The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-09-16
is more exempt from accident than the

is more exempt from accident than the
western division of this line.
The Baldwin locomotive works have
turned out a new Baldwin motor for the
Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton Traction
Company. After experimenting with II a
few minor changes were thought advisable,
but it Will arrive at Hamilton next week
and be placed in service between Hamilton
and Middletown.
The ticket receivers reports show that
the Pennsylvania lines brought into the
city on state fair tickets 30 per cent. more
people on Tuesday than the same day last
year, and that yesterday there were fully
80 per cent. more brought in. The state
ments are based on the conductors reports
and are reliable.
The passenger conductors on the roads
entering Springfield. o. are disturbed over
the unceremonlOus discharge of Conductors
W. M Costello. Charles Fleming, j. r.
Grimsle John L. Hunter and Edward Du-
gan, the only passenger conductors en-
ployed on the Ohio Southern. The cause OF
the dismissal is not stated further than
that spoilers have been working the road
The subcommittee Of the Western Pas
senger Association, which has had under
consideration the question of interchange
able mileage tickets, has announced that
it is ready to report and meeting OF the
executive committee of the association Will
be held in Chicago to-day to hear what
the committee has decided to recommend.
1t is not likely that any formal action will
be taken at the meeting.
President MelIen. of the Northern Pa
cific, has taken hold in his new position
with a good deal of vim. One of his first
moves was to order the shops of the COM
pany run full handed and to their full
capacity, the equipment to be put in good
condition rapidly as possible, and the
construction department has been given or
ders to put bridges and trestles in good con-
ballast. The shops of the Northern Pa
cific at Tacoma cost over 81 100000 and are
among the best equipped in the country.
Alvin Irwin, agent of the Big Four at
At,.fr EsT1fi a
day or two ago. died on Tuesday In speak
ing of his death the Anderson Bulletin says:
THE death calls to mind that employees of
the Big Four at this point nave been I'M
fortunate. Four others lie seriously i'll of
the same disease that caused Mr.. Irwin S
death. few weeks ago a car OF freight
from Southern city was handled by the
men at the freighthouse and 1T is thought
it was infected by disease germs which
have caused the sickness among the freight
men, as they all seem to be similarly ar
fected."
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Illinois Central was held in Chicago
yesterday, the number of shares repre-
scented being 100000 shares out of total OF
525 600. The reports submitted showed gross
receipts of So, 1l0.9S7; the expenses and
taxes were Sl57 35, S85, leaving IS the net re-
ceipts from traffic $6,375052. Other sources
of income swelled the total net receipts OF
the road to $S5Ss,249. The total -d fixed SeS
The dividends paid during the year
amounted to $2625,000 and $924 462 was car
r1ed forward TO the surplus account. Is
sues of bonds TO refund or retire outstand-
ing obligations of various divisions We're
approved by the stockholders.
A suit was begun in the United States
Court at Baltimore yesterday which has for
its object the appointment of a separate
receiver for the Pittsburg & Connellsville
Railway. one of the tributaries to the Bal
tirnore q Ohio Railway system, pending the
foreclosure of the second consolidated
mortgage for $4,000, oO0 held by the Union
Trust Company, OF New York, the plaintiff
in the action and trustee for the owners of
the bonds secured by the mortgage in ques-
ton. The filing of this suit and the applica-
ton for a separate recefvership, when TAX
en- in connection with a similar action re-
Gently filed by the bondhoders of the Bal
timore & Ohio and Chicago branch of the
system, is looked upon as foreshadowing
plan to disintegrate the system matured by
those who are opposed to the present re-
ownership.