The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-13


of railways. died at his home in Weston.
w. Va, on Monday.
s. II. II. Clark, former president of the
Union Pacific and Missouri Pacific, who has
been north through the summer months
with his family. has returned to ST. Louis
much improved in health.
A special train over the Panhandle on Sun
day last consisting of nine cars. carrying
the Knights Templars to Pittsburg. made
the run from Indianapolis to Pittsburg in
ten hours and five minutes.
The net earnings of the Chicago, Burling-
ton e. Quincy for the year ending June 80
We're WEI nS.S24.S7s. and after paying operating
expenses, fixed charges and dividends the
company has surplus of s1,5 .453.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana on Tuesday
ran a farmers excursion to Grand Rapids,
taking in all stations on the southern di-
vision. The train was run in three sections
and carried over fifteen hundred people.
The first quarter of the fiscal year with the
Big -Four proper ended with Sept. 30, and
during the three months the lines earned
$3.S5S.454 against $35SS, 76l in the correspond
ing period Of 1897, and against s., SOB in
The stockholders of the Indiana. Decatur
& Western, through proxies held by Secre--
tary Balche, yesterday held their annual
meeting In this city. re-electing the old
being mere matter of form.
Cambridge City is as near as the Penn
sylvania inspection party, with President
thomson at it's head, will be to this city,
City and Columbus not visiting TINS city
or going over the Vandalia lines
The. common stock of the Boston & AL
bany is now the highest priced stock in the
more than in January last. The share cap
ital is s25 100000 and the stockholders in
variably receive S-per-cent. dividends.
Paymaster Snee of the Panhandle lines,
was in the city yesterday paying for Sep
TENDER service. The pay rolls for Septem-
Der this year are 20 per cent. larger than in
September 1897, in the transportation de-
Of late
The vandaia shops at Terre Haute will
be closed on Thursday, Friday and Satur-
employees to visit the street fair The
clerical force at Terre Haute Of the sew
eral roads centering there will be given a
half holiday on the days named.
A number of local railroad men went
to Cincinnati yesterday to attend the funeral
of j. L.. Korns, who was agent of the Balti-
more & Ohio southwestern at that city for
thirty years. OF the number were H. G..
Stiles, of the c., H. &. D., and Caesar Rod
ney, of the Vandalia.
The annual convention of the Association
of Surgeons to the Pennsylvania Company
held at Cleveland. elected the following Off
GERS for the ensuing year: President, DR..
Joseph H. Hobson, of Cleveland; secretary
and treasurer. DR.. George c. Stemen, of
Fort Wayne, Ind. first vice president, DR..
J. S. Hunt, of Chicago: second vice presi-
dent, DR.. d. Fl. Lewis. of Washington, Pa.
Superintendent Bushrod Taylor. of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania, has
combined the offices in Jacksonville and
New Albany and placed Col. A. H. Schell
in charge. Colonel Schell has for years been
passenger agent in Jeffersonville. He was
given charge of the four passenger stations
at Jeffersonville and in New Albany. with
four clerks under him to look after the
office business.
The receivers of the Baltimore & Ohio
have adopted plans and they about
ready to let the contract for new 500, 900
Unbound freight station in Baltimore. The
rev building will be six hundred feet long.
The new building will have cold-storage
plant in the basement The upper floors
will be used as a storage warehouse and
all freight will be loaded and unloaded from
wagons under cover.
Kansas City, it is said. is to have another
trunk line. Within year the Galveston.
Houston & Kansas City road will be run
ready been built, most of the right of way
surveyed, and T. J. Smith. promoter of the
plete arrangements for beginning construc-
ton on the remainder of the road. The
nucleus of this line is the Galveston, La
porte Houston, it has a mileage of no
miles.
Work is progressing on the improvements
the Monon and the Cincinnati Hamilton &
Dayton are making in the way of terminal
bulk tracks. The depots of the two roads
will be located between New Jersey and
East streets. ana the Dulk loading ana un-
loading tracks between New Jersey and
Alabama streets, where the Carpenters
Union, planning mill and lumber, yards have
the improvements so far advanced by Jan.
l as to begin to use them.
A. Galloway. superintendent of the Gin
cinnati and indianapolis division of the Gin
cinnati. Hamilton & Dayton, was in the
city yesterday. He is proud of the record
the Cincinnati, Hamilton e. Dayton made in
the handling of the Grand Army of the Re-
public people during the late encampment.
In the eight days ending Sept. 10 the road
handled at Cincinnati 1881 people on ex-
cursion tickets and II, 361 on regular tickets,
a total of SIS 1872. The biggest day was on
Wednesday, when 14,726 were brought into
Cincinnati on excursion tickets and 2.540 on
regular tickets During the eight days 5O6
trains were run, hauling 2.717 coaches. and
not person received the slightest injury.
Mention has been made recently of the
gathering of members of the railway broth
erhoods at different points in Pennsylvania
Maryland and Ohio and as each outgrowth
of these meetings, which are usually large
ly attended, the following questions have
been prepared and are sent in a circular let
ter to candidates for Congress and United
States senator's: What are your views on
the power and practice of courts in issuing
injunctions in labor disputes? How is such
power derived and is it misused? Do in
guarantee of trial by jury? Should Con-
gress specially define and limit the power OF
courts in issuing injunctions? If you are
elected will you vote for law which will
define and limit the power of courts in
Issuing iniuncfionS2