The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-20

The summer time schedule of the Big
-Four lines will go into effect May 80.
George Lowell, general superintendent of
the Monon lines is III the city on official
business.
The report that the Minneapolis & St
Louis is to be absorbed by the Illinois Cen
tral is officially denied.
Business is improving again with the Big
-Four. it now handling on the system 1890
to $500 loaded cars daily.
Despite the denials of the Cleveland pa
pers on June / the general offices of the
Nickel-plate will be removed to Chicago.
II. j. Andrews has been appointed COM
mercial agent of the Cincinnati, JAG 6son d
Mackinaw, with headquarters at Cleveland.
c. M Hicklin, general Western agent of
the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Denver
Is spending a few days in this city with
his parents
F. A Macdonald city passenger agent
of the Big Four at indianapolis, was mar
ried yesterday to a young lady of Hunt
ington, w. Va
A. I. Mailer, general manager of the
Minneapolis q st. Louis, on June becomes
president of the Oregon Railway and Navi-
cation Company.
accommodation train through to Warsaw
to carry ex-President Harrison and party,
who went to Winona
General Travelling Freight Agents Tallant.
ley of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
are in the city on business trip.
Milton Knight, freight traffic manager of
the Wabash and representative of the COM
pany on the board of managers of the Joint
Traffic Association, is at st. Louis.
Lincoln Van Colt for several years trav-
cling auditor of the New York Central, will
retire from that position on June |, to be-
come purchasing agent of the Brooklyn
Heights road
c. Halle, of the board of administration
of the Southwestern Traffic Association,
will on June ] return to his old position
of freight traffic manager of the Missouri
Kansas q Texas.
DIR. ]. H. Ford, chief surgeon of the Big
Four, and a number of local surgeons of
the Big -Four Company We're in the city
yesterday en- route to Terre Haute to attend
the state medical convention.
The Pennsylvania has inaugurated a
York and Nashville, Tenn, via Cincinnati
and the Louisville & Nashville. The cars
will be hauled on Trains 20 and p.
Muncie, on the Big Four line, is besieged
Der of roads. Within the next few weeks
the Ball Bros glass works will ship over
three thousand carloads of fruit jars.
On Monday the Panhandle Company
opened new freight station at Sixteenth
street Chicago, which brings the line in
contact with several important industries
which will furnish good deal of freight.
j. II. Simpson has accepted the position
of assistant to General Manager Grape, of
the Flint q Pere Marquette. He has of
late been in the service Of the Southern
Report has it that /. G.. Rawn,~ general
superintendent of the Baltimore Il Ohio
Southwestern, will retire, and that c. c. +.
Bent now with the Baltimore & Ohio prop
err is to come back with the B. & o. S. w
Train 20 on the Vandalia yesterday was
hauled from GreencaStle to a standstill in
the Union Station in forty-three minutes
a distance Of thirty-nine miles, with a stop
at the Belt crossing. The train consisted
of eight cars.
NJ. E. ingalls,, president of the Big Four
has come out fiat-footed against the pro-
posed charging extra fare for riding on the
fast trains, and, so far as the Big Four is
concerned, its trains will be run faster be-
fore their time is reduced.
w P Walker. freight traffic manager
of the Chesapeake 81 Ohio. and who repre-
sents the c. & %. and the Big Four as one
of the board of managers of the Joint
Traffic Association, yesterday had a con-
ference at Cincinnati with President In
gals.
The commissary department of the dim
ing-car service of the Vandalia has been re-
moved from st. Louis TO East ST Louis
where the dining cars are now cut lose
from the through trains. BY this arrange
ment a saving of SIC day is effected TO the
Vandalia.
The board of managers of the Joint
Traffic Association has refused to act in
accordance with the recommendation of the
Chicago freight men and authorize a re-
duction of > cents per 100 pounds on oats
and other grain from Chicago to the At
lantic seaboard.
The railroad committee or the Live STOCK
Exchange of Chicago has received official
notice from the Interstate-commerce Com
mission that the question of the terminal
charges will be taken up on June 2, the
conference TO be held in the United States
Court room at Chicago.
The entire train of the Cincinnati Ham
ilton & Dayton which runs between Cincin-
natl and Detroit, known as the Michigan
Fast Limited, was received at the Indiana
Decatur x Western shops TO be generally
oVePhauled and repaired TO match the train
that the Michigan Central runs between the
points named.
ID. b. Martin. passenger traffic manager
OF the Baltimore q Ohio lines, is beginning
to place aggressive passenger men in his
service. 1t is announced that on June /
B. n. Austin assistant general passenger
agent of the Northern Pacific. viii become
assistant general passenger agent of the
Baltimore e. Ohio, with headquarters at
Chicago, vice l. $. Allen.
The only class of business which is up TO
its usual volume on the Pennsylvania lines
is that OF its refrigerator lines, the ship
ments of dressed meats. poultry, etc, be-
ing fully up 20 the usual volume. On Sun
day the Panhandle took into Pittsburg
sixty-two cars of refrigerator freight
which on Monday was followed by forty
more loaded with dairy products shipped