The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-23

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lines. is expected home from the East to-
day.
The Pennsylvania Company will run a
low-rate excursion to Louisville next Sun
day.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy will
adopt the gate system on it's passenger
trains.
on Sunday the Panhandle will discontinue
one train each way between Richmond and
Cincinnati
Detective Grady of the Big Four lines,
has gone to West Baden for a weeks rest,
he being quite unwell
Joseph Wood, fourth vice president of the
Pennsylvania Company, is in South Da-
kota on a hunting trip.
w. f. Bruner, assistant general passenger
agent of the Vandalla lines and PennsyI-
vania at st. Louis, was in the city yester-
day.
General Manager Frey. Of the Santa Fe,
and a number of his subordinate officials
are making a careful inspection of the sys-
tenn.
A. Walbauer has been appointed to rep
resent the passenger department of the
Grand Trunk, with headquarters at Nj
agara Falls.
The Wabash has several extra gangs en-
ployed putting the new heavy steel rail- re-
Gently received in its main line between To-
ledo and Peru.
The rumor that the Columbus, Sandusky
& Hooking Valley is to become part of
the Baltimore & Ohio system is denied on
high authority
The stockholders of the Indiana, Decatur
& Western will meet in this city Oct. Is to
elect three directors and transact any other
business necessary.
The Ohio roads which cut down their pas
senger train service pending the settlement
of the coal miners strike have restored the
trains then taken off.
In the last week, as a result of the inn
provement in business on the Vandalia,
three firemen on the main line have been
promoted to engineers.
Roads in the Central Passenger Associa-
ton have agreed to make a rate of one and
a third fare for the round trip to hunters
going to Michigan points.
Horace Kerns, the conductor who WAS
dismissed from the !sndalia on account of
wreck. has been employed on the Wabash
lines as passenger conductor.
Daniel Dreamer, chief train dispatcher cf
the Big Four, left for Denver yesterday
and from there will go to Arizona, and if
not then benefited in health will go to New
Mexico.
John Wise the veteran passenger con-
ductor on the Vandalia, is still at West
Baden. His health has improved somewhat
as a result of his five weeks stay at the
springs
Train II. on the Big Four, between In
dianapolis and ST. Louis has become the
best paying train per mile run on the Big
Four system. The train consists of eight
to nine cars daily.
The directors of the Chicago & Rock
Island Railroad have declared a quarterly
dividend of l per cent. This is an increase
in the dividend rate from per cent basis
to a per cent basis.
J. F. Constans has been appointed trav
cling freight agent of the St Louis ~ san
Francisco, with headquarters at PittSburg
This is the first time the road has mad
representative at Pittsburg.
Since Sept. 1 the Panhandle has received
from the Altoona shops fve of the new
heavy mogul engines, and all are now IN
fast freight service, hauling live stock,
dressed meats and other perisnable
freights.
e. Ohio looks for a handsome increase In
export business via Newport News when
the Phoenix line service to Antwerp IS put
in operation. Four fine vessels Will ply De-
tween Newport News and Antwerp.
All the officers and clerical force of the
general offices of the Mobile d. ONO nave
been transferred from Mobile to ST LOUIS
to remain while the yellow fever scare IS
on 1t required two special trains to carry
the officials, clerks and their families from
Mobile to St. Louis.
O. p. McCarty, who will, on Oct. /, be-
come general passenger agent Of the BAL
timore & Ohio Southwestern lines, mas,
since appointed received nearly one nun
dred applications for positions, some OF the
ing railroad positions.
The 2?1b-cents-per- 100 pounds rate on
grain and grain products when is 10 pc,
come effective Oct. 10 is the rate ievel
zation, east-bound, set in. and is said to De
as low a rate as the roads can carry the
business and make a fair profit
The Vandalia surprised its competitors by
slipping into Peoria and securing the heavy
glucose shipments from that point Tor some
time to come. These shipments now amount
to forty to fifty cars per Gay. Con comp foTs
the direct lines through cut in rates
A general passenger agent remarked yes
terday that the best evidence he had seen
vet that the country was more prosperous
is the large increase in the number of peo-
pie who are taking advantage of the home
seekers low rates, the travel OF TINS class
being fully treble that or the tall or 1880
The Monon has issued a circular similar
to that of the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Day
ton concerning Interchangeable mileage
Conductors will honor all mileage for points
on the main line which comes to IT through
the through car service established between
the two systems the Monon and the C., IA.
& u.
ton at Columbus have given notice that
the structure is completed and have asked
the chief engineers OF the Big -Four ana the
Pennsylvania lines, the roads which are the
owners of the property to meet and APP
prove their work and take 1t or their
hands.
Vice President John M. Egan, of the
Georgia Central Railway at Savannah, was
asked Yesterday about the report that he
was to succeed H. NJ. Conner as president
of the Georgia Central. Mr.. Egan says
home from Texas and the Pacific coast. In
the absence of the Centrads president,
Mr. Egan declined to discuss the rumor.
The Rock Island directors yesterday elect
ed the following officers: Warren G. Purdy,
first vice president to succeed Benjamin
Brewster, deceased; w. II. Truesdale, sec
ond vice president, to succeed w. j. Purdy,
promoted; George ). brewster, member OIL
the board of directors, to succeed Benjamin
Brewster, deceased; r. +. Flower, member
of the executive committee, to succeed Ben
jamin Brewster.
The PENNSYLVANIA Company will, on Sept.
90, run its last through sleeping car between
Louisville and Mackinaw and between Gin
cinnati and Mackinaw north-bound, and the
last through car between such points south
ward on the 26th. The local sleeper be-
tween Grand Rapids and Cincinnati will be
restored, and Train 2 Tor Richmond, will
connect with it north-bound and Train
with it at Richmond when coming south.
Train Master Lands. of the Indianapolis
q Vincennes, says that at the coal mines
on the road forty cars per day are now
being loaded and 140 could be loaded daily
for three months to come could cars be
ders Unfortunately, during the strike
many coal cars of the Pennsylvania have
gone to the Eastern lines and it will be
some time before the indianapolis a. Vim
cennes gets its old quota of cars back.
col c. H. Holdridge has been appointed
agent of the Ocean Steamship Company at
New York. Mr.. Hodridge begun his rail-
road career on the Grand Rapids * Indiana
as 4 car repairer. Later he was given
clerkship. then was appointed agent of the
company at West Grand Rapids and from
that time he has been frequently promoted.
About year ago he became commercial
agent of the Seaboard Airline at Pittsburg,
and by Traffic Manager Hinton was pro-
noted to his present position.
The Wisconsin Central has announced
wholesale reductions on freight rates from