The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-03

May / to take the position of general trav-
cling auditor for a St. Louis brewery.
J. @. Van Wrinkle. general superintendent
OF the Big Four, will return from his Cali
fornia trip to-day.
Last month there were handled at the
Union Station. as shown by General Bag
gage Agent ~Ferguson's report. 40, 522 pieces
Of baggage, an increase of 5.091 over April,
The Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul and
the Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific have
abandoned the traffic alliance by which the
former ran through trains via Omaha TO
Denver.
Arthur Sinclair. jr., New England agent
or the Atlantic e. Danville Airline. has re-
signed. His successor has not yet been an
nounced. but it is said he will be a Western
passenger man.
The Chicago e. Southeastern and the In
dlana Traction companies announce they
Will open their new lines out of Anderson
on July 4. The Midland's extension is from
Anderson to Muncie.
In the month of April there were handled
at the Pennsylvania city freight depotS 49,
$3.50 pounds of freight, representing 4,045
cars, against 35,616,S 03 pounds, representing
5,H9 cars, in April, 1897.
Passenger men state that in no direction
mas there been so remarkable an increase in
travel in the past few weeks as between In
dianapolis and Chicago, and Louisville and
Cincinnati and Chicago.
The report of Henry Fraser, general agent
of the Big Four at this point, shows that
III y u tsODV VI IIClShl
handled at the city freight depots, an in
crease of $40 over April, 1897.
Superintendent Parker. of the Monon, was
in the city yesterday. He states that the
~company's shops at Lafayette are running
full time. In addition to the car work there
are usually four or tive locomotives in the
shops for general repairs.
The indianapolis superintendent Asso-
citation and the executive committee of the
Indiana Car Service Association held their
monthly meetings yesterday. No business
~aAR,N 90 - 81 AI.r - -vn1 -
acted, the attendance being small.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton yes
terday began work in its new shops at
Lima, o. These shops build and repair cars
tinue to lave its locomotives repaired and
rebuilt at the Indiana, Decatur & Western
shops.
On Sunday evening the Big Four hauled
out of the Union Station in one hour and
fifty minutes seven trains. consisting of 107
coaches filled to Overlooking. The conduc-
tors reports showed that in some of the
coaches there were over one hundred pas
sengers.
The Queen G. Crescent paid premiums of
$40 each to eleven freight conductors. SIS to
twenty station agents and $40 to fourteen
telegraph operators. Two agents received $40
additional for showing the largest increase
In sales of tickets and collections on extra
baggage. The total amount of all the prem
iumS was $500.
j. W.. Sherwood on Sunday took the posi-
ton of general superintendent of the To-
ledo. st. Louis q Kansas City road. His
headquarters will be Toledo. Mr.. Sherwood
states that he will not make any change
in subordinates at present. at least. No
division superintendent will be appointed for
the eastern division of the road.
Later reports show that c. Shelby. who
travelled in this territory for years, repre-
senting the passenger department of the
Canadian Pacific, was sick but two or three
days. dying of pneumonia. Mr.. Sheehy was
quite wealthy and a year ago rendered his
resignation, but the company declined to
accept 1t. so valuable a man was he.
The Southern Indiana Railway Company
has placed an order with the Baldwin loco
motive works for three more ten-wheeled
engines, TO be duplicates of the three re-
ceived in January. The management of this
road is ~equipping the line in a ma nner which
would be creditable to one of the trunk
lines. Its new passenger trains. and. in fact,
all of its new equipment is of the highest
standard. A belief prevails still that this
road will eventually pass under control of
the Pennsylvania.
Daniel Dreamer, chief train dispatcher of
the Big Four, died yesterday morning after
an illness of some months. He entered the
service of the Big -Four eighteen years ago
as telegraph boy. and i'm 1889 had reached
the position of chief train dispatcher of the
Chicago division; from 1890 to 1892 he was
abolishing of the position he again became
chief train dispatcher. His father. who
lives at Cleves, has beer in the service of
the Big Four line over forty years.
Absolutely no heed is being paid TO the
orders of the Joint Traffic Association that
grain rates between the Chicago and the
Atlantic seaboard shall be held not lower
than 10 cents, There has not been a con-
tract made as high as Is cents for weeks.
and there does not seem TO be any pros
pect that the roads will make any such
rates. No attention will be paid to the orders
of tho Joint Traffic Association unless the
forthcoming Supreme Court decision shall
declare it to be a legal body and the roads
say that they know that it will declare the