The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-17

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The nifty physicians and surgeons In the
employ of the Santa Fe lines have organ
lied medical and surgical society
In the month of May the Indiana Car
Service Association handled at indianapolis
1914 cars, 700 more than in May, 1890
Since the strawberry season set in over
one hundred cars of the fruit have been
shipped from New Albany, or 81, 104 cases.
During the month of May an average of
5000 carloads of live stock per day were
handled on the Santa Fe lines north or
east-bound.
The Wabash runs free reclining chair
cars between Buffalo and Chicago being
the first line to introduce free chairs east
of Chicago.
D. t. McCabe freight manager of the
Pennsylvania lines west, with other Of
ficials. is this week making trip through
the Northwest.
1t will require nearly So 900, 900 to pay the
dividend declared by the Vanderbilt lines
on Monday at the directors meeting Of the
several companies.
George Bradbury, vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Lake Erie q Western,
will come to the city to-day to remain for
two or three days.
T. f. Clark general superintendent of the
Minneapolis & st. Louis, accompanied by
his family stopped over in the city yes
terday to visit friends
Fireman Wilkinson, of the Wabash, was
overcome by heat on Monday when on the
road and died as a result. He was buried
at Anderson yesterday.
d. S. Gray, who represents the Pennsyl-
vania lines on the board of managers, and
bis secretary. Mr. Necreamer, are Spending
few days at Columbus, o.
Samuel H. Wallace. ticket agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Broad-street Sta
ton Philadelphia, was in the city yester-
day en- route from a Western trip
The Big Four and Chesapeake & Ohio an
n n an Gee ocean N. route to New York and
Boston via Old Point Comfort as an attrac-
tive feature of the excursion season.
On Sunday and Monday morning the Pan
handle delivered at Pittsburg from the
vest JOB carloads Of live stock and "a car
loads of dressed meats in refrigerator cars.
H. G. Stiles, general agent of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton at indianapolis,
accompanied by his family, has gone to
New England to spend a couple of weeks.
In the month of May there arrived and
departed at the Union Station, Indianapolis,
1897 trains handling 22,356 cars, against g.
1856 trains in May, 1896, handling 22 l5 cars.
On Monday the first passenger train was
run through from Kansas City to Horn
Brook over. the Kansas City Pittsburg &
Gulf, 653 miles. 1t is expected to run trains
to Port Arthur by July l.
All the through trains of the Wabash
between Detroit and Buffalo over the
Grand Trunk are manned by six con-
ductors who have been in service twenty
six years on the Grand Trunk.
1t is now positively asserted that the new
interchangeable mileage book for roads in
this territory will be put on sale July /.
Every road in the Central Passenger Com
mittee has agreed to adopt it without any
provisos.
The board of managers of the Joint Traf-
fic Association has approved July and
Aug. &c as dates upon which the Big -Four
and the Chesapeake & Ohio may run ex-
cursions to Atlantic City and other sea-
shore points.
An impression prevails that trains of the
Wabash will be running into Indianapolis
within the next sixty. days over the Lake
Erie & western, and the trains aims % Of the
over the Wabash line.
W. K. Bells. general manager of the
Railway Officials and Employees Associa-
ton goes to New York to-day on official
business. Mr.. Bells states that at no time
since organized has the association been
prosperous as at present.
The Big Four and the Monon have taken
Hamilton & Dayton did regarding the
mileage of the Columbus, Sandusky &
Hooking Valley. Conductors are instructed
to accept the mileage if proven to be in
the hands of the actual purchaser.
S. Fl. H. Clark, president of the Union.
Pacific Railroad and one of its directors, is
quite i'll at his home in ST. Louis. He is
under the treatment of specialist in dis
eases of the throat and lungs. AS soon as
possible it is the intention to move the
patient to some place in the West, where
the climate is dry.
j. S. Simmons, agent of the Big Four
at Muncie is much elated over the business
that station is doing. In the month of May
604 cars were loaded against 534 in May,
1886, the increase in tonnage being 16 per
cent this year, and since June / an in
crease of 20 per cent in tonnage handled
at that station is shown.
The superintendent of the Union Railway
and Union Station at Columbus has adopt
ed a plan which Superintendent Zion, of
the Union Railway Company, might we'll
COW. Whenever there is a change in time.
of the arrival or departure of trains enough
time tables are printed to distribute among
the leading business houses.
The Panhandle is again doing an i'm
mense freight business over its Pittsburg
division. On Sunday last there were forty
east-bound freight trains and thirty west,
bound trains run between Columbus and
Pittsburg, and with the Pttsburg, Fort
Wayne q Chicago a marked increase in
business has been shown in the last few
days.
Passenger conductors on the Baltimore &
Ohio are still daily taking up bogus tick
cts. It seems more had been sold than was
at first anticipated. but the company will
lose no more on them, SO we'll posted are
the conductors, and the only recourse the
holder of the bogus ticket has is on the
scalper who sold the ticket to him as
genuine.
The Ohio Coal Traffic Association and the
Ohio Coal Association held meeting in
Columbus on Tuesday and Secretary Smith
said, notwithstanding statements to the
contrary, in not a single instance has 1t
been proven that the railroads violated
their agreement and that just at this time
the roads were making special efforts to
maintain rates.
Two of the postal clerks who have run
lrIO lnQldndpO1lS LOT years were pulleu
day before yesterday. One was A, D.
Trueblood, running on the Bee-line division
of the Big Four; the other was E. casters,
running on the Lake Erie & Western.
Both were born in the same town on the
same day, died the same day and were
buried the same day
Active work was going on at Chicago
yesterday toward clearing the. market of
the Milwaukee & st. Paul tickets that
caused so much trouble three days ago. 1t
was found that the number of tickets on
the market was very close to 200 and the
majority of them had been gathered in
by the middle of the afternoon. The Of
ficiais of the Milwaukee q st. Paul claim
that good will come out OF the thing after
time. as the 500 line will be brought to
see that it cannot do just as it pleases
in the matter of making rates and will
hereafter be more conservative in cutting
the tariffs of the Western roads.
In passenger and freight circles yesterday
a good deal of satisfaction was expressed
that the rate war between the roads hand
ling business between Chicago and st. Paul
had been settled and everybody is to hold
to tariff rates. The competing lines in this
territory are so numerous and the pressure
to manipulate rates so great that 1T re-
auires close watching to keep the roads in
line. IN all quarters the indications are
mere favorable to maintenance of better
rates. Prospects are good for heavy
freight business in the fall and shippers
are willing to pay reasonable rates with a
view of getting business generally moving.
Some of the members of the Western
Passenger Association are disturbed over
the prospect of the association. 1t is gen.
orally admitted that any further demon
alization in rates will have a bad effect on
the association and they fear that the de-
lection of the Union Pacific is almost GER
tain to cause such trouble as Will seriously