The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-17

ployes along the line be paid from a pay
car instead of by check as during the time
the late X. b. f. PIERCE was receiver of the
road. The pay car will make its first trip
next week.
Ticket agents of Indianapolis lines have
been advised that Havana, Cuba has been
added 10 the list of winter tourist points,
and that the rate Is reduced 81 from that of
heretofore
The lines in Central Passenger Association
territory have decided to extend the limit
for return of students tickets TO jan 10,
instead of Jan. II, which applies to Central
Traffic Association territory.
When Horace McReynolds, agent Of the
Panhandle at Dayton, goes to Cincinnati as
Clerk Hart at the Dayton office. will be pro-
NOTED to the position of agent.
Samuel Bells. treasurer of the Railway
Officials and Employees Insurance Associa-
manager, is lying at the point of death at
the sanitarium in Martinsville. Ind.
The Baltimore & Ohio has a blockade
its Chicago division and has much delayed
freight or its line. At De Forest alone two
hundred cars of rush freight are being held
until the congested condition is relieved.
The Baltimore & Ohio has sent James r.
Dennis to represent the road in Colorado
and Utah, with headquarters at Denver,
and r. w. Hockaday goes TO Denver to
represent the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
At a meeting of the board of directors of
the Chicago, Burlington q Quincy, yester-
day, F. w. Hunnewell was made chairman
of the board and G. p Gardner was elected
director to succeed the late john l.. Gardner.
John McKever, who has been running an
engine on the Vandalia between Terre Haute
and indianapolis since 1862 has obtained
three months leave of absence. as he has
done for three years past during the winter
months
The Western Car Association of New
York handled in November %, 100 cars with
an average detention OF llo days. Al no
point where car service bureaus are estab-
lished do cOnsignees unload cars more
promptly than at Indianapolis, the average.
detention being less than at any point that
has reported for November.
F. A. Bonebrake, superintendent of the
Indianapolis division of the Panhandle, has
given instructions that Trains 70 and q,
until further orders, be hauled by two loco
motives, and that any other of the heavy
fast trains be run double headers II
necessary during the winter he being de-
termined to run the trains on the Indianap
oils division on their schedule time.
Peter p. Terhune, III New York, repre-
senting the PheniX steamship line, and j.
p Robertson, general Eastern steamship
agent were in the city yesterday calling on
the larger export shippers This is the first
time the steamship lines have sent repre-
quainted with its export shippers. The bust
ness heretofore has been intruSted to fast
freight line agents.
II. Mccartney. the new general freight
and passenger agent of the Pacific & Arctic
road which operates twenty miles from
Skaguay to White pass, sends letter in
ClOSlIlS the IdTlu Oh the TOdu TOul
Skaguay to White pass the fare is So Is
cents per mile, and the first-class freight
rate $3.50 per hundred pounds, or cents
per hundred per mile. The road is making
money and building on toward the gold
country.
What in railroad parlance is called the
'One-shovel system has been adopted by
the Chicago q Rock Island road. This
means that the fireman on the locomotives
of that road will be required hereafter to
feed the boiler fire with one shovelfull OF
a q = w q
minute instead of throwing in large quanti-
ties at intervals. 1t is said to be an
economic measure and will work a great
saving in the quantity of coal consumed. A
majority of roads pay out about ~ per cent.
of their gross earnings for fuel.
Lucius Wakeley, general passenger agent
of the Missouri river divisions of the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy lines, was in the
city last evening, accompanied by Col Will
liam Shaw, district passenger agent. They
will spend two or three days going over the
colonels territory Mr. Wakeley states that
their business the last few months has been
very active, passenger earnings for July,
August, September and October being $780,,
coo ahead CT those of the corresponding four
months of 1897 end he looks for a general
restoration of rates, both freight and pas
senger. after Jan. l.
d. G. Edwards has decided to place a
representative travelling passenger agent
in the Detroit district and has selected for
the position G. T.. Gilman. Mr. Gilman
was formerly with the Santa Fe, but of late
has been in business in New England and
who has been with the Cincinnati, Hamilton
Dayton twenty-five years, will continue
as city passenger agent at Detroit. With
each year the business of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton sOuth-bound from Mich
igan points. well as north-bound, has
made great increase.