The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-01

was pleased with the manner business is
transacted During the past year the Big
rour ntted up handsome office IN the
stock yard building and has an agent located
there.
The proper authority on the Big Four has
posted orders along the line and at all june.
tion points TO the effect that after Jan.
all fremen, rear brakemen, yard foremen
and switchnen will be required 10 carry reg
ulation watches. as. do engineers and con-
ductors. The order includes all employees In
train service.
A. Galloway. superintendent of the In
dianapolis and Cincinnati division of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton x Dayton lines, was
in connection with the interchange of traffic
between the c.. II. e. d. and the Indiana,
Decatur & Western the two lines now
working closer together than at any former
period.
In railroad circles a belief prevails that
the legal fight between the Baltimore &
Ohio and the Toledo & Ohio Central viii
terminate in the Pennsylvania Company Sc
curing control of the thirty-three miles ci
main line, between Newark and Coluinb bus
The Panhandle, the 3. q O. and the Toledo
q Ohio Central operate over this piece OF
track jointly.
The executive committee of the Central
Passenger Association now consists OF T.. .
Mccormick, passenger traffic manager OF
the Big Four; E. A. Ford, general pasS5n-
ger agent of the Pennsylvania lines; B.. N
Austin, general passenger agent of the Bal
timore & Ohio; G. S. Crane, general passen-
ger agent of the Wabash, and w. Ill. FISHER
general passenger agent of the Columbus &
Hooking Valley.
East-bound freight shipments from Chi
cage for the week ending Dec. 80 amounted
to So, 101 tons, against 76,245 for the week
previous, and 5000 last year, divided among
the different roads as folOws: Fort wayne,
16, 761 tons Michigan Central, ,S22; Wabash
1,624; Lake Shore, 15.122; Panhandle, 1922;
Baltimore & Ohio, 1884, Nickel-plate, 92l7;
Erie, 1922; Big -Four, 1850.
The official report to J. @. Van Wrinkle,
general superintendent of the Big -Four
lines, shows that in November SIZE per cent.
of the freight-car movement was loaded
in freight-car mileage over November, 1896,
an increase of Is per cent. in loaded freight
car mileage, and an increase of % per cent.
in freight earnings on the Big Four proper.
A meeting of the Western lines was held
in Chicago yesterday for the purpose or
doing away with the hhomeseekers' excur-
sions, which, it is said. have been demor-
alizer of winter tourist rates The same old
straw was threshed over again with the
same old result, and the excursions will be
continued for the remainder of the winter.
There is possibility that the roads may
take them out, but it is not considered like
ly. It is probable, however, that they will
be confined to the first three months of the
year.
President Horace G. Burt, formally took
charge Of the Union Pacific headquarters at
a different turn than railroad men had
looked for. Instead of its welding the Chi
together it is thought that it will cause q
division of business in connection with the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul. The cleo
ton Of Roswell Miller, president of the St.
Paul, as one of the directors of the Union
Pacific is thought to have more than Or
binary significance.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company
has called the attention of the Western
roads to the fact that it will be practically
impossible for it to handle the great
amount Of passengers for Alaska which the
roads say they will land in Seattle in the
spring, without some delay. IT also an
nounces that it cannot guarantee to carry
passengers on any particular steamer at
any particular time. 1t will not be respon-
Sible for the detention of passengers at San
Francisco Portland and Seattle, and tick
cts good on its steamers must be sold sub
ject TO these conditions.
Charles Watts, general superintendent Of
the Fort Wayne Railroad system has fully
recovered from his long illness. and he Will
assume the duties of his office again next
Monday. Mr.. Watts was overcome by the
heat on the streets of Chicago July IS last.
His physicians recommended an ocean voy-
age. He consequently went to Europe,
spending several months in England and
Germany. Since returning he has been re-
operating in Virginia, and at his home at
Elmsworth, A b. Starr division surerin-
tendent of the eastern division of the Fort
Wayne Railroad, looked after the duties ~
acting superintendent.