The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-12-13

the meeting of the presidents ON Wednesday
and Thursday.
The November pay roll of the Missouri
Pacific carries with it a restoration of for
mer compensation for all whose salaries
were reduced in 1885,
z. s. Rigby and E. link, engineers on the
yandalia, have resigned and viii go TO San
Francisco. where they have positions await
ing them on one of the California roads
NJ. +. ingalls,, president of the Big Four
lines, will to-day leave Hot Springs for New
York TO attend the meeting of presidents
in that city on Wednesday and Thursday.
George II. Smith retires to-day as assist
ant general passenger agent Of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton. and Walter j.
Nichols will assume the duties of the posi-
ton.
]. A. Spoor, late general manager of the
Wagner Palace Car Company, will, on Dec.
Is, assume the duties of president and gem
Western.
l.. G. Cannon, controller and assistant to
President Ristine Of the Colorado Midland
spent Sunday in the city, the guest of Will
liam Cannon, secretary of the Union Rail-
way Company.
w. l.. Church, who for fifteen years has
been chief clerk of the Santa Fe Railway
offices at Wichita, Kan, has resigned to be-
come general manager Of the street rail-
ways of Wichita.
James McCrea, vice president of the
Pennsylvania Company. has been in Phila-
delphia several days comforting with Pres
ident Thomson and others as to improve
ments on the lines west of Pittsburg.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has
another grain blockade at Kansas City. On
Friday there were several hundred more
loaded cars at that point than could be
moved with the power at the command of
the %" road
Master Mechanic LAWYER of the Big Four
shops at Brightwood last week received d
letter from A G. Wells. general superin-
tendent of the Santa Fe, Pacific & Southern
HALLWAY asking him
eight good engineers.
Travelling Auditor Hewitt, of the Big
-Four, who makes all transfers of agents,
says that in the fourteen years he has held
the position there were the feWest changes
in agents in 1897 of any year in that period
and no irregularity worthy of note was
found.
Daniel Dreamer. former chief train dis
patcher of the Big Four, who a few months
ago went to California is 50 much improved
in health that he has accepted position
as train dispatcher on one of the California
roads with good prospects of promotion to
chief train dispatcher.
Vice President Bancroft General Traffic
Manager Eccles and General Attorney Will
liams, of the Oregon Short-line with their
secretaries, are in Boston this week trying
to determine what shall in the future be
the traffic relations between the Oregon
Short-line and the Union Pacific
The four Pennsylvania lines especially
the Panhandle proper, are doing the heav-
lest business at indianapolis in the history
Goa
cars were handled at this city, 1868 being
loaded, which is .004 more than We're ham
died here in the corresponding week of 1896
The interchange of traffic between the Big
-Four and the Chesapeake a. Ohio is again
up to fully five hundred cars daily. The
Big -Four is giving the Chesapeake & Ohio
a. o 3d. deal OF grain and cotton for export
Ohio is giving the Big Four a good deal of
coal for northern points.
The threat that the Vanderbilt lines be-
tween Chicago and New York would reduce
the rate to $1S first-class between those
points unless the lines between ST. Louis
ana New York heightened their time or
charge 81 an hour excess fare for anything
under thirty hours between St. Louis and
New York proves to have been a bluff and
there is the best of authority for stating
that neither the schedule between Chicago
and New York nor the rates will be
changed.
Last week there was meeting in Wash
ington between President Thomson, of the
Pennsylvania; President ingalls,, of the
Chesapeake & Ohio; President Spencer, of
the Southern Railway, and President
Waters. of the Atlantic-coast line, to take
some action on contemplated improvements
at the capital, and as a result the Penn
sylvania will erect union station much
similar in size and plan to the Broad-street
station of the Pennsylvania road at Phila-
delphia, the other lines mentioned to use
1t jointly with the Pennsylvania people.
The Joint Traffic Association has de-
cllned an extension of the limit of eXpira-
rates on articles of iron and steel manu-
facture, which expire on Dec. 81, 1897, and
Tor which application was made to have
fusal of the Joint Traffic Association to
grant this request means that an advance
OF from 10 cents to 20 cents in iron rates
VIII be made between all points governed
by the association in carloads. This in
crease in rates will 20 into effect on Jan. l.
The Vandalia last week beat the record
handling at Indianapolis 2,437 loaded cars,
limo 1
cars. out OF total of 2,946 cars but 500
We're empty an empty-car record which is
fully as striking as .the large loaded-car
movement. Usually transportation officials
are well satisfied should one-fourth of the
total movement be empty cars. In this
case only one-sixth of the total number of
cars handled at this point were empty, and
this, too, when there is a heavy livestock
movement and considerable coal being
handled.
AS result of the operation of the South
ern Pacific Sunset Limited trains out of
Chicago during the present season the pas
senger department of the Southern Pacific
make the Southern trip via New Orleans to
San Francisco the benefit of a similar serv-
ice out of the Crescent City. Commencing
out OF New Orleans Jan. 4 and every Sat
urday and Tuesday thereafter, the Sunset
Limited" annex will depart for the Pacific
coast, making connection with the Sunset
leave San Francisco for New Orleans every
Monday and Thursday, commencing Dec 30
The war of fast time passenger schedules
between the Illinois Central and Louisville
& Nashville roads inaugurated last Sunday
was advanced another stage yesterday by
the former road. Beginning with yesterday
the Illinois Centrals Memphis and New Or
leans limited passenger train will leave Gin
cinnati at y. m. instead of at 1855 as here
tofore, via the Baltimore & Ohio South
western railroad and will arrive in Louis
Vile at 7:40 a. m. Leaving the latter place
at 500 p. IN. (former starting time 10 p. M
the train will arrive at Memphis and New
Orleans the same time as at present. The
time of the corresponding north bound train
will be further shortened fifteen minutes
and depending schedules from Evansville
and elsewhere will be adjusted proportion
ately. Illinois Central officials say the new
arrangement will insure quicker service
from Louisville south than has heretofore
existed on any line.
DRUG PRICES ADVANCED.