The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-16

now exceeds one thousand loaded cars per
month.
General Manager Hays, of the Grand
Trunk, was called to Mont Clair, n. j. on
Wednesday to attend the funeral Of his
father
The shops of the Big -Four at Wabash
are so pressed with work that in the boiler
department the men are working four hours
extra per day.
1t is stated that I. S. Alien, late on the
Baltimore & Ohio as assistant general pas
Senger agent, is to take a position on the
Seaboard Airline.
a considerable percentage of the passen-
ger conductors on the Big Four lines are
nov making from sl25 TO SlS5 per month,
ana two, IN September, made $3.50
The Indiana, Decatur &, Western yester-
day brought in the first new corn of the
season, two carloads being shipped from
hume and two carloads from Dana.
The Gulf Railroad Yesterday announced a
sweeping cut from Colorado common points
to Galveston to meet the all-ran reduction
IN freight rates and to maintain the differ
w. j. Jeffrey, general agent for the Dem
YER & Rio Grande at St. Louis, and brother
or Il. L. Jenery, died at his home in Chi
cage on Thursday night. He had been in
III health for some time.
The Pennsylvania inspection party yes
terday inspected the Michigan division and
arrived at Terre Haute at p. m. To-day
they will inspect the st. Louis division of
Louis
Some of the engineers on construction
trains on the St. Louis division of the Big
-Four have, this season, made as high wages
for a months service as $780, and in one
case $2lO. This was, of course, accomplished
by running overtime.
Transportation officials of the Big Four
claim that on nc system in the country are
the trains scheduled al as high speed as on
the Big -Four. Every through train is very
fast and the local trains are scheduled
faster than on most lines.
The citizens of Bellefontane have raised
the subsidy required to insure the building
or the Columbus q Northwestern road
through that place. and it is stated that
and Bellefontaine by Jan. l.
George Daniels, general passenger agent
OF the New York Central; has had the
States District Court, on the illegality of
ticket brokerage published in pamphlet
form and is giving it wide distribution
John E. Martin, who was buried at Ev-
ansville yesterday, was for thirty years con-
nected with the Evansville & Terre Haute
commencing at the bottom round and
reaching the presidency Of the road which,
days.
The Central Passenger Association has
recommended a fare and one-third per
capita to the horse and fat stock show at
Chicago Nov 10 from the Trunk-line West
ern termini. A similar rate has been APP
proved for the annual Ohio State Grange
at columbus Dec. 1874.
General Manager Loree, of the Pennsyl-
vania lines west of Pittsburg will, with his
subordinate officials, begin a general lnspee-
ton of the lines Oct. "a. The prize for the
best supervisors division is $780, second
prize, $50 and for the best section on each
supervisors division the section foreman
will receive $50.
Ford Wood, assistant general freight
agent of the Big Four lines, expresses the
opinion that there are such large quantities
of grain in the country West and North
west to be marketed that the slight adj
vance in rates will not seriously check
shipments. If it did, there is such a demand
for cars to move miscellaneous freights
that the roads would be kept busy.
The managers of the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation, after considering the recommended
ttons of the New England Canadian and
trunk lines, have approved the following
proposed advance in immigrant fares, eff
SIS; from Boston to Chicago, $14; from Ca
madam points and Portland to Chicago,
$3.50; from Philadelphia to Chicago, $l375;
from Baltimore to Chicago, $l345.
The Panhandle is so frequently late with
its day express from Chicago that it ex-
cites comment The blame is usually
Panhandle using the L, H. & W. tracks from
Kokomo junction. In speaking of this yes
terday, depot official said: 1T is singular
that the Panhandle trains should make bad
time over the l.. Z & W., when the trains
Of the latter are almost invariably on time
no indianapolis line having d better record
The Pennsylvania has in the last ten
days placed contracts for 10000 tons of
steel rails, paying $19 per ton for rails
thirty feet in length and $50 for rails sixty
feet in length. The contracts were divided
between the Pennsylvania Steel Company,
the Carnegie Steel Company and the Cam
bria Steel Company, and all the rails are
to be delivered before Jan. /. 1t is expected
that as result of the trip of the inspec-
ton party over the Western lines large or
ders will be placed for rails to be laid on
the lines he
Illinois Steel Company will participate.
Alexandria has become one Of the largest
shipping points on the Michigan division of
the Big Four. An Alexandria paper says:
In the month of September just closed the
company shipped from this point ,152 tons
of freight, while the tonnage for the cor
responding month of last year was but $50.
Otherwise expressed the amount of freight
shipped from this point during last month
was 354 carloads. The total amount shipped
was $40 carloads. A comparison of the pas
Senger business for the two months shows
an increase of one-third The total collec-
tions from freight and passenger business
in the month of September, 1896, We're
So, $780, For the corresponding month this
year the figures are $l3,20345."
c. +. Donald, chairman of the Central
Passenger Association; Joseph Richardson
chairman of the Southeastern Passenger
Association; G, Z. Atmore, general paSSen-
ger agent of the Louisville & Nashville:
w. c. Rinearson, general passenger agent
of the Queen & Crescent; Charles Stone, of
the Chicago & Eastern Illinois; A. 0. Nc
Donald, Oh the FlOr1Qa central az PENN
sular; w. H. Kaylo, of the Southern Rail
way, and other Southern railway passenger
agents met in Cincinnati on Thursday with
the general passenger agents north of the
Ohio river and decided on the same rates
to Southern winter resorts as prevailed last
year. The rates on lines south of the Ohio
river went into effect yesterday and on
lines north of the Ohio river on Oct 20
Z. b. Thomas. president of the Erie, has
promulgated the following announcement:
Col. A. M. Tucker for some time the gen.
eral manager of the companys Western
lines and recently the company's general
his long-continued illness, asked to be re-
ieved from his official position, and his
resignation is therefore accepted with much
regret. The office Of general agent is
abolished Colonel Tucker has been in i'll
health for about eighteen months, and for
long time it was feared that he could
not live. Colonel Tucker has OF late been
in Detroit living with relatives. He was
born in November, 1886, and entered the
railroad service as a teamster in the en-
ploy of the Vermont Central road. During
the last years of his career he was con-
nected with the New York, Lake Erie &,
Western, the New York, Pennsylvania d
Ohio, and the Chicago e. Erie railroads.
When the companies comprising the Erie
Railroad were amalgamated Colonel Tucker
was general manager Of the New York
Pennsylvania & Ohio, the leased lines, and
the Chicago & Erie railroads. Mr.. Tucker
was one Of the beSt-knoWn railroad officers
in the United States.