The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-28

arrangement will be made permanent.
Although the Lake Shore seems to be in
the lead in the attack on the Chicago brok-
ers there are a number of other roads act
ing with it,
E. f. Cost. general freight agent of the
Big -Four lines. who has been on trip TO
Chicago and st. Louis, returned yesterday
to Cincinnati.
The first three weeks of this month the
Erie handled 7.240 more loaded cars on its
Chicago division than in the corresponding
period of 1897.
Gross earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul for the month of December were
81. ST ,0S0 an increase of $246,202 over the
same month of last year
The Wabash for the first six months of
it's fiscal year ending with Dec 81 shows
an increase in net earnings over the cor
responding period of 1896 of $332671.
Frank Preist has been appointed passen-
ger agent of the Erie & Boston line. His
headquarters will be at Boston. and he will
look specially after tourist business.
The directors of the st. Paul q Omaha
have declared a Semi-annual dividend of )
per cent. on the preferred stock and 2 per
cent. on the common stock, both payable
Feb. Il.
Inquirer: There are two H. 3. Wilson's
who are cashiers, one of the Lake Erie *
Western. at Indianapolis and the other of
the Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City, at
Marion, Ind.
Robert Patti goes to Pittsburg to represent
the Chicago, Milwaukee Il St. Paul passen-
ger department. Ills IdIn2f Is QSIflcI PAS
senger agent of the Pennsylvania line at
Williamsport, Pa.
A. r. Steward secretary of President
Vanhorne, of the Canadian Pacific Railroad
Company, says there is no truth in the
published statement that Vanhorne will re-
sign the presidency.
With those shipped on Wednesday and
yesterday and to be shipped to-day there
will be fifty three carloads of horses snip
ped in these three days from the Indian
apolis horse sale stables
Ferd Hall, chief engineer of the Monon,
was in the city yesterday He says that j..
this year should the earnings continue as
satisfactory as at present
w. II. Parmalee, who has been general
agent of the Hoosac Tunnel line in this. ter
that position Feb. l. Who his successor is
to be has not been stated.
The Detroit & Northern will erect new
shops in q suburb of Detroit. and has pur-
that no shops will be erected by the Brice
people for that road at Lima.
John II. Crawford, who was, on Wednes-
day. elected general manager OF the Lacka-
prlsed, as his name had not been mentioned
for the place prior to the meeting
A meeting of the American Association of
Passenger and Ticket Agents has been
Washington on the morning of Feb. IA. The
meeting will be of a special nature.
On Feb. l l.. f. r. Glasscock, for some
years general agent of the Adams Express
Company at Louisville, will go to Cincin-
natl as general agent at an increased salary,
and A. G. Sommers, of st. Louis, will go to
Louisville.
jeremiah Corners aged eighty years the
Oldest man. in time of service on the Balti-
more 4 Ohio lines is dead. Since he became
feeble, so anxious was he TO be employed
that the company gave him the position OF
The Golden Gate special over the Penn
sylvania and the Vandalia line, will pass
through the~city at O'Clock this morning,
it being the first of four trains that are to
be run to the Pacific coast within the next
ninety days.
The more satisfactory movement of trains
ON the Baltimore & Ohio and the better
reforms that Mr.. Horn, the new general
yardmaster east of the Ohio river, has
brought about.
r. S, Sauce has been appointed the pas
senger3 representative of the Toledo, st.
Louis & Kansas City on the Pacific coast,
with headquarters at Los Angeles X. Z.
Brent will succeed him as station passenger
agent at St. Louis.
James Sharpe, formerly west-bound traffic
agent of the Ontario Dispatch Fast Freight
line, has been appointed general agent OF
both west and east-bound traffic of the line
at Chicago, John L. Hyland retiring from
the service of the line.
In 1897 there were shipped from the In
dianapols stock yards, over the Pennsyl-
Agent 'Reynolds's report, S,767 carloads Of
i've stock. against S,GO7 in 1896. against 1913
in 1895, and against 6,971 in 1894.
The Big Four will soon begin. the work
and the material will be taken to Benton
Harbor to be used in filling with stone stone
thousands of feet of trestle work The
work will be done gradually and may ex-
tend over some years.
GAYLORD Beach, formerly general man
ager of the Bee Line, at the annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the Pittsburg x
Lake Erie, was promoted from general SUI
perintendent to assistant general manager
of the road, which is practically the general
managership of the property other than Its
finances.
There are now on the Big Four system
at different points twenty-four authorized
inspectors of employees watches. Most OF
them are given annual passes on the road
for the service they may be called on to
do by the chief watch inspector, who, with
three others at the more important points,
are paid salary
The Joint Traffic Association has passed
resolutions providing for the free transpor-
tation over lines within its jurisdiction of
supplies for the relief of destitute people
in Cuba. These supplies, however, must be
consigned to the authorized representatives
of the central Cuban relief committee APP
pointed by President Mckinley
The following representatives of North
ing: Travelling Passenger Agent G. w.
Pitts, of the Great Northern Travelling Pas
senger Agent J. B. Seessengut, of the Iowa
Central. and A. w. Noyes, of the Chicago
Great Western. All report passenger bust
ness improving on their respective lines and
a good years business in prospect
The grand chiefs of the Railroad Brother
hood, who have been in Cincinnati for sew
eral days. have returned to their respective
headquarters without getting even an inter-
view with General Manager Waldo. If Mr.:
Waldo failed in getting an adjustment of
grievances, if there were any, with the en-
ployes it would be useless for any chief of
one of the brotherhoods to take Il hand, as
no fairer man lives than is G. G.. Waldo
with subordinate officials or employees The
matters considered were the adjustment of
any discrimination which prevailed in the
service, not a question of more pay
The Van Vert (Ohio) Bulletin says the
sas City twelve miles by building through
Van Vert, as originally located, is being
agitated by the owners of the property. If
the Bulletin will tell who the owners of
the property are and where the funds to
make such an improvement will come from.
Seemingly with every attempt TO lift the
road out of it's financial trouble it gets
deeper in, and already more money has
been expended in litigation over the prop
erty than it could be sold for to-day.
T.. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines West and h. O. Nc
COrmick, passenger traffic manager of the
ing cheap excursions on Sunday, claiming
that it Injuries regular weekly business. but
should the Monon and the Cincinnati, Ham
lltOn & Dayton continue to run them the
Pennsylvania and the Big Four would fall
in line, The fact that nearly every road IN
for the round trip between the local sta
tiOnS goes far toward OffSetting the ahOI-