The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-01

Columbus regularly. General Superintend-
ent Miller has settled the friction over the
matter between the superintendent or the
Indianapolis and Little Miami divisions.
The presidents of the roads in the Joint
Traffic Association, at their recent meeting,
passed a resolution that no trip passes be
issued except on application bearing the
personally written signature of the presi-
dent. vice president actively engaged,
general manager general superintendent.
traffic manager, general freight or passen-
ger agent of the company making sucn APP
plication.
Notwithstanding the interruption to its
traffic caused by the yellow fever the Hill
nois Central has this year done the largest
business in the way of handling grain at
New Orleans in its history. Between Sept.
] and the middle of November it hauled
into. New Orleans nearly 4500.0OO more
bushels of grain than it had hauled in the
preceding year, and the large volume of its
business still continues
The Pennsylvania Company is building at
It's shops in Columbus, o.. two entirely new
vestbule trains TO be put in service between
PittSburg and st. Louis on Trains 70 and Il.
The new coaches will be provided with all
the latest conveniences, and will be six feet
longer than the coaches heretofore built.
The baggage car and the combination cars
will be new, and the Pullman company will
furnish some new Pullman cars to COM
plete the two trains.
A through Pullman tourist car line from
Chicago to Portland has been arranged in
anticipation of heavy travel to the Klon-
dixie gold regions which railroad people ex-
pect will begin by the middle Of January.
The new service will go over the Midland
route. The cars will leave Chicago over
the Chicago, Milwaukee q ST Paul, con-
meet with the Rock Island for Colorado
Springs, thence over the Colorado Midland
and Oregon Short-line to Portland.
Beginning with to-day the freight trains
of the Panhandle WILL when reaching Cam
bridge City. set off all loaded cars for CO.
lumbuS, Ind, or the Louisville division, no
matter how routed. between the hours of 5
a. m. and p. M, but between the hours of
p. M and a. m. cars billed to such points
will be brought to Indianapolis, as better
time can be made by the change, and time
in the freight service is now becoming as
important a factor as in passenger traffic.
John J. Hanahan has gone to Salamanca,
n. Y, to settle some questions at issue be-
tween the fremen on the Erie road and the
division officials He says the railway en-
ployes are now organizing on a basis that
will make strikes avoidable in the future.
He denies that the Brotherhood of Locomo~
tive Firemen are antagonistic to their en-
ployers, but their relations are becoming
as pleasant as those between the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers and their em-
ployers.
Shipments of freight to Southern points
have set in very heavily, now that the
quarantine has been raised, and passenger
men predict that in a few days travel to
Florida points will become heavy. Passen-
ger agents Of Southern roads are now North
looking after business. They report that
there are numerous inquiries as to rates
and most of the great hotels at ST. Au-
Peninsular State are opening and are an
ticipating an unusually active season.
The Stillwell interest to-day comes into
full control of the Kansas City q Northern
Connection Railway and the Omaha, Kan
sas City & Eastern Railway, which form
connections and feeders for the Kansas
City, Pittsburg Gulf. Through a deal
recently contaminated President StlllWell
now has complete control as president of
all these properties, as well as the missouri,
Kansas & Texas Trust Company and its
How n11fG hn
City q Northern Connection Railway Will
be completed to Pattonsburg, Mo-, this
month, giving Omaha and Quincy direct
line to the Gulf of Mexico.
On next Sunday the Louisville gateway
to the South, which has been practically
closed against Northern travel for the past
ten years, will be reopened On that day
the Louisville & Nashville Railroad will
put on a fast daily train, to leave Louisville
at $40 p. m. The train will be a solid YES
thule. similar to those running between
New York and southern Florida on the At
lantic coast line and Plant system This
train will connect at the Union depot with
trains from Chicago, st. Louis, Cincinnati
and other Northern cities. The time from
Chicago to Jacksonville, Fla, will be thir-
ty-three hours, which breaks the record.
A meeting of the roads interested in the
rates between Chicago and st. Paul and
Minneapolis will be held in Chicago to-day,
and an effort will be made to straighten out
the tangle that has resulted in the recent
reductions in rates between the cities. The
meeting will be attended by all of the roads
between Chicago and the Missouri river,
as these lines are vitality interested in the
outcome of the negotiations between the
Chicago-St. Paul roads If the latter fail
to restore rates it is altogether likely that
there will in a short time be reductions in
the rates between Chicago and the Missouri
river, and if the generalization extends
that far it is likely to spread all over the
territory of the Western Passenger Asso-
citation. N
A. II. Harris, who to-day becomes gem
eral traffic manager of the Canadian gov
eminent system of railways, is a we'll
known figure among railway officials of the
United States and Canada. Since his ap-
premiership to the Grand Trunk system
twenty years ago, his record has been one
Of rapid advancement from messenger boy
to the responsible position he now holds
During his connection with the Grand
Trunk he has been private secretary to the
general traffic manager at Montreal, COM
mercial agent at Buffalo, general freight
agent of through traffic at Detroit, division
freight, agent at Hamilton and latterly di-
vision freight agent of the system east of
Belleville. Under the present administra-
ton he represented the company at many
important meetings of the Grand Trunk
freight COMMITTEES.