The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-05


in passenger earnings this year over jan
uary and February. 1897
The Wabash has placed an order for TWO
dining cars, sixty-seven feet long, with a
capacity to accommodate forty passengers
at one time.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois on Thurs
Day paid to the widow of j. =. Rasuch.
the engineer who was killed in the Lyford
disaster last December. $4.50O.
c. F.. DAILY, general passenger agent of
the Lake Erie & Western and other Brice
lines, who has been in Ohio most OF the
week, Will return this morning
w. T. Saunders. representing the st.
Louis & San Francisco. and Harry Bowser,
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, were in the
city yesterday on official business.
It is claimed that the Boston & Albany,
revenue per mile of road than the combined
New York Central and Lake Shore.
G., j. Grammar, freight traffic manager
to confer With the New S' York Central people
as TO operations under the new deal.
The Central Passenger Association decided
to continue on sale the five thousand-mile
photograph book for the present year. al
though but few of them are being sold
The Red Line. which operates over the
Wabash and West Shore, is said to be
hauling 100000 bushels of the Letter wheat
at cents per 100 pounds below the tariff
rate.
Western agents of the Erie lines We're
yesterday notified to at once resume ship
ments OF hav to seaboard points, the en-
barge which has been on since Feb. IL being
lifted.
Superintendent Mansfield, of the Indian
apollS d Vincennes, has received notice
that in June four new locomotives will be
assigned to that road by the Pennsylvania
Company.
T. NJ. Pierson, first assistant grand chief
of the Order of Railway Photographers, left
yesterday for Philadelphia to attend the an
nual meeting of the telegraphers of Penn
SylVania roads.
John M. Burns, train dispatcher on the
Lake Shore: is dying of a cancer at the
ploy of the Lake Shore twenty years, the
last ten as train dispatcher.
c.. j. Fellows. general manager of the
Burton Palace Stock Car Company, is in
cars and finds ample business for them,
largely in transporting horses.
1t is stated that the Detroit & Lima
Northern, by which the Brice syndicate
trunk line and Detroit, will be running its
trains into Detroit within thirty days.
The Big Four is distributing new steel on
the Cincinnati division between Cincinnati
and Columbus. weighing eighty pounds to
the yard, it being the intention to lay the
whole division this season with rail of that
weight.
Miss Nina williams daughter of Taylor
Williams, who for years was commercial
agent of the Memphis & Charleston, at
Chattanooga, is retained by the Southern
rate clerks in the country.
The large travel to the Klondike via st.
Louis IS exciting comment. This arises
from the fact that the Wabash, the Burling--
ton and the Missouri Pacific have provided
such excellent facilities in the way of
through tourist car service.
The Queen & Crescent is carrying more
people to Florida than at any time during
the past season. In December and January
travel fell short of 1896 and 1897, but in
February and thus far this month the def
cit has been handsomely overcome.
The receipts of the Big -Four at Indian
of those of February, 1897, the increase in
January and February this year being $2l.
23S. Since the interchangeable mileage book
was placed on sale THE Increase has reached
nearly $4,000.
Last evening it's was thought that A. M.
Stimson, purchasing agent of the Big Four,
Wednesday he expressed his wishes as to
his funeral and burial, and requested that
his remains be taken to Washington Court
house, o., his former home. for interment.
The lake and rail lines, at a meeting at
chicago yesterday, agreed on a. reduction in
the difterentials to- bssaallowed the former
on business during 1885, The following table
shows the reductions: 1'-s
Classes-1st 3D. Sd, 4th. 9Th. sth
1885, ...:..........i2 L 8 Z
The new motor car built by the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton on the suggestion
of Passenger Traffic Manager Edwards. is
proving a decided success, so much so that
more cars of the same pattern will be built
LOT SUBURBAN business and branch lines.
This class of business is handled more ex-
peditiously and economically than by the
regular train service. .te
VIM. Garstang, superintendent of motive
power of the Big Four, yesterday received
word that the new big freight engine had
been shipped from the Richmond locomo-
tive works. Its weight is within 500 pounds
OF what the plans and specifications called
fer. The Big Four, with the seven recently
received now has over five hundred loco
motives on it's system.
The old trouble of scarcity of cars is
troubling the traffic officials Of the roads
running east of Chicago, and to some extent
the Western roads as well. The great
trouble seems to be that the traffic is so
hauling very few empty cars, and when a
car arrives at its destination 1t is generally
held for return load instead of being re-
the Western roads are at the present time
badly crippled for the lack of cars
The Big Four YESTERDAY. put in service its
The car is seventy feet long, of the square
Vestibule pattern, and richly finished In
Its construction number of new features
were introduced The tables are larger and
the dining department much more roomy
than in ordinary dining cars, and it is pro-
bounced by car builders the most complete
parlor cars will be delivered; they are of
the square vestibule pattern and finished
in mahogany
The Western roads have decided to in
crease from three to ten the number of
persons who must travel in one party
via the Missouri river gateways
IN order to secure the benefits of
the reduced rates to the Pacific coast
through a rebate at destination. All tickets.
except those from st. Paul, direct to the
Pacific coast, will be sold at the regular
tariff rates with a rebate equal to the
amount of the reductions made to meet the
lowest rates of the Canadian Pacific 1t
was concluded this plan was preferable to
all cases. Under the plan adopted all tickets
via the Missouri river gateways will be sold
at present prices and the amount of the re-
bate will be increased as much as the pres
ent rates are reduced