The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-20

tseF e apDontsd city passenger agent for
j. G. Brown, transferred to other duties.
Last Friday Engine $40, on the Big -Four,
hauled a train of three cars from Niles,
Mich, to Benton Harbor, twenty-three
miles in twenty minutes and thirty sec
onds.
The friends of o. p McCarty, who on
Oct will become general passenger agent
of the Baltimore d Ohio Southwestern, on
Saturday night gave him banquet at st.
Louis.
The restaurant cars on the Wabash lines
between st. Louis and Chicago and Buffalo
are becoming very popular. Last week on
one trip between Chicago and Buffalo $40
meals were served.
1t is stated that a deal is on which will
still further increase the coal traffic of the
Chesapeake & Ohio, which has already be-
come as heavy as that of most of the coal
roads in the country.
This week Engine III will be turned out
Of the shops at Brightwood rebuilt entire,
except the driving wheels and a few other
pieces The cylinders, the boiler and fire
box are entirely new
Some great speed records have been made
OF late on the indianapolis division of the
Panhandle, which extends to Columbus, o.
Recently Train 20 covered five miles in
three and a half minutes.
A gentleman who is we'll informed in the
AFFAIRS or the Fitchburg road states that
w. d. Ewing resigned as general superin-
tendent to avoid taking sides with either
faction of the stockholders
There were transferred over the Belt road
last week 4 total of 15001 cars. Belt road
engines handled at the stock yards 96l car
loads of stock and handled for private in
dustries on its line 5S3 loaded cars
c. S. Crane, general passenger agent of
the Wabash, is in the East on official busi-
ness. 1t is thought he is arranging for tx
tending the service Of the Wabash through
trains, put on of late, east of Buffalo.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy paid
out at its shop in Galesburg, last week, for
August service, writes one of the officials
$4,000, the largest sum ever paid to en-
ployes of those shops for any one month.
On Sept. % all roads from Colorado
points to the Gulf of Mexico will advance
their rates on grain and flour cents per
100 pounds The advance is made on ac-
count of the lack of facilities to handle
grain at the gulf ports.
Patrick Cleary, who has been section
foreman at Bunker Hill, Ind, on the Pan
handle since 1868, was on Saturday. pro-
NOTED to road master of the Panhandle be-
tween Logansport and the state line and
between Logansport and Marion.
The Ohio Falls Car Company paid off on
Saturday for August, and it was one Of the
largest pay rolls in the last three years.
The works are building a good deal Of
equipment for Southern lines, where their
freight cars and coaches have an excellent
name.
The Brooks locomotive works on Thurs
day received the order to build twenty loco
motives for railways of Japan. THESE en-
gines, while of the ordinary type, will lack
two familiar features that of bell and a
pilot. These are not needed, as the ROADS
are fenced their entire length.
In the week ending Sept. u the Panhandle
delivered to the Pennsylvania road at
dianapolis over 1000, 900 pounds Of hog prod
ucts, being the heaviest movement OF pro-
visions and lard in any week since the
business became so important.
Eighteen months ago, at an expenditure
of 100000, President Hill, of the Great
Northern, put on the splendid steamers
Northlane and Northwest as IN advertise
ment for the road, not expecting to make
any money on them, but this, the frSt, sea-
son they have been money makers.
The rolling spring screens for windows,
invented by Elmer Monroe, OF Richmond
are to be tested by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company To-day the inventor and
samples of his screens will be carried in
q Pullman car between Goiufnpus ana 81
Louis, and the screens Will be given test
The Panhandle has this season expended
in improvement of it's tracks between Lo-
gansport and Chicago $I5OOO. The heaVy
grades at Boone, Crown Point and Leroy
have been greatly reduced and considerable
progress has been made in eleVatlng the
companys tracks from Western avenue to
Twelfth street in Chicago.
Among the many advertising novelties
soon to be issued by the B. q O.. is one
which is sure 70 attract very considerable
amount of attention. 1t is tc be known as
1.-The Book of the Royal Blue" and is to
be issued monthly by Col D. B. Martin
manager of passenger traffic. One SPLEEN
did feature is a list Of names and address
of every passenger and freight agent.
The New York Central is notifying ticket
brokers throughout the country that it will
on presentation at the Office of the general
passenger agent in New York city, redeem
the whole or part of any passage sold prior
to Sept, /. 1897, that is valid for passage
over it's lines, whether such ticket was sold
by the New York Central or any other au-
thOriZed transportation company author
lied to sell its tickets.
Passenger officials are looking for large
tourist business to the Pacific coast and to
Southern winter resorts this fall and win
ter. The Santa Fe will, on Oct. is, again
put on it's California limited, making the
run from Chicago to Los Angeles in sew
enty-two hours, and on Oct the Pennsyl-
vania the Chicago, Milwaukee 81 St Paul
end the Chicago * Rock Island will restore
their Denver and Colorado Springs trains.
A new passenger service to Portland, Ore,
consisting of tourist sleeper and a chair
car on the regular night train for the West,
has been instituted over the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad. Arrangements have been
made by which passengers over the Denver
& Rio Grande destined for the Northwest
can change sleepers at Grand Junction or
Salt Lake and be accommodated in berths
for the Midland sleeper leaving Denver
about the same time.
Mr.. j. S. Leahy general Southern agent
of the c., H. & D., with headquarters at
Cincinnati, has been appointed agent for
the Washington and Alaska Steamship
Company and will handle this business in
connection with c.. II. & d. business to
Alaska. The steamers City of Seattle and
Rosalie are giving service every five or six
days and win run through the winter They
are magnificent steel steamers and make
the trip from Puget sound to Dyea and
Skaguay in seventy hours They have ac-
commodations for five hundred passen-
gers and are fitted with electric light and
every comfort The steamers sail under
the American flag.
The meeting of the trunk line officials in
New York last week is reported to have
been % very harmonious one. An official
who was in attendance says the rush of
business has restored harmony among the
trunk lines and yesterdays meeting of the
board of control of the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation was in many respects the most sat-
isfactory one held in six months. All agreed
that the prospect for q restoration and
maintenance of rates was most promising.
Fast-bound rates out of Chicago are now
in good condition, and the situation has
improved in regard to rates out of st.
Louis where most of the trouble has orig
mated 1t is expected that complete res
toration of these will follow a meeting Of
the representatives of the st. Louis initial
lines shortly to be held. 1t was agreed yes
terday that west-bOund rates should be re-
stored to-day