The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-02

cs1I MY teet IN length on the INSIDE. All
ears quit Tor that company heretofore were
| but forty feet in length
John Ferguson. formerly agent OF the
biue me at Duluth. has been appointed
| general agent for the North Shore Despatch
1ast freight line for Michigan
J. r Brooks, second vice president OF the
pennsylvania Company. with a party OF
IIlends mas gone to Mexico for a three
| vate car
| G. w. Thompson, who. on Jan. l, became
tlalhmaster OF the middle division or the
| Wabash line, yesterday retired from that
& Rio Grande.
w. w. Richardson district passenger
| agent or the Pennsylvania lines ana the
Vandalia. who. accompanied by his wife.
mas been on Southern pleasure trip, re-
| turned last evening.
A. II. Croker superintendent of the Wis
consln q Michigan. will have charge OF the
Michigan. Car Ferry TRANSPORTATION Com
panys affairs, the Office of general manager
| having been abolished
Nearly all the principal holders of Lake
Shore bonds have agreed to the proposed
exchange for New York Central bonds, and
II IS announced that the Nickei-plate secur-
tiles will be provided for in the deal
Eastern freight men who have been con-
sidering proposition to reduce grain rates
TO the seaboard from the basis OF ~
cents per 100 pounds, Chicago to New YORK,
to 171a cents, have voted against the reduc-
ton.
Commencing with yesterday, passengers
| on the New York Boston and Chicago spe-
cial over the Lake Shore and New York
Central will be Obliged to pay 81 excess fare
between Chicago and New York, as II covers
the distance in twenty-six hours.
w. D. Holiday, assistant general freight
agent of the Big Four, with headquarters
at st. Louis, was in the city yesterday. he
says activity in freight traffic is again set
Ting in. Yesterday there were calls Tor o.
500 cars to load at local stations on the SyS-
| TEN.
The Carnegie steel works yesterday
| shipped $500 tons of new steel rail TO the
Wabash road. 1t weighs eighty pounds to
the yard and is the last on an order for
| 10000 tons of that weight. Ninety carloads
arrived last week, which is now being dis
tributed west of Peru.
| The Western Passenger Committee has
agreed to maintain regular rates ana restore
normal commissions on business originating
east of Buffalo, Salamanca and Pittsburg.
This will not be good news for Eastern tick
! eft agents, who have for some months been
enjoying fat commissions.
The ST. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute first
| mortgage terminal twenty-year gold bonds
| have been called for redemption on June
| /, 1898, at 105 and accrued interest Inc III
nois Central viii pay for os ea &c heinz Of tbe
| redemption value therefor.
1t was reported yesterday that traffic ar
| rangements might in the near future De
arranged between the Canadian Pacific and
! the Wisconsin Central, each ROAD TO turn
! over all it's passengers to the other at 81.
Paul The rumor was however, generaliy
| j. J. Hannahan, grand chief of the Broth
! erhood of Locomotive Firemen, has after
! investigation decided that Judson Kegg,
j fireman on the Big Four, is entitled to the
amount of insurance he carried with the
| order, on the ground of total disability; lie
| has been unable to work for some weeks
| Within the last ten days two meetings of
! the railroad companies chiefly interested in
! the Atlantic seaboard soft coal trade nave
| been held, with a view of restoring and
maintaining the agreement on freight rates,
| but thus far nothing has been accomplished.
| The roads interested are the PENNSYLVANIA,
the Baltimore IL Ohio, the Norfolk d West
| ern and the Chesapeake q Ohio.
The official report of II. M. Bronson, as
| sstant general passenger agent of the Big
! -Four, shows that the receipts from sales or
| tickets at Indianapolis in January, 1898, ex-
ceeded those of January, 1897, by SlS,54S, and
| this has been accomplished at much less
cost than the business was done in January
/ last year, as then there was the expense or
another outside office in Jackson place
| A. w. Street general manager of the
! HoOsac Tunnel line, has issued the follow
ing circular Announcing that +; II. Purcell
| p. l.. Inglis, assigned to other duties; f.
F. Browne has been appointed La agent at at
| signed. The Office at Kansas City, Mo-. has
been closed and communications relating
| TO the business of that territory should be
! addressed to j. ]. Milleisen, st. Louis.
/ Sanger Pullman. son of the late George
| N. Pullman, is powa in the employ of. the
| Pullman Company, at the Polk-street
| Depot. Chicago. lie has a little ONCE and
several men under him, and has to keep
| track of all the Pullman cars running out
! OF Chicago; He sees that they are kept in
! proper order and supplied with all the
/ requisites of a sleeping or parlOr car He
reaches his office at $3.50 a. m and remains
until 4.5U y. nj. His salary is 500 month.
Rates on grain east bound from Chicago
are growing weaker and weaker all the time
and it is likely that the roads will in the
| near future be making CONTRACTS at 10 and
| II cents. If grain was being offered in any
quantity for shipments, it is agreed that
the bottom would fall out of the rate sheet
IN short order but the ne facJ that there here
at any price keeps the roads from cutting
the rates more deeply. The agents of Mr..
| Letter have as vet made contracts for
| the transportation of his grain in any large
quantity.
An Englishman who rode short time
ago on the Empire State express over the
| New York Central wrote to his home paper
as follows: II am now travelling by train
| which is said to have been going at the rate
| of siXty-four miles an hour, with less os-
| citation than | have experienced on some
| of the English lines travelling at the rate
| of twenty; We left Buffalo, at l p. m. and
four hundred miles have, been run, to the
| exact minute, and ! understand that we
| shall reach New York city precisely at ~
D. m. the regulated time. The distance is
| 4iO miles, and the cost of the journey is
| a little over 81 shillings, for which every
| comfort is supplied and the carriages care
| fully ventilated etc.
| The board of directors of the st. Louis
| syndicate, which will build the new railroad
| from Oklahoma City to Sapulpa, l. r., met
at st. Louis yesterday for the purpose of
| discussing bids and contracts. The new line,
| which will be .108 miles in length will be
| practically an extension of the st. Louis
| & San Francisco yet the latter will have
| nothing to do with it's construction owing
| to an agreement with the Santa Fe, by
which neither road can build an extension
| in five years. 1t is the purpose of the St.
| Louis syndicate to make "A contract with
| the Frisco to operate it, there, being no
| clause in the contract to prevent the Frisco
| from making such an agreement. An esti-
| mate of the expense of building puts the
| cost per mile at $40 900 or 81 100, 600.
| The board of control Of the Joint Traffic
| Association will meet in New York on
| Thursday In a session which was originally
| called for Jan. 81 but not held, owing to
| other engagements on tho part of several
| members Of the board. Consideration is ex-
| pected to be given to the question of differ
| entail rates on both eaSt-bound and vest
bound business, all-rail and lake and rail-
| A number of railway meI. 1t is said, will
| try to have the differentia1 between all-rail
| and lake and rail rates lessened. 1t is now
| Il cents on first-class business, the all-rail
| charge Chicago to New York, being rs
| cents per one hundred pounds. Recently the
| lake lines have been more amenable to joint
| traffic Jurisdiction and 1t is thought that
| efforts to stiffen their rates may be more
| successful than in the past; hence, an at
| tempt will be made TO reduce the differen-
| tial to is cents.
Y. w. C. A. Gymnasium.
THE prospect of a permanent home I'm the