The Indianapolis journal., 1897-03-09

to-day. 1t is document that will take
immensely with the people, because II Is In
line with the policy they have demanded.
All shops of the New York. New Haven
* Hartford yesterday commenced running
ten hours. after running for two years but
eight hours and il is stated that all the
New England railroad shops are commenc-
Ing to run full time again.
Receiver George T. Jarvis of the Louis
Vile. Evansville & st. Louis Consolidated
Railroad @ Company; yesterday filed " with the the
for February. Receipts amounted 10 Slil,-
065-S3. Disbursements were $l46 150.5s-
Train 30, consisting OF six cars, on Fri
day made the run from Indianapolis TO
Chicago over the Monon in four hours and
twenty-eight minutes, making its regular
stops. Ii was the fastest run ever made
between the cities by a regular train.
The Chicago east-bound lines have agreed
to at once abolish unlimited fares. These
special rates were greater by small
amount than regular charges, but allowed
the holder of the ticket the privilege of
stopping off at one or more intermediate
stations on trip.
The Big Four proper earned in February
1862, 1921, decrease as compared with
February. 1896. of S7.907.S3, which is certain
ly a favorable exhibit. as in February, 1896.
there was one more day than this year, and
the average earnings of the road per day
last month were $35.UVO or more.
The managers of the trunk lines do not
favor the idea of allowing the differential
lines the usual dinerential on mileake
books which applies to regular tickets. and
refuse TO approve the proposition to allow
a proportional differential on mileage as
asked by the Nickel-plate line.
The transportation department of the
ling the Inauguration business. Last week
the travel added twenty sections 10 the
regular business for distance of 100
miles, and to move them safely and on
schedule time was no small undertaking.
The freight blockade on the Wisconsin
Central lines leading to Manitowoc is being
rapidly raised General superintendent Col
Inns says the steamers are taking one hun
dred or more cars of freight across the
lake daily. and that the difficulty caused
by the Ludington strike has been overcome.
officials of the roads doing business in
Kansas have received adviceS from that
State which lead them to expect most con-
fidently that Governor Leedy will veto the
raiiroad-rate bill. which has been sent him
for his signature. Should this view of the
case be correct, 1t is said the bill cannot
be passed over his veto,
The Pittsburg locomotive works are pre-
pairing plans for some monster freight To-
comotives for the Carnegie lines. The road
is being laid with a steel rail weighing 101
pounds to the yard the freight cars are 10
have a carrying capacity of 100 tons, and
this Will properly require a heavier loco
motive than Is ordinarily run.
1t is stated that on April l. on the Penn
sylvania lines east and west 1900 railroad
repair men will be put at work who have
been idle all winter. Section gangs will be
increased two men, bridge gangs doubled
and extra gangs employed in laying the
new rails which the company will receive
In the next thirty or sixty days.
Some of the Grant engines running on the
Indiana, Decatur x Western. although not
of a very modern type, frequently make
some very fast runs. Last Saturday En-
gine hauled five cars from Decatur TO In
dianapolis. las miles, in three hours and
forty-seven minutes, and made ten stops
at railroad crossings and stations.
The statement is made that as soon as
hn ford ion 70 I'm nfN-
troll of the Indiana, Decatur Il Western
road, If times improve, the road will be
extended to Roodhouse, as originally sur
veyed. where connection can be made with
the Chicago a. Alton and give the shortest
line between Cincinnati and Kansas City
as well as between indianapolis and that
point
Thomas Allibone Price. of Milwaukee. as
sistant general freight agent of the Wiscon-
sin Central and president of the National
Association ,h9 of ~ Raiiway Raj c9ntractins ira nn;
dence of DR.. Charles Nj. Ellis in Elkton
Md. aged thirty-one years. after a long
illness. Mr.. Price was a native OF Cecil
county, Maryland, but went to wisconsin in
1885. His wife survives him.
The trains from Washington the last for
ty-eight hours have been overtaxed with
people, returning from the Inauguration
The Chesapeake & Ohio and the Big -Four
are again all right and making regular
connections since Sunday night, and the
Baltimore &, Ohio, the Cincinnati. Hamil-
are in good running order On the Penn
| sylvania everything is moving smoothly.
| 1t is now one year since the Monon com
| pleted its new terminals and freight de.
! pot at this point. and to handle its business
has cost the company, IL is stated, 30 pei
| cent. less than when il was done in the
yards of the Lake Erie & Western and the
| depot of that company; but this is not tn,
| only benefit The roads business has In
| creased In a very satisfactory manner. not
/ withstanding the depressed times most o
| the year, and with this the terminals o
| the company have considerably increased
/ in value.
A. A. Zion, superintendent of the Unior
| Railway Company, was notified last nigh
| by =. A. Bonebrake, superintendent of th'
| Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
| lines, that their trains would this morning
/ begin TO arrive and depart on their usua
| time. the breaks in the road having beer
| repaired; and superintendent Mansfield, o
| the Indianapolis * Vincennes, expects L
| have damages repaired so as to cornmenc
| moving trains as usual to-day. However
| White river is rising, and there might pos
| sibiy be some more trouble, but he though
| the worst over. The Evansville d Terr
| Haute road reported its lines in good run
| ming order. ana the Pullman car whicl
| runs through between indianapolis an'
| Evansville went out over the Vapdalia a