The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-04

and who, for some years, bad held that po-
sition on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie, died
on Wednesday, at Pittsburg.
In the month of February there were
handled at the city freight depots OF the
Pennsylvania Company 27,740,9S5 pounds of
freight, representing 2,97S cars
Walter NJ. Pennington, who formerly rep
resented the White s.line in this territory,
now general agent of the line at Memphis,
Tenn, is in the city for couple of days
As an instance of the popularity of the
late Robert Blee, when superintendent of
the Bee-line, it is stated that nineteen en-
ployes of the road have sons named after
him.
1t is stated that President Webb and party
went west last week to complete nego.ia-
tons for the substitution of Wagner for
Pullman service on one of the transconti-
mental lines.
The Big Four has instituted a special
horse train from st. Louis to Buffalo, to
be run every Friday. 1t makes the run from
Indianapolis to Cleveland, 2SS miles, in
eleven hours.
A n. Martin, son of D. B. Martin, pas
senger traffic manager of the Baltimore &
Ohio, has been appointed secretary of l.. r.
Brookenbrough, general freight agent of the
3. q o. lines west.
The Panhandle yesterday ran a special of
live cars from Chicago to Indianapolis to
carry a. theater party, and the seventy
seven miles from Logansport to lndianapo-
lis was run in less than two hours
A large number of employees on the Wa
bash lines have been warned that they are
visiting saloons too frequently, and that if
they wish to remain in the employ of the
company the practice must be stopped at
once.
Lawrence Gels, tonnage clerk for fifteen
years in the office of Colonel Perry, gem
eral agent of the PENNSYLVANIA lines at this
point, is so i'll that he is confined to his
home, and his son has been appointed his
successor stf
Work on the new bridge of the Big Four
over the Cuyahoga, river is progressing
rapidly, and Superintendent Higgins says
when completed the heavy traffic over the
Cleveland end of the line can be much bet
ter handled. a.s.4
John F. Miller. general superintendent of
the Pennsylvania lines Southwestern sys-
tenn, attended the funeral of the late Rob-
ert Blee. Mr., Blee served as a brakeman
when Mr.. Miller was a conductor on the
Bee-line, in 1852
1t is stated that the movement against
railroads running Sunday excursions has
become so pronounced that if they are not
mer not one-third of the Sunday excursions
Will be run that were last year.
The Brooks locomotive works have just
received orders for ten new locomotives for
the Illinois Central and forty freight and
passenger engines for the Great Northern,
and are now employing more men than at
any time in the history of the works.
The interchange business between the c..
February. covered by the territory repre-
sented by George s. Brecount, commercial
agent, Cincinnati, shows an increase over
the same period of last year of $4,000.
The Panhandle yesterday sent TO the In
dianapolis shops the first installment of pas
senger. coaches to be overhauled and re-
painted. For. some years past this work
be divided with the Indianapolis shops
The Toledo. ST. Louis & Kansas City
earned in February r$14S, $500, a decrease. as
compared with February 1897 of $24,OS2.7S.
Since July the road has earned 81, 519, 9l7.2S,
a decrease, as compared with the CORE
spending eight months of the previous year,
of $3,37SSS .or
the Pennsylvania lines and later general
manager of the Queen & Crescent Railroad,
has been elected second vice president and
general manager of the Mobile &. Ohio Rail-
road. He will probably have his headquar-
terS at st. Louis. pin
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois has as yet
been able to settle but one of the claims for
damages resulting from the wreck of a
miners train some months ago at Brazil.
Thirteen were injured in the wreck, and
j., r.. Barr IS the only pne of the number
who has settled his claim.
c. L. Gardner, formerly with the Column
bus, Sandusky G. Hooking, has been APP
pointed superintendent of transportation of
the F1ndlay, Fort Wayne & Western. 1t is
lntimated that with the retirement of c.. M.
BisselI at present general manager of the
road, Mr. Gardner will be his successor.
In the month of February there were
loaded and unloadedi at the Big Four city
against 5.4S1 Carloads in February, 1887 an
increase this year of 779 cars. The freight
handled was all merchandise and the bust
ness done on the bulk tracks is not In
Guided.
Traffic officials of the roads in the corn
belt say that they never before have had
SO large an amount of corn to move The
amount, they say is apparently limitless
The one great trouble in the matter is that
the rates are so badly demoralized that
there is comparatively little profit in the
business
Passenger traffic on the Big Four lines
IS very heavy. On Wednesday Train II left
CINCINNATI With seventy-five passengers
turned over, to It by the Chesapeake & Ohio,
fifteen by the Queen e Crescent, and four
teen given to it by other lines; at Green's
burg twenty passengers were turned over
20 the train n. M. Bronson states that
travel all over the system is exceedingly
heavy.
The managers of the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation have issued detailed table of rates
on pig iron, billets,. etc.,. from Uhr1chsville
Pennsylvania and West Virginia These
rates range from 70 cents to $2.65 per gross
ton. The rate on wire rods from Pitts
burg, Pa. to Milwaukee has been fixed at
$3.50 per gross ton. New commodity rates
on glassware articles effective March is and
expiring Oct. 81, have been approved.
The Wabash people are keeping quiet re-
garding the proposed do-Montpelier
line, but 1t is understood that the surveyors
nave completed their work and have filed
Louis General MANAGER Ramsey recently
made trip to New York and it is thought
that he carried with him a result of the
work of the surveyors. The whole matter
Will be taken under Amusement by the
stockholders, most of whom are New York
capitalists. Whether or not they will con-
clude to construct the line the coming sum-
mer remains to be SEEN
As result of the recent seizure by the
city of Cleveland of a portion of the lake
front, which had been held by various rail-
SlIhEQnIGnt
arrest of workmen employed by the Penn
sylvania Company in driving piles applica-
ton was made yesterday by the Pennsyl-
vania Company before United. States Judge
Kicks, for a restraining order against the
city,. 1t is claimed by the company that 1t
has been in possession of the land in which
the piles were recently driven for more
than thirty years, Judge Kicks stated that
he would have the city notified, and as soon
ter. tI4
vile & Nashville Railroad, yesterday met
committee appointed by the conductors,
engineers and firernen of that system at
louisville They asked for a restoration of
the 1O-per-cent. cut in their wages which
was made in 1888. The request was made in
a courteous, gentlemanly manner and Gen
eral Manager Metcalfe, who had come from
Florida to be present, told the members of
the committee that their request would be
months at most, and regretted sincerely
that the cut could not be restored at once.
He, however, gave the members of the COM
mitteo Such assurances of the roads inten-
tons. in this direction that the conference
ended very pleasantly.