The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-30


pany owns 267 miles in that city. The an
nual appraisement of the company has
been but $4S, $50, but dispatch from Ander-
son last night says under the showing made
it should have been $50, 100, and that steps
will be taken at once to collect $1,000 back
taxes due that CITY,
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Cumberland Dispatch will establish
an agency at Chicago.
The st. Joseph Valley road is hereafter
to be known as the Milwaukee, Benton
Harbor & Columbus.
The next regular meeting of the Central
Passenger Committee Association will be
held at Mackinac Island, July Z.
A. H. Huston, agent of the Union Star
line at Akron, will, on July l. succeed e. c.
Beach as agent of the line at Columbus, o.
w. P. Barker will on July become gem.
eral superintendent Of the Plant system of
roads west of Way Cross, vice c. o.
Parker, resigned
The report that Roswell Miller, president
of the Chicago Milwaukee q st. Paul, is
to resign on account of ill health is denied
by the best authority.
Every mile of the Whitewater division of
the Big Four between Valley Junction and
Cambridge City is laid with steel weighing
sixty-two pounds to the yard.
The entire freight equipment of the Big
Four is to be reconstructed and remembered
systematically basing the numbers on the
capacity and different pattern of cars.
c. Tillinghast, assistant general freight
agent of the Big Four at Chicago, was in
the city yesterday on official business and
left on the evening train for Cincinnati.
I. 1. Crisp, late with the Louisville,
Evansville & St; Louis, has taken posi-
ton with the, Blue Ridge Despatch, which
is about to begin operations in this ter
ritory.
The Rio Grande Western has scheduled
thirty-two trains to handle the Christian
Endeavor people These trains will COM
mence to arrive at Salt Lake City on Fri
day of this week.
The Monon shops at Lafayette, recently
built, are proving a great money distributor
for that business center. The monthly pay
rolls at Lafayette now range between $178
900 and $4,000 per month.
Perry Griffin, late Northwestern passenger
agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
represent the Chicago & Rock Island in the
East, vice James Gass, resigned.
Orders were issued yesterday that on
July l the shops of the Cleveland, Lorraine
&c Wheeling should commence running six
days of the week ten hours. For two years
past they have not run one-hah the time.
w: H. Lewis, for some years past master
mechanic of the shops of the Chicago. Bur
lington & Quincy at La Crosse, will July
l succeed r. H. Soule as superintendent of
motive power of the Norfolk & Western.
The tonnage of the Vandalia for the
month of June, this year, has been in ex-
cess of that of any June in the last four
years, and had rates been what they We're
in 1892 the freight earning exhibit would
have been as favorable
Fl. M. Bronson, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Big -Four, will accom-
pany the official train of the Christian En-
deavor. people which left yesterday noon
hundred travellers on the train.
The Monon is pushing improvements on
the north end vigorously. At Rensselaer,,
Surrey. Lowell and Cedar Lake, where the
company is cutting down the grades and
taking out curves five construction trains
and between three and four hundred men
are at work.
The statement that the new mileage book
which the Central Committee lines are to
place on sale can be easily manipulated by
scalpers is not true The passengers must
sign the exchange ticket presented with the
covers Of the book on which it is issued in
the presence of the conductor of the train.
Chairman Midgley, of the Western
number of traffic officials Of the western
roads, left Chicago for New York yesterday
to attend conference of the Joint Traffic
Association lines with the lake lines to be
held to-day with the view OF cutting down
lake line differentials
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern has
got its large new passenger engines in good
running order and is making some very
fast runs frequently with them, recently
hauling one of their fast express trains
from ST. Louis to Cincinnati at an average
speed of tifty-six and one-half miles an
hour
George Kittredge, chief engineer of the
Big Four, was in the city last evening,
turning from Benton Harbor where he
succeeded, through the courts, in prevent
ing the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Co
lHmbns road laying its track <, across that Of
inconvenience the latter.
At midnight tonight f. P. Ripley be-
comes president of the Atlantic & Pacific,
recently acquired by the Santa Fe people;
Paul Morton third vice president, and W.
G.. Nevins general manager. A. G.. Wells,
formerly with the Big -Four, will be con-
Atlantic & Pacific division.
The trains which are to make up the
Southwestern Limited between Cincinnati
and New York over the Big Four are being
put through the shop at Brightwood, to
be fitted on an elaborate scale and painted
a dark color TO distinguish the train from
the KniclSerbocker, which is made up of the
best passenger equipment of the Big Four.
The reports concerning the recent fast
runs on the Lehigh Valley road having been
questioned, the road has issued certified
copy of the train sheets. showing in detail
the movement of the train Portions of the
road We're covered at speed of 1913 miles
an hour, and the Is. SO miles between Sayre
and Alpine were run in thirty-three min
uteS.
The net earnings of the Burlington road
for the month Of May showed deficit
of $51. 1884, This is an increase of $200, 6l5
the deficit was $251 552. For the months
from Jan. TO May 81, the net earnings of
the system have been SS77333, which is an
increase of 81 093,ol0 over the same period
of the preceding year, when there was a
deficit for these months of $2l5,677.
An official of the Big Four expresses the
opinion that freight rates east bound out
of ST. Louis are, now better maintained
than at any time in the last ten years. He
says that while the st. Louis division of
the Big Four is not getting the percentage
of business it is entitled to- it is better to
carry but 10 per cent. and move the bust
ness at some profit than TO haul il on a cut
rate with no margin above the actual cost
of handling.
A call has been issued for the monthly
meeting of the Central Passenger Commit
tee. which viii be held next week at Mack
mac island There is large docket to be
disposed Of but the majority of matters
are of routine nature. The most i'm
portant thing that will come up for dis
cussion is the revision of existing methods
for handling mileage tickets. according to
the suggestions of the board of managers
of the Joint Traffic Association.
Judge Carlanx. eff the South Dakota Dis
trict United States Court. has issued an Or
der restraining the railroad commission of
that State from attempting TO put into eff
feet the maximum rate law established by
the last Legislature of South Dakota The
hearing was had at Sioux Falls at the in
stance of the Chicago g. Northwestern. the
Great Northern, the Fremont Elkhorn &.
Missouri Valley, the Burlington & Chicago.
and the St. Paul. Minneapolis & Omaha
roads
The owners OF the Green Bay & Western
road have acquired control of the Kewau-
nee, Green Bay a. Western road by pur-
chase of the interests OF President w j..
Abrams. General Manager S. w. Champion