The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-17

and made the Bee-line popular with live
stock shippers on account of its fast serv-
ice.
President Galloway, of the Lake Shore
and chief executive of the Nickel-plate, has
been in Chicago for two or three days, ar
ranging to use the same passenger station
in Chicago that the Lake Shore and the
Chicago Il Rock Island does, and will doubt
less do so after March l.
Concrete masonry is fast taking the place
of cut stone in railway work. The illinois
Central was the first to introduce its use,
and now constructs all its retaining walls,
bridge abutmentS and culvertS OF concrete.
1t is economical, as it does not require high
grade labor, and IS found TO be durable.
The Big -Four yesterday received from the
Barney & Smith works new dining
car in which several new features have been
introduced, and the Barney q Smith people
say 1t is in every respect one or the pest
dining cars ever constructed. While not eX-
travagaptly finished it is very handsome.
Western roads have agreed to make q
rate Of fare and a third for the round trip
from points in North and South Dakota,
Minnesota Iowa. Nebraska, northern
Michigan and parts of Wisconsin for mer-
chants meetings to be held in Minneapolis
and ST. Paul Feb. "A to March A. March II
to % and April IA to o.
Fhe Chicago & Alton, the Chicago G. Rock
Island and the Santa F'e have declared war
against the purchasing agent. and they are
to be refused entrance to their trains with
packages. The baggagemen are not al
lowed to check them which means that
such packages must be shipped by express.
The plan had been carried so far that it
cut into the business of the express COM
panies.
+. p Mooney has been appointed master
mechanic of the Lehigh Valley road, vice
John Campbell resigned. Mr.. Mooney for
some years has been travelling engineer on
the road, but prior to that time was pas
senger engineer on the west division of the
Lake Shore road. Alvin Smith. an engi-
neer, has been promoted to fill Mr. Noon
ey's place as travelling engineer.
lin ha In To a1.x-
made the largest pay since in the employ
OF the company. The paymasters are now
on their monthly rounds, and some of the
engineers will receive for the months serv-
ices $500, ard a considerable number $40 to
$50. Firemen made about half much as
the engineers,>and this month their earnings
will be large, as all the train crews are
making overtime. SO heavy is traffic, espe-
cially on the Chicago division
All the roads running west from ST. Paul
have stated their intention of making a S.
rate from that place to points in North
Dakota March 20 and 30, and have asked the
roads connecting with them from the east
st. Louis and Kansas City on the same
dates to add to their S. rate. This appeal
has for the present been taken under adj
visement. 1T is understood these low rates
are made to attract settlers to go to North
Dakota on the opening of spring.
The run over the Erie road on Sunday
from New York to Buffalo was so much Of a
success that the Erie people have about de-
cided to put on fast train between those
points Of the same character as the Empire
State express on the New York Central. In
bursts We're made. The distance between
Attica and East Buffalo. twenty-seVen
miles was covered in twenty-five minutes,
a speed of 70 $40 miles per hour. The fast
est mile made in 46A seconds.
Last fall the citizens of Springfield, o.,
made move TO get d new passenger sta
ton at that point. President Ingalls, said
that if property which was desired to en-
large the grounds for the depot, which was
said could be purchased for $4,000 was Sc
cured he would at once proceed to erect q
passenger station at Springfield, to cost not
less than $1,000 600. The citizens committee is
about to carry out it's part of the contract
and deed the property to the Big -Four Com
pany, which will at once begin the erection
of a new depot
The treasurers of the Pennsylvania lines
will hereafter enforce the rule that in case
of sales or transfers of stock it will require
first or Christian names III full to be given,
instead of initials or authorizations A rail-
way official yesterday, in speaking of this.
said that VIM. N. Jackson, secretary of the
Union Railway Company, who began his
railroad career ON the Madison road over
fifty years ago, has made it an imperative
rule that every paper which represented a
money transaction the person signing it
write the name in full, and it has saved
Mr.. Jackson much trouble in the fifty years
or more in dealing with thousands of peo-
pie.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has re-
fused to entertain a motion for a rehearing
OF the anti-ticket Scalping law OF the state
In 1894 the court rendered decision up
holding the constitutionality of the law.
The ticket brokers have since made two
attempts to have that decision set aside
The last application for rehearing of the
case was based on the allegation that the
decision was secured by collision and a
fraud practiced on the court. The motion
for a rchearing was opposed by a repre-
sentative of the railroads, who has by the
denial of the motion virtually secured re-
affirmation of the constitutionality of the
law
An Eastern financial paper. criticises the
Big Fours methods of operating the Peoria
& Eastern. The paper says: THE COM
pany's methods of carrying the deficits re-
sulting from the operations of the leased
lines, of which the Peoria & Eastern is the
most important has not been in accordance
with the strictest accounting methods
These deficits are put down in the COM
pany's balance sheet as assets and called
advances TO branch lines $3,64O,91S and
Peoria & Eastern loan account, $1O07. $685.
1t would perhaps be going too far to char
acterize this bookkeeping as direct cook
ing of the accounts, but it is manfestly
wrong. The company itself it may be said
probably realizes this, for i'm the 1897 report,
for the first time, the deficits resulting from
the operation of the Peoria & Eastern was
charged into profit and loss