The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-17

siraDie they be included in any arrange
mentS or the character proposed.
In the thirty-six hours ending at a. m.
on Monday the Panhandle handled between
Columbus and Pittsburg 40 freight trains
sixty east-bound and fifty westward
The improvements the PENNSYLVANIA con-
templates making al Pittsburg in securing
grounds and erecting new union station
will cost in the neighborhood of $1,5oO,0oO.
Eight more men have been dismissed on
the Nickel-plate road for frequenting sa-
looms The company is determined that its
rules in this respect shall be strictly OBJ
served.
In pursuance of the instructions of the
general manag gers, Robert Donough, son of
Danial Donough, general ticket agent at
the Union Station, mas been selected as ad-
ditional ticket agent.
Freight men say that one of the best evil
dences Of improved times is the hundreds of
carloads of agricultural and harvest imple-
ments that are now being handled, largely
consignments from manufactures in Ohio.
E. o. Mccormick, passenger traffic man
ager of the Big Four lines, has asked
his entire quota of passenger men, includ-
ing the travelling passenger agents, to meet
at his office, in Cincinnati, on March %.
Thirty-two contractors have sent in bids
to Chief Engineer Kittredge, of the Big
Four, on the new depot the company pro-
poses to erect at Terre Haute. Five of the
bids were made by Terre Haute contract
orS.
1t is not surprising that ticket agents
are much exercised over the low rate to
Seattle and Puget sound points, as, when
rates are maintained S. commission is
paid on each ticket solo, now there is
nothing
The Big Four lines (proper) have earned
since July So $50, an increase over the
corresponding period of the preceding year
of $S73, 450, and it is believed that the in
crease of the present year will be mil
lion dollars
NJ. E. Ingalls, president of the Big Four,
has returned from his Mexican trip. He
expresses himself highly pleased with the
manner the business OF the Big Four was
conducted during his absence The earnings
were the largest ever known in February
and March.
Indications are that the Western Joint
Traffic Bureau will pass out of existence,
which would mean that five commissioners
will be out of jobs. To operate the bureau
has cost $125,0O0 a year, and the roads feel
that it is too expensive for the good it ac-
compliShes
l.. ]. Kes, general manager of the EN-
pire line. was in the city yesterday, ac-
companied by w. w. Whitaker agent of
the line at Cincinnati. Mr.. Keis is visiting
all the representatives of their line in the
West, and Mr.. .Kipp, at this point, ranks
as one of the Oldest agents of the COM
pany.
Vice President stubbs, of the Southern
Pacific. is on his way from San Francisco
to Ashland, o., where his father lies Sc
riously i'll. 1t is expected that he will reach
Chicago to-day, and President Thomas, of
the Erie road, has ordered that Immediately
on his arrival at Chicago a special train be
furnished to carry him to Ashland.
The most absurd rumor started of late is
that the Lake Shore is to secure control of
the Toledo, st. Louis & Kansas City and
establish new line between Toledo and St.
Louis. AS the Lake Shore already has the
Big -Four as its st: Louis line. and its busi-
ness could not be handled to better advan-
tage than 1t now is, the folly of the rumor
is apparent on its face.
The directors of the Missouri Pacific Rail-
road Company met in New York yesterday
ar n6 ~ 10nR pr0
j. Gould; vice president and general au-
ditor, G. G. Warner: general manager, w.
3. Doddridge;. secretary and treasurer, A
H. Caief; assistant treasurer, Guy Phillips;
second assistant secretary, f. w. Ireland
local treasurer, D. S. II. Smith.
The extension of the Cincinnati, George
TO West Union is to be commenced at once
by the Pennsylvania, which owns the prop
erty Ralph Peters, who is to look after
the Improvement has contracted for a new
steel bridge over the Little Miami river 400
feet in length The steam shovels and large
crews of men have been set at work reduc-
ing the grades and Strengthening the curves
on the old portion of the road.
The Erie Railroad Company yesterday
fled with the New York secretary of state
a certificate of increase Of capital stock
from $146 900, 600 to SIP ,000, 600 The increase
is $26, 900 900. The new stock is to consist of
10000 shares of first preferred stock and
1S0, 600 shares of common stock of 500 per
share each. This new stock is to provide
for an exchange for a like amount of the
capital stock of the New York, Susque-
hanna e. Western Railroad Company, ac-
cording to the terms of the lease between
the two railroad companies.
The Baltimore & Ohio has opened a new
freight terminal, with yard facilities, at
the foot of West Twenty-sixth street, on
large Plat of ground between Invent y-sixth
and Twenty-seyenth streets, fronting on
Thirteenth II avenue, was secured and tracks cEts
cars, and in addition warehouse 300x25
feet was built Tracks have been laid
across Thirteenth avenue to the pier and
a new bridge and other necessary adjuncts
have been built to facilitate the handling of
cars from floats to the land.
At a meeting of the executive officers of
the roads which are members of the West
ern Freight Traffic Bureau, which will be
held in Chicago next Wednesday, the future
of the organization will be determined. AS
matters now stand Chairman Midgeley and
the railroads are a unit in saying that the
present status of affairs cannot be main
tanned longer with profit to the roads, and
that something must be done to alter mat
tiers. There are no definite plans as yet
formed, save that the force OF the bureau
will be largely reduced and the number of
commissioners cut from ten to one.
The towns of Vandalia and Bear Grove,
in Fayette county, Illinois, have filed q
third bill against the St. Louis, Vandalia &
Terre Haute Railroad Company, praying
for an injunction and a receiver. In sub
stance, the bill alleges that the directors of
the St. Louis, Vandalia & Terre Haute
railroad pretended TO tease the rOaQ TO the
directors of the Terre Haute & Indianap-
oils Railroad, and that negligently and
fraudulently and for the purpose of favor
ing the pretended lessees, who were stock
holders, at the expense of other stockhold-
ers allowed defaults to exist and continue
and have taken no steps to collect them or
forfeit the lease. The bill charges further
that the books of the company are kept in
Pittsburg, instead of Greenville, as required
by law. 1t alleges conspiracy and claims
that the directors at their annual meeting
in this city last January would not let John
Gochenour, the trustee of the town of Bear
Grove and Vandalia, cast his vote. 1t is
stated that the person who is the iEstigator
of these suits owns but three shares of the
stock of this company.
Charles Rockwell; traffic manager of the
Monon lines, spent yesterday. in the city
He states that their business is very salts
factory. The shipments of stone from Bed
ford quarries have commenced, and this
class of business bids fair to be the largest
in wears. The road is hauling large quanti-
ties of lumber from the Southern States for
the car manufactures, and a good deaf or
hard wood timber cut in Georgia is coming
freights are seldom heavier than now, and,
in fact the road is doing as much business
as it's power can readily handle. Wlthln
sixty days the company will have fVe new
freight engines, and at the shops several
are being rebuilt Each week is showing
increased passenger earnings over CORE
spending weeks last year. On the 18TH the
Wagner Company will put on a sleeping car
to run nightly between Chicago and West
Baden and Mr.. Rockwell hopes within a
short time to arrange for through car
from Indianapolis to West Baden. The
Wagner Palace Car Company, he says, is
giving very satisfactory service, and has
nfi tie ne