The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-30

nished private parties who WISH TO travel
| leisurely and in a somewhat private man
ner.
The Haskell & Barker car works. at Mich
| igan City, are now employing the largest
| number of men and have the largest busi-
ness at any time in the existence Of the
| great plant.
w. o. Spriggs, superintendent of the
| Nashville division of the Southern Railway.
on Sept 1 goes to the Lehigh Valley az SUI
| perintendeDt of the Easton & Amboy and
Lehigh divisions.
| The excursion of the Indianapolis division
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers to Cedar Lake Park, over. the Monon,
on Sunday, was quite a success, twelve
| coaches being well filed.
The trainmen on the Panhandle's Indian
| apolis division have christened Train the
| 16-to-1 train, as it consists of sixteen cars,
is hauled by one engine has one conductor
and but one brakeman.
Last night there were over four thousand
tickets of visitors to the knights of PythiaS
encampment in the hands of the joint
agent. These are good to return on unti
Sept. 10 if properly stamped.
The Vandalia is experiencing trouble with
It's new SO.OOO-pound capacity cars and
orders have been given to load them to but
90 per cent. of their capacity until the jour-
nal bearings become perfectly smooth.
1t is arranged for, beginning with Oct 1,
the running of line of steamers between
San Diego and China and Japan in connec-
ton with the Santa Fe lines, although 1t is
stated that an independent company estao-
fishes the steamship line.
The differences between the Northern Pa
ciic and its conductors and firemen have
been satisfactorily adjusted. Concessions
were made on both sides and the respec-
tive grievance committees on Saturday re-
turned to their respective homes.
The Journal has the best of authority for
stating that there is no foundation for the
report that an advance in east-bound grain
rates Isl under contemplation. The COMPETE
ton that the gulf lines are now opening
gives no room for any attempt in that d.
rection..
Master Mechanic McCurdy, of the Peoria
q Eastern lines, was in the city yesterday.
he states that by Sept. 10 the new shops
at Crbana, ILL.,, will be ready most of the
machinery now being in position. He ex-
poets TO increase his force to three hundred
men on going. into the new shops. The
roundhouse, which has twenty stalls, is
about completed.
The annual report of the other granger
lines show that in freight train earnings
per mile run, the Chicago Great Western
leads all its competitors. The figures are as
follows: Chicago Great Western, $1.S9; Chi
cago, St Paul, Minneapolis a. Omaha, 81. IS;
Chicago & Northwestern, $.73; Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific, $1.65; Chicago & AL
ton, I.SS Chicago; Milwaukee & st; Paul
| Gatest report of 1890, $1.76; c. B. & Q. does
| not report.
| The popularity of the interchangeable
mileage book is shown in the fact that on
| the Lake Erie & Western, where only l..
E. & w. mileage is good. the conductors
| are often requested to honor interchange
| able books 1t is claimed that the roads
| bitterly opposed at the outset than the in
| Interchangeable mileage, but now that its
merits are known few. II any, of the trav-
| cling statesmen would like to go back to
| the old plan.
The August time table of the London &
Northwestern shows that the speed of sew
The new table provides for two trains be-
| tween London and Liverpool POI miles, at
| SIS miles an hour; five trains between Lon
don and Crewe 1853 miles, at SIG miles
| r6r hour. two from Carlisle n
| Crewe, 141 miles, at 52.9 miles an
hour; two from Wigan to Carlisle, 52.6 miles
| per hour and two between Willseden and
| Sheffield, at 52.2 miles an hour.
| son of VIM. H. Gray was an employee
on the Panhandle and member of the
Pennsylvania Voluntary Relief Association.
| his father. A few weeks ago the son was
| killed, but between becoming a member of
and the wife now claims that she is entitled
| to the insurance. The father has brought
suit against the company for the $3.50. The
| association is ready to pay the money when
it is decided whom it should go to.
Ford Wood, assistant general freight
| agent of the Peoria & Eastern, having
heard much about the failure of the corn
crop in Kansas. addressed letter to num-
| Der of prominent farmers in different parts
of the State. asking as to the condition of
| the crop. and out of several answers re-
ceived in the last four days the report was
| that in the parts of the State where the
best &c corn is raised rs d. the crop is excellent
any material damage done to the crop by
| the hot winds
The Chicago Great Western is spending
money freely in improvements to its road
| bed. In the matter of bridging, besides ISL
| wooden culverts and lac ordinary pile
bridges twenty important trestle bridges.
| from eighteen to seventy feet high, being
nearly all the bridges of that class on the
| whole line, are. being made permanent by
| being filled with earth on stone arched
water ways. at an estimated cost of $sOS. lis.
| Numerous gangs of men and teams are at
work widening the cuts and strengthening
| the embellishments. and ballast. in some
places of gravel and in others of crushed
stone. is being put under the track at the
rate OF about two miles per day.
"A railway official who has been in New
| York for few days past and has just re-
| turned states that new rule is in opera
| ton. Subordinate officials, line agents etc,
| no longer have opportunity to spend money
! freely to get business. For every cent given
| out the agent is expected to show dollar
IN return For years past 1t has cost the
| freight or passenger representatives of big
| roads he says, hundreds of dollars in en-
Pertaining friends. visitors. shippers, theat-
rlcal men and multitude of others from
| whom they expected to get returns in favor
| of the company but now the general freight
| and the passenger agents are very meager
M IN tneir allowances to agents. as the audi
| tors scrutinize every voucher closely
| Receiver Murray, at Baltimore repeated
even more emphatically yesterday his state
ment of two weeks ago, that no changes are
contemplated in the traffic or operating de-
partments of the Baltimore & Ohio after
the reorganization. The dispatch from
Cleveland, saying that Traffic Manager
Wight and General Freight Agent Gala
| CHER were to be retired and to be sue
! ceeded by Freight Agent Brockenborough
| and Assistant Freight Agent Stevens was
| stamped by him as being unqualifiedly false
| and without the slightest foundation He
| said that the reorganization of the Balti-
more & Ohio, as at present constituted, was
| eminently satisfactory to the receivers and
| that the results were of. such a character
| as to make any important changes unad-
visable.
| During the knights of Pythias encamp-
| ment the local scalpers were liberal pur-
| chasers of the return portion of a large
number of their tickets. This led the gem
! eral passenger agents to appoint a number
| OF detectives who visited one of the scalping
| offices and asked for ticket to New York
| Boston or some other point. The detective
would sean the ticket, take its number and
| pass out, saying that he would see if he
| could do better: he would then visit another
| scalping office and in this manner the num-
| bers of a large percentage of the tickets in
| scalperS hands became known. Now the
| scalpers are in trouble. When these tickets
| sold by them are presented the joint agent
| simply stamps them void and the scalper
| Is out the cost of his ticket. Yesterday
| forenoon one scalping office had seven long
| distance tickets rejected.