The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-16

ing the summer vacation. and so encourage
ing were the reports regarding business that
IL was decided to at once resume improve
ments contemplated, which had been
shelved earlier in the year.
Among shippers the opinion prevails that
in consolidating the Vanderbilt fast freight
lines representatives are being dismissed
who were valuable as solicitors of business
and that for the meager sum saved in sal
aries the loss on business will be $40 to 81
saved.
The offices of the Nickel-plate, in the
Board of Trade building, and that of the
West Shore. in the Big -Four building, will
be closed Oct. 1, and the desks of the men
retained will be moved into the Office of
William Sullivan. commercial agent of the
Big Four.
Norman Beckley, for many years general
manager of the Cincinnati. Wabash e.
Michigan, now the Michigan division of the
Big Four, will on Oct. celebrate with his
wife their golden wedding Mr.. Beckley is
still general agent for the Big Four, and
does excellent work for the company.
TWO hundred travelling freight agents
from all roads in the Central district in
Guiding Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Iii
nois, held their annual meeting at Toledo
Speeches on points touching the freight
agents department were given by repre-
sentatives of the various roads.
w. r. Burke, trainmaster on the Mich
igan division of the Vandalia, wears a VAL
liable diamond pin, the stone of which he
lost in some manner while making his
toilet at the Barnett House. Logansport.
enterprising plumber flushed the plumbing,
secured the stone and received the reward.
An order for the sale of the Clover-leaf
Railroad has been entered on the docket of
the United States Court at Toledo for some
time, but President kneeland'S absence
from the annual meeting there on Wednes-
day is given out as an indication that he
proposes to fight the sale as long as posi-
bic. He is said to be completing an organ
ization to buy the stock.
| 1t is stated that the Brice syndicate has
fully determined on consolidating the Lake
Erie & Western. the Cincinnati, Jackson &
Mackinaw and the Cincinnati Northern as
one interest. The Cincinnati Northern is
| proving a much better investment than the
| Brice people had expected, and the business
of the Cincinnati, jackson & Macklnaw Ias
| increased percSptibly since coming under
| Brice control.
II. w. Cannon, president of the Chase
National Bank. and J. H. Schiff, a promi-
| from a trip over the Great Northern in
company with President HILL Incidentally
| they Travelled over other Northwestern lines,
and both speak highly of the condition and
| prospects for trade and prosperity, espe-
| cially with the manufacturing and agricul-
| tural industries.
|. ma fast freight line in this territory, yes
| terday gave a dinner to the local poultry
shippers at the Bates House. For some
| time much the larger per cent. of poultry
| shipped from indianapolis and this imme-
| date territory has gone over the Lacka-
wanna line, which has twenty-five live
poultry-carrying cars in service at this
agencys direction.
The address on Tuesday of E. A. Ford,
! general passenger agent of the Pennsylva-
/ MIA lines west, before the American Asso-
! citation of Travelling Passenger Agents, at
| their annual convention at Lakewood, N.
| Y, is said to have been the best of any
| he has yet made before railway associa-
| tions. His long experience as a passenger
| official enabled him to make some good sus-
| gestions which were Of interest to passen-
ger men.
Attention is no longer to be paid by West
ern lines to the provisions of the Interstate
| commerce law against pooling. The roads
! between Chicago and Missouri river points
| have decided to pool their freight business,
| and arbitrators are about to make the allot-
ment of percentages for the several roads
| in the combination. The executive officers
| of the Chicago and st. Paul lines have also
! decided to pool passenger business between
| those points.
| George X. Lowell, general superintendent
| of the Monon lines, who has just returned
/ from an Eastern trip, was in the city yes
| terday. Mr.. Lowell states that every en-
| CINE the Monon has fit for service is now
| in use. and many of them daily doubling
| their regular runs so heavy is traffic. The
| is credited with having made the best rec
| ord in arrivals of its trains at Louisville
| and Chicago on schedule time of any road
running into either city and it's record a t
| Indianapolis would be difficult to excel.
Under the heading 1.-The Aggressive Big
| Cleveland. Cincinnati. Chicago & st. Louis
| Chg Four route) is at present one of the
| most aggressive competitors of the Penn
| sylvania lines. This great road, which has
made wonderful record by running fast
| and splendid trains between New York and
| Cincinnati and ST Louis. has recently or
| dered two magnificent fast express engines,
| with seventy-eight-inch drivers to haul the
| Knickerbocker and Southwestern express
| trains. The new engines are wonderful ma.
| chimes. and were built at the Schenectady
locomotive works.