The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-27
PROSPECTS FOR TRAFFIC
ANOTHER HEAVY FALL AND WINTER
BUSINESS SEEMS ASSURED.
A Fast Run over the C. & A. Road
Omaha ScaIpers Making Trouble
for the Roads Cenfering There.


prehend the favorable outlook for business
for the railroads. Usually one of two OF
the crops is a failure while this year all
crops are at their best. The wheat, oats
and hay crops are safe, and in this State
and in Illinois. and, in fact, all over the
West and Northwest are large beyond pre-
cedent. The outlook for the corn crop
could hardly be more favorable. The
good crops. with good markets, mean an
unprecedentedly heavy freight business say
travelling freight men. New wheat is be-
ginning to move to milling points like To-
ledo, Indianapolis. Cleveland and Column
bus but as yet no export wheat is moving.
New oats are Just beginning to move, as is
the new hay crop. Much of the old crop
OF corn is yet to be moved. When prices
advanced, few days ago. shippers stopped,
farmers holding the corn for better prices,
basing their expectations on the dry-weather
talk, but their confidence in that direction
has been shaken by the recent rains, which
were general, and by next week the old crop
of corn will be moving briskly to make room
for the promising crop of this year. The
live stock traffic promises to be very heavy
this fall and winter.
Another travelling freight agent says the
general talk all over the hog-producing ter
ritory is. that there will be more hogs fat
tened this season than in any former year.
and grass has been so good that the ship
ments of cattle bid fair to be unusually
large for some months to come. At present
the roads are handling 80 per cent. more
live stock than in July, 1897. One thing
which has conduced to making hay so i'm
portant a crop and largely increased the
business of the trunk lines was the shutting
mn Of Hox Nv l,o rife
land and New York. the principal markets,
drawing their supplies largely from Indiana
and Illinois. The produce dealers are doing
much heavier business than usual in
midsummer so good have been Eastern
markets and, taken as a whole. freight men
say it would be difficult to make the stu
alton more favorable to the railways.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
j, +. Orndorff has assumed the duties of
assistant general freight agent of the Ches-
apeake e. Ohio n
Judge Bacon. general agent of the Chica-
go. Rock Island & Pacific, is in the city for
couple of days.
The employees at the Wabash shops in To-
ledo will on Aug. 6 go to Detroit on their
annual excursion.
Official notice is given that the office of
general manager on the Lake Shore road
has been abolished.
IN Sunday the Michigan division of the
Big Four carried LAO excursionists to Ben
ton Harbor and $50 to Louisville.
William G. Cameron, nigh. yardmaster
promoted to general yardmaster of the road
at Tilton H.
The Wabash is said to be making ar
rangements with the Pittsburg, Bessemer
& Lake Erie to get into Pittshurg with it's
freight traffic.
The Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton is
loading on its indianapolis division from 100
1on1n dc rs a NIL l.
and Baltimore.
A. H. Mcleod freight traffic manager of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton. accom-
Snow island on pleasure trip.
The American Association of Travelling
Passenger Agents will meet in Lakewood.
N. Y, Sept. IL. Quite number of passen-
ger men from this territory will attend.
NJ W. Mansfield. superintendent of the
indianapolis & Vincennes. has gone TO
Pittsburg to attend a meeting of the exec
utive committee of the Pennsylvania COM
pany.
Benjamin Stonecifer passenger conduc-
tor on the Lake Erie & Western, who has
been seriously i'll, is much better. Mr..
Stonecifer is one of the oldest conductors
on the line.
In the year ending May 81 the Chicago &
Northwestern earned net $170275: in the
year ending May 81, 1897, it earned net
81, Iii 1858; in the year ending May 81, 1898, it
earned net $22S5 1872.
Fl. s. Waite. son of the late c. c. Waite
who has been quite i'll for some months
is well again and has returned 70 duty as
general yardmaster of the Columbus &
Hooking Valley road.
The roads centering at Omaha have given
the city authorities to understand that I'M
less the secslping of their tickets at Omaha
is stopped at once they will withdraw re-
duced rate on account of the exposition.
The New York and Boston morning spe-
cial from Cincinnati. over the Big Four. is
companys famous Knickerbocker although
the former has been on but two months.
An official of the Cincinnati Hamilton &
DAYTON says the only thing that is now de-
laying the building of the new city freight
depot here is the vacation of the grounds
by the parties from whom they were pur-
chased
ments of the Pennsylvania have been in
structed to make a reduction of per cent.
in their force Aug. !, and 1t is stated that
In other departments similar reductions will
be made.
The Michigan division of the Big Four
is doing the largest business to pleasure re-
parlor cars are paying handsomely. This is
the first yearNthat parlor-car service on the
through trains has been established.
Freight officials vallery, of the Chicago.
Central; Laird, of tie Chicago Great West
ern: Thatcher Of the Columbus & Hooking
Valley, and p. R. Neill, of the Hoosac Tun-
mel lire, Boston, arrived in the city on last
evenings trains.
p. A Bonebrake, superintendent of the
Indianapolis division of the Panhandle lines,
accompanied by several subordinate off,
Gals. yesterday started on a two days trip
over the line. stopping at every station to
acquaint himself with the agents and the
business situation.
Edward Wake, Monon engineer who
was killed at Lafayette on Monday while
crawling under a train which started sud-
denly. had been In the service of the COM
pany for forty-five years. When fifteen
years old he commenced firing and for the
last thirty years mad been an engineer on
the road.
stamp of cents must be placed on rebate
orders on receipts given by conductors to
passengers who pay cash fare trains
has induced the st. Paul & Duluth to abol-
ish the custom of refunding 10 cents and
the conductors have been instructed not to
hereafter issue receipts for cash fares
The New York Central on Saturday ran
an excursion from Batavia to Niagara
Falls. carrying over 800 people. The train
was run in three sections The first covered
the forty-seven miles in fifty-five minutes
the second in six1y-fve minutes. and the
third in seventy-five minutes In passenger
circles this is looked upon as a remarkable
run.
About year ago the New York Central
and Lake Shore Introduced on the sleeping
cars hauled on their limited trains the serv-
ice OF maids. and 1t has proven very ac-
ceptable to lady passengers For years it
has been the desire of George Daniels gem
eral passenger ageat of the New York Cen
trail TO make the attendant service a spe-
eial feature.
b. r. Fraser. passenger agent OF the
Pennsylvania, estimates that 10000 Ameri-
cans will visit Toronto during the coming
fair The dffferent roads bate asrvse,-5 -