The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-17

The membership of the Indianapolis Rail-
road Mems Building and Savings Associa-
ton has reached 1850.
The Wabash will this year get eighty
miles of new steel in its track, weighing
eighty pounds to the yard.
The annual report of the New York Cen
trai shows that the company has $46o S46
outstanding of uncollectable accounts.
Z. McQuown, train caller at the Union
Station, yesterday completed his tenth year
of service with the Union Railway Com
pany.
The Monon has forty-eight regular
scheduled trains, and often the scheduled
freight trains are run in two TO three sec
tons.
The Chicago & Northwestern has issued
very attractive advertisements with cut
showing hunting grounds on its line in
the Northern woods.
Daniel Dreamer, chief train dispatcher of
the Big Four, has obtained three months
leave of absence and Will spend the time
in Mexico, hoping TO improve in health.
The Western roads have agreed to make
fare OF one and one-third for the meeting
of the National Irrigation Congress, which
is to be held at Lincoln. Neb., Sept. 2S-@.
General Manager Pomeroy. of the White
line was in the city yesterday. He says
the lines business is limited, seemingly, on
ly by the cars that can be commanded to
load
C. l.. Mayne, who on Sept. Is became gen.
eral superintendent of the Fitchburg road,
was division superintendent of the Chicago
& Atlantic when V. L. M2lott was its re-
ceiver.
Fort Wayne * Western will use the tracks
of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne q Chicago
to enter Fort Wayne instead of the Wabash
tracks.
John Chesborough, who retires on Oct 1
as general passenger agent of the Balti-
more & Ohio Southwestern, states that he
has nothing yet in view as to what he will
do in the future.
Csaorcra Rockwell district raSSanaer n agent
of the Pennsylvania lines at Cincinnati.
was in the city Yesterday en- route to his
headquarters after a ten days stay at West
Baden with his family.
The brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, of Locomotive Firemen, Order of
Railray Conductors, Trainmen and Teleg-
raphers will have a grand mass meeting
at Connellsville Sept. "a and 25.
The Florida Special, of the Pennsylvania.
was on Monday hauled from Perryville. on
the p. w. q b. division, TO Philadelphia,
a distance of thirty-siX miles. in thirty-two
minutes. six cars being hauled on the
train.
c. Hines. who is TO take the position of
trainmaster on the Big Four between
Cleveland and Columbus is highly educated
in a military way and left a lieutenancy
in the United States army 10 enter railroad
service
The passenger business of the Lake Shore
is now at its maximum one of the Off
Gals says at this season of the year they
usually have one hundred idle coaches,
while now all the company owns are in
service
j. e. Turner. district passenger agent of
the Northern Pacific is arranging for a
fishing expedition, on which he expects to
be accompanied by number Of passenger
men who make their headquarters at In
dianapolLs.
At the opening of coal traffic the Ohio
roads have got into fight over rates The
Lima Northern has disregarded the Michi-
gan lines arbitrary rate from Toledo TO De-
troit which amounts TO a cut OF is cents
per ton the Detroit rate.
Ii is stated that unless the Erie is given
a fair arbitration in the questions now
pending b, fore the board OF arbtrators Of
| the Joint Traffic Association, the road will
/ put on a train TO make the run from New
/ York TO Chicago in twenty-four hours
| The management of the Pennsylvania
l Company ara much encouraged over the