The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-26


pay his fare.
w. o. Hoist has been appointed general
yardmaster OF the Michigan Central road
at Toledo. the health OF Mr.. Carroll not
having so improved as TO admit of his re-
turning to the duties of that position.
I. A. Boyd, formerly superintendent of the
Indiana, Decatur 81 Western road, but the
last few years trainmaster on the Southern
Railway, has accepted a similar position on
the Seaboard Airline, with Headquarters
at Abbeyvile. S. G.
The Pennsylvania road has decided to
build five large locomotives with the view
of making a bid for freight to and from
lake ports to Pittsburg. The engines will
weigh 10000 pounds and are to be built in
the companys shops.
Joseph Ramsey, vice president and gem
eral manager of the Wabash, was in the
city yesterday en- route from Cincinnati to
his headquarters at ST. Louis. On Monday
he had a copfaranca with president In
gals, of the Big Four.
Chief Engineer Wilson, of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton, yesterday made an in
spection of the j. diana. Decatur & West
ern road in company with Superintendent
Graves. He was surprised to find the track
in such excellent physical condition.
The Panhandle which in years past has
done little in the way of running Sunday
excursions at low rates, is this season go
ing into the business on an extensive scale.
1t may run excursion trains between most
OF the important points on its system.
The meeting of passenger officials to con-
slider the mileage book question at Chicago
on June is looked on as being one of the
most important to be held in years. 1t is
expected some definite policy of handling
this knotty question will be decided on.
The trains of the Detroit q Lima North
ern to-day begin to run regularly into De-
troit At present they will only run between
Detroit and Springfield @. The company
will soon have its new Vestibue trains In
service and has already received four pas
senger locomotives.
II. B. hartman, late chief clerk of Presi-
dent Blair of the Wheeling & Lake Erie
road, has accepted a similar position with
Pittsburg & Gulf road. Mr. hartman was
formerly in the employ of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton q Dayton.
A freight official remarked yesterday:
I'VE hear no more of the boycott of the
Toledo. st. Louis q Kansas City road I
think the reason is that the roads which
made the most complaint of irregularities
in rates are now cutting rates deeper than
the Glover Leaf did
Niles Mich, on the Michigan division of
the Big Four, has become one of the Big
Fours best stations on that division. Bus
mess has greatly improved with the half
dozen or more paper manufactures, and
the road is beginning to feel the improve
ment in the business of the mills.
A passenger official in speaking of the
large number Of interchangeable mileage
books the Columbus d Hooking Valley road
sells. said that inquiry has shown that not
2 per cent. of this mileage is issued on
its own road over 80 per cent. being on
the roads over which its mileage is good.
The performances of the Richmond COM
pound engine in the tests on the Wabash
lines was not so much of an Improvement
over that of the Wabash best freight loco
motives as to justify the difference in ex-
pense attached to a compound engine over
the simple engine. There was slight saw
ing in fuel.
Superintendent Graves, of the Indiana,
Decatur &, Western road states that there
has been a marked improvement in BUSH
ness on the line in the last few days. On
Monday eighty cars were loaded with grain
aTa,sr %nrnE,
ers are again bringing into stations good
deal of corn.
In the mountains of Washington State,
six miles from Skikomish and three miles
from a trail, Charles w. Frisbee general
auditor of the Peninsula Railroad. fell dead
of heart disease, Sunday afternoon. b'rs-
his father still lives. He leaves a wife and
three children.
Trains Nos. 1O1 and JOG on the Michigan
division of the Big -Four do some fast run
ming They are scheduled to make the run
from Greensburg to Louisville in two hours
and twenty minutes distance eighty-one
miles, making eight stops. One day last
week the eighty-one miles was run in one
hour and fifty minutes.
The Claim Agents Association begins it's
annual meeting at st. Louis to-day. Claim
lines and Myers, of the Big Four, last
night left for ST. Louis to attend it. I. H.
Sample. claim agent of the Panhandle line
at Chicago. was IN the city yesterday and
last night accompanied Mr.. Hutchinson to
st. Louis.
The Blue. Ridge Dispatch fast freight
line, over the Western Maryland the Nor
folk & Western, the Chesapeake & Ohio
and the Louisville Evansville 6 st. Louis
road has begun operations and promises to
do a good business. G. C. Eildt formerly
with the Adams Express Company, has
been appointed general agent of the line
at Baltimore.
The Big Four is to meet the electric line
competition between Cleveland and Berea.
Passenger Traffic Manager Mccormick has
notified the local offices that the road
would put on sale Communication tickets at
the rate of 112 cents a mile. The tickets
are patterned after those of the Lake Shore
twenty-five-rde tickets. The new tickets
are unrestricted. From Berea to Cleveland
the distance is fourteen miles.
Some interesting litigation is looked for
as an outgrowth of the Southern Railway
declining to handle business to be for
Southern Railway having arrangement
with the Pennsylvania lines to handle such
traffic, which consists largely of fruit and
vegetables shipped TO Northern markets:
The receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio will
take the matter up at once on their re-
turn to Baltimore to-day.
Two large gangs of men are now en-
gagged in tunneling Pixies Peak. The main
tunnel will pass under the cone of Pixies
Peak at a depth of 1000 feet and 2 700 feet
under Victor. At present the shortest rail-
road from Cripple Greek to Colorado
Springs is fifty-four miles, but with the
completion of the tunnel the distance will
be reduced to sixteen miles. The work is
expected to require seven years to COM
plete, and its estimated cost is g. 100000
The railroad and business men of Cleve-
land have been making such an effort to
secure the headquarters of the Order of
Railway Conductors at Cleveland that they
are much disappointed that the order has
voted to continue it's headquarters at
Cedar Rapids. But the Cleveland people
have not dropped the matter. The next
meeting will be held at Detroit, and it be-
ing nearer Cleveland. 1t is hoped that the
effort in that direction will be more avail
ing.
GEORGE B. Wheeler has been appointed
division freight agent of the Lake Shore
road as successor of George F. Mckay,
who resigned to accept a position else
where. Mr.. Mckay retired on the 18th of
this month, and not until yesterday was the
position filed Rumor has it that the Lake
Shore people have under consideration the
appointment of general freigh. agent, an
office which was abolished when c. j.
Grammar was appointed general traffic
manager of the road.
A circular announces that A. NJ. Stewart,
formerly general live stock agent of the
Bee line, now with the Erie, will hereafter
have charge of the comanys live stock
Erie and Erie branches west of Buffalo and
Salamanca. with jurisdiction over all
through business originating in his terri
tory. George f. Geagan is to be the live
stock agent east of Salamanca and Buffalo,
with jurisdiction over all live stock traffic
originating in his territory.
W. S. Roney, auditor of the Vandalia
line. has recently been appointed member
of the advisory committee of the Indiana
Young Mems Christian Association, the
other members being President George S.
Burroughs, of Wabash College, Gen. Ben
iamin Harrison, Dr. l.. II. Dunning and
Thomas c. Dav Of this city. Mr.. Roney
takes an active interest in both the Terre