The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-21

and South Chicago. It will use the tracks
of the Chicago, indianapolis q Louisville
Railroad between Dyer and Hammond.
f. f. Leonard. president and general
manager Of the Toledo. Peoria a Western,
which is owned jointly by the Pennsylvania
and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy. was
in the city yesterday and joined the Penn
syvania officials on their trip to Chicago.
The trial of the Wabash & Eel River
receivership has been set in the Howard
cial venire has been drawn to try the case
and, no matter which way it is decided, the
beaten party will carry it to the Supreme
Court.
An official of the PENNSYLVANIA lines yes
terday expressed the opinion that. should
business revive as it is hoped that it will
this fall, the work of doubling the track
between Plttsburg and Columbus will be
resumed. About half the distance is now
double track, practically
Chairman Caldwell of the Western Pas
senger Association, has sent notices to all
the general passenger agents of the lines in
the organization, stating that he deems it
advisable to revive the local associations at
all the railroad centers throughout the ter
ritory where the association has Jurisd1c-
ton.
T. M. Campbell, of the International &
Great Northern, authorizes the announce
as general manager of the road, to take
effect in few days. and that the same
has been accepted by President Gould. Mr..
Leroy Trice, division superintendent of the
Texas 81 Pacific, will succeed him.
BY a vote of the stockholders of the
Lake Shore q Michigan, at Cleveland, yes
terday, it was decided to increase the in
debtedness of the company to 600.
W. K. Vanderbilt, chairman of the board
OF directors, and E. D. Worcester, vice
president and secretary, were present. The
loan will be negotiated at 31a per cent. in
terest payable semi-annually.
It is intimated that no general manager
will be appointed in place of General Man-
ager Mohler, of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis, VINO will retire on June l, but Cen
eral Freight Agent Hopkins will be appoint
ed traffic manager and General Superin-
operating department. Mr. Hopkins has
been general freight agent of the road for
eleven years.
President Thomson, of the Pennsylvania,
and Vice President McCrea, of the Penn
sylvania Company, while in the city yes
terday inspected the Big -Four freight
depots, which are credited with being the
best arranged depots in the country, and
to General Superintendent Van Wrinkle of
the Big -Four lines, said they were certain
ly we'll arranged and commodiouS buildings
for the purposes intended.
Local passenger officials have received in
vitations to make trip on the new Pull
has just completed for the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul, said to be the finest
train in the world. The party will take
the train at Chicago for run through Illi-
nois, taking dinner on the train, which will
leave the passenger station May % at z
p. M, returning at 1890 p. m.
w. N. Mitchell Southern representative
of the Baltimore & Ohio, has received adj
vices that the Southern Railway and the
South Carolina G Georgia Railroad have
Jointly notified by telegraph the receiver
of the Baltimore & Ohio that after May
80 they will refuse to handle any Vege-
tables and fruits from South Carolina ter
ritory via the Baltimore q Ohio. 1t is re-
ported the pressure for this has been put
on the Southern roads by the Pennsylva-
MIA, which has so long enjoyed a monopoly
of the Southern trade.
The freight officials of the Western roads
are still very Sanguine over the prospects
for traffic this fall. The reports they have
received from their agents throughout
assertion that they will have more business
this fall than they have had for some
years back. Some of the roads are of the
opinion that there is freight enough in sight
right now to keep them busy until the fall
of 1898. The more conservative roads are
not quite so hopeful of this, but most of
them look for an immense gain in freight
traffic after the 1st of September.
1t was announced yesterday that at the
meeting of the Chicago & Northern Pa
cif1c held in New York yesterday So per
cent. of the outstanding bonds were repre-
scented and that the plans of reorganiza-
ton and settlement. The settlement pro-
vides that $2,5OO000 of Chicago & Northern
of the securities of the Calumet road,
consisting of So, 900 of bonds and $5000000
of stock, shall be returned to the commit
tee for delivery to the new company. The
Northern Pacific manager received securi-
ties of the proposed new company equal in
organization in exchange for 100000 of
Chicago a. Northern Pacific bonds,