The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-04


" T, MaIott, receiver of the vandalia
lines, is IN Chicago.
w. II. McDoeI. vice president of the Mo.
non INES, is in New York.
M; p. ingalls,, president of the Bis Four.
Is planning Tor a trip TO Mexico next month.
In January 9,940 pieces of baggage were
in January, 1897
The p. G., G. & st. L. has declared div
ldend OF z per cent. on it's first preferred
stock, payable March l.
G. +. Craig, for many years Eastern pas
senger agent of the Baltimore & Ohio, died
In New York city on Monday night.
In January there were handled on the Big
Four system 1921 passengers, against
AGO sS4 N January. 1897, an increase this year
of 4S,257
In January there were handled at the city
IIelght depots of the Pennsylvania lines
2852 cars.
A party of forty-five Klondike- bound men
from worcester, Mass, yesterday passed
west oyer the Nickel-plate, accompanied
py f. ). MOORE general agent Of that road.
John II; Vincent has been appointed chief
clerk or G. L. Peck, superintendent of the
Plttspurg division OF the Panhandle lines,
wee r. Langdom, whose death was recent
~ noted.
1t is stated that the actual cost of the
limited train which the Pullman and the
Barney q smith car works are building
independent of the motive power, is S125,0OO
to $l2800O.
Feb. 10 has been fixed upon for the pas
senger officials of the Ohio roads to appear
before the legislative committee and state
their objections to making cents a mile
the legal rate.
January was an expensive month for the
Engineers Mutual Life and Accident Asso-
S Sadtslo1 r.. LWentyyc.seDen members or their
We're death claims.
In the treasury vaults of the PennsyIva-
MIA road at Philadelphia there are stocks
and bonds OF par value of over $4,000 ,O00
from which the company derived in 1897 an
income of $4,600.000.
Reports current at New York to the eff
feet that ]. F.. Morgan & Co.. had sold in
London something like six million of Read
ing general mortgage 4-per-cent. bonds were
confirmed yesterday
The lodge of the Brotherhood Of Locomo-
tive Engineers at Princeton Ind will give
a ball on the evening of Feb. % and a num-
Der of members of the Indianapolis lodge
have been invited to attend
Frank S. Young, commercial agent of the
Clnc1nanti, Hamilton e. Dayton lines at
Pittsburg, is said to be making a good rec
ord. He is securing good deal of business
for the G., IL. & D., west bound.
The New York Central will become a
more active competitor for handling the live
stock from its Western connections, and has
ordered two hundred livestock cars of the
most approved pattern built at once.
One of the latest rumors is that the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas, the Texas & Pa
cific and the international & Great North
ern are to be consolidated The three prop
critics are owned by the Goulds and the
ROckefellers.
1t is minated that the Lake Erie &
western will make Munce division point
for passenger trains instead of Upton. It
is said that this is a step in the establish
ment of a through car line between Peoria
and Pittsburg.
The roads in the Northern Mileage Bureau
nave decided that they will not grant the
request of the Cincinanti, Hamilton & Day
ton ana the Big -Four to accept tickets of
the Central Passenger Association between
Toledo and Detroit.
The interchange business between the c.
/. q L. and the C., H. & ID. in the territory
represented by George S. Brecount, COM
mercial agent at Cincinnati shows an in
crease of As per cent in January, 1898, over
the same period of 1897.
Estimated gross earnings of the entire
system Of the Chicago. Rock Island & Pa
Missouri river, for the month of January
are $l,23S. 81. an increase as compared
with estimated earnings Of January last
year of $21z.65ll2
Representatives Of the twelve roads
which handle the coal product of Ohio
mines met in Cleveland on Wednesday and
more & Ohio which has not been repre-
Sented at previous conferences, was repre-
sented at this meeting.
special train of seven cars of the South
ern Pacific, loaded with silk, passed east
over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago
on Wednesday, running on passenger train
schedule This IS the sixth silk train which
weeks. 1t is billed through from Japan to
New York city, 0lps
A year ago the Pennsylvania Company.
on the suggestion Of E. A. Ford general
passenger agent, built a few combination
smoking and passenger cars instead of
hauhng a separate smoker, and the results
have been so satisfactory that more will
be built for use not only O. accommodation,
but on through trains.
There were a number OF freight and pas
senger officials of foreign lines in the city
last night. including Vallery of the Chi
cago, Burlington 81 Quincy; w. II. Conner.
OF the Southern Pacific: George Bemus, of
the Queen & Crescent; John Barrickson, of
the Louisville q Nashville, and j. l.. Snow,
or the Mexican Central. Without exception
they spoke of business with their respective
lines as up to the highest mark.
The Accommodations of grain and export
freights at Baltimore are being rapidly
moved. More vessels cleared from Balti-
more Tor foreign ports in January than in
pc TT. The number was eigEty-nine, and
eighty carried whole or part cargoes of
grain The vessels which arrived at that
rol't lnfJ anfarysand some of which are still
taking on their cargoes, numbered Ill.
As an economical step the Panhandle con-
solidated and ran double-header for a few
days Trains and 8, between Pittsburg and
columbus, but 1t required only few days
70 snow that 1t was not advisable to con-
tlnue such PLAN and the trains will now
be again run in two sections in both direc-
tons between the points named. When run
double-header the train could not make its
time. Train was delayed three hours on
tuesday between Pittsburg and Columbus
by the cars parting five times. Fifteen to
sixteen cars are hauled in these trains.
President Van Horne. of the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad. announces that it is the in
tention of ais company TO proceed at once
with the construction of line from To-
ronto TO Sudbury, connecting Ontario points
with the transcontinental line. Heretofore
the Canadian Pacific has had a traffic ar
rangement with the Grand Trunk road for
this connection, but this arrangement has
lapsed, and the companies We're unable to
come to new agreement Now a bitter
night for Northwestern and Pacific coast
business is on between the two roads.
While the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton
fast train was going around the Y yesterday
afternoon, the axle of the front pair of
driving wheels Of the engine broke and let
the firebox down on the track. The train
was not moving fast and little damage
was done aside from that spoken of. The
engineer spoke of it is a fortunate accident
as, had 1t occurred ten or fifteen minutes
sooner, 1t would have probably been Sc
rious The train came in from Rushville
thirty-nine miles, in thirty-six minutes
reached The engine was taken to the
shops of the Indiana, Decatur & Western
for repairs.
The meeting Of the Western lines at Chi
cago, called 70 consider the question of
canadian Pacific differentials, has adj
loGrned, subject 10 the call of the chairman.
IL was decided to report to the executive
ofhcers OF the roads represented at the
meeting that it had been found impossible
to come to any terms with the Canadian
Pacific. and to recommend that the eXecu-
tive officers take the matter in hand with