The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-16

The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton will
Ohio.
Transportation officials are busy on their
summer time schedules, which will go into
effect May II. sa
1t is stated that esst-bound rates on dairy
products are now shaky, and general de-
moralizatton is feared.
The Santa Fee has contracts to bring tn
Northern and Eastern markets in the next
few months 5000 carloads of live stock
The Vandalia on Wednesday. with one of
its large freight engines hauled siXty-seven
cars from indianapolis 10 Terre Haute.
Il. A. Ford general passenger agent of
the pennsylvania lines west, is expected
h)me from California to-day or tomorrow
The railway brotherhoods arc to have a
big union meeting at Kenova on April 81
Arrangements are making for II large
crowd.
ID. S. Gray. who represents the Pennsyl-
Vana lines as one of the board of managers
or the JOINT Traffic Association, is home for
Il short visit.
The repairs to the Peoria & Eastern are
now so far completed that trains MAX
ing schedule time between indianapolis and
Springfield, O.
The Big -Four has purchased more ground
at Terre Haute to enable the company to
increase its passenger track room about the
new passenger station.
Despite the unfaVoFabe conditions the
Cleveland. Lorain & Wheeling earned in the
first week of April IS. 559.1 IL more than in the
corresponding week of 1897.
Samuel Hutchinson, assistant general
passenger agent of the Union Pacific. is on
an extended Eastern trip. going over the
fields of the respective agents.
The Chicago & Rock Island has resumed
It's train service into Atchison, KAN after
a suspension of nearly four years, the inn
proVement in business in Kansas justifying
the better service.
IL, d. ,I F. C2e, late general freight agent of
the Elkhart IL Western, formerly with the
I e Michigan ire
from rallroading and so to Chicago TO en-
bark in business
1t is stated that i'm one direction the Mich
lEan Cehtfal eNcelS all others, II having the
largest number of commodous, handsome
depots on its line of any road of like mile
age in the country
The Panhandle is using the material
taken out of the Glendale tunnel excava-
ton for extending he embankment at Sher-
tdan preparatory to increasing the side
tracks at that point.
Alfred w. Rocks, who had been in the
railway mail service for fourteen years,
died at Detroit ON Thursday He was ex-
secretary of the National Association Of
Railway Postal Clerks.
II. M. Bronson assistant general pas
senger agent of the Big -Four lines, who
has been quite i'll for several days, was
much better yesterday and expects to be
at his office on Monday.
The Chicago q Eastern Illinois has been
doing good deal of work in taking out
imperfections i'm it's track between Terre
Haute and Danville in some places rails
ing the track two TO four feet
The Cincinnati, Hamilton n Dayton has
placed several construction II aims ON the
lrontOn division and put two steam shoVels
at work making repairs on that division
which WAS considerably torn up by the re-
cent floods
Inquirer. The interstate-commerce COM
mssioners control rates, ana whether a
railroad has received land grants from the
United States or not. has authority to fix
rates should "A road be unreasonable in it's
demand for transportation of troops, equip
ment or other government freights.
The March announcement of the assesS-
ment of demerit marks under the Brown
system OF discipline on the Wabash is out
ard II shows that on the eastern division
switchman was dismissed for intoNication
and brakeman dropped for the accumu-