The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-19


the passenger trains on its new line which
We're annulled on account of the coal min
ers' strike.
The schedule of commodity rates which
has been under consideration since the early
spring has been published and is to become
effective Oct. l.
On Tuesday the Cincinnati, Jackson &
Mackinaw passed out of existence. and Will
hereafter be known as the Cincinnati
Northern Brice line.
Rumor says that ID. J. Mackey will again
enter the railroad business az an official of
the Ohio Valley. road. witch recently came
into the control of the LIMOS Central.
on Sept. l the Big Four will receive ten
miles more of steel rail- weighing eighty
pounds to the yard, which will be laid on
the Cincinnati division east of Greensburg.
The two Atlantic City excursions over the
Pennsylvania lines have considerably cut
down the regular travel on the east-bound
trains over the Pennsylvania the last few
days.
S. b. Champitt trainmaster on the east
ern division of the Lake Shore, was buried
at Ashtabula on Tuesday. He had been
train dispatcher on the road for twenty
six years.
Merchants rates to Chicago will be used
by the following roads outside the West
ern Passenger Association territory: Great
Northern, Mobile &, Ohio Northern Pacific
and Missouri, Kansas & Texas.
On Aug. 81 w. E. Hahn will retire from
the general freight agency OF the no
Grande Western. The impression is that
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will be appointed his successor.
Passenger earnings of the Erie road for
the month of July and the first two weeks
in August this year were the largest for
the period in the history of the road with
the exception of the worlds fair year.
Expert Little has just completed an ex-
animation of the books, accounts, etc, of
the Denver & Rio Grande, and this week
he will begin a similar work on the Oregon
Railway and Navigation Company's BOOKS.
Judge Brem general agent of the Chicago
& Rock Island, is spending couple OF days
in the city. He reports the Rock Island
crowded With freights and the passenger
business much better than in August last
year.
The New York, New Haven & Hartford,
with its New England appendage, is the
only railroad entering Boston which de-
clines to grant the prayer of Boston mer
chants for reduced rates for special trade
days.
Charles c. Curtis city passenger agent
of the Vandalia and Pennsylvania lines at
ST. Louis came to the city yesterday from
st. Louis with three coaches well filled
with members of the Young Peoples Chris
tian Union.
On Tuesday Receiver FELTON,, of the Co
lumbus. Sandusky q Hooking Valley, issued
Il circular appointing +. p. BOatman. master
mechanic of the company's shops. Mr.. Boat
man was for many years master mechanic
of the Omaha q st. Louis.
NJ. d. Woodford president of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton 81 Dayton lines, returned to
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he ascertained as to the business outlook
for that line and for the Indiana, Decatur
q Western, in which he is also interested.
The heads of transportation of the coal
roads of Ohio have given instructions to
those in charge of locomotive and car re-
pairs to put everything in the best working
order, to be in readiness for the expected
rush of coal shipments when the strike is
over.
The Panhandle has scheduled on the di
vision between Columbus and Pittsburg sew
class trains daily. Some of the hrst-class
trains are run in two sections, and 1t is not
an unusual thing for the second-class
trains, slow freight, to be run in five to ten
sections.
1t is stated that negotiations are pending
between the Chicago q Grand Trunk and
which now controls the Cincinnati, Jack
son ~ MackinaW (noW the Cincinnati
Northern), for the establishment of a new
Chicago-Toledo line. The new line will be
289 miles long against the Lake Shores 244
miles.
The Black Diamond express on the Lee
high Valley on Monday was hauled sixty
eight and one-tenth miles in sixty-seven
minutes. A part of the distance was COW
cred at a speed of a mile in fifty-seven sec
onds. What makes the run the more re-
markable is that for forty miles out of
Buffalo the grade is twenty-one feet to the
mile
John w. Phelps, an old-time passenger
conductor on Indiana roads, died at Fort
prominent during the Debs strike, and was
discharged, it was said, from the service
of the Nickel-plate on that account. He had
just perfected arrangements to take service
with another road running out of Chicago
Sept. l.
f. S. Schaffer. fireman on the Grand Rap
ids q Indiana, was yesterday summoned to
northern Michigan on account of the proba-
bic fatal illness of his father. His father was
for number of years agent of the Penn
sylVania lines at MOnroeVile and at the
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lister, conducted religious services i'll the
churches in that neighborhood.
An impression prevails in railway circles
that should NJ w Mansfield superintend-
ent of TIE Indianapolis d Vincennes, be
promoted. as it is understood he will be, he
will be succeeded on the l. & Y. by James
cradle ability as q civil engineer and rail-
road man, and son of James McCrea, vice
president of the Pennsylvania.
L. Kern, late passenger conductor on the
Vandalia, left yesterday for the South to
take the position of passenger conductor
on the Texas Pacific. There are those in
railroad circles who think he was not the
least in fault for the accident that caused
his dismissal on the Vandalia, and that it
was an injustice. Probably Superintendent
Miller knows more of the facts in the case
than does an outsider.
In Difference to the order of the Kansas
Railroad Commission the Santa Fe has
agreed to reduce rates on agricultural i'm
plementS from Chicago and Kansas City
cents per one hundred pounds, and on coal
from common points to Chase a reduction
of 10 cents a ton has been made. From
Chase, Lyons and Mitchell to Kansas City
and Chicago a reduction of l cent q buShel
on grain has been made.
High officials of the Burlington road say
that with good weather for ten days the
corn crop of Nebraska would aggregate
go, 5000 bushels. and that If good weather
continues until the middle of the coming
month the yield will be more, nearly 400
100000 bushels. Nearly every crib at the
railroad stations, it is said, is filled with
last years corn. The wheat crop of the
State is estimated at 100000 bushels.
The Michigan Central and Lake Shore in
connection with the New York Central and
West Shore are checking G.. y. r. baggage
from Chicago to points east of Buffalo on
for travellers to the encampment to go east
of Buffalo The other east-bound roads
from Chicago are strongly opposing this
action of the Vanderbilt lines and denounCe
it as scheme to originate travel to the
East.
All of the roads in the territory of the
Western Freight Association, with one eX-
ceptiOn, have given their votes in favor of
the adoption of the proposed new agree
mont to govern freight rates in Chicago
territory and it is considered practically
certain that it will become effective Sept. /.
The one road holding out is doing so only
because the proper official to vote for the
new pool is absent. The new compact will
be almost as strong an ironclad pool as the
one in existence year ago.
The Vanderbilt lines are stirring the
Pennsylvania people up a little in carrying
passengers between Indianapolis and Pitts
burg and points west of Indianapolis on
the Big Four lines. From Pittsburg to In
dianapOlis it is 3S1 miles by the Panhandle
lines while over the Pittsburg & Lake
,~,qT is- nil. ft