The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-03-25

the Southern Pacific will make connection
at Benson, 4; Il with the New Mexico d
by the Sonora TO the city of Guayamas.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Directors of the Rock Island road have
declared Il quarterly dividend of 30 cents per
share, payable May 1.
James McCrea, first vice president of the
pennsylvania lines, is in Philadelphia con-
ferring with the Eastern officials.
The Panhandle has put a steam shovel
at work at Germantown and put on two
construction trains TO distribute ballast.
NJ. j. Todd. contracting agent of the Big
-Four at Cincinnati. will. after April /. rep
resent the West Shore road at that city.
Commencing with the first of next month
plan.
Thomas Campbell. representing the Wis
consIn Central, is in the city. He reports
business improving steadily in the North
west.
A NJ. MendenhalI ranks as the oldest
tralnmaster Oh the Panhandle lines, hav-
ing just completed his twenty-sixth year in
service.
The employees at the Union Station have
made up a purse of $3.50 and presented it
TO John Lane. a gatekeeper who has been
quite III Tor some weeks.
i. II. COnlisk, who recently left the
Wheeling 4 Lake Erie, has accepted a po-
sition on the Missouri. Kansas K Texas as
general agent at Dallas, Tex.
officials .sehaff. Van Wrinkle and cav
anauSh, of the Big Four, were yesterday in
Cairo. They will be in St. Louis to-day
looking after terminal matters.
The financial papers have begun to call
the Monon by its new title. the Chicago.
indianapolis * Louisville. and in the next
issue of the Official Railway Guide that
name will appear.
With the taking effect of the summer time
table the Pennsylvania, in connection with
the Wabash. Will rn~-pEt9h1iGh the tbrOlOh
sleeping car line between Louisville and
Detroit via Logahsport.
The new bridge across the Missouri river
at Sioux City. which cost 81. 500. 900 and was
completed a year ago, was used for the
first time on Monday. The Pacific Short
line has made a contract TO run its trains
over il.
The Toledo, ST. Louis & Kansas City
earned in the third week of March $50, 0l9.6l
an increase over the corresponding week of
1896 of S23s6.32. Since July L the road has
earned $l,64l,i THU, an increase this year OF
SOS, 031. SO.
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
transportation department is pleased with
the results from adopting the tonnage sys-
tenn for freight trains, as from two to seven
more loaded cars are hauled TO the train
than under the old method of rating loco
motives.
The Pennsylvania Company is putting all
its passenger equipment in fine condition.
A large per cent. of it's equipment Is
coaches built within the last two years. the
company ndNllS ulSlOSCu VI iJOSI II IL
older cars, so great are the improvements
on passenger cars in the last few years.
The Pennsylvania last week made a fast
run from Washington TO Jersey City, cover
ing the 227 miles in four hours and forty
five minutes. and a special carrying the
same party over the New York. New Haven
& Hartford ran from New York to New
Haven, seventy-four miles, in eighty-two
minutes.
Engine No. 10, recently brought out of
the Monon shops at Lafayette, has several
new features. one of which is that the air
brake exhausts through a small pipe run
ming out of the cab instead of passing
out of the smokestack. as is usually the
case. This. il is claimed. prevents a clog
ging up Of the net of the smokestack.
Railroad officials. almost without excep-
ton, speak of an Improvement in business,
the increase being gradual: but of healthy
ayers have fully decided what to do in the
way of Improvements. but should business
continue TO increase more will be done the
coming summer than in either of the last
three years.
The Carnegie Steel Company has decided
TO convert its largest steel billet mill. the
largest in the world. into a mill TO roll rails.
This will enable the Carnegie mills to turn
out 200 tons of steel rails daily. 1t is
said that this change is made to put the
compete with the Illinois steel mills in the
manufacture OF rails.
a considerable mileage of new steel rail
is now being laid on the Panhandle lines.
OA anu odNaAAb5C NaS NohCii III tht
light traffic and two miles OF new steel,
Weighing e~ighty-five pounds to the yard.
was laid between Sheridan and Temper
anceville. and at other places between
Pittsburg and Columbus a large quantity of
new steel rails has been distributed.
A few months ago the Union Railway
missed two policemen and allowed matters
TO drift along without any person TO act as
detective or to watch property. and as a
result a good deal of thieving has been
going on at the Union Station. Within the
last forty-eight hours five valises and two
overcoats have been stolen from the wait
ing rooms.
Major B. s. Henning. formerly general
manager of the l.. b. & W., is in Florida
looking after his land interests, which is
the only thing left Of his once large in
vestments in the Florida Central a PENN
sular road. A local attorney who met him
last week in Florida says he looked quite
money from his investments TO make him
comfortable for the remainder of his life.
Within the last eighteen months twenty
six of the locomotives of the Cincinnati.
the shops of the Indiana. Decatur e. West
ern. and twenty-five of that company's
coaches have been o~verhauled and re-
painted at these shops. Eighteen more will
be given the same treatment, and several
more of the Cincinnati. Hamilton * Dayton
engines. The burning or the snop at Lima
forced making the repairs here.
Under an ordinance passed on Monday
night by the City Council the Cincinnati,
| Jackson & Mackinaw gets an independent
entrance into Cincinnati. The company
OWNS valuable terminals at that point and
will now build from Franklin, q. The gen.
eral understanding is that the Brice syndi-
cate is behind this enterprise and that il is
but part of a move making the Brice lines
one great system. striking Nsome of the
largest and best cities and towns in Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan.
The scalpers are a little uneasy lest the
recent decision of the United States Su-
preme Court may not have some bearing
on them. The American Ticket Brokers
Association and the Guarantee Brokers As
ISOLATION have claimed TO be the strongesi
and among the wealthiest combinations in
this country and the fight they have made
against the anti-scalping bills gives weight
TO their assertion. No body of men has
hung together as tenaciously as have the
scalpers and the payment or lines IN case
an agreement was broken has been enforced
to the letter.
A conference of passenger representatives
of Kansas City roads was held i'm Chicago
yesterday. Its object was the consideration
of rate decentralization at Kansas City. east
bound, and especially through the ST LOUIS
gateway Owing 10 the excitement into
which the Supreme Courts decision in the
tranSmissouri case has thrown the roads
the conference took the shape Of an in
formal discussion of the situation and ne
definite decision was arrived at. Threat:
are openly made. however, that unless deals
with brokers be discontinued an open reduc'
ton i'm rates will be made.
Not in years has any action caused Sc
much comment. among not My railroad
but business men. as the decision OF tht
United States Supreme Court which says
that pooling agreements are illegal. Con
servative railway officials and business mel
look with some anxiety 10 the future. Th'
very fact that the roads which have beer
kept i'm line only by such agreements of as