The Indianapolis journal., 1898-11-24

growing out of fires in the Kankakse
marshes last year. when $1,000 acres of
marsh ground were burned over
NJ. E. Ingalls, president of the Big -Four
lines will with his wife and sons. spend
Thanksgiving in New York city.
General Manager Loree, of the Pennsyl-
va1ia neS we5 and sohh the eT gn
system, were in the city yesterday for
few hours the former going from here to
Louisville and Mr. Miller returning to Rich
ily
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company an
nounces that the Jersey ty-Louisyille
sleeper now run on trains Nos 65 and So
will be withdrawn between Jersey City and
Washington after Nov. 80. and the line will
he made a Washington-Louisville line on
Chesapeake Ohio Railway trains Nos. 3
and ?.
W. Applegate formerly of this city who
has been in Cincinnati for two years as
agent of the Nickel-pate fast freight line,
more recently soliciting agent OF the
Vanderbilt consolidated fast freight lines,
will retire on Dec. l to accept a more lucra-
tive position with an iron industry at Blrm-
ingham, Ala
The Wabash management has under con-
temptation the construction of second
track at several points for short distances
One will be laid between Decatur and Benz
ing, ILL.,, distance of twenty miles, ana
as the finances will justify improvements
Of this character will be made until the
busiest portions of the lines are double
tracked
1t is stated that should John Chesborough.
who retires as Northern passenger agent OF
the Queen & Crescent road not receive the
appointment of general passenger agent OF
the st. Louis & San Francisco. ne Is lkeiy
to be taken care of on the Pennsylvania
lines which he left to become general pas
senger agent of the Baltimore 81 ohio
Southwestern.
The Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk
Railroads having reached an understanding
on the present rate controversy, all rates
will be restored on Monday. Nov. 2S. Nego-
use of the North Bay line Of the Grand
Trunk for Ontario business to and from the
northwest, and the service will likely be-
come effective shortly.
The Baltimore q Ohio has q travelling Ii
brary for the exclusive use of its employees
and their families, containing fourteen thou
sand volumes. 1t was founded in 1885 with
1900 volumes, 1900 of which were purchased
and the remainder donated. While the
headquarters of the institution is at Balti-
more the books are distributed among en-
plOyeS at any point on the lines
The Southern railways are publishing
their fast winter schedules, which will make
a trip to Florida or Cuba a matter of short
time, less than three days from Indianap-
oils to Cuban points. Faster service will
be put on between Chicago and other
Northern cities than has ever before been
undertaken, and competition bids falr TO
be fierce. Agreed rates will be strictly ad-
hered to by all lines.
The action of the Maryland authorities in
refusing to deliver the States holdings of
Baltimore a. Ohio preferred stock to the re-
organization committee until legal opinion
is had that it may legally sell the securities
at private SALE will not delay the deal so
far as other interests are concerned The
Mercantile Trust and Deposit Company
holds $4,000 shares which were pooled with it
by the trustees of Johns Hopkins University
and other holders, and this block will be de-
livered as agreed upon on Friday. The
transaction involves $1,725,0O
The question as to who is in authority in
running of trains, the engineer or the con-
doctor, still causes more or less friction be-
tween the two train officials. and. while
there is open i'll feeling to be noticed,
engineers and conductors will never work
in unison. 1t was on this very question that
the strike on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy road fell through. the conductors
making themselves useful in the cabs as
we'll as in using the punch on tickets, and,
it is stated, that but for the cool headed
men at the heads of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers and of the Order Of
Railway Conductors, the railroad companies
would have more trouble on this score To
remedy this trouble some of the roads are
issuing the same orders as to movement
of trains to both the engineer and conductor.
Occasionally this works against the con-
ductor and engineer. as both are blamed III
case anything happens to train.