The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-24

tinct commercial organizations and repre-
senting more than three thousand business
houses.
Suddenly and quite unexpectedly west
siderably defnoraized and the break is
charged upon the Wabash. There is said
to be general hustling for business by all
ing to get business, no matter what the
revenue is
DIR. Seward Webb president of the Wag-
ner Palace Car Company, reached New
York yesterday on his return from a trip
to Mexico. On his trip he passed over the
lines that the Vanderbits are interested in
via Indianapolis and St. Louis, and on his
return over Northern lines in which they
are interested.
Mark Moodlin, who was elected from a
Lake Erie & Western train on Feb. IL for
refusing to pay the extra 10 cents charged
where a passenger boards a train without
a ticket, has brought suit against the COM
pany for $1,000 He claims there was no
ticket agent at the Stillwel1 office when he
took the train
A. M. Stewart, general live stock agent
or the Erie lines, West, was in the city
yesterday. He states that the Erie is doing
the heaviest business in its history. Among
other things it is making a speciality of
running trains from Chicago to New York
for the transportation of horses, making
the run in forty-seven hours.
For some time past traffic on the Big
-Four has been so heavy that 1t pays 10 per
cent. of the expenses of the Belt road and
tracks, in each case the charges being
made on the wheelage basis. The expenses
OF the station proper are shared by all
roads in proportion to the number of trains
which arrive and depart over the respective
lines.
ID. G. Edwards passenger traffic manager
of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, will
be in the city to-day to meet Charles Rock
well, traffic manager of the Monon, and
take some steps as to location for their
outside ticket Office. 1t is probable they will
lease the room on Washington street just
Sst of the ONCE of The Pennsyl1hnda ne1
exhibit.
The order I'd Of Jqags M9ods to Receiver e Yer
Terre Haute & Peoria bonds was granted
on the petition of the bondh0lders, and 1t
lessee for the use of the Terre Haute &
Peoria Railroad. The coupon referred to
ment of the receiver. The Terre Ha9te &
Sept. /, 1897, have not been paid.
A special train on the Michigan City divi-
urday was hauled sixty-seven miles in sew
enty minutes Between Plymouth and Peru
the @ was at the en- ra ta OF d s3
sion of the Lake Erie & Western are an I'M
usual thing. Complaint is often made of the
slow time that its passenger trains are
scheduled they being no faster than in the
days of the old indianapolis. Peru & Chi
cago
The Independent order OF hallway Men
has been organized in st. Louis. That city
has been selected as the headquarters of the
Grand Lodge, and James 8. Hardin, of ST.
Louis, has been elected president. Organic
erS will be sent out at once to all parts
of the country. 1t is announced that the
order will go into politics. This is eX-
planned by stating that certain objects in
view cannot be obtained except through
politics, and for that reason the order has
decided on certain political moves.
At Galveston, Tex, yesterday, Judge Da-
vid e. Bryant, of the United States Circuit
Court, granted an Injunction restraining the
Missouri, Kansas e. Texas, the Gulf, Colora-
do & Santa Fe, the Texas & Pacific, the In
ternational & Great Northern, the ST. Louis
leans Railways from enforcing the notices
which they recently gave to the effect that
they would not receive any freight from the
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad,
except the charges be prepaid at local rates,
and which regulations have been Familiarity
known as boycotting The writ is made re
turnable at Paris, Tex, on April Is.
The following regulations concerning ex-
cess baggage have been adopted by all of
the lines running east from st. Louis, In
dianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati and Chi
cago. l. That $50 pounds of personal bag
gage may be checked free over the lines of
the Joint Passenger Committee on each full
first or second-class ticket sold at author
lied regular or reduced fares, and rs pounds
on each half-ticket 2. That through bag
gage of first and second-class passengers
weighing in excess of the free allowance
thus authorized shall be subjected to
charge of not less than IL per cent. of the
standard first-class limited fare via the di-
rect route, and, when no limited fare is
quoted, not less than IL per cent. of the
unlimited fare via the direct route, pro-
vided that no less than Is cents shall be