The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-03

est trains run between indianapolis and
Chicago they have made the run in four
hours anu fifteen minutes, and almost ualIy
make II IN four and one-half hours, and ne
says the engines have never yet been put
to their best performance.
Pursuant to the order of the Federal Court
the sale or the securities under the Union
York yesterday. After Kuhn Loeb & Co.
had bought 50, 800 600 securities, the sale was
stopped; sufhclent money having been re-
celVed 10 pay off the outstanding notes
Kuhn, Loeb q Co. represented the reorgaIll-
cation committee.
The City Council of Frankfort Qnd) a
few months ago passed an ordinance Iorpid-
ding the running of trains through that
city faster than four miles an hour. II mas
proved annoying to the roads and the Lake
test case OF the question and has appealed
a case from a Justice of the peace court 10
the Circuit Court on the ground that 1t IS
an unreasonable ordinance.
The officials of the wisconsin Central deny
that that road has made any arrangements
with the Canadian Pacific regarding the IN
terchange of passenger trattlc at 81 PauL
They declare that the deal has never been
contemplated, and that it has been set in
circulation by competitors of the road with
the hope OF destroying the cordlal relauohs
existing between the Wisconsin Centrai ana
the Great Northern and the Northern Pa
cific.
President T. p Fowler, of the New York.
Ontario az Western Railroad Company
ton OF the road by the West shore, SAID:
1T may be said with some degree OF GER
tainty that our stockholders VIII not accept
$4500.0G0 in West Shore or other debentures
in exchange for their holdings. Inc amount
should be nearer $14500,00O, which would
mean about / per cent. annually on Ontario
& Western stock SO far as l am aware, no
proposal Of an official character has been
presented"
The Mexican government has published
an order to the Mexican National Railroad
Company and the Mexican Central Railroad
Company, notifying them that they must
discontinue handling commercial ana otner
States and Mexico. According to the gov
eminent the railroads may use their tele-
graph solely to serve in sadeg9 ga 4 rd Ine
if fully carried out, means that the tele-
graph service in Mexico must be carried
over the federal lines
About six weeks ago over one hundred
mercantile firms of Chicago formally re-
quested the Joint Traffic Association TO put
a stop to the discrimination against Chicago
in favor of ST. Louis on limited trains put
no attention was paid to the request by the
association Now the firms have renewed
the fight; so much passenger business east
Louis that it excites the envy OF Chicago
business men. This change in favor Of the
st. Louis lines is due to the fact that me
trains now run between St Louis ana the
East are modern, and Chicago can no long
er boast of its supremacy in this respect.
The Lake Erie & Western is coming into
the field as a competitor for not only busl-
ness, but high speed, for its freight trains.
On Sunday a train of twenty-slX cars,
loaded with dressed meats and perishable
goods was hauled from Upton to FoStoria,
a distance of 16S miles, in six hours and
hfty-Seven minutes, including all necessary
stops for water and railroad crossings At
Lima the train was delayed but fVe min
utes, to change locomotives and for inspec-
ton. The highest speed was attained be-
tween Lima and Fostoria, fifty-one miles,
which was covered in one hour ana thirty
eight minutes, making one stop for water.
At no distant day the Pennsylvania lines
will create surprise by announcing what
speed of their trains on the shorter mileage.
BY the elimination of curves several miles
have been cut off, and when those under
contemplation are taken out 1T is said the
mileage will be reduced ten miles more be-
tween Harrisburg and Columbus, o. 1t is
thought the distance between Pittsburg and
Chicago can be reduced to 460 miles, ana
between Pittsburg and st. Louis to GIL
miles, and with the curves already taken
out and those which it is practical to take
Pittsburg viii be reduced eighteen miles
The committees appointed to consider the
question of reduced rates for the North
American Turner's convention to be held
at San Francisco July 5, the tenth triennial
council of Congregational Churches TO be
held at Portland, Ore. July lib and the
national convention of the w. c. II. U. to be
recommended that consideration thereof be
postponed pending action on the anti-scalp-
ing bill now before Congress, the passage
of which should make it possible to sim
plify ticketing arrangements and permit or
the granting of other concessions IN the
which under existing conditions are inn
ura Cticablp