The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-04

assumed the duties of superintendent of
motive power of the St. Louis, Peoria &
Northern, with headquarters at Springfield,
The report of Henry Fraser general
| agent of the Big Four at this point, shows
| that in August there We're unloaded at the
| city freight depOtS g. III cars and loaded 3,943
cars, making total of 1855 cars of freight
handled.
The Toledo St. Louis & Kansas City
] earned in the fourth week of August ST.
! 210.51, an increase over the corresponding
week of 1896 of $S573.50. In August the road
earned S22L5l5.62, an increase over August
1886, of so, 099 A.
| In August 71,74 cars were transferred
| over the Belt road, one of the heaviest bus
! mess months in the sixteen years the road
has been in operation. Belt road engines
| handled at the stock yards in August 4,692
carloads of live stock.
The old story that the Vanderbilts are
| about TO secure control of the Columbus
& Hooking Valley is revived. Probably the
report grows out of the fact that the Nor
gan syndicate is taking a hand in the pro-
| posed reorganization scheme
c; B. Cramer has been appointed foreman
| of the shops of the Pennsylvania Company
at Alliance, o., vice John Moore, who has
filled the position for the last twenty years
| The latter will remain in the service of the
! company, but in a less arduouS position.
| On Sept. IA the arbitrators of the Joint
| Traffic Association will listen to the appeal
| Of the Erie for the application Of excess
| fare charges on the fastest trains between
| New York and Chicago. The Erie hopes to
divert some of the business from the Lake
| Shore.
| Secretary Bliss has requested Secretary
Alger to furnish four troops of cavalry at
| Zuni N. M, on the 18th inst. for the pro-
| lection of the territorial authorities in ar
resting and prosecuting several Zunl In
| dams accused of torturing an aged Zuni
woman.
Eugene Ireland, who about year ago.
vile, Henderson & st. Louis Railway, has
| been reinstated and has gone to work He
| has been engaged in the grocery business
| at Seymour, which stock he disposed of
| this week. ~
| The rumor is revived that John Chesbo-
| rough, general passenger agent of the Bal
timore d Ohio southwestern. is to be sue
ceeded by 0. P. McCarty, formerly holding
! that position on the B. & Q. S. w. While it
may be true it could not be confirmed on
reliable authority yesterday
For the month of July the freight earnings
| of the Burlington road were $2,0O5,47S, an in
crease of $323,097 over the same month or
last year. The passenger earnings We're
| 1892, 603 a decrease of $2G,062. The net earn
ngs of the road for the month were 1885, ABS,
an increase of ,314 over the same month
Of last year.
The New Cumberland, West Virginia,
| Steubenville to New Cumberland, will be
| formally opened to-day In celebrating the
event mammoth picnic, with speeches by
| railway officials and business men inter-
| eSted, will be held at Mahan'S Grove,
point on the new line.
The fact that Vice President Hobart had
| retired from the directory of the New York
| Susquehanna & Western Railroad gave rise
| to the rumor that he had resigned from
| the board of arbitration of the Joint Traffic
| Association. This rumor was authoritative
| ly denied by a leading official of the Trunk
Line Association yesterday
AS is usually the case the higher officials
! of the Baltimore q Ohio are expressing
regret that NJ b. Cutter saw fit to resign
! when William Gibson was appointed to a
| higher position than his Mr. Greene, gen
eral manager, and Mr.. Gibson, who goes
to Pittsburg, express regret that he retireS
and say that it was not expected that Mr.
| Cutter would resign.
j. Pierpont Morgan with other financial
and railroad men, has in the last three
days, been inspecting the Chicago Great
| western. This is creating good deal of
SCmineHl' DIS lhef tIlqdso Great w eStein
has been noted for being rate disturber,
and if it comes under the Morgan syndi-
Gates influence ii means that it will take
an entirely different attitude in rate mat
tiers. svRs
Some weeks ago mention was made that
in the near future the relations between
| the Baltimore & Ohio proper and the Bal
timore & Ohio Southwestern were likely to
be more close. and the changes then limited
at are. as stated by a Cincinnati paper,
about to be contaminated. That Oscar Muir
ray will have more power in the operation
of the b. q O. Southwestern is daily becom-
ing more evident
Attachments were issued at Nashville
Tenn, yesterday byuUnited States Judge
Clark for the arrest of L. G. Cagney, Will
liam Fitzgerald, j. r Bradley. J. p. Muir
ply. Lee Shyer, William Murphy and G. A.
Mosely charged with contempt of court
and violating an injunction issued by Judge
Clark. The attachments We're issued on
the complaint of the Nashville Chatta-
| nooga & St Louis Railway Company. and
allege illegal sale of tickets in violation of
an injunction. ~
In legal and financial circles a belief pre-
walls that q bitter legal fight is about to
begin between two factions to secure con-
troll of the Baltimore & Ohio. with view
of reorganizing it. The opposing parties
are J. z. Morgan &, Co., the New York
bankers, and their allies, the Mercantile
Trust Deposit Company of New York; the
Safe Deposit Company, of Baltimore; Johns
Hopkins University and private stockhod-
ers of the Baltimore d Ohio holding many
millions of the stock.
The annual report of the Illinois Central
road was issued yesterday. For the year
ended June 30. 1897, the gross receipts from
traffic were $22, no 937, and the expenses of
operation and taxes were SIS. 1874 leaving
net receipts from traffic of $6,S75,053 The
income from all other sources sWelled the
total net receipts of the road to $3.50 PAS.
The, total fXed &c charges and rentals of the
road were $40 sos. During the year 81
625 900 paid out in dividends and 1924 46l
has been carried forward and set apart as
applicable to future dividends. The net re-
ceipts from traffic for the year showed a
decrease of $665.514, and the total net re-
ceipts from all sources showed decrease OF
%19,7Sl from the year ended June 30, 1896.
The trouble over the payment of COM
missions on North Pacific coast business
which was started some time ago by the
Union Pacific is on the increase. The COM
mission rate made by Union Pacific at
the outset was IS per ticket, and now it is
double that amount, and all roads are pay
ing it. The generalization is hurting the
roads east of the Missouri river, but they
are powerless to protect themselves at pres
emit They have, however, started q move
ment for the reorganization of the Trans
continental Passenger Association, beng OF
the opinion that agreement to restore
and maintain rates is the only thing that will
put an end to the Generalization. No defl-
mite date has as yet been set for the meet
ing but it is likely that it will be held in
Chicago about Sept. 20.
Newell Pettee, formerly travelling pas
senger agent of the West Shore and Michi-
gan Central Railroads, but for some time
excursion manager Of the Union Pacific at
Boston met with a surprise while on his
way to the Pacific coast with an excursion
party. When the train reached Omaha it
was met by Samuel Hutchinson general
passenger agent of the road. Mr.. Pettee
was asked what he was doing on that
train, and upon his replying that he
thought he had business there, he was told
to report to the general office and turn in
his passes. This to a railroad man means
nothing less than that he is discharged.
He did not stop to ask any questions, but
it passed through his own mind that it
was a long walk to Buffalo. He went to