The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-14

Bowser, general Eastern travelling passenger
| agent of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, are
in the city.
| c. J. De vilbiss has been appointed mas
ter mechanic OF the shops of the Wabash
| M. Paul, formerly Of the Big -Four shops
at Nation.
Two boys. aged sixteen and seventeen. re-
| spectively, are in jail at Lafayette serving
| sentence for placing torpedoes on the tracks
of the Wabash road, causing a confusion
| and delay of trains.
The Wabash lines earned in the first week
| of December s25S,92S, increase of $32.1 67
over the corresponding week of 1897. This
| year. however. the earnings of the Buffalo
| division are included.
c. b. Layne, for several years assistant
| train dispatcher of the Big Four's Michigan
| division, left yesterday for Crew, Va, where
| he takes the position Of train dispatcher on
| the Norfolk e. Western.
Z. b. Turner, general superintendent of
| the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton lines,
spent yesterday at indianapolis comforting
with the Indiana, Decatur & Western OFF,
Gals in relation to train service.
John c. Muir. who resigned his position
| as superintendent of telegraph of the Chi
| cago & Eastern Illinois. will remain with
the company in another position created for
him, that of trainmaster of passenger serv-
W.. Fl. Newman, formerly with the Great
| Northern. president of the Lake Shore
road, is said to have become so pronounced
| in favor OF heavy locomotives by his highly
| satisfactory experience when on the former
road.
The chief clerks Of the passenger depart
| ments of the roads in the Central Passenger
Association territory will meet In C1ncin-
natl to-day to adjust rate sheets I'he Lake
Erie & Western will be represented by Ed
ward Hicks.
e. A. Cooper, representing the Chicago &
| take charge of the city passenger and ticket
office of the u p, d. & G. Railway in Den
yer. An Alton ticket agent was appointed
to fill the vacancy.
Paymaster Snee. of the Panhandle lines,
paid Indianapolis employees yesterday for
| last month. He states that his disburse-
ments at Indianapolis for November were
larger than in any former month, both to
| trainmen and shopmen.
| The Big Four lines proper earned in the
first week of December 1924. 44s.S4, a decrease
| of 1887 of SIS. 115.10. The decrease was large
| ly in freight earnings and wholly attribu-
| table to the great scarcity of cars.
A. d. Perry. district passenger agent of
the Chicago & Alton, has received a car
! load of handsome 1899 calendars for free
distribution. He reports Pacific coast bust
| ness good, and says the Pacific coast linn
tied is getting the lions share of the BUSH
ness.
The Ohio Coal Traffic Association, COM
| posed of seven Ohio roads, is a thing OF
| the past, and every road makes rates for
| itself. Statistics are being prepared, how
ever, to form basis of rates preparatory
| to reorganization in another from, probably
| before the new year.
! 1t is stated that several changes in the
| force Of the Vandala at st. Louis will be
made when John Chesbrough takes the pc
! sition of general passenger agent of the road.
| Some economies will be introduced when
will be beneficial, it is thought, and not
curtail the business of the line.
| u. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the
| Vandalla lines yesterday issued the follow
| ing notice. with the approval of V. T. Ma
| lott receiver: Effective on Dec. &C. Mr..
1 ThaCfr0IIch ic onnOint assistant H.
! eral passenger agent, in place OF Mr. w.
Il. Drummer, who accepts other service"
Railroad earnings for the next four months
| will not make as favorable exhibits as for
| few months past, as the weather will force
| q reduction In the number of cars hauled
| per train and more or less interfere with
| the prompt movement Of trains. AS usual
| now that the bad months for handling traf-
| fic are at hand, the railroads are getting
| together to stop rate cutting.
Engine 206 enc of the new heavy passen-
ger engines on the Big Four, on Monday
night hauled the Knickerbocker express,
consisting of seven cars, from Indianapolis
coal of ten tons, and on its fast time. which
makes it the more remarkable The en-
gines which heretofore hauled that train, in
running from Indianapolis to Cleveland,
usually consumed fourteen to fifteen tons OF
| coal.
| Harrison Funk, who had run an engine
| for thirty years on the Pennsylvania line,
on Sunday, when running the engine haul
| ing the Pennsylvania limited, when near
McVeytown either slipped from his engine
or fell and received injuries from which he
| died few hours after. He was prominent
in the Masonic fraternity, One of his sons
road and another is in the United States
| navy.
A. NJ: Compton, of Chicago, representing
the different commercial organizations
which are pushing the anti-scalping bill,
| had conference with Senator Cullom, at
which an understanding was reached that
| The bill was ordered to lie on the table in
| the Senate. where it can be taken up or re-
| ferred as deemed necessary. Senator Gull
| lom will endeavor to secure early consid-
| Grafton.
Remarkably heavy trains are beng
hauled on the Pittsburg,, Fort WAYNE Y
| Chicago road over the thirty miles from
Wellsville, o., to Conway. The road is
practically level, skirting the. Ohio river,
| and one day last week one OF the large new
| Glass H freight engines hauled 1856 cars, 152
| of them loaded in one train from Wells
| Vile to Conway Eighty loaded cars is said
| to be the usual number now attached to
| one locomotive between those points.
Thursday was record breaking day on
| the eastern division of the Pittsburg, Fort
Wayne & Chicago. 800 cars passing over
| that division in twenty-four hours, ana, in
| addition to this immense freight traffic,
| sxty-five passenger trains were handiad
| movement of cars for the Fort Wayne road
! is a greater achievement than the recent
movement through the. Altoona yards on
| the parent line, where 4,SO6 cars were nan
| died in twenty-four hours.
One of the best evidences that freight rates
| are 20 be restored on Jan. is the fact that
| George Bradbury. vice president of the Lake
| Erie & Western lines has given positive in
| structions to the freight representatives to
| name no rate below tariff on any business to
| be moved after the first day of next year.
| This is the more important from the fact
| that no road in this territory has to make
! a stronger fight to get business than does
| the Lake Erie & Western, and the tempta-
| ton to shade rates is very strong.
| In an interview General Passenger Agent
| Austin, of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
makes positive denial of the report from
| Columbus. o., that the passenger rate war
| between Columbus and Chicago was settled
| owing to the action of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad in refusing to accept business at
! cut rates from the Ohio Central line, and
| that this action was taken owing to pressure
| brought to bear upon the Baltimore & Ohio
| officials by some of the other lines inter
| ested. Mr.. Austin makes positive state
ment that the withdrawal of the cut rate
| by the Ohio Central line was entirely vol
| untary. and that the Baltimore & Ohio has
not refused to participate in the business,
| nor does it intend to do so, and there has
| been no pressure brought to bear directly
! or Indirectly by any of the other lines in
terested which has had any influence in
| the withdrawal of the rates.