The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-22

1897: forwarding over the Panhandle's In
d.anapolis division 1882 loaded cars, and
bringing in LII.
M ID Woodford, president of the Cincin-
rati. Hamilton & Dayton lines. on Satur-
day left Cincinnati for Lake Chautauqua to
some weeks.
The .semi-annual meeting of the American
Association of General Ticket and Passen-
ger Agents will be held at Detroit Oct. lS
wnen action will be taken on using safety
ticket paper
On Sept. IA the steamer Onondaga. of the
Seneca lake line. will be blown up by a
submarine mine. and the New York Gen.
trail will run excursion trains to witness the
novel exhibition.
The Canadian Pacific has largely in
creased ITS facilities for handling grain. This
which, with little trouble or expense, can be
converted into grain cars.
TIE Illinois Central yesterday run a bust
Eess mems excursion from New Orleans
and Memphis to Chicago at a ten-dollar
rate, and it required seven special trains
TO carry the excursionists.
The Vandalia handled at indianapolis last
week 1913 cars, 2,574 being loaded. the lar
ever handled at this point. The line brought
In 1859 and forwarded 9d loaded cars.
1t is. stated that the movement on the
part of trainmen on the Pennsylvania lines
for ten hours to constitute a days work
Is spreading over all divisions east Of Pitts
burg. Twelve hours is now the stipulated
days work.
1t is learned that an important meeting
of the traffic managers of the Vanderbilt
lines will be held this week at Buffalo to
arrange the minor details for consolidating
the eight fast freight lines operating on the
Vanderbilt systems.
Daniel B. Worthington has been appointed
travelling passenger agent of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul, vice William Kelley,
promoted to be general Eastern agent of
the lines at New York, succeeding Z. f.
Richardson, deceased.
"A special carrying Vice President Wood.
OF the Pennsylvania lines on Friday, in run
ming from Chicago to Pittsburg made the
run from Bradford to Columbus, eighty
three miles. in ninety-seven minutes, stop
ping once for water.
j. II. Maddy, press agent of the. Baltimore
q Ohio. has got together the good things
that have been written regarding the lines
since the receivers took hold and published
them in pamphlet form, with some very
catching illustrations
Last week E. d. Smith, division passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio celebrated
the twenty-ninth anniversary of his service
with that road A banquet was given him
by his friends. Mr.. Smith entered the pas
senser service as clerk in August, 1869.
On Oct. the Santa Fe will again try the
experiment of establishing line of steam
ers between San Diego and China and ia
pan; The MANAGEMENT. thinks it a more
opportune time to establish such a line than
was Its first experiment in that direction.
1t is interesting to note that the Baldwin
locomotive works have just completed the
works have been building locomotives for
the British provinces and colonies. but this
is the first foothold one of them has Sc
cured en- the island itself
There will be a meeting to-day in New
York city of the general Eastern agents of
the passenger departments of the trunk
lines to form an organization in New York
city to see that tariff rates are maintained.
| This is the outcome of the meeting of gen.
eral passenger agents of Eastern and West
ern trunk lines week before last at New
York.
n Frankfort paper says: Should one
| entire month pass without a strike on the
Chicago & Southeastern Harry Crawford,
| its owner, would Immediately telegraph Fl.
Moore, the general utility man, his dis
charge for failure to attend to his duties"
| Most roads advertise their lines by cutting
| rates; this road, through strikes, has be-
come well known.
The Chicago-St Paul roads have hit the
Canadian Pacific another hard blow. At
| this season of the year there is always an
| exodus of farm laborers from eastern Can
| ada to Manitoba, and this year it is larger
| than ever before. Over three thousand pas
sengers of this class have been handled In
| one week. Formerly the Canadian Pacific
had a. monopoly of this business; now the
and have succeeded in diverting large pes
cent of this travel via Chicago and st. Paul.
In commenting on the activity of the Big
-Four stocks the Financier says that the
tone OF the market was healthful in the ex-
treme Big Four was leader in this class.
tho buying being based on the unconfrmed
4CpOlL tIdl oil lH0 "DETAILS IOT cOnSOIQdJ-
ing that road, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the Mo-
non had been arranged. It is inferred from
the market movement of the shares that
some scheme to consolidate the roads is
under way, but every report to that effect
has been denied as soon as published.
Within the past sixty days the receivers
OK the Baltimore & Ohio nave ordered al
most 5000 new freight cars, of which the
Pullman Company is building 1000 box and
LOCO drop-end gondolas; the Michigan Pc
ninsular 5000 box cars, and the South Balti-
more car works 200 box cars, 800 hopper coal
cars and Is four wheel cabooses, making a
total of 22.735 freight cars ordered in less
than two years. These cars are all of mod
ern construction, are fully equipped with air
brakes and automatic coupers, and average
10000 pounds capacity. 1t is estimated that
fully 50 per cent. of the Baltimore & Ohio
freight cars have air brakes and automatic
couplers in accordance with the Interstate
commerce law.