The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-26

Western, the Chesapeake & Ohio and the
Big Four, is getting into working order
and promises to be a popular line. An I'M
preston prevails that this line was eStab-
lished in the interest of the Big Four.
Trafnmaster Landers, of the indianapolis
e, Vincennes safes that on Thursday whea t
harvesting was begun in Knox county. He
says there has in the last ten days been q
remarkable Improvement in the crops and
that a good wheat, oats, hay ana corn crop
is very probable.
One who has been connected with the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines for
nearly thirty years says that from personal
inspection he knows that at no time in the
history of the road has it been in as good
physical condition, both as to roadbed and
equipment, as at present.
General Passenger Agent Pond, of the
Wisconsin Central, has notified Chairman
Caldwell, of the Western Passenger Assoc
citation that his line will hereafter ma1n-
tain the agreed rates between Chicago and
ST. Paul, and that it has no outstanding
arrangement with scalpers
The passenger earnings the first twenty
one days of June of the Monon were up to
on it's Indianapolis division Its morning
train from this city has become a profitable
one and is a great accommodation TO busl-
ness men and travelling statesmen.
one Of the good features OF traffic assoc
Citations is the work accomplished in the
compilation of joint tariffs to members and
subscribers. When one of the associations
was dissolved it was shown that 1t had
during its operations, saved 100000 to its
members in this one item in one year.
Train on the Panhandle. the limited
express, which hauls six cars between In
dianapolis and Richmond, three OF them
Pullman sleeping cars, and is scheduled to
make the run in ninety-tlve minutes on
Thursday night covered the distance, SIX
ty-eight miles, in eighty minutes, making
one stop
The Rock Island is the first of the West
ern roads to show any effects of the recent
ly improved conditions in traffic. President
Gable declared yesterday, -unofticially, that
for this year the Stockholders of the Rock
Island would receive dividends at the rate
of 4 per cent. instead of per cent. which
the road has been paying of late.
The warmer weather has started travel
to Eastern and Northern summer resorts
briskly. Almost nightly the Big Four has
to place an additional sleeping car on the
Knickerbocker to accommodate the bust
ness, and the fast trains of the Pennsyl-
vania lines have all their sleepinS-car space
occupied and frequently put on an addi-
tional car. The sleeping. cars for Detroit
and Mackinac, put on a few days ago, are
already well patronizcd
The Joint Traffic Association is making
itself very unpopular IN some or It's ruhngS.
The merchants and manufacturers of Bal
timore are loud in their protests that this
board of managers discrlmlnates IN IaVof
of New York by permitting Southern ana
Western merchants TO visit New York dur
ing the month of August on the certificate
plan, saving about one-third the usual fare.
and declines to give such parties stopoVer
privileges al Baltimore.
The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Com
pany was reorganized in 1890, with 923 miles
Of road. Its gross earnings the nrst year
were ST, 161 $40. Since that time the mileage
has been increased to 1850 miles its gross
earnings exceeding $l09J0,0O0 a year. and
it's net earnings last year were $3,2H, 0O0.
In the last five years President ingalls, has
expended nearly 81, 900 in improvements
to the property and expects next year to
get it on a dividend-paying basis
Since the flood, a few months ago, which
did the Evansville & Terre haute so much
damage the track for a hundred feet where
the washout was worst has rested on plies
seventy-seven feet in length. The trestle
is now surrounded with nfty-six feet OF
water, and the company has let contract
to fill up this waShout, the contractor TO be-
gin July 1 and to receive $4,000 for the
work THE engine which dropped into the
hole has been taken out, but the cars have
never been raised
The Union Pacific has in . large measure
receded from the position it assumed at
the time of its withdrawal from the West
ern Passenger Association At that time 1t
declared that il would refuse to cooperate
with the association roads in any way.
Yesterday however, il announced ii will
ioin with the local associations OF the West
ern Passenger Association at Denver KAN
sas City and Omaha and assist them IN all
possible ways to redeem the cheap tickets
now on the market and after the tickets
have been taken up 70 maintain the rates
at the agreed schedule.
At Leavenworth, Kan, yesterday, Judge
Hiram r. Dillen, Of Topeka. master IN
chancery, sold at auction the Kansas Cen
trail Railroad and rolling stock TO NalieI
b. Horn and Thomas Joyce. of Brooklyn
N Y for S200.000, which was the lowest bid
that could be accepted under the order or
sale. The purchasers were represented by
r. C. Anderson, OF New York. son Of F..
Ellery Anderson, receiver OF the Union Pa
cifc. and he deposited a certified check for
500 eco before bidding His hid was the
only one. The Kansas Central Company
was organized In 1871 and the road WAS
completed from LeavenwoT IL TO Holt in the
following year. a few years later 1t was
run to Onago and thence 10 Miltonva1e, the
present terminus. 1t is 206 miles long.