The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-27

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G.. L. Peck. superintendent of tire Pitts
burg division of the Panhandle lines, has
returned from Florida and is again on duty.
General Passenger Agent Hall. of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie; has been quite i'll
for several days, the illness combining him
at home.
Passenger Conductors Tyndall. Weir.
Jackson and Lewis. of the Louisville diyi-
sion of the Pennsylvania lines, are'on the
sick list.
Pittsburg division of the Panhandle, was
married last evening, TO Miss n. Brent, of
Columbus. Q.
C. c. Cary has been appointed travelling
passenger agent of the Southern Pacific
lines for the Atlantic system. with head
quarters at Kansas City.
Steps have beer taken TO prevent. If pos
sible. the louisville q Nashville securing
control of the Kentucky Midland. on the
ground that it is a parallel competing line
In the Joint Traffic Associa ton there are
now thirty-two roads. and in the Trunk
line Association (east) twelve roads, all of
which are operated in one interest practi-
cally.
Interest due Feb. 1 on the Chicago and
Indianapolis division of the Louisville. New
Albany & Chicago Railroad bonds will be
paid. These securities are not disturbed I'M
der the plan of reorganization.
1t is understood by well-informed interests
that the February interests due on Wheel
ing & Lake Erie improvement and extern
sion bonds will be paid. The road recently
went into the hands of receivers.
Receiver Cowen. who locks after the
financial affairs of the Baltimore & OHIO.
states that all interest due Feb. / on bonds
OF the company viii be paid. On this ac-
count over 100000 will be disbursed.
The Baltimore & Ohio has resumed
though passenger and freight service via
S~taunton and Harper's Ferry to Washing
ton and Baltimore, having made a traffic
arrangement with the Southern Railway.
Business has so improved in the Gas Belt
region that the Big Four mas put on a new
fast freight train between Wabash and
Louisville, TO be run daily: Inc distance Is
1872 miles. and it is covered in ten hours.
Arthur Baum. formerly a train dispatcher
on the Pennsylvania lines west, more re-
Gently cashier of the company at Tffin. o.,
was buried yesterday at Tiffin. O. He was
well known in Panhandle Railway circles.
Fred NJ. shattuc travelling passenger
agent of the Big Four. at Nashville, Tenn,
has resigned to go into business for himself.
He Is a son OF William r. Shattuc. form
erly general passenger agent of the Ohio *
Mississippi.
Oscar Murray. receiver and vice president
Of the Baltimore & Ohio. is spending two
or three DAYS this week on the line OF the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, looking
after the business methods of their West
ern connection.
In the spring the Merchants Despatch
transportation Company will begin the To-
cation of its car works at Porter, Lake
county. The works. when completed. VIII
give employment 10 125 men. Repair work
will be done there largely for this line.
Some of the heaviest taxpayers of Ken
ton. o.. have brought an INJUNCTION suit 10
enjOin the payment OF $4,000 car shop
bonds. which were issued by the city in
1880. 10 secure the shops Of the Toledo &
Ohio Central Railroad Company. Lengthy
litigation is looked for.
Indications now point TO the Young Peo-
pies Christian Endeavpr Association ADAM
doning the plan of holding its next annual
convention in San Francisco. and that Phil
qdp1nhiq likely Will be selected. he organ
iZation is not old enough or wealthy enough
TO Justify making so expensive a trip.
a large per cent. of the mileage or the
Michigan division of the Big Four is now
laid with a rail weighing ffty-six pounds
to the yard. The business OF this division
has so increased that a heavier rail i
needed. and the intention is to lay a large
mileage this season with rails %weighing
seventy-two pounds 10 the yard.
Vice President Egan. OF the Southern
Railway. has given the Railroad Commits
sion Of Georgia To understand that further
reduction in rates would mean a reduction
of 10 per cent. in the wages or the employees
of the road and the practicing OF other
economies which would end in poorer train
service.
During the present cold weather the
knickerbocker express. rur, between 81.
Louis and New York over the Big Four's
St. Louis and Bee-iine divisions. has been
turned over 10 the Lake Shore every morn
ing on time. This is considered remarka-
bile. from the fact THAI the train between
indianapolis and Cleveland is scheduled at
forty-tWo miles an hour. and part of the
distance hauls nine cars.
The Cincinnati. Jackson & Mackinaw
management finds that the court has some
thing go say concerning its breaking its
lease with the Wheeling < Lake Erie as to
It's terminal facilities at Toledo. This being
the case. the Toledo * Ann Afbor could.
II II choose. shut the Cincinnati. Jackson "
Mackinaw out of Toledo. The Ann ArbOr
people may DO this, as they are anxious
that The Cincinnati. Jackson & Mackinaw