The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-01

many years. The Big -Four runs special
train every half hour from the Columbus
Union Station to the fair ground.
George w. Smith, formerly general pas
senger agent of the Lake Erie & Western,
who for time w&s in very poor health,
has recovered, and is now employed in one
Of the departments of the Trunk Line AS
ISOLATION.
1t is stated that nearly as large a per
cent. of the employees on the Chesapeake &
Ohio own stock of that road as on the II
chesapeake & Ohio has shown Increased
earnings each year during the depressed
period
Harry Miller, superintendent of the Van
dalia, was in the city yesterday and spent
a few minutes at the Office Of the receiver.
He gives very encouraging reports as TO
the business the Vandalia is doing, 1t now
having some of the largest business Gays
in the history of the road, and this without
its usual coal traffic
E. w. McKenna is making a great success
of his new process of making partially
Mr.. McGettigan, of this city, has been try
ing to induce Mr.. McKenna TO utilize the
rolling mill at Indianapolis, and 1t is becom-
ing apparent that his present facilities Tor
rerolling rails must be increased.
The rate Of $3.50, which has been made
for the meeting of the letter carriers IN
and it is expected that the roads will do a
large business as, with the exception or
the rates for the meeting of the Society OF
Christian Endeavor, it will be the lowest
rate made to the Pacific coast this year.
The boats running from Milwaukee to
Benton Harbor in connection with the Big
Four on Monday arrived at Benton Haf-
Dor with a cargo of twenty-five loaded
cars, seven being loaded with flour for ex-
port to London. The ferry line is takin g
back empty cars, there being $50 carloads
of freight at Milwaukee awaiting snip
ment.
To-day all the roads in the new mileage
bureau will withdraw from sale all mileage
except the new book issued by the central
was quite q liberal buying. 1t is noticeable
that the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Dayton
and the Indiana, Decatur & Western are
we'll supplied and selIng NUMBER Oh the
new books.
A local passenger official who watches
business very closely has discovered that
of the average nine hundred sunday eX-
cursonists carried from Indianapolis TO
Cincinnati at the one-dollar-a-round-t
rate $50 do not return on that ticket put
stop at Cincinnati or go to points beyond.
This he has discovered by noting the num-
Der of return tickets reported
Leading railroads to the number of one
hundred have been summoned to appear De
fore the nterstate-conlmerce commissioners
at Kansas City on Sept Il to answer
charges of the American Warehouse Com
pany that they are furnishing Tree SLOT
age to customers, contrary to the law pro-
hbiting the granting of concessions: Inc
case is the same as that begun in Chicago
early in the summer and in the course OF
which a great deal OF evidence was taken.
In speaking of the new mileage, book a
passenger official said yesterday that II a
conductor is inclined to be dishonest ana
also the travelling salesman II VIII De d
great temptation. The latter will take the
train for short distances, pay cash fares
and greatly increase the temptation Tor
crooked work with cash fares, ana LOT
that reason he thinks the new mileage Will
not be popular with conductors VINO are
careful in cash-fare reports. But TINS cou QUO
apply only to the r frav ss an baegage must
be checked when the ticket is handed by
the station agent.
One Of the surprises in passenger circles
is that the Pennsylvania lines, with their
excellent track, good equipment ana last
time do not secure a larger snare OF the
business between Louisville ana Cnlcago,
and that they do not seemingly take more
interest in the position that the Monon mas
taken on the mileage question one OF the
passenger fraternity lntlmates tna us,+ ;ne
which will surprise its competitors II mat
tiers drift along as now any great lengtn
of time. No one can make a more U ,nvIia
fight for business than the. Pennsylvanla
when convinced that it is not treated
honorably.
m A Iawes superintendent of motive
power of the Chicago g Eastern ; llll IaIl,
was in the city yesterday. The company
has Just closed a contract with tne FlIIs-
burg locomotive works for i've freignt TO-
comotives to be the heav,ei ine sI viii ~ weigh
P1 rs coo pounds, with Ia, 900 pounds over the
driving wheels, and will have twenty
bv = tWenty-six-inch cylinders. The fire box
will be ten feet six inches long ana
the boiler will have 800 flues ana Will carry
two hundred pounds of steam. Inc iargest
engine on the road at present nauls MY
loaded cars from Danville to chicago. Inc
new engines are guaranteed TO maui seven
ty-five loaded cars.
IT is stated that two or three Sundays
more will wind up the Sunday excursion
business on as large a scale as mas pre-
vailed for several Sundays past, and II IS
questionable, says a railway president, IL
this business is carried on to so great an
extent another year as during the summer
of 1897 President ingalls,, of the Big -FOUR;
Vice President McCrea, of the Pennsyl-
wanna lines; Vice President McDoel, of the
Monon. and General Manager Waldo, OF the
Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton, are not
disposed to look favorably on Sunday ex-
cursion business, and the matter or It's
being profitable to the roads is to be thor
oughly investigated. The threat of some
of the church-going people to bring the
matter before the courts has called atten-
ton to the matter, the Sunday observers
claiming it is discrimination winch, under
the nterstate-commerce act, is illegal.
Some of the roads have been selling TINS
class of tickets good going. on Saturday
and returning Monday, and this has caused
more or less opposition to the running or
Sunday excursions