The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-25

tons Of ore: These cars have carrying
capacity Of 10000 pounds, The total weight
OF cars and ore was 2,063 tons.
Frank Seawright. ticket agent of the Lake
Erie az Western at Muncie, has resigned
and will engage in business with his father
in-law, James Grouse, at Lafayette.
1t is claimed that there are no roads in
the country adhering more closely to tariff
Passenger rates than the roads that were in
the Chicago and Ohio River Association,
passenger rates in this association being
better lived up to than freight rates.
On May 5 the Wabash in connection with
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, viii put
on new line Of sleeping cars between st.
Louis and Colorado Springs, which are to
make the run in thirteen hours, the fast
est schedule ever made between those
points.
Local agents are being supplied with ma
terial advertising the Omaha exposition,
and 1t looks as If the enterprise would be a
success. Inc Western roads announce that
they will charge full tariff on all exhibits
going TO the exposition and return them
free OF charge
Train II. on the Vandalia, has become the
pest-paying train run between Tarre Haute
ana indianapolis. 1t has at Terre Haute an
evansville Sc Terre Haute connection, q
Terre Haute & Peoria connection, and at
Ilmedale Monon connection. Between
Ierre Haute and Indianapolis it is the fast
est train run on the present schedule.
All of the agreements between the Grand
Trunk officials and its employees expired
April /. and delegations of the different
protherhoods have been sent to Montreal to
renew the agreements. 1t is said some
changes are likely to be asked which the
Grand Trunk people viii not acquiesce in.
A. j. Smith, general passenger agent of
the Lake Shore has hit upon the plan of
advertising the road by publishing book
national League ball games and keeping
an account of all games. Much other in
forma ton is contained in the book regard
ing the popular game.
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CONTRACT to carry grain to the seaboard
from Chicago at 10 cents per one hundred
pounds. This is only cents per bushel and
is the lowest all-rail rate ever made from
Chicago. Those we'll informed state that
not a pound of through business east from
Chicago is now being carried at tariff rates.
When the improvements making to the
Union Station train sheds are completed
there will be sixteen exit gates from the
station proper to the sheds. which, Super
intendent Zion says, will enable the COM
pany to handle any rush of business that
may come The crossing platform in the
train she0s is also being heightened thirty
four feet on each end.
Within the last few weeks a number of
fremen have been promoted to engineers on
the Pennsylvania lines east and west. So
heavy has business been that but few of
the locomotives of the system east or west
are in the roundhouse unless for repairs
James McCrea, first vice president of the
pennsylvania Company, says locomotives
are built to keep in service, and If in order
The members of the Western Railway
Club are loud in their praise of the manner
the Monon treated the 200 members who Wis
tied Lafayette last week to inspect the Pur-
due University and examine the Monon
shops at that point. The run was made at
high speed, and the equipment was of the
best type. The train was hauled by Engine
Ill, recently received from the Schenectady
locomotive works, and for quite distance
the train of eight cars was hauled at a
speed of seventy-three to seventy-five miles
an hour
Western lines have agreed upon the es-
adjustment of local committees to govern
country, thereby adding the greatest pos
slble strength to the reorganiZed Western
Freight Association. These committees are
to be composed of the commercial and gem
eral agents at Cincinnati, indianapolis, Chi
cago Pittsburg, New York, Boston. Buffalo,
oils. Kansas City, Omaha, Sioux City and
DeS MoineS AT each point, when the ma
chinery is in motion, the freight representa-
tives are TO hold regular meetings every
Monday and carefully canvass the situa-
ton.
The Elks national convention will be held
at New Orleans within a few days, and it is
announced by w. C. Rinearson, general
passenger agent of the Queen & Crescent,
that he has arranged for delegates to stop
at Chattanooga on their way to the meet
ing, to visit Camp Boynton, on the old
Chickamauga field. Since 1864 no evolu-
tons OF large masses of troops have taken
place in the country to compare with the
scale on which maneuVers are daily taking
place at Chickamauga. These drill move
ments are participated in daily by between
5000 and 10000 troops chiefly cavalry and
rying immense crowds of people daily to
see this great demonstration.