The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-03

manageable mileage ticket agreement. but
say the position of General Passenger Agent
Roberts, of the Erie, is inexplicible, as he
suggested the present form of mileage and
fought for 1t two years ago.
The Birmingham CEng) Post says it hears
that an American syndicate in which An
drew Carnegie is interested, has applied to
the Korean government for three important
railroad concessions, which the syndicate
Seoul ChemulpO line. which James r.
Morse, the American engineer is now build
ing.
The loss to the Big Four in the burning
of its depot at North Bend was larger than
was at first supposed. Besides destroying
the telegraph instruments, railroad tickets
and the office. equipment, considerable
freight was destroyed. 1t is supposed to
have caught fire from the sparks thrown
from one of the cOmpany's freight locomo-
tives.
Managers of the Joint Traffic Associa-
ton have modified the rules governing the
of the Central Passenger Committee
mileage tickets. Hereafter names may be
written on the stub at the convenience of
the owner of the ticket instead of the sig
nature being affixed in the presence of the
agent. Other minor changes have been
made.
Notwithstanding the low rates which have
prevailed east out of st. Louis in November,
the freight earnings of the Vandaia for that
month Will be the largest of any month in
the history of the road it is stated. The
local freight earnings have been quite satis-
factory, and the earnings on West-bound
business has been much better than on east
bound.
The Baltimore & Ohio southwestern Rail-
way Company is doing away with its
wooden platforms on the Mississippi divi-
sion of the road and substituting vitrified
brick Platforms of brick have been put in
at Lawrenceburg, Osgood, North Vernon,
VincenneS, and one 450 feet long is being
put in at Seymour The company will re-
place all wooden platforms along its line
with brick.
At a meeting of the board of directors of
the Southern Pacific Railroad Company,
held in San Francisco Yesterday Cen
Thomas IT Hubbard second vice nTesident
was unanimously elected to the first vice
presidency. recently vacated by the death
of Col Charles +. Croker, and George
Croker, brother of the deceased, was elect
ed to fill the vacancy created by General
Hubbard's advancement.
The Kansas City, Pittshurg & Gulf Rail-
way yesterday reorganized and formally as
Sumed the management of the Omaha,
Kansas City & Eastern Railway, its new
northern connecting line, by the election of
officers A. E. Stillwell of Kansas City was
made president Robert Gillian, Kansas
City, general manager and chief engineer;
John RI. Savin, Quincy, ILL.,, assistant gen.
eral manager and general superintendent.
The Chesapeake 81 Ohio, the Baltimore &
Ohio. the Norfolk & Western, the Penn
sylvania and the Philadelphia & Reading
are trying to reach an agreement doO on zeal Goa
Chesapeake & Ohio, by little sharp prac-
tice, this year captured a large slice of the
business in carrying coal from mines on its
lines to Newport News, it's seaboard term
mus, thence by boat to other Eastern sea-
board points.
Serious complications have arisen, it is
stated, in the arrangement of overland con-
nectiOnS via Ogden. and it is said a three
cornered fight will be inaugurated in few
days between the Southern Pacific, the Union
Pacific and the Rio Grande and it's con-
Pacific and the Central Pacific are main
tanning defensive alliance against the
transmissouri lines that obtain access to the
coast via the Rio Grande line from Denver
to Ogden.
1t seems to be we'll understood that what
is known as the Kneeland interest in the
Toledo, st. Louis x Kansas City is seeking
to secure control of the property, and it is
stated that G. p. Huntington is the princi-
pal hacker of the Kneeland party Mr..
Kneeland has been identified in some man
ner with the road for years, and as presl-
dent of the old company never tired In his
efforts to control it. If it be true that G. p.
Huntington is behind the kneeland party
something may come or IT.
President Ledyard, of the Michigan Cen
trial. has called the managers of the roads
operated in Michigan together at Lansing,
able mileage book question. The action of
President Ledyard is thought to foreshadoW
a desire to head off the movement of the
travelling men who have pet1toned to nave
a special session of the Legislature called
to enact a cent-a-mie rate law An effort
is to be made to place on sale mileage
part of travelling men as those now In use
on Michigan roads.
A meeting of the executive officers OF the
Chicago-St Paul roads will be held in Chi
cago next week for the purpose OF con-
sidering the solution of the rate situation
reached by the general passenger agents
at their meeting Wednesday. The result or
that meeting is nothing more than truce
when all things are taken into considera-
ton and the executive officers are ex-
pected to put the final seal of approval
upon the agreement and to make it bind
ing upon all of the roads. incidentally
they will make an effort to get the outside
lines into the Western Passenger Associa-
ton.
The auditing departments of the Chicago
& Northwestern, the Union Pacific, the Chi
cago-St. Paul, the Minneapolis & Omaha
and the Fremont Elkhorn & Missouri Val
souri, Valley roads are to be consolidated
and the big office is to be located in Chica-
go. Marshall NJ. Kirkman, now chief of the
auditing department of the Chicago q
Northwestern, is to be controller of all the
lines. Information to this effect was given
out by an official in position to know of
what he speaks. 1t was called forth by
reports from Omaha, based on the fact that
Vice President Burt of the Chicago q
Northwestern, has established headquarters
there temporarily, that Mr.. Burt was to be
president of the reorganized Union Pacific.
Mr. Burt's presence in Omaha is necessitat-
ed by the proposed consolidation OF audit
ing departments.