The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-03

Bruce Lynch, ex-penitentiary warden of
Kansas, has been appointed Western live
stock agent of the Santa Fe lines.
In May there were handled at the city
freight depots of the Pennsylvania lines
35,319,368 pounds of freight, representing g.
664 cars.
E. F. Street, travelling freight agent of
the Baltimore and Ohio. who died quite
unexpectedly was buried at Hagerstown,
Md, yesterday.
In May there were handled on the Big
Four system proper PCS loaded cars,
against 124,639 loaded cars in May, 1896, an
increase in May this year of 5629 loaded
cars.
In May there were handled on the Big
Four system 1856 SIC passengers, against 5l0,-
I89 in May, 1896. The falling off was in local
business, through business showing an in
crease of Is per cent.
President ingalls,, of the Chesapeake &
OHIO, has already given instructions for
t the rebuilding bull OF the two piers burned urn i
probably. within a short time authorize
the building of an additional pier.
General Manager Ramsey, of the Wabash.
General Manager Hays, of the Grand
Trunk, and several of the subordinate Off
Gals have been in Chicago for couple of
days arranging for the new service be-
tween st. Louis and Chicago and Buffalo
With the retirement of Jere McCarty as
travelling passenger agent of the Baltimore
q Ohio Southwestern, j. b. Scott is trans
Tered from Vlncennes to Cincinnati, ana
Seymour Randolph is appointed travelling
passenger agent, with headquarters at Vim
cennes.
The presidential party will next week
make their trip from Washington to Nash
vile over the chesapeake & Ohio and the
Louisville d Nashville. A very handsome
special train will be fitted up for the party,
which will include the President and his
Cabinet.
According to an Eastern financial paper.
within the next twelve months the Clncin-
natl J. Southern, better known as the queen
q Crescent, must be sold at foreclosure
sale and 1t is intimated that the Woodford
syndicate will again come to the front as
a bidder
An official of the Baltimore & Ohio, in
conversation with Journal reporter, said:
This talk of a consolidation of the Bal
timore & Ohio. and the baltimore Y ONO
southwestern is idle, while the Baltimore
& Ohio is in the hands of a receiver, which
it is likely to be, for some years
On May the Monon put on sleeping cars
between Chicago and West Baden TO run
every Wednesday and Saturday night, re-
turning on Thursday and Sunday nights,
and these cars are so we'll patronized that
it is quite probable the service will be in
creased, possibly running seepers every
night.
j. r, Cavanagh. car-service superintend-
ent of the Big Four, Albert ingalls,, gen.
eral utility man of the lines and Chief
Clerk Neel, of General Superintendent Van
Wrinkles office, have been most of the time
the last four weeks visiting and talking
over business with every agent of the en-
tire system.
Colonel Ellsworth Vorhis, trainmaster on
the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton, was
last evening married to daughter of DR..
Ware, of Cincinnati, the ceremony taking
place in the Ninth-street Baptist Church.
The briday party will go East on a two
weeks trip and then return to Cincinnati
to reside at Winton Place.
The Wabash will establish ticket offices
at Buffalo, Niagara Falls and all principal
points along the line of the Grand Trunk,
TO take advantage of its trackage lease over
the Grand Trunk and the Erie into Buffalo,
and the trains VIII be handled over the
Cro1 n TrlIp IL nd hQ n < 4 X
age lease by Wabash locomotives and Wa
bash train crews.
In speaking Of the abuse of mileage a
passenger conductor on one of the Indian
apolis lines said that he handled on his
train Tuesday 1872 passengers. and of that
number seventy-nine Travelled on mileage
books which pay but cents per mile If
that much The conductor remarked tnat
he was not surprised that the passenger
revenue was SO unsatisfactory.
All the lines leading to Washington have
offered to furnish free transportation TO
the members of the National Association
of Local Freight Agents who may attend
the annual convention in that city next
week application. The Baltimore ~
Ohio went further, and issued a general in
o., sending handsomely printed invitation
to each member
w. Tuli, general passenger agent of the
Seaboard Airline, has returned from a
four weeks trip through the Southern
States covering over eight thousand miles
of railway visiting all important railroad
ness men and his own observation con.
cludes that at no time since the blight of
1893 have the indications of improving busl-
ness been more apparent than now
A meetin@ of the lines of the Central
Passenger Association was held in Chicago
yesterday for the purpose of considering
the propriety of adopting, FOR the reguiaes
rules now in operation in the territory or
the Trunk-line Association. Some changes
ir the manner of conducting the mileage
bureau were also considered. The matters
were referred to committees, which are to
report later
]. j. Turner, vice president and general
manager of the Vandalia lines, is anxious
that the finances of the road should get into
such shape as to justify the erection of in
terlocking switches and signals at points
where the Vandalia crosses other railways.
This done, the time between st. Louis and
Indianapolis could readily be shortened one
hour or more. With it's interlocking plants
the Big -Four has much the advantage in
moving it's trains between indianapolis ana
St. Louis.
Officers of the Lima Northern, learning
that the Cincinnati, Hamilton ~ Dayton
was on Sunday, to run a low-rate excursion
from Lima to Detroit. announced eX-
cursion over the Lima Mort, Northe FRI a. lust Just
the c., II. & D., but it did not show results
expected. The c., II. & d. took into De-
troit 191 excursionists, the Lima Northern
about 600. Some lively competition is
looked for between the Lima Northern ana
the c.. H. & d. until the former has ad-
The 81 excursion to Cedar lake next Sun
day, over the Monon promises to draw
large crowd. The Monon has completed eX-
tensive improvements to the grounds and
there is one feature which is worthy of
note Excursion trains are run into the
grounds and the gates then closed, and TO
pass from the train TO the main grounds
one must go over a Yiaduct constructed on
a large scale. 1t is almost impossible for a
person to get on to the railroad proper con- con-
Sequently fast express trains run through
without slowing down or taking any other
precautiOn.
George Rockwell, who on Monday left In
dianaDOIS to become assistant general pas
senger agent Of the Pennsylvania lines at
Cincinnati, enters field that will give him
opportunity for display of his capacity. lie
Southwestern and the Chesapeake a ONO
to compete with, and also the Erie, but the
latter is not a very formidable competitor
at Cincinnati The other three are old and
very popular lines. and so we'll otf1cered in
their passenger departments that 1t Is
stated there is no railroad center in the
country where the competition is so in
tense.
In the United States Circuit Court at
wherein Ferdinand Schumacher, of Chlca-
go, is complainant, and the Hartman ~
Northeastern Railroad Company and others
are defendants. The bill charges Manager
Chandler and other officials with an at
tempt to wreck the road, and makes some
startling charges as to mismln9geMent;
The bill has a direct bearing On the noted
East Tennessee land case, in which several
hundred thousand acres OF land are IN
volved The railroad is only about twenty
five miles in length, extending from Harri-
man. Tenn, TO Petros Tenn. The case was