The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-31

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lows: Good to return before Sept. 1, with
out signature" The Endorsement bears no
signature and is spelled incorrectly. The
tickets have not been executed at Buffalo,
and are believed to be the work of brokers.
Chairman Caldwell has advised all lines of
the association to refuse to honor the bogus
tickets.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Manistee & Northeastern road has
Joined the east-bOund lines interchangeable
mileage ticket compact
Charles Riley, car service superintendent
of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, has
been spending couple of days with friends
in this city.
chants Dispatch Company at St. Louis,
has been in the city for a couple Of days
visiting relatives
The Sunday excursion over the Monon re-
quired seven coaches, and the run from IN
dianapols to Cedar lake was made in four
hours and twenty minutes.
Tomorrow B. N. Austin, Western general
passenger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio
fines, Will occupy his headquarters at Chi
cago in the Fisher building.
1t is stated that the ticket brokers at Buff
falo are loaded heavily with G.. A. r. tick
cts but after Sept l they will be of little
value if the law against scalping is en-
forced.
The earnings of the Union Pacific are
now exceeding those Of last year from $5,OOO
to So 600 per day, and the company's equip
ment is taxed to its full capacity to handle
the business.
The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton on
Sunday took into Cincinnati off the Indian
apolis division eighteen coach loads of peo-
pie, 10S2 going from Indianapolis on the 81
round-trip rate.
Freight traffic on the western division of
the Peoria & Eastern is at it's maximum.
on Saturday twenty more loaded cars We're
handled on the p. 81 Il. than in any day
since it came under it's present control.
The Lake Erie Construction Company
which built the Columbus SanduSky 81
Hooking Railway, has been thrown into the
hands of a receiver and A. Covert, former
treasurer of the road, has been appointed.
George F. Gage who, to-day retires as
Broad Top road, has held that position
twenty-five years Carl Gage who has
been on the road several years, is to be his
successor as general manager.
E. A Ford, general passenger agent Of
the Pennsylvania lines west Of Pittsburg
and the Vandalia, will inaugurate the week
ly tourist car line service between Pitts
burg and San Francisco, in connection with
the Missouri Pacific, from st. Louis, Oct |.
On Sept. and the Cincinnati, Hamilton
q Dayton will run an excursion, in connec-
ton with the Lake Erie 81 Western and its
connections in Illinois and Indiana west as
far as the Mississippi river, to Cincinnati
the limitation of the tickets being thirty
days.
The Haskell & Barker car works, at
Michigan City, yesterday commenced on a
contract to build 900 box cars for the Chi
cago & Northwestern. This company has
in service but few freight cars which We're
not built at Michigan City or the Terre
Haute car works
On Saturday on the Big Four system
there were handled, as shown by General
Superintendent Van Wrinkles report, 6,l10
loaded cars in the twenty-four hours. Up
to Saturday the largest number handled
any one day was 6,017 loaded cars; increase
last Saturday, 1885,
William Gibson, who will tomorrow be-
ct nt CII n
timore a. Ohio, with headquarters at Pitts
burg, in 1889 was chief clerk of William
Four, and by him was appointed superin-
tendent of the Cincinnati division Of the
Big Four, from which he recently went 70
the Baltimore d. Ohio.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
has formally entered the field as a pur-
chaser and consumer of California pc
troleum. 1t is reported that the manage
ment of that company has had seven To-
within the week just closed, and that two
purchases of oil in bulk have been made
one of 10000 barrels and the other of 10000
The Chesapeake & Ohio certainly came
out of the fiscal year ending June 30 in a
manner which reflects great credit on the
management. Its net earnings, We're $3'42l, =
413 and there was a surplus left over all
fixed charges of $500, 521 During the year
twenty-seven miles of heavy steel rail were
laid, $2l514 expended in new buildings and
$2434SS expended in increasing the equip
ment.
The Chicago & Alton last week awarded
the contract for the new iron bridge over
the Mississippi river at Louisiana, Mo. 1t
will be built in nine spans, the draw Span
to be 440 feet in length. The total length of
the structure will be 2029 feet. 1t will be a
single-track bridge, with carrying capac-
ity of two locomotives of 123 600 pounds
each followed by rolling load of 1900
pounds per lineal foot
NJ. E. Ingalls,, president of the Big Four,
q Cincinnati.
his entire trip he saw nothing but good
track ana plenty of business. and his only
anxiety was how to furnish cars and power
to move it as expedtiously as the shippers
might desire. One thing he was impressed
with and that was that there was no ne
cessity to shade a rate to get business of
any class.
When President Thomson, OF the Penn
sylvania lines, comes West on his inspec-
ton trip he will be given the honor of
opening UP the new tunnel and Strengthened
line at Radebaugh This tunnel is three
hundred feet in length and one Of the most
perfect underground railroad passages in
track approaching it have been constructed
al an enormous expense and will be a great
Improvement
The great rush of freight and the scarcity
of cars has compelled the railway COM
panies entering Seymour to hunt up all Of
their strays. The numerous washouts on
the Evansville & Richmond Railway last
March caught seVenty-tiVe freight cars on
the switches OF the road between Seymour
and Bedford. OF this number the Pennsyl-
vania claims forty-fiVe and 1t will begin at
once to make temporary repairs that will
allow il TO get their cars.
Leading ticket scalpers of Chicago say
that their association is preparing to make
a determined fight against the enforcement
of the New York anti-Scalping law, which
is to go into effect in that State Sept l.
The scalpers claim that the law will not
hold good, for the reason that legislatures
have not the right to legislate against in
terstate commerce or transportation, Many
prominent Chicago passenger officials are
of tine opinion that the brokers' position is
the correct one,
1t is stated that the only way that stock
of the Pennsylvania road (proper) can be
secured is through purchase from foreign
holders of the stock. as in Philadelphia or
in the State OF Pennsylvania. where much
Of II is held the holders viii not sell. Since
the year 1862 the stock has paid regular div
idends. with the exception of one semi-an-
nual dividend in 1877. following the severe
loss from the strike and the Pittsburg riots
This was made up, however, the next year
In scrip dividend.
w. II. Caniff. who is to succeed S. r. CAL
laway president of the Nickel-plate
lines, began railroad service in 1863 as a
night Waterman at Osseo, Mich. for the
Lake Shore road. Three years later he was
appointed joint agent for the Louisville
New Albany x Chicago and the Lake Shore
AT OTIS. Ind. IN 1917 he WAS annOinted road