The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-07-29

standard sleeping cars. dining cars and free
reclining chair cars. Each car has the new
wide vestibules and every convenience
known to the travelling public.
Representatives of the Big Four passen-
ger department have been advised by the
Lake Shore that on all tickets for points
east of Buffalo a stop-over will be granted
at Chautauqua lake in addition to stop
over at Niagara Falls.
The earnings of the Chicago Great West
ern for the third week of July were $S5, 019. 96,
week last year of $4.701.74. The total in
crease since the beginning of the fiscal year
July u is $11.5528, as compared with tire
same period in 1897
service of the Pennsylvania lines, died at
Bucyrus on Wednesday. He entered the
known as the Ohio Indiana. He was
chairman in the survey OF the Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne e. Chicago.
There is great scarcity of refrigerator
cars to handle the. heavy shipments of
meats, fruits and other perishable freights.
Notwithstanding the fact says freight Of
| 1cial that there are now one hundred re-
frigerator cars in service where there were
ten but few years ago.
Frank G. Reed, general passenger agent
OF the Monon lines, was in the city yester-
day. He states that from week to week in
creases in passenger earnings are shown
over those of corresponding weeks of 1897
me third week in July an increase of near
ly $1,000 was shown this year.
1t is stated that the Pullman Company is
making more money out of the transpcrta-
ton of United States troops than the rail-
roads. Every Pullman car that can be COM
manded has been in use for weeks; some of
them which had been consigned to the scrap
pile have been repaired and put into serv-
ice.
The Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago is
building at its shops six standard express
cars, fitted with all the latest improve
ments for carrying hors-s. The cars Will be
sixty feet long will rest on six-wheeled
ba W. a rs
feet car built for the business it is intended
to carry.
The Big Four last night had special
train loaded in this city of eighteen cars of
fresh meats, consigned to the transport ship
Manitoba, now loading at Newport News,
and it was scheduled to make thirty-five
miles an hour from Indianapolis to New
port News. The meats were loaded in new
refrigerator cars.
General Passenger Agent Ruggles, of the
Michigan Central, has hit upon the unique
plan of fitting a train schedule by popular
vote. He has sent Broadcast with a
stamped envelope to be returned, blank
asking for the preferred time for a new
twenty-four hour train each way between
Chicago and New York.
With the completion of the St. Louis &
San Francisco line and the St. Joseph &
Grand Island road into Kansas City. that
thriving Western city will have twenty sep
crate lines of railways making three cities
in the United States which have twenty
| railroads entering them, namely, Kansas
City, st. Louis and Chicago.
1t is semi-officially announced that w. p.
Jerome. now general Western passenger
agent of the New York Central, will have
| added to his duties those of the late c. K.
WILDER, general Western passenger agent of
! the Lake Shore combining the two posi-
| tons. Mr.. Jerome has been connected with
| the New York Central twenty-seven years.
| Grand Chief Sargent, of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, and E. p. Clarke,
| ductors. are in Toronto comforting with
| General Manager Hays, of the Grand
| Trunk, as to rules, regulations and new
| schedules which have been drawn up. by
| the two brotherhoods employed on that
| road.
| The roads in the Central Freight Asso-
citation have notified the Western lines that
on Sept l they would withdraw their
| through rates and divisions on west-bound
| freight to the Northwest. This action is the
result of the inability of the Eastern and
| of divisions on through business from the
fact that freight rates are higher in the
| West than in the East.
! 1t is stated that the Brotherhood of Rail-
| way Trainmen is the largest order numeri-
| cally and pays out more money in bene-
ficiary claims than any other of the railroad
month, and on Wednesday sent out checks
| representing $4,000 for one month. The
treasurer expects, the disbursement in Au-
| gust for July will reach $4,000, the largest
| sum ever paid out for benefits for any one
| month.
A majority of the holders of the first
preferred stock of the B. & O. met yester-
| day in Baltimore and decided to ask the
courts for an injunction restraining the re-
| organization committee from rehabilitating
| the road. Twenty-four thousand shares were
| represented out of a total of thirty thou
| sand and included the holdings of the Johns
| Hopkins University and the State of Mary
| land. The courts have decided that the first
| preferred stock is not a lien on the road,
| and the holders thereof appealed to the
| Supreme Court of the United States. An in
| junction will be prayed to defer action by
! the committee until the court of last resort
| has decided the point