The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-18

of the association will not recognize any
more of these tickets. Scalpers are sup
posed to have been behind the issuance of
the tickets.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
Tickets at half rates are now on sale for
settlers who go to Southern States.
D. Bowes, general Western passenger
agent of the Chicago q Alton, is in the
city.
F. N. Porter, who has been with the Van
dalia at Terre Haute, has resigned to go
to Florida, where he has purchased farm.
new telegraph line is being stretched
on the western division of the Peoria q
Eastern, resting on new poles the entire
distance.
The Big Four on Monday afternoon and
yesterday carried into Shelbyville over
eighteen hundred people to the Red Mems
W. e. Hackedorn. general solicitor of the
Lake Erie & Western, left yesterday for
the Rocky mountains, to be gone two or
three weeks
The earnings of the New York. Lake
Erie g. Western lines the first week in
August were the largest for that week in
the last five years.
The Nickel-plate in the last week has
turned over to the Cincinnati Hamilton &
Dayton 800 empty cars to be sent West to
be loaded with grain.
George Bradbury vice president and gem
eral manager of the Lake Erie & West
ern and other Brice lines now in Europe
will sail for home Sept. H.
The Big Four has made rate and one
third for the round trip Indianapolis to
New York, going on Aug. q to the 81, on
account or the trade leagues.
The increased business on the Wabash
mas forced the company, in the last two
weeks, to put twenty additional switch
Ing crews and switch engines.
Ex-Presdent Winters of the Northern
Pacific, it is said, will probably to be
elected president of the Wisconsin Central
when the new company completes its or
ganization
The transportation departments look for
an unprecedentedly heavy movement of
live stock in october and November, and
have already commenced putting cars in
condition to handle it.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul has
earned 13 per cent. in the last two years
ON it's capital stock and has paid out 8
per cent. in dividends Its treasury is still
well supplied with cash.
The employees on the Baltimore & Ohio
southwestern yesterday had their annual
outing at the lagoon. Prizes were awarded
to those who had been employed on the
lines a certain number of years.
James Moore, who located and con-
Structed the Central Railroad of New Jer-
part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system,
died at Lancaster, Pa, on Monday, aged
eighty-four years.
The day express train over the Cincinnati
Hamilton & Dayton and the Monon yes
terday consisted of a combination mail
baggage and express car, two day coaches,
shops, completely vestibuled.
General Passenger Agent DAILY, of the
Lake Erie Western, has awarded the
contract for the, winter uniforms of the
trainmen to a Upton firm. Conductors
suits will cost $22 and brakemens suits
$50 the uniforms to be ready Nov. l.
The Big Four has secured the contract
lor transporting the Seventeenth Regiment
from Columbus TO the Fort Thomas ride
range. The First Battalion will leave on
special train on Thursday, and the second
lO q IC RfaTO0 sod of
240 men.
The express companies are handling more
fruit than at any former period, so much
that it is delaying trains to handle it at
take steps to divide the business so that
too much will not fall upon the fast ex
press trains
On Monday judgment was rendered
for $l4000,000 in favor of the Central Trust
Company, of New York, and If the judg-
ment and costs are not paid within the
time prescribed by law the road will be
sold at foreclosure sale.
One hundred and ninety miles of new
.ailroad will be built in Colorado this year
on six lines, and the Denver Times pre-
diets that nearly four million dollars will
be spent in building these six projected
lines, which in three cases are extensions
of roads already in operation
Official notice is given by the Central
Passenger Association mileage bureau that
Sept. /, positively, the 1,00O-mile inter-
good on all lines in the association terri
tory All other mileage, with the exception
of the 5,000-mile Photographic tickets, will
be withdrawn from sale.
The Kanawha Dispatch is in trouble over
an alleged cut rate which it has offered
on business from the East to st. Louis.
The Joint traffic fli rat, rate Is 81 cents per 100
it is charged. The line has a differential
which its competitors think should satisfy
ito cents per 100 pounds.
toI- t.
at Chicago by excellent authority that c. o.
Soul, recently general passenger agent of
the Baltimore & Ohio, will soon be APP
pointed general passenger agent of the
New York Central vice George H. Daniels,
who will be promoted to the position of
passenger traffic manager.
The directors of the Louisville & Nash
vile have decided to build a fine new pas
senger station at New Orleans the build
ing to be a model in style of architecture,
and constructed of iron, stone and wood
entirely covering the tracks on which the
passenger trains will stand when discharg-
ing and taking on passengers. The train
sheds will be 365 feet in length by 1875 in
width.
Col VIM. Shaw, district passenger agent
Of the Chicago, Burlington q Quincy, re-
turned on Monday from a pleasure trip in
The mountains of West Virginia, and finds
on his return that there has been very
handsome increase in coupon business out
of this territory Since Lucius Wakely was
appointed general passenger agent Of the
Missouri river lines in the "Q' system
there has been an increase in passenger
business which has surprised the passen-
ger department of the road, and competi-
tors still more.
Railroad earnings for July and for the
first week in August reflect substantial
Improvement in commercial conditions A
compilation of the gross revenue of 127
roads for July, operating over 100 600 miles
of track, show a gain over July 1896 of
s., 225 900, an improvement of SIC per cent
being better than any months exhibit of
the present year, and but for the miners
strike the exhibit would be still more favor
able for all lines So far as the Big Four
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and
the Monon are concerned, these lines have
been benefited by the coal miners strike
Report says the Pennsylvania, as well as
the New York Central, has under consider
alton the creating of the position of passen-
ger traffic manager. In case such a posi-
ton is created on the Pennsylvania lines
east of Pittsburg, George w. Boyd will UNI
doubtedly be promoted 10 be general pas
senger agent, he being very competent for
that position. and with the appointment Of
George Daniels as passenger traffic man
ager of the New York Central, several DAYS
ago Charles Soul, late with the Balti-
more IL Ohio, will be appointed general
passenger agent Of the New York Central
silver VIII BE Free.