The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-23

which has been vacant since the retirement
OF Payson Tucker. Mr.. Evans was for sew
Vile Evansville 4 ST. Louis going 10 the
Boston & Maine in 1892 as division superin-
tendent.
The new form Of interchangeable mileage
tickets issued by the Western roads is prov
ing very popular The Sebastian ticket was
placed on sale Nov. 10, and twenty-five
thousand tickets were ordered printed, as
1t was thought that they would be sufficient
for the demands that would be made. This
number is exhausted, however, and another
twenty-five thousand has been ordered.
The Indiana, Decatur & Western has es--
tablished a new station at its crossing of
the Chicago & Indiana Coal road, to be
known at Metcher An extensive brick
manufacturing plant he's BEEN located there.
Paymaster Horton, of the Big -Four, in
making his monthly rounds goes over the
Chicago and Seneca division of the Big
-Four, 364 miles, in eleven hours, record he
thinks hard to excel.
East-bound freight shipments from Chi
cago for the week ending Nov. IL amounted
to 4f,S0l tons, against 1910 the previous
week and $3.50 last year, divided among
the different roads as follows: Panhandle
1900; Michigan Central BIB; Wabash. 1893
Lake Shore 1862 Fort Wayne. S,T29; Balti-
more & Ohio, 3455; Grand Trunk, BAG;
Nickel-plate, 4,5S3 Erie, 1875; Big Four,
1900. The lake lines carried 1858 tons
The Western roads declare that they will
reduce still further the rates between Chi
cago and Colorado points If it should Irove
necessary TO maintain their traffic against
the competition of the steamship lines and
the southwestern roads doing business at
the Gulf of Mexico ports. It has become a
serious matter for some of the roads and
they have seem during the last three
months a very large amount of tonnage go
through the Gulf of Mexico, which, other
wise, they would have handled.
The Union Pacific reorganization COM
mittee pending the makeup of the new or
ganiZation, after tho property shall have
been delivered to the reorganized company
al hn foil ffacr TO naf
committee in charge of the affairs of the
road: Winslow s. Pierce, James Stillman
Marvin Hughitt, Fl. II. Hartman and Otto
H. Kahn: 1t is reported also that S. H. H.
Clarke, the former president of the Union
Pacific Company, Will probably not desire
to be placed at the head of the reorganized
company owing to Ill health.
The opinion prevails that there should be
o. 1urther modification of the new inter-
changeable mileage. AS now used 1t works
much inconvenience in going from one sta
ton to another, especially at junction
points. where connections are very close.
FRIENDS of the book say there is some cause
Tor complaint on this score. The recent
modification helped matters considerably
but in the matter above referred To further
changes are needed to make the book more
convenient. All talk about the roads hold
ing the $40 rebate has ceased, as the per-
sons who travel on mileage, who formerly
had to carry half a dozen mileage books,
now get over the same territory with one
book.
the Chicago roads are not as jubilant as
ten days ago, when it was understood that
after Dec. / the roads running through
trains between St. Louis and New York
must charge 81 excess fare per hour for any
run made in less than thirty hours, and
Chicago roads that made the run in TWEEN
ty-six hours should charge the excess fare
Of 81 per hour for faster time. The fight
that st. Louis business men made on this
discrimination against that city and that
on the part of the roads now running fast
trains, convinced the Joint Traffic Associa-
ton that they were stepping on dangerous
ground, and the mater was turned over to
others to adjust.