The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-02-11


Maple Leaf Mr.. DuPuy spent the day with
the Panhandle officials, and expects to re-
main IN the city several days. familiarizing
himself with the methods OF other roads
entering and leaving Indianapolis
1t was pay day with the Union Railway
company yesterday, and the disbursements
We're the largest for the month of January
OF any month in many years, exceeding Sic, :
QUO The pay rolls show that there are 324
men employed by the Union Railway COM
pany and on the Belt road.
The anti-scalping bureau of informa ton
at Washington has issued in pamphlet form
letters from the general passenger agents
or lO5 railroads. in which they deny fatty
the statements of ticket scalpers before
the Senate committee and express the hope
that Congress viii pass the anti-scalping
bill.
The Big Four has just received $500 tons
or new steel weighing eighty pounds TO the
yard, the first consignment on this year $
contract. Most of these rails will be laid
between Cincinnati and Columbus, o., as
the main line from Cincinnati to Kankakee
length
On Wednesday 5.777 loaded cars were han
died on the Big -Four system: 1467 loaded
cars were handled on the Chicago division.
being the heaviest loaded car movement
ever known on that division. On the Pc
oria & Eastern business is very heavy; on
Wednesday 767 loaded cars were handled on
both divisions.
A. Galloway superintendent of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton & Dayton main line and
tie lHuldIlapOHS DIVISION, was IN the city
yesterday. He states that his son, w. s.
Galloway who has just graduated at Pur-
due University, will next month"; with two
other young men, go to Honduras to en-
gage in business.
The Lake Erie & Western has two
trains each way between Indianapolis and
Michigan City which are the best paying
passenger trains per mile run in the State,
Eighty per cent. of the business is local,
and carried at three cents a mile, the road
having practically no competition between
Hon Fanlfc faf
Michigan City, which is reached by the
Monon.
On March /, Edward s. King, now COM
merclal freight agent of the Baltimore &
Ohio at Baltimore, will be transferred to
Philadelphia, with the same title and du-
ties. His successor in Baltimore win be H.
". Atkinson, now chief clerk to General
Freight Agent Galleher. J. r. Bell, of the
general freight office in Baltimore, will sue
ceed Mr.. Atkinson as chief clerk in the
freight department.
An official of the Pennsylvania lines says
the company is in no great hurry to build
its new depot on the ground recently occu-
pied by the Sinker & Davis works, but will
do so as soon as the city gives it the right
to lay some additional tracks across Della
ware street. There are a number of changes
which hinge on such Improvement; one is
that or consolidating the business of the
Nandalia in the new freight depots of the
Pennsylvania Company which means the
tearing down of the present Vandalia
trelght depot and extending the tracks from
the Union Station further west, getting rid
OF the bad curves at the west end of the
station.
The Western and transcontinental roads
nave not yet determined what action will
be taken by them in regard to the last re-
fusal of the Canadian Pacific to confer with
the American roads in the matter Of Alaska
rates. 1t is practically, though not definite
~, settled that the entire matter will be
allowed to. drop until after the general
meeting of the Association of Passenger
and Ticket Agents. which is to convene in
Washington, d. c., next week Passenger
officials of the Eastern and Western roads
will be at the meeting, and the matter of
severing relations with the Canadian Pa
cific will be brought up after the regular
business of the association is concluded.
The surveying party that left Montpelier,
u, month ago to run through the pro-
posed Wabash, Toledo & Montpelier line,
has finished its work. The survey began at
the new depot building at Montpelier. From
half mile northeast of the town the sur
Veyors struck due east, going eighty rods
south of West Unity, two and a quarter
miles north of the Lake Shore depot at
WauSeon and just north of Delta's corpo-
rate limits Six miles east of Swanton the
line changed to twenty-five degrees north.
Swantons south corporation line was
touched, thence on two miles north to Maui
NEE, and the main line was struck at the
Maumee and canal bridge, which is about a
veyed is fifty-three and nine-tenths miles in
length. This will make Toledo thirteen miles
nearer Chicago than by the Lake Shore.
winch II crosses one mile west of SWanton.
A decision of Importance to the Order OF
Railway Conductors has just been HANGED
down by Judge Seaman, of the United
States District Court, at Milwaukee. Mary
Dixon sued the order for the recovery Of
$1,000 upon certificate issued to her hus-
band. He had Joined the order in 1885 and
died in 1888, after the order had been dis
solved and become a simple association
Payment of the claim was refused and the
suit has been in the courts for years. From
the state courts the conductors had it re-
moved to the United States Court. The con-
ductors pleaded that the dissolution of the
organization had vitiated the claim but
Judge Seaman has decided that this is not
the. case and that the action of the order
in dissolving it's corporation in 1886 and be-
coming a simple association did not abate
the liabilities that had accrued before the
reorganization. Had this decision been rem
dered earlier the National Yardmasters' AS
ISOLATION would have been obliged to pay
several claims of a like nature, but prob
ably the time to institute legal proceedings
has expired. The yardmasters' association
dissolved under much similar circumstances
as did that of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors.