The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-30

control of the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee
road, and that n. K. Elliott was appointed
general superintendent Of the road at the
suggestion of the Brice people. The Lima
Northern was supposed to have purchased
the road, but failed to pay the purchase
price and the Brice people took hold OF the
property.
Report has it that President Burt, of the
Union Pacific, has decided on a reduction of
wages of trainmen, and the brotherhoodS
are holding meetings preparatory TO re-
senting any action in that direction. A
general reduction of wages of employees
would affect 5000 men. The trainmen adj
init. however, that they are paid higher
wages than those on the Chicago, Burling-
ton d Quincy.
The Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee Rail
road has passed into the hands of Calvin S.
Brlce, the formal action Ringing on the
resignation of j. r. McGrew, of Cincinnati
as general manager: made public yesterday
freight and passenger agent, and L. NJ
Studevant, assistant treasurer and purchas-
ing agent. General Offices were arranged
for at Toledo yesterday.
James H. Hazard who for several years
has been general agent of the Santa Fe,
with headquarters at Cincinnati. has been
notified that his services would not be
needed after May /, and George Blair, traV-
cling freight agent of the company, has re-
ceived a similar notice. In each case the
measure It M is Understood that the ee eXpenses
of the passenger department will also be
curtailed.
w. w. Kent, chairman of the old South
western Passenger Association, and General
Passenger Agent Townsend, of the Mis-
souri, Pacific road, were in Chicago yester-
day comforting with the Rock Island and
Atchison roads on the best methods to
bring about a revival of the association. 1t
was said that the roads which in the past
have been accused of demoralizing the
rates in the Southwest are now most anX-
ious to have the association revived.
The competition between the Pennsyl-
vania and the Philadelphia Reading on
passenger business between Philadelphia
and Atlantic City this season promises to
be the sharpest in the history of the lines.
The Pennsylvania last year completed its
double track, laid heavy rails and placed
its largest passenger engine on the line,
and the Philadelphia. Reading has now
no advantage over the Pennsylvania be-
tween Philadelphia and Atlantic City.
A map which is remarkable as being the
largest ever drawn on an accurate scale
has recently been placed or the walls of the
New York city The map is sixty-eight
feet in length and twelve feet from bottom
to top. 1t is drawn on a scale of thirty
miles to the inch. and represents an ex-
panSe of land and water $4,000 miles long
and $500 miles wide. The map is hand
painted on canvas, and all the principal
cities, railroad and steamship lines are
indicated.
Western roads will be held in Chicago to-
day for the purpose of hearing the agree
ment governing the freight traffic of the
Western roads which the commissioners of
the defunct Western Freight Bureau have
drawn up. There is very little question but
that the agreement will be adopted, as it
follows the lines laid down by the execu-
tive officers at their last meeting, when
they decided that the bureau should, as
far as its connection with the tariffs of
the roads are concerned. be considered
dead. The bureau will be little else than a
medium for the handling of tariff sheets
and similar routine matters.