The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-27


mer amount of assessment The roads pro-
tested and the commissioners reduced the
valuation 20 SO 100000.
No road in the country handles more cot
ton and cotton goods than does the South
ern Railway. Two-thirds of the cotton mills
in the Southern States are located on that
system.
p. NJ. Arthur, grand chief of the Broth
ernood of Locomotive. Engineers, has been
quite i'll for several days with pneumonia
He has just completed his twenty-fifth
year as grand chief of that organization.
The report of the Railroad Commission
or Alabama shows that there are 1852 miles
of road in that State, which give employ
ment TO l4,325 people The roads earned
gross the last year 49, 49, 600, an increase
over the previous year of S62y, 40.
A L. Langellier, who represents the
Southern Railway land and Industrial de-
partment, with headquarters at Boston, has
resigned and goes to Chicago to engage in
mercantile pursuits. He will be succeeded
In New England by L. Scott Allen.
A passenger official of the Plant system
states that the tourist travel to the South
up TO date is fully one-third larger than
last year and everything points to a sue
cessful season. The orange crop, however,
will not be more than 100000 boxes.
J. G. Hartigan assistant general super
lntendent of the Illinois Central is spend
ing holiday week with frineds in Boston.
his special car which stands on a side
track In that city, has become an object of
interest, 1T being one of the model private
cars.
1t is stated that the Lima Northern, a
bfice lne, VIII be completed to Detroit
within two weeks. Under its contract with
the Wabash, over which the road gets
into Detroit, it was not permitted to do any
local work within forty-tive miles of that
terminal.
The coal-carrying roads to the seaboard
VIII nave another meeting to try and place
the business on a better paying basis. The
Chesapeake q Ohio, the Norfolk & West
ern, the Philadelphia & Reading and the
INES. lines n
terested.
The Omaha. Kansas City & Eastern, be-
tween Omaha and Quincy, ILL.,, is now con-
trolled by the Kansas City, Pittsburg &
CUR, and It is announced that the capital
STOCK or the newly acquired road will be
increased to S2,QO0,C0O; First-mortgage bonds
are to be issued to the extent of $4,000 per
mile, and secOnd-mortgage bonds at the
rate of $4,000 per mile.
The Pullman cafe ard parlor cars just
placed in service on the Illinois Central
are proving so popular that other lines will
probably introduce them on their better
class of day trains. The total length of
these cars is seyenty-seven feet three
inches; they rest on two pairs of six-wheel
trucks, are finished in selected mahogany
wood and the apartments consist of a par
Tor, cafe room, kitchen and smoking room.
The gate system has been adopted at the
new Union Station at Columbus, o., and
the station officials are being abused and
cursed as roundly as when the gates We're
introduced with the opening of the new
Union Station at Indianapolis. Superin-
tendent Zion says the great exemption from
accidents in the train sheds at INDIANAPOLIS
is largely due to the gate system, which
keeps the crowds off the tracks until the
proper time TO go to their trains
Frank Thomson, president of the Pennsyl-
vana lines, is quoted as saying that that
company had no contracts out that could
not be abrogated on the first day of the
new year The charge is again made that
the Vanderbilt lines are the principal Of
Tenders in the manipulation of rates, and
IT Is further stated that notice has been
served on the officers of these lines that
they must stop cutting rates. Both Mr.
Morgan and w. X. Vanderbilt have eX-
pressed themselves strongly on this point
President Ingalls,. of the Big Four. is
quoted as saying. on Friday, that prosper
ity is one of the sure things, adding: Have
you noticed how happy every one looks to-
day? Well. it is because times are better.
The year 1898 will be the best year since
1892. The basis of all prosperity is to have
everybody employed. There will be plenty
of work for. the laboring man next year.
He Will get fair wages. and the cost of liv-
ing will not be materially increased before
the end of 1898. We are about to enter an
area of prosperity such we have not en-
joyed for a long time past
Mr.. r. A. Lawes superintendent of mo-
tive power of the Chicago & Eastern llli-
nois Railroad. is an amateur astronomer
and enthusiastic over the study. He mas
Avian Clark K Sons. Worcester. Mass. IL
new telescope with six-and- -half-inch
lens and tube eight feet four inches long.
he has just completed at his home. ut
Danviiic ILL.,, d. small observatory. which
has many OF the conyeniences of the larger
ones. II is so built that il can be taken
to pieces and removed TO another location
at small expense. Mr.. Lawes has had two
smaller telescopes before and anticipates
pleasure and profit in the use of the larger
and better one. Mr.. Lawes was for sew
at Brightwood, going from the Big Four TO
the Chicago d Eastern Illinois.