The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-24

road in thirty days. 1t is now in excess Of
May, 1897, and there are eight days more
in this month.
The flyer of the Chicago & Rock Island
road makes but twenty-five stops between
Chicago and Denver, over 900 miles.
The first of the year the Arms Palace
Horse-car Company absorbed the Keystone
Palace Horse-car Company. and before
June the same company will absorb another
horse-car line. if present indications are
worth anything.
The National Association of Railway
Agents will hold its annual convention in
Buffalo, July 20 q and q. At this conven-
ton an effort will be made to induce the
New England association to consolidate
with the national.
The Wagner Palace Car Company is re-
modelling number of its sleeping cars. full
xestibuled. which are to be run over the
Big Four on the southwestern limited and
knickerbocker trains. which are now in
the shops to be rebuilt
General Traffic Manager Grammar. of the
Lake Shore road. stated on Saturday that
no successor had yet been chosen for Cen
eral Freight Agent H. E. FELTON,. A freight
official on the Big Four lines, it is init
mated could have the position if he de-
sired it,
The railroad commissioner of Michigan
has decided that switching charges and
rentals of tracks and switches must be re-
POI ted by railroad companies a part of
the gross earnings for taxation. This rul-
ing will increase the taxes of railroads
materially.
During the past year several of the Chi
cago belt lines have been consolidated, and
from present Indications the scheme for
consolidating will go still further. 1t is
not improbable that inside of the next two
or three years all of the Chicago belt lines
will be consolidated under one manage
ment
For the first time in fifteen years the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific stock sold
higher yesterday than the stock of the
Chicago, Burlington e. Quincy and it Is
now selling above the price of Chicago, Mil
lYna ~ Dor nj EHcf fiT1nn Gil
In August, 1896, during the Bryan-McKinley
campaign, c., r. /: & p. stock sold as low
as 1914 now it is above par.
The Michigan and Ohio Ferry Company at
Detroit, is in trouble over switching
charges. The Wabash and the Michigan
Central charge the ferry company So for
switch. The company has appealed to Cen
eral Manager Ramsey for relief claiming
that it is an injustice to do the switching
between the roads at 81 per car and charge
their company S.
On Sunday night G. w. Hayler district
passenger agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
ger Traffic Agent Edwards, telegraphed
Athens, o.. to have 40 gallons of coffee
ready for the One-hundred-an fifty-ninth
Indiana Regiment, which would arrive there
on Monday morning Mr. Rayler shortly
after received a telegram saying: Our citi-
zens will see that they have a free lunch of
coffee, bread, butter and other palatable ar
ticles.''
The future of the Evansville & Terre
Haute has been greatly improved by the
settlement of the long-pending litigation
with which the present management had to
contend and which has greatly embarrassed
it. The E. q T. H. is now entirely free of
the troubles brought to it through the
Mackey deals and the Endorsement of GER
tain notes of the Peoria, Decatur & Evans
vile. The litigation in connection with the
Evansville & Richmond has also been set
tied The E. & II. H. is now free from such
membranes. An impression prevails that
it will be purchased by the Chicago & East
ern Illinois or the Louisville & Nashville.
Master Hiram p Dillon sold the Central
Branch road, running from Waterville west
to its western limit, including the branch to
Washington, and the Prosser branch from
These lines were formerly arms of the Union
Pacific system. but for several years have
been operated by the Missouri Pacific under
lease. There was but one bid. that of T.
Boston, to whom the road was knocked
down for 81 OIL, 800. large crowd was pres
ent, expecting exciting sale, but it was
as quiet as a funeral.
study of the train sheets of the Indiana,
Decatur & Western will show that no road
in the country, on an equal mileage, gives
faster service than does the l., d. & w.
The road, says Superintendent Graves. is
sandWiched in between connections which
make their time e tRbles to suit themselves.
such time What is known as the-Roach-
dale express, which makes up the through
line via Roachdale of the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Dayton and the Monon almost daily
covers the thirty-eight miles in forty min
uteS. Under the new schedule of the Wa
bash, which becomes effective next Sunday,
train No. must cover the 1873 miles from
Indianapolis to Decatur in four hours and
seventeen stops. which means a speed of
fifty-Sx miles an hour stops deducted.