The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-26

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carried tonnage as follows: Michigan Cen
trail, 9,2S5: Wabash, 1856; Lake Shore, 1926;
Fort Wayne, 1884; Panhandle, ssh; Balti-
more & Ohio, $500; Grand Trunk, S,7O6;
Nickel-plate. S,3I9; Erie, AIS: Big Four,
2.14. Shipments were made up of the fol-
lowing articles in tons: Flour, 5,12O; grain
and mill stuffs. 90. l59: cured meats, lard,
etc, 10. 249; dressed beef. S.29I; butter, i, I09;
hides, 93I; lumber. 3,12l: miscellaneous, 1920.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The office of claim agent on the Baltimore
& Ohio Southwestern is TO be abolished as
an economical measure.
Roll Dawes a passenger conductor on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton d Dayton, will this
week be married TO a young lady of Rush
W. ". Peabody, vice president of the Bal
timore & Ohio Southwestern, was in the
city again yesterday looking after some
legal matters.
Il. F.. Bertolet. superintendent of the
Shamokin division of the Philadelphia q
Reading, will retire from that position Feb.
l to engage in the coal business.
The Ohio Southern is considerably in
arrears on taxes, and in several cases suits
have been brought. The treasurer of
Champaign county has brought suit for S.
900 OF long-due taxes.
c. C. Paddock. the veteran passenger con-
ductor on the Nandalia, who. about a year
ago, retired to reside on his farm in Illinois,
after one years experience comes back, and
yesterday took out a train.
I6ity Ill MdS NCSltludJ dpHOillltu
agent of the new Chicago and Baltimore
through car line at Chicago. This line is
over the Monon. the Cincinnati. Hamilton d
Dayton and the Baltimore * Ohio.
The official report of General Agent
Baker. of the While line, shows that in the
year 1894 the White line took out of Indian
apolis proper S,16s loaded cars. In 1885 1t took
out Sill, ard in 1896, 1913 loaded cars.
William Tigges. who had been in the en-
ploy of the P~ittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago thirty-four years. was buried yester-
day at Fort Wayne. Nearly the whole
time he was in the freight depot as receiv-
ing clerk.
George w. Boyd. assistant general pas
senger agent of the Pennsylvania, was in
the city for q few hours yesterday, en- route
from ST. Louis to his headquarters at Phil
adelphia. His sister joined him ON his re-
turn to Philadelphia.
P b. Maxwell, travelling, passenger agent
OF the Nickel-plate lines. has rendered his
resignation. He has held his present posi-
ton eight years and now takes a more lu-
crative position with the Lancaster ma
chine and knife works.
Monon. the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton
and the Baltimore d Ohio put on yesterday
between Chicago and Baltimore via Wash
inSton, is hauling a dining car between
Cincinnati and Baltimore.
Since the cold snap set in the coal ope-
rators on the indianapolis & .Vincennes
road have been shipping from eighty to one
and expect to run to one hundred or more
carloads before the week is out.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy has
under contemplation the building or a road
from Bogard, Mo-. to Liberty, passing
through Excelsior Springs. This line would
shorten the distance between Kansas City
and Burlington thirty-four miles.
A letter received from j. w. Green. train
master of the Panhandle indianapolis di-
vision). who is now in Hot Springs. Ark,
states that his health is improving. and on
the strength of this his superior officer tele-
graphed him TO remain until we'll.
Travelling Auditors Kreuthoffer, Of the
Big Four. w. S. Roney. of the Vandalia,
| pany. were in the city yesterday ana in
spected the accounts Of Auditor Vinnedse
and Treasurer Cannon. of the Union Rail-
way Company and Belt road.
The merchants at q number of points are
getting up a protest against the railways
charging 30 cents for all packages below
100 pounds instead of % cents, as had been
chants find that it is no small increase
when taken in the aggregate.
A railroad official high in rank said yes
terday that he thought the end would show
that the Union Pacific would be purchased
in the interests of the Vanderbilts, and that
il would give them an opportunity to estab-
fish a through line OF their own between
the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts.
The Grand Trunk Railway has put in
force a new regulation regarding bicycle
fares. In future wheelmen VIII be charged a
tariff for transportation of their wheels
varying according 10 distance, in proper
ton TO the rate paid for the passengers
ticket. no fee being less than % cents.
l.. b.. Lewis. agent of the Baltimore &
Ohio Southwestern at Athens. has been APP
pointed general agent of the company at
Chillicothe. in charge of the freight depart
ment. He takes the place OF n. S. Span
gler. recently appointed division freight
agent on that road, with headquarters at
Vincennes.
The Pullman and the Wagner sleeping car
companies have put on elegant combination
sleeping and reclining chair cars TO run
nightly. alternating between Cincinnati and
Hannibal, Mo, running over the Cincinnati,
Hamilton * Dayton, the Indiana, Decatur
q Western and the Wabash. Two of the
cars are new.
The through sleeping cars of the Big Four
now running between st. Louis and Wash
ingIon in connection with the Chesapeake
q OHIO have become the best paying cars
run on the Big Four system. month in and
natl the ears are hauled on the knicker-
booker and over the G. * O. on one of its
fastest trains.
The arbitrators of the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation have rendered a decision on me sub-
ject of rates of fare on the fast trains be-
tween New York and Chicago, deciding
that the original ruling was a just One End
should continue. This provides for charg-
ing extra fare on all trains scheduled TO
run between the two points in less than
twenty-eight hours.
The general board of adjustment of loco
motive engineers of the Big Four are this
week holding their annual meeting for cleo
ton of officers and transacting other busi-
ness. MIR. Thomas, president of the board,
states that they have no grievances, and
the relations between the ofhcialS of the
road and brotherhood are of a pleasant
character. The meeting. he says, has no
special significance.
The ChicagO-St. Paul roads have not yet
reached an agreement on the proper
amount of traffic 10 be turned over by the
larger To the smaller lines. which are far
behind their percentages on ernigrant tTaf-
fc and other comfortable business between
Chicago and Minneapolis anu St. Paul. II
is likely that il will be found necessary 10
call a meeting Of the interested lines before
the matter car be finally settled.
ID. G. Edwards. passenger traffic manager
of the Cincinnati. Hamilton q Dayton. has
returned from New York. The project of
establishing either a trolley or an air-motor
line TO handle their suburban business is
we'll advanced. and the Improvement will
reached as to what shall be used for power.
The inventor OF the air motor claims great
things for the invention. and is confident il
is the coming power for suburban service.
r.. Legion. local superintendent Of the
Pullman Company. states that twenty-eight
years ago he commenced running as "A
Pullman car conductor between st. Louis
aud New York over the Nandalia and the
Pennsylvania lines. and at that time only
four sleeping ears arrived and departed at
the Union Station. indianapolis. daily; nov
forty-two Pullman and twenty-four Wag-
ner sleeping and parlor ears arrive and
depart every twenty-four hours, ten each
way being local sleepers.
The Irterstate-commerce Commission
has issued its report on the income ac-
count Of the railways of the United States
for the year ending June 80. 1896. The total
gross earnings of the roads of the coun-
try were Si.t23. 64i,562 This was at the rate
Of S6.l59 per mile. and was a better show