
Henry Fink. president of the Norfolk &
Western, denies the report that he has de-
clined to have his name go before the di-
president of the company.
The stockholders of the Indiana, Decatur
q Western, through Auditor Lishawa, who
terday elected as directors for three years
M. ID. Woodford, H. S. Green and II. b.
Balch
Through the depressed times the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton did not cut down
the pay of it's men in any department, and
the men appreciated it, as no road in this
G. II. Z B. RsSS Oe''s' WAGES" 'H'ii D0s' 'l-'
The sale of the eastern division of the
Kansas Pacific under foreclosure will take
place at Topeka, Nov. 8. The entire proper
ty, with lands, equipment and telegraph
lines, is to be sold in one parcel, and the
upset price is S., 800, 900.
G. E. Schaff, general manager of the Big
-Four, states that the company will begin
to receive it's new box cars from the Pull
man Company on Nov. 10, five hundred to
be delivered in that month and the other
five hundred in December.
Engine IA, on the Vandalia, has just come
out Of the shops at Terre Haute rebuilt
after the Schenectady type, and is a very
fast and powerful locomotive. 1t made its
first trip yesterday, hauling Train 20 from
st. Louis to Indianapolis on schedule time.
T., MaVnn
superintendent of the Fitchburg road. He
has been acting SUPERINTENDENT since the
resignation of w. d. Ewing. Mr.. Mayne was
once connected with tho Monon in official
position, and later with the Chicago & Erie.
The Toledo, ST Louis & Kansas City
earned, in the first week of this month,
$5l,3S5.70, an increase over the correspond
ing week of 1896 of $674.64. Since July l the
road has earned 1864 133. 33, an increase over
the corresponding period of 1896 of 500 %.
The American Association of Travelling
Passenger Agents closed it's annual session
at Nashville, Tenn, yesterday. Elliott T.
Monnette, of Chicago, was elected president
K. G. Cowardn, of st. Louis, vice president,
and Mr.. Landman, OF Columbus, o., secre-
tary.
The officials of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
q Dayton will next week begin the annual
inspection, which will occupy about ten
days. General Manager Waldo, General Su-
perintendent Turner and General Passenger
Traffic Manager Edwards will be with the
party.
SUNDAY
excursions may be formed from the fact
that for the recent excursion over the Bee
line division of the Big Four 5O4 tickets were
sold at Fortville to go to Benton Harbor,
and the inhabitants of the place number
but $40.
AS the Joint Traffic Association has de-
cided that the Wabash can continue to use
free chair cars on it's lines between the
West and Buffalo, probably its competitors
will now put on free chair cars between
Chicago and the eastern terminus of the
Wabash
w. c. Arp, superintendent of motive
power of the Vandalia is equipping all the
company's locomotives with the United
States or metal packing. 1t is claimed that
it will last a year, while hemp packing will
not last half as long, and the cost is about
the same.
A. l.. Craig, assistant general ticket agent
of the Northern Pacific with headquarters
states that in the last ninety days there
has been a very marked increase in pas
senger business on their lines, both through
and local.
With the taking effect of the fall-and-win-
ter time schedule on the Wabash, some
changes will be made in the train service
which will do away with the long hours
crews have to work under the present
schedule, over which there has been some
complaint
AS the ups and downs of the stock of the
be said that there are but a few thousand
shares on the market, and these says one
of the Big -Four officials, are the footballs
of spectators, and have no voice in the
control of the property
The engineer who was running the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton &. Dayton passenger en-
CINE last week, when wrecked within the
city limits, has been exonerated from all
blame it having been discovered that the
engine was thrown from the track by
broken hange on one of the driving wheels.
The through car running over the Monon,
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the
Baltimore d Ohio between Chicago and
Baltimore is doing paying business east
bound, but at the eastern end OF the line the
as good work as at Chicago and Indian
apolis.
A party of thirty-one hunters from points
on the d. & M. division of the G, II. q u.
Me-, via c., II. & d. and Canadian Pacific
lines. The tendency of the hunters to go to
Maine this year is largely brought about by
the high license which they are obliged to
pay in Wisconsin and other Northwestern
States.
The stockholders of the Erie Railway
Company, at their annual meeting on Tues
day reelected the old board OF directors
and the latter, in turn, reelected the old
corps of officers. The earnings OF the road
were reported very satisfactory and the
management of the company was compH-
mented on the manner each department had
been operated the past year.
The certificate of Incorporation of the
new Colorado Midland has been filed with
the secretary Of the State of Colorado
George w. RlStlne, at present receiver Oh
the road will be the president and general
manager of the property and l.. @. Cannon,
formerly of this city, his assistant general
manager and auditor of the company, a pO-
sition he has filled under the receivership.
About seventy railroads were represented
in the national convention of the American
Association of General Baggage Agents.
which was called to order at Denver yester-
day by President r. A. McWade of the
Pennsylvania. road. Among the subjects to
be discussed are the question of securing
uniform state regulations regarding the
transportation of corpses and the handling
of baggage from yellow-fever districts.
Some stress has been laid recently on the
Joint Traffic Association case, which comes
before the Supreme Court the latter part
of this month. 1t faS been represented that
If this decision were against the Joint Traf-
ton of rates. AS matter of fact an un>
favorable decision would be nothing more
than confirmation of the last decision,
which was against the roads, and was re-
garded as a forerunner of universal rate
cutting.
General Solicitor Marshall of the Cincin-
NATL Hamilton q Dayton, states that at no
time in many years has the road been as
free from litigation at present. In the last
four months but three new suits have been
filed, and two of these are about to be adj
iusted. When G. G.. Waldo took the general
managership of the property he suggested
the policy of settling all just claims against
the road promptly and sometimes yielding a
point to the claimant rather than have liti-
CATION and he has found that the policy is
a very wise one.
The last bunch of fifteen q by % CONSOLE
dalton locomotives, built by the Plttsburg
locomotive works for the Baltimore q Ohio,
have been delivered and are in service on
the second division, between Brunswick and
Cumberland. These locomotives excite very