The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-19

cafe service Meals are served a la CARTE
with the exception of dinner, and compare
favorably with the well ordered cuisine of
good hotel.
At Lincoln, Neb.. yesterday. the several
lines making up the Omaha & Republican
Valley Railroad. 4S2 miles. were bid in at
mortgage sale by the reorganized Union
Pacific.
Train 5, over the Panhandle. which hauls
eleven TO twelve cars, now comes from CO.
lumbus to Indianapolis with but one brake
man, and one train each way over this divi-
sion has no brakeman, depending entirely
on the air brakes.
The agents of the American Express
Company at indianapolis, Louisville, Co.
lumbus Pittsburg and Toledo. under the re-
organization, will have the title of general
agent giving them much the same author
ity a division superintendent.
W. L Laird representing the freight de-
partment of the Chicago Great Western, is
in the city. On Sunday this road will put
on new fast train between st. Paul and
Chicago, and will then have three trains
daily each way between those points.
The attorneys for the bondholders of the
jamestown & Lake Erie Railroad have
commenced foreclosure proceedings against
the road. The mortgage is for s250.0 900 and is
foreclosed at this time on account of default
in the payment of interest on the bonds
A committee of prominent citizens of Fort
Wayne has been appointed to visit the OFF,
GERS of the Nickel-plate and see II the COM
pany cannot be persuaded to locate its shops
at that point. The company contemplates
erecting large central shops at some point
on its line
John Brakeman. representing the Louis
vile q Nashville. is in the city; also
Mr.. Barrickman says that south-bound bust
ness over the Louisville Nashville con-
tinues heavy and north-bound traffic is i'm
proving there
General Passenger Agents Wood, of the
Pennsylvania road and Ford. of the Penn
sylvania Company, have given the ofhcials
in that capacity on competing lines to UNI
derstand that they think the differential
question too difficult for general passenger
agents to adjust.
When the Ohio Southern will be sold is an
open question. as the road is just now a
subject of a contest between the first and
second mortgage bondholders Both have
been after the road for some years, but
upper hand as yet.
David F.. Jennings. of Chicago, general
manager OF the Nickel-plate fast freight
line, is to be taken care of by President Cal
loway. of the New York Central, upon the
consolidation of the fast freight lines. He
will succeed the general freight agent of the
Vanderbilt roads, who will resign.
The Panhandle employees picnic at idle
wild Park, Newark, o., on Tuesday. was q
great success. Ten crowded coaches were
brought from Pittsburg, and at Steuben-
vile five more were added sixteen coaches
were run from Dennisor and fifteen from
Columbus. the several trains delivering at
the grounds over five thousand people.
+ John A. Gill, who looks after the interests
of the Vanderbilt lines on the Pacific coast
has returned from trip through the fruit
district of California. He states that the
shipments of fruit from the Pacific coast to
Eastern markets this year will fall short of
last years shipments by at least 1,5OO cars
There is a great scarcity of pears and
peaches
The reorganization committee of the
Union Pacific Railway Company held its
final meeting in New York yesterday, at
which it was resolved to nominate and Sc
lect as a proxy committee Messrs. Louis
Fitzgerald, Jacob II. Schiff. Winsow S.
Pierce Oliver Ames and E. H. Hersiman
to permanently represent at annual and
other meetings of the shareholders of the
company such holders of the common and
preferred stock of the company as shall
desire to intrust their proxies to the COM
mittee for the purpose of maintaining the
management and general policies inaugu-
rated by the reorganization committee.
The voluntary relief department of The
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg paid
out. in July. for deaths from natural causes
$1,000: for deaths from accident $4.250 in
disablement benefits. 1855; on account of
sickness, 81. 726 40 making the disbursements
bers drawing benefits Since organized the
department has paid out in death benefits
from accident $201 Is, there having been
341 death; on deaths from natural causes.
$623 1878. there having been lob death; in
disablement benefits on account of acct
dent, 1894 215.S0; on account of sickness. $780,,
100. SO. making the total disbursements of
the nine years and one month. 81, 154, 5S1.57.
During this period IS 046 members drew ben
efits The disbursements of July were nearly
$1,000 less than those of June. this year.