The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-15

pany after April / this year. General Man
ager wager, of the Wagner Company, says
the contract is for fifteen years.
The treasurer of the Chesapeake & Ohio
has sold TO Harvey Fisk q Son, OF New
York, 81 PSI, eco first mortgage bonds OF the
c. & O. which had originally been reserved
to retire the purchase money on skies ma
turing July /. The bonds sold bear per
cent. interest.
The Pennsylvania is equipping its lines
literally with lOng-distance telephones. w.
w. Richardson, district passenger agent at
this point, can now sit in his Office and
call up the Office. of the general passen-
ger agent at P1ttsburg, when an important
matter comes up, and soon settle 1t.
The receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio
nave leased a number of coal cars from
John Sheridan. of Allegany. Md. They
are to be paid for by mileage at the rate
OF 8 mills per mile, and when the mileage
payment equals the cost of the cars they
Ohio.
The passenger department of the Chicago
burlington & Quincy issued in pamphlet
form and in its monthly issue of the Corn
terest, giving information as to the terri
tory which the lines cover. Each of the
issues IS Illustrated with scenes in Nebras-
ka and other States.
On Jan. IS the Pennsylvania lines will
lnaugurate weekly tourist service between
Pittsburg and Los Angeles, via Columbus
is going. over the Wabash and Santa Fe
me train will pass through indianapolis
AZ lz'5U p. m, Jan. 19, and Will carry D0th
hfst and second-class passengers
r. c. Hoffman, president. and E. St. john
vice president. of the Seaboard Airline
nave this week been inspecting the lines
the road what the South is doing in the
way of increasing its manufacturing in
terests. z. St; John. is quoted, as saying
that for once the Seaboard AIRLINE was at
peace with all the world.
The Hutchinson Southern Railroad was
Solu yesterday az receivers sale. at the
upset price OF 100000, to reorganization
committee composed entirely of Huntington,
capitalists. The road is 1T miles long, run
mnlng from HUTCHINSON, Kan, to Medford o.
Union Pacific, which held its stock and
bonds as security for a loan.
The Pennsylvania has placed itself in a
position which will eventually enable it to
compete for Buffalo and Canadian business.
The Philadelphia & Erie, a Pennsylvania
line, forms close connection with the West
ern New York & Pennsylvania for a Buff
Ialo outlet, and, by the absorption of fifty
one miles of road known as the Buffalo,
st. Mary's & Southwestern, the Western
New York y Pennsylvania, the Pennsylva-
MIA connection secures valuable mining in
terests and connecting it with the p. 4 E
Tor all lines east and west.
Many of the Western roads are borrowing
trouble over the probable action of the
Union Pacific regarding the Ogden gateway
when once it has secured control Of the
oregon Short-line. While there is a fear in
some places that 1t may close the gateway
Iney are not looking for any such action
Inc Union Pacific is now controlled by the
NanderbiltS, and as they have alW lys treat
ed all OF their connections in fair manner
1t is not expected that they will now try
70 close the Ogden gateway to The roads
which enter there.
For some time the Baltimore & Ohio
southwestern has been experimenting with
crude oil for kindling fires in locomotives
IN place of using wood and the results OBJ
tanned have been so satisfactory that it will
hereafter be used on the whole line Dur
ing the month of November, 1897, at the
companyS shops which are located at
washington, Ind, and Chillicothe, O.. l. 226
fires We're started with crude oil at cost
OF $l7.32 or 141 cents per fire. To have
started the same number of fires with wood
the cost would have been 1896. or 24.96 cents
per lre This represents a saving of $2SS.6S.
Trouble has already arisen over the rates
MADE by the lines of the Western Passenger
Association for the meetings of the National
association Of Merchants and Trave- ers The
Missouri, Kansas 81 Texas has announced
that 1T believes that arrangements as at
present constituted will tend to work a
discrimination in favor of Chicago. 1t says
that while 1t is comparatively easy to get
one hundred country merchants to come to
chicago at one time it is not so easy to OBJ
tain that number for other trade centers It
declares, therefore, that 1T will make a rate
OF one and one-fifth for gatherings of mer-
chants in st. Louis, and that it will dis
pense altogether with the certificate plan in
making rates to Kansas City. Of course
the other roads in the Western Passenger
Association will be compelled to meet these
rates when they are made by the Missouri
Kansas & Texas. and there is likely TO be
trouble all along the lines before the matter
IS settled.