The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-27

month in it's history Besides the knights
of Pythias business and Sunday excursions,
its monster excursion TO Niagara Falls
come in.
+. A. Ford, general passenger agent Of
the Pennsylvania lines west is in New York
attending the meetings of passenger OH
Gals. who are making an effort TO stop the
cutting of rates between New York and
Chicago.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy is
again loading $500 to 1000 cars on its line
daily. but traffic was so light in the early
part of the month that it will hardly reach
that of August. 1897, when Se,1I6 cars were
loaded on the system.
The ladies' auxiliary to the Brotherhood
of Railway Trainmen is to have conven-
ton at Pittsburg. commencing Oct. 3, the
purpose being to extend the organization to
all points where there are divisions of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen.
Traffic with the Big Four is beginning to
push the company for cars. Yesterday con-
nections called for over 500 cars, and 1900
j. r. Cavanagh, superintendent of car
service, says, could have been loaded at
way stations could they have been fur
nished.
John Faulkner. the Panhandle brakeman
killed at Walls on Tuesday, was buried at
Franklin Furnace. o., on Thursday. A COM
mittee of the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen accompanied the remains from
Walls to the burial place. paying the ex-
penses connected with the funeral.
Should the Pittsburg Fort Wayne & Chi
cago abolish the excess fare and make its
limited train one hour longer in making the
run from Jersey City to Chicago, the diff
ferentials of other lines in their advantage
would be so trifiing as to be barely dis
tinguishabie.
D. G. Edwards, passenger traffic manager
of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton, is
much pleased over the business the lines
are doing, every division showing an in
GREASE in scb bas ben bs
cry week for some months past.
General passenger agents in the Central
Passenger Association have up for consider
alton special rates for a round trip to the
City of Mexico on account of the birthday
of President DiaZ, Sept. Is, and Independ-
ence day of the republic of Mexico on
the 18th.
1t is understood that with the consolida-
ton of the Vanderbilt fast freight lines
VIM. Sullivan, of the Big -Four, will be made
general agent at Indianapolis; L. F. Baker
contracting agent of the lines operating
over the New York Central. and ]. T. Sim
mons, of the lines operating over the West
Shore
1t is stated that as soon as the Baltimore
& Ohio reorganization is perfected Receiv-
ers COwan and Murray will assume an ag-
gressive policy and considerable will be
up the RaItmore ohio wn vast VIM mnera
wealth contiguous to the main line of the
Pittsburg division.
Division Superintendent Fowler and
Dewey, on the Chicago & Eastern illinois,
are investigating a dozen or more train
men on charges preferred against them for
violating the rules of the company. 1t is
men are discharged on this road annually
than on any other larger system.
The Pennsylvania will send four of it's
sion of the Pittsburg Fort Wayne & Chi
cago. These engines will haul twice the
number of cars allotted to the biggest engine
in use now on the Fort Wayne road. Sew
eral of these engines, it is stated, will soon
be sent to the Panhande's Pittsburg divi-
sion.
Large blocks of Chicago & Eastern Illi-
nois stock are changing hands and it is said
that Boston men are the purchasers, men
who always buy this stock when it is
thought to be low and sell when it has
reached it's probable highest figure. The
liabilities of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois,
including common and preferred stock
amount to $35, 029, IA, and it's bonded debt is
81 1894.
On Sept. IL the famous Cresson House,
at Cresson, Pa, on the Pennsylvania. will
der 1t is said a syndicate will bid it in. The
Cresson House is not, as generally sup
posed, the. property of the Pennsylvania
at $l,O5OOO0. 1t embraces three hundred
acres of land, all a park, and a hotel. ex-
elusive of cottages, that will accommodate
six hundred guests.
the southwestern Passenger Association
had become one of the strongest associa-
tons of its class in the country. This is evil
denced in the fact that the Gulf. Colorado
& Santa Fe had been caught paying reba ties
to get passenger business. and railway Off
Gals will be astounded to learn that the
company has actually confessed its guilt
and paid its fines The penalty in each case
was $500, and the plea of guilty was ac-
companied by check for $4,000.
A conservative railway official, in CONVEX
sation yesterday. said NJ. d. Woodford,
president of the Cincinnati, Hamilton &
Dayton lines in the interview published in
a New York paper. made a point which
railway men would do well to consider. Aft
er stating there was no foundation for the
consolidation report he said he most re-
GREETED that it had gained circulation on ac-
count of the men employed on the respec-
tive lines all of whom became uneasy about
their positions, and the business of the road
suffers while the scare is on