The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-25

Inc directors OF the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois have declared a quarterly dividend
OF IL per cent. on the preferred stock.
n. K Elliott, formerly general superin-
tendent of the Vandalia lines. is now pro-
prietor of the Park Hotel. Columbus, o.
II is stated that passenger business over
the western division OF the Peoria & East
ern IS now heavier than at any time in the
last four years.
w l.. Haag. for many years contracting
agent Of the Pittsburg & Lake Erie, has
been appointed general agent of the COM
pany at Pittsburg.
The mail and express section of Train Z
on the Panhandle, between Columbus and
Pittsburg, consists of fourteen cars as now
run.
The report that ]. P. Morgan & Co had
been asked TO take control of the refund
ing operation of the Louisville q Nashville
was officially denied yesterday
The car department of the Vandalia is not
aple 10 keep up repairs TO the extent de-
sired, and cars are being sent to the Terre
Haute car works to be repaired.
The Wheeling q Lake Erie road is ham
ding 1000 carloads of coal day, and over
three hundred trainmen, who had been idle
during the coal miners strike have resumed
work.
o. E. Raidy, train master of the Vandalia,
will hereafter have full charge of the dis
trlbutlon OF all passenger ana freight cars
locomotives and train crews on the entire
system.
r. r. Bentley, general baggage agent of
the Pennsylvania lines, will read paper
at the seventeenth annual convention of the
General Baggage Agents Association,
which is to be held in Denver Oct. 13.
The earnings of the Chicago, Burlington
q Quincy for August were $4,000 in excess
Of those of August 1886 and the earnings
of September, it is stated officially, will
be $l,OOO,O0O in excess of September, 1896
Tomorrow the Big Four will run four
teen special Sunday excursions trains on
different parts of its system-one to In
dianapolis from Cincinnati. and one to this
city from Peoria over the Peoria & East
ern.
George T. Gunnip, general agent of the
He looks for large tourist travel to
Pacific coast points the coming fall and
winter, and thinks the new tourist trains
will prove very popular.
J. l.. Beck has sued the Panhandle for
$4,000 damages for being elected from one
of its trains. The conductor refused to ac-
cept mileage book he presented unless he
could be identified as its original pur-
chaser and there was no one on the train
who knew him.
Stephen Murray, of Atlantic City, n j.,
was convicted yesterday in the Atlantic
County Court, at Mays Landing, of scalp
ing tickets and selling passes of the Penn
sylvania Railroad and sentenced to inn
prisonment for three months and to pay
fine of 500 and costs.
1t is announced that Agent r.. c. Baughn,
of the p, c. c. & St. l.. at Rushville, will
succeed Agent Joseph Beebe at Shelbyville
Mr.. Beebe goes to the solicitors office at
Louisville. Agent G.. w. Patrick of Scots
burg, will succeed Agent Baughn. Mr..
Baughn has given ten years service to the
company in RushVille.
Notwithstanding the fact that the coal
mines on the Pittsburg and Wheeling divi-
sionS and the Baltimore IL Ohio lines west
of the river were closed during tn emonth
of August on account OF the strike, the
Appropriated gross earnings of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad were 81 1885, 03, a de-
crease Of only 81, 433.
Consul General Pratt at Singapore reports
to the State Department at Washington
that loan has been authorized there to
the amount of $5,000,000 to begin the con-
struction of a railway system of about
$40 miles in length in the Malay peninsula.
He believes that this will be an excellent
opportunity for American steel makers and
car and locomotive builders to secure or
ders.
The lines of the Western Passenger Assoc
citation met in Chicago yesterday for the
purpose of considering the interchange
able mileage ticket question. The roads
generally are of the opinion that the time
has come when they must put ticket of
this sort on the market, and the meeting of
yesterday was for the purpose of consider
ing the advantages of the various forms of
tickets which have been offered Tor adop-
tion
There is friction between the Big Four
and the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
Railroad Companies over the Big Fours
Cincinnati and Detroit line, and the Big
-Four has been given to understand that
unless the Detroit line is withdrawn the
Cincinnati, Hamilton 81 Dayton, the lndi-
ana, Decatur a. Western and the Toledo,
St. Louis q Kansas City will put on fast
trains each way between Cincinnati and
st. Louis, the distances over the two routes
being about the same.
Mr.. A. NJ Stimson purchasing agent of
the Big Four, wife and daughter, have been
at West Baden for ten days, and returned
to Lafayette on Thursday, their stay at
West Baden being curtailed by an accident
While riding in omnibus in which We're
several people the driver became careless,
the vehicle was overturned and most of the
passengers more or less injured. Mrs. slim
son had her right arm broken, and Mr..
Stlmson, who is a large man, was consider
ably bruised
The feeling is general among the Western
roads that the general meeting OF the roads
iE the territory of the Western Passenger
Association, called for next week, will not
result in any great amount OF good to the
rate situation Rightly or wrongly, sew
eral of the large Western roads hold that
the Union Pacific is in a measure respon-
sible for the trouble in the Western roads,
and they believe that no good can come of
any meeting unless the Union Pacific be-
comes at least tacit member of the asso-
citation agreement
1.-The sensational rumor started by one of
the Cincinnati papers to the effect that the
Big Four was to be consolidated with the
Baltimore & Ohio" said one of the officials
here Yesterday, 'dld not materIa a. e.
rumor, and it proved to be. The Big Four
is so located geographically, and strikes so
many good cities, passes through so many
excellent terminals that there is no occa-
sion for it to consolidate with any other
road unless it be the Chesapeake & Ohio,
which would be much more natural and
profitable consolidation than with the b.
q O."
Within the last two weeks notices Of IN
tention to construct 1900 miles of new rail
ways have been filed with the Territorial
secretary of Arizona. There are thirty
separate filings, of almost as many sepa-
rate lines of new railways. The filings are
made under q law passed by the last Leg
iSlature to the effect that all new railway
lines on which active work should be COM
menced within one year from the passage
of the act should be exempted from all
for a period of fifteen years. This was
known the bill to encourage the con-
struction of railroads in Arizona and its
passage was bitterly opposed
The hearing before Hon. Kerr Craige, the
special master appointed by Judge Simon
ton, of North Carolina, to take testimony
on the charges of fraud in connection with
the lease of the North Carolina Railroad
by the Southern was continued at Washing
the Southern Railroad and former auditor
of the Richmand q Danville were sub
poenaed by counsel for the state 10 produce
books and vouchers which the latter claim
contain entries to sustain their contention
of manipulation of the Southern Railroad
books, but on the advice OF counsel Tor the
Southern the witnesses refused TO produce
the books and vouchers called FOR The
matter was certified to Judge Slmonton
court, where a ruling Will be asked. Inc
hearings will be resumed at RalelSh, N. o.,
on the 2Sth inst
The trouble over the Northern Pacific
coast rates is on the increase. the effort or