The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-14

when In service, which does away with an
bookkeeping.
]. c. Brown, who has been with the pas
senger department of the Chicago, Burling-
ton q Quincy for many years, has accepted
the position of passenger agent and agent
OF the land department of the Omaha. Kan
sas City q Eastern, with headquarters at
St Joseph. Mo-
New commodity rates on common and
paving brick hollow brick lumber sand
and divers building materials have been
recommended by the managers of the Joint
Iraitic Association from various inland
points In New York to points in Pennsyl~
vania and Ohio.
The prosperous times are aiding the rail-
way employees in many ways. Pay cars are
making the rounds earlier in the month, the
pay cars OF the Pennsylvania reaching the
indianapolis lines on the 18th of each month
and the Big Four pay cars between the 18th
and 18th instead of the 10th to the 24th.
In the big deal just perfected by which
Iroi of a number Of mills and elevators in
InQlana, ONO and Illinois, the twenty ele-
sa1 I2r, on the line Of the Toledo, st, Louis
q Kansas City road are included-eight in
ONO, seven in Indiana and five in Illinois.
The new type of heavy freight engine
when the Richmond locomotive works are
building for the Big Four will be delivered
Jan. 70: william Garstang, superintendent
OF motive power, expects that this engine
VIII maui hve more cars per train than
other engines of the same weight and on
the same quantity of fuel.
John Lazarus, traffic manager of the In
ulana, Decatur 81 Western Yesterday re-
Turned Turned from Chicago. He says in his long
ralIroad service he has never known such
q determined disposition to hold rates to
tarln in all directions as at present, the
worst rate cutters OF past years now being
among the strongest advocates of a strict
maintenance of rates.
at the last meeting of the American AS
Soclation of Passenger and Ticket Agents
r.. 5. Eustis, of the Burlington was APP
pointed chairman of a committee to devise
q plan for making excursion business more
profitable to the roads. Mr.. Eustis has
york on Jan. 10 and at this meeting a plan
ZOE increasing the revenue from excursions
WIN be submitted If the committee agrees
on the plan proposed it will be presented at
the next general meeting of the association
for adoption.
General passenger agents of the Southern
pose of discussing the decentralization in
rates in their territory. For some time all
Oh me roads have been greatly troubled by
very much with their regular tariffs The
winter tourist business this season has not
been as heavy as thought probable and
the competition for the busD sss has been
very keen. The roads will pas a resolution
70 restore and maintain rates, and see what
action.
One of the greatest reforms enuring to
the shipping public is the better car move
ment brought about through the work of
OF cars, due to failure of consgnees to
unload promptly. has almost ceased in the
territory under control of the Indiana Car
Service Association Compared with 1890
the cars held in 1897 beyond forty-eight
hours were only q per cent of the former
Inc amounts collected for detention are
growing less and less each year. In 1897
there was only one car detained bevond
torty-eight hours in every ninety cars ham
died.
The North Shore IJispatch. formed 70
foc
freight line, will embrace a vast territory
IN its operations, having Boston for it's
the rivalry between the Boston & Albany
and the Fitchburg roads. Agencies are to
ne ne established at Detroit, Milwaukee,
Minneapolis, Kansas City Chicago. Indian
apolis, st. Louis and Cincinnati, and prob
ABLY at Toledo and Memphis, while the
present West Shore line viii in the East
pointed general manager and has decided
TO make his headquarters at Detroit.
The new safety ticket and stamping de-
wee, the Invention of c. o. Tangerman,
OF the Big -Four passenger department at
81. LOUIS, is attracting a good deal of at
tention, and will doubtless come into gen
vice, with sliding blades, which, by a sim
PIE movement of a thumb screw can be
adjusted to days; dates and stations The
machine is intended to protect local tickets
and at the same time simplify the work of
agents 1t will manipulate a ticket con-
tanning the names Of ten stations so that
Sta
ton, as at present one ticket will be re-
CURED for each ten stations. The machine
Splits the ticket in zigzag form, rendering
eraSures impossible, and at the same time
preserves stub, which is one of the best
records of sale that an agent can have.
The Joint Traffic Association managers
have amended legislation SO as to hermit ~
pennsylvania and the Baltimore &. Ohio
roads to run four double excursions from
the Pittsburg district to Washington or
Baltimore. The Pennsylvania excursions
nave been set for Feb. II, March H. April
IA and May Y, and Jan. a. Feb. 10 and "a
Baltimore & Ohio. The application of the
Michigan Central for dfferential rates of
$lS first class and SIG second class from
chicago to New York in connection with
the west Shore. Lackawanna, Lehigh VAL
ley and Ontario & Western was disan-
proved The managers have also disap-
proved a similar request from the Nickel
plate via Buffalo and the New York Cen
tral and the Lake Shore via the Iacka-
wanna, Lehigh Valley and West Shore