The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-06

roads which do an east-bound business out
Of Chicago Ordinarily $1,000 tons per week
VIII cover the total shipment. but last
week.
F.. NJ McMullen, of the freight depart
ment of the Big Four at Columbus, also
holding the position of assistant cashier. has
resigned account of i'll health. and in a
few days will go to New Orleans for several
months stay.
Chief Engineer Kittredge, of the Big
-Four, says it is. settled that that company
will build a handsome depot at Terre
Haute this season. The deals for the ground
on which the company holds options will be
closed this week.
The Ohio Falls car works at Jeffersonville
on April ] commenced the building of 200
freight cars for the Nashville, Chattanooga
q St Louis. and the Haskell & Barker car
works, at Michigan City. are building 1909
cars for the Great Northern.
William f. Bruner, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Vandalia and Penn
ing of novel character, under the title of
Easter Reflections" Tt sets forth the at
fractions of the lines he represents
new fast-freight line has been organ
the Grand Trunk. 1t Will be called the Great
Western Dispatch, and its manager will be
sumner Hopkins, of Detroit, who now rep
resents the Grand Trunk in that city.
The third and final survey for a road to
connect the Toledo and Detroit divisions of
the Wabash by a short cut has been COM
pleteu. montpelier D1QS 1a1r to be an I'M
portant point on the Wabash, no matter
which of the surveys it is decided to build
on.
Judge Bacon, general agent of the Chi
cago d Rock Island, will be in the city
couple of days. He states that Gheir new
fast train between Kansas City and Denver
is doing q very satisfactory business, and
has led to cutting down the time between
the two points three hours.
The Indiana Car and Foundry Company is
building fifty stock cars for the Mather
Stock Company. For. some time past the
principal work done by this company has
been in rebuilding cars for the fast-freight
lines. AT no point in the country is there
more of this class of work done.
Vice Presidents Brooks and Wood of the
Pennsylvania Company and General Man
ager Loree and General Superintendent
Miller were in the city yesterday, going
hence to Louisville. Their trip is chiefly
system that suffered by the floods.
There is considerable uneasiness among
representatives of Western and Northwest
ern lines over a report that most of these
roads will follow the example of the Santa
Fe and reduce the number of their repre-
sentatives at points in the Central Traffic
Association and trunk-line territory.
1t is stated that H. c. Hicks is to be the
successor of B. A. Hegeman. who repre-
sents the Lackawanna road as one of the
board of managers of the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation. With Mr.. Hegeman's retiring
traffic manager of the Lackawanna it is
stated the office of traffic manager is to be
abolished.
w; f. Fox, superintendent of telegraph
OF the Minneapolis & st. Louis road, who
has been at Martinsville some weeks for
treatment, is in the city. His health is so
next week Mr.. Fox was, for many years
chief telegraph operator on the indianapolis
& Vincennes.
The Central Passenger Association roads
intimate 1t may be necessary for them to
change their arrangements for a number of
meetings for which they have authorized
reduced rates In some cases 1t is said,
meetings at other locations in case war
with Spain is declared.
Two more of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton engines have been received at the
Indiana, Decatur & Western shops to be
rebuilt, and seven passenger cars are in
these shops for overhauling and repairing.
In the last eighteen months 152 passenger
coaches of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day
ton have been oVerhauled and reprinted at
these shops
Official notice is given that the Pullman
Company has renewed the contract to OPP
crate the sleeping car service on the Union
Pacific lines, the contract being renewed for
fifteen years, The Union Pacific people Sc
Company than they would had the Wagner
Palace-car Company made no effort to sup
plant the Pullman with Wagner equipment
S. r. Galloway, president of the Lake
Shore road and other Vanderbilt lines, is
not saying much, but he has deemed it wise
to contradict the statement that the New
York Central the Lake Shore and Nickel
head. He says the Lake Shore and the
Nickel-plate will be run under separate
arrangements. 1t is understood that w. H.
Canniff and A. w. Johnson are the men Sc
lected for promotion.
A special meeting of the Central Passenger
Association was held In Chicago yesterday
for the purpose OF agreeing on summer
mer After some discussion consideration
of the whole question was postponed till
had a meeting on the same subject with
the view of getting out their rate sheets.
They found they could make no progress,
however. until they knew what their East
ern connections were going to do in the
matter and they also adjourned.
The Baltimore & Ohio has eighteen women
in it's employ as station agents, and the
superintendent are very much pleased with
the way in which they perform their du-
ties. These women act as both freight and
ticket agents, and it is said by the trav-
ways perfectly straight Another prominent
feature of their employment is the fact that
their stations are Kept neater and cleaner Gle 1s
eighteen now in the service six are unmar
ried, and of the other twelve a large ma
jority are widows of former employees of
the road
An important meeting of the Western
Trunk-line Committee was held in Chicago
yesterday for the purpose of adopting
measures to bring about q restoration of
rates on packing house products from Mis-
souri, river points to Chicago. Owing to
the absence of st. Louis lines no definite
action could be taken, and it was decided
to postpone further consideration of the
subject until Friday next. In the meantime
it has developed that it will be exceedingly
difficult to bring about a restoration at pres
emit on account of the longtime contracts
which have been made by number of roads
at the cut rates. All the roads that had not
already done so gave notice yesterday of
their intention to meet the rates which the
Santa Fe will put into effect April 8.
Western passenger men had meeting in
Chicago yesterday to agree on common
line of action to be pursued by them at
the conference to be held with the Canadian
Pacific next Tuesday in New York on the
settlement of the present transcontinental
passenger rate war. \ resolution was Of
fered providing that the Canadian Pac1hc
be notified that owing to the position taken
by the Intersta te-commerce Commission In
its recent decision the American roads are
no longer in position to allow 1T diferen-
tial rates on any class of business what
ever. While there were no negative votes
on this resolution. some of the roads with
held their votes and the proposition Is still
omen for discussion. The whole tone of the
discussion was decidedly opposed TO max
ing any concessions to the Canadian Pacific
road The meeting will continue its delib-
erations to-day.
How to Settle the Spanish Quarrel.
IT., rho Editor Of the INDIANAPOLIS Journal: