The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-25

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porter that at no time has the outlook been
| as promising that the road would be built
| as at present: The president of the com
| letter from the East in relation to furnish
ing money to build the road.
The employees on the Wabash are not
pine. One of the latest bulletins showed
five marks each against the names of five
engineers and five fremen for allowing
steam TO blow off contrary to the rules but
as they better understand the matter less
complaint is likely to be heard.
Train IL, on the Vandalia, which arrives
mere at 80 p; m: between Terre Haute
and Indianapolis, is the fastest train on
the road, stopping only at Brazil and
Greencastle, and under the change which
went into effect on Sunday it connects with
the Panhandle for Richmond and with the
Lake Erie Western for the north.
Some Of the merchants of Wabash are
keeping record Of the business they get
each month from employees in the shops Of
the Big Four at that point and use the fig
ures to show the wisdom of the citizens
voting a subsidy to secure the new shops
Four shop men in May paid him 81 ,l23 10 for
groceries.
The New York, New Haven & Hartford
via the Shore line, has cut down the run
another thirty minutes, and is readily maxi
ing the shorter schedule. The track be-
tween New York and Boston, via the Shore
line, is said to be at the highest standard,
and at all highway crossings and through
cities its track is above or below the grade.
Jeremiah o'Mara, who, for twenty-five
years was porter of the American Elk
press Company at the Union Station, and
who recently suffered a paralytic stroke,
was Yesterday pensioned by the express
company, and will now, during his life,
receive from the company $25 a month half
ms regular pay. when in health Mr..
Brown, agent of this company at this
point, now has seven pensioners on his roll.
The remains of John Shaw, millionaire
of New York, formerly president of the
Toledo & Hooking Valley Railroad We're
buried in the Sacramento (Cal) City Gene
terry. The members of his family accom-
panied the remains from New York in a
special car, and large number of friends
the funeral. He lived in San Francisco a
number of years and built the first railway
line on Market street.
Isaac ". w. butcher, jr., Southwestern
agent of the Rome WATERFOWL g. Ogdens
burg and the Ontario Dispatch lines, died
of pneumonia at st. Louis yesterday, after
born about fifty years ago in the city of
Quincy Ill. In 1888 Mr.. butcher organized
the fast freight lines known as the Rome,
Watertown & Ogdensburg and the Ontario
Dispatch and became their Western agent
which position he held at the time Of his
death.
agent of the Baltimore q Ohio Southwest
ern, in the city yesterday, and his
friends will be pleased to learn that he has
fully recovered from the injuries received
in the accident near Parkersburg a few
months ago He has a few scars on his
person to remind him of the accident. Pas
senger traffic the B. & O. S. W. has inn
proved of late considerably, and, as with
Indianapolis lines the through business of
the road is quite satisfactory.
1t is now thought that the management
of the Pennsylvania lines West will now
take a more cheerful view of the business
situation, as the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne e.
tonnage carried out of Chicago, and of
course, the Pennsylvania lines carry it at
tariff rates. Not only out of Chicago is
the business of the PENNSYLVANIA improv-
ing, but all over the system. The Vandalia
last week delivered more freight to the
Panhandle than in any week in soma
months.
The chairman of the Western Passenger
Association yesterday made a decision that
will curtail to a certain extent the issue
of halt-fare permits to religious workers. A
sanitarum in Michigan applied for half
fare rate on the plea that its nurses were
engaged in missionary work and the chair
man decided IT. that It'll, the plea was without
should apply to the missionaries and evan
gelists of the American Purity League and
to the employees of the Florence Crittenton
Mission, except where such employees were
regularly ordained ministers.
A novel car has just been completed at
the Brightwood shops by the Big Four
The Kilby Manufacturing Company, of
Cleveland, ships annually a large number
of sugar cane cruSherS to the Southern
States; these machines weigh about forty
tom to take them apart for shipment, but
this car is so constructed that the ma
chine can be shipped as a whole. The
center of the platform is so dropped be-
tween the trucks that the machine can
readily be loaded, and, standing upright
pass under bridges or through tunnels
without trouble.
The Union Pacific yesterday notified it's
connections that all business ticketed to
Utah and Colorado points at reduced rates
made account of the Christian EndeaVor
convention in San Francisco must be turned
over to it at the Missouri river, as it would
not accept the business at any other juno
ton point on its lines The announcement
means that it is determined to have the
long haul on all the BUSINESS that may be
going to those points, but as nearly adj of
the points in Utah and Colorado to which
excursionists would care to go are common
points the other roads say there is not
much likelihood of the Union Pacific getting
much additional business on account of the
action it has taken.
The Tennessee Central Railroad was sold
at Crossville, Tenn, yesterday to the high
property for himself and associates (St
Louis and Chicago parties) for $l25,000. A
considerable portion of the road has been
already completed. The road is to be built
from Kingston, Roane county, Tennessee,
to Nashville, by way of Hartman, Rock
penetrate one of the richest mineral and
timber sections of the State. At lockwood
the road connects with the Cincinnati
Southern, and at Hartman with the South
ern, and will materially lessen the distance
from New York and Eastern cities via the
Norfolk & Western and Southern. The
purchasers announce they will complete the
road at once.
= Carrie A. w. Villas, of Evanston, ILL.,, has
served notice on the attorney general and
the EameS Vacuum Brake Company, that
as a stockholder she will make application
to the Supreme Court at WatertoWn on
June &c, for permission to begin an action
for the dissolution of that company on the
ground that it has not performed it's COR
porate functions for a year past. The COM
pany was Incorporated in 1876 to manufac-
ture the Eames vacuum brake for railroad
cars The capital stock is 100000 of which
the petitioner owns 100000 In 1894 the
property and business of the company was
transferred to the New York Air Brake
Company a New Jersey corporation. This
brake was first introduced on the Indiana
Decatur & Western, H. y. Hammond, the
president of the road, being a warm advo-
cate of its merits.
The Hooking Coal e. Railway Com
pany yesterday filed cross-petition
in the Common Pleas Court at
Cleveland, in which it asked for a judg-
ment for IS. 900 against the Snow Fork
was filed in answer to a suit by the coal
company against the railway company for
$4,000, the purchase price of a large tract
of cCal land. In the crosS-petition it is al
legged that the coal company wrongfully
took from the treasury of the railway COM
pany $3.50 shares of stock and first con-
solidated mortgage bonds of the par value
Of 81 1896, coo. The stock was supposed to have
been accepted in payment for the land, but
the bonds were in excess of the coal COM
pany'S claim. This is & part of the old
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