The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-12

E4iECl &ldN i atAd AAEn 1lGAl5Eo " Jun -
means that it is a dead issue and that this
step backward will not be taken.
state Railway commissioners
The ninth annual convention of state
railroad commissioners is in session at st.
Louis. Among the matters to be considered
are reports and discussions on uniform
classification, railway statistics, railway
legislation and safety appliances. Papers
viii be read on the powers. duties ana ac-
tual work of state railroad commissioners
and also on the delays attendant upon en-
forcing orders of railroad commissioners
by procedure in the courts.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
o. r. e. Raidy, trainmaster of the Van
dalia lines, is so i'll as to contine MIN at
The Panhandle special to Richmond yes
terday took out twelve coaches CROWDED
with G.. A. r. men and their friends.
The Chicago & Calumet Terminal Com
pany has decided to lay a second track
from Blue Island to McCloud, a distance
of fourteen miles.
J. w. Moore has been appointed general
passenger and freight agent of the Carolina
q Northwestern, vice S. L. Pender, recently
killed in an accident.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific has
commenced ~relaying it's entire Illinois dl-
vision with new steel rail Weighing elShty-
five pounds to the yard.
The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific last
week contracted for six large new freight
"a civ N1Ny
tern of refrigerator cars.
G.. Romy, cashier of the American Elk
press Company at Cincinnati VINO dled on
Monday night, had been IN the service Oh
the company thirty years.
The Wabash on Monday commenced the
laying of a long passing track az feru,
which will admit OF the fast lrelgnt trains
passing that point without interfering WITH
passenger trains.
The passenger committee of the trunk
line Association at its meeting yesterday
gage betweeen States, except between Can
ada and the United States.
The Chesapeake & Ohio will this week
award the contract for an EXTENSIVE pier
for coastwise business. The pier will be
1000 feet long and 260 feet wide.
Charles Lynch, a Panhandle brakeman
who lost a leg about a year ago When
pany for 81, 425, and he will be given some
position that his crippled condition Will al
nit of his filling.
d. f. Donough, general ticket agent at
the Union ticket office, reports a marked IN
crease in travel since the more seasonaple
weather set in. Not in many months nave
the daily reports exceeded those Oh MonuaJ
and Tuesday of this week.
It required forty-ive Pullman and w
Wagner sleeping cars to carry the conduc-
tors and their wives who went to Los An
the Order of Railway Conductors, which
convene in that city to-day.
The net earnings Of the Chesapeake &
Ohio for March were $S2fOifS; Tor Orr ehs 60 9 g59
oil, against $2,46l, 326 in the year endlng
March 81, 1896, and against $2,3S6,264 in the
year ending March 81, 1898.
r. ID. Hughes, general superintendent OF
the American Express Company, is in the
city. He stated last evening that he was
glad to say that business with the express
companies was showing some improvement
over the corresponding period last year.
The New York Central people, now that
the New York, New Haven d Hartford has
made such a -uccess in %equipping its short
divisions with electric power, have decided
to equip the Putnam division in a like man
ner. The Putnam division is the old New
York & Northern.
When the Baltimore & Ohio gets its TWEEN
ty-fiVe new engines contracted Tor last
week it will have purchased since the re-
ceivers were appointed an even one hundred
locomotives, and a large per cent. OF their
old locomotives which were worth rebuild
ing have been rebuilt.
Shipments of Bedford stone to the East
ern States are heavy. On Monday twenty
yesterday orders were placed for twenty
more cars to load with stone for the East.
other Northern points are setting in brisk
ly, and it bids fair TO be a good year Tor
the Monon in this line of traffic.
Information has reached the board Of
that one or more direct lines TO Buffalo
from the West in the Central Passenger
Committee territory have promised slde
trips in connection with the special eXcur-
sion tickets to Buffalo on account OF the
G.. a. II. meeting in August, and the man.
ayers advise THAI such action is Irregular.
j. Stanley Orr, travelling passenger agent
of the Southern Pacific line, is III the city.
The Hotel Delmonte Company issued an
tllustrated work complete IN defail, OF the
cry found on the Southern Pacific lines.
Many of the photographs show some OF the
ancient buildings seen along its lines, and
tho hook gives interesting history regard
ing them.
A preliminary meeting has been held and
committees appointed for the purpose of or
ganizing the Wabash Valley Railroad Conn
pany. it is proposed to build a railroad
from Vincennes, Ind, to Charleston, Ill,
via Palestine, Ill. Capitalists along the
and will secure the right of way. The pro-
posed line will pass through a rich agricul-
tural country.
In the first week of May the Toledo, ST.
Louis & Kansas City earned $3S, 62S.52, a de-
crease as compared witt the corresponding
week of 1896 of $401. 26, being the second time
that a decrease in earnings has been shown
as compared with the corresponding week
of previous years. Since July /, 1896, the
road has earned 81, 500, 1863. 80, an increase
over the corresponding period or the preVl-
GUS year of $223, 1S4.lS.
Shippers over the Pennsylvania lines west
speak of James b. Hill, the new general
freight agent of the lines west OF Plttsburg,
as being the strongest man the Pennsyl-
vania people have ever had in this territory.
He has Just completed a trip over the sew
era1 divisions, acquainting himself with the
shippers and endeavoring to find out what
is needed to popularize the Panhandle with
the business public.
The Western roads nave not yet got out
their summer tourist rate sheets, Tor the
reason that they have not succeeded in OBJ
tanning from some of the Eastern roads
the same arrangements they haVe mad IN
former wears. 1t is likely, however, that
they will in the near future take INDIE
pendent action in the matter and get out
their rate sheets independent OF the East
ern roads ant allow the latter to make their
arrangement When they get ready TO DO
so.
Car Service superintendent Snow, of the
Chesapeake & Ohio, was IN the city yeslef-
day. He says the tide is turning in bust
ness, and empty cars are being sent 70
Newport News to bring west-bound freight
westward. The shipments or grain nave so
fallen off that there are not enough cars
unIoaded at Newport News to furnish the
empty box cars required, and the coal trat-
fc of the c. & O. is nearly double that Of
any former period.
John d. KRONER, travelling freight agent
of the Grand Rapids q Indiana, Is IN
the city. He stated last evening that the
demand for furniture cars at points on that
line was now the largest of any spring since
1892. This is a more important item than
II may seem on its face, from the tact that
more furniture is shipped from points on
the Grand Rapids & Indiana than from any
section of the country, and, when mileage Is
considered. the shipments are largely IN ex-
cess of any other road.
The following superintendent of motive
power will meet to-day in this city to pre-
pare the report to be made to the Master
Mechanics Association on subjects left to
them at the last annual meeting to confer
and report or. Potter. of the Chicago q
Northwestern; Mckenzie, of the Nickel
plate; Lavery. of the Erie, and NJ. NJ. For
ney, a mechanical engineer OF prominence.