The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-03-08

of s11, 9o5,s2. For the month the earnings
were co. SIo6 :SS 81 - an increase over Febru-
The citizens of Leesburg. which has be-
come an important point on the Michigan
DIVISION of the Big Four, are urging the
point.
While Louisville & Nashville authorities
decline to make a statement, delegates from
the brotherhood associations say that they
are promised restoration of wages on
July l.
John Truman, of Logansport, an engineer
Oh me fanhandle, has just completed ms
lwenty-ninth year on the road as an engi-
neer He began firing a little road in
pennsylvania fifty-nine years ago.
Notice has been given by the Missouri
Hac ;l ca; and the Burlington & Missouri that
round trip for the cattlemea's convention
IN Fort Worth, Tex, March to TO-
J. H. Barrett, who for some years was
general superintendent of the Cincinnati,
lntendent of transportation of the South
ington.
Thomas Atwater, one of the oldest pas
sehger conductors on the Erie Railway, has
re-lgned and will retire to enjoy the COM
Iorts Of life on competency. For many
years MI Atwatef ran between Cleveland
ana youngstown
Passenger rates from Texas points to st.
Louis and the East are much demoralized.
Last Saturday tickets were sold from
Houston, Tex, to Philadelphia at a cut of
City is but half tariff rates.
G. H. Kingsbury, a son Of r. Fl. Kings
bury, former general freight agent of the
freight agent of the Norfolk & Western.
Ills father Is now general manager of the
Star Union line in New York.
In the near future n. K. Elliott, superin-
tendent of the Detroit, Toledo & Milwaukee,
intends to remove his headquarters from
Tecumseh, Mich, to Detroit. In fact, it is
road will be removed to that point.
r. B. F. Peirce, receiver of the Toledo,
st. Louis & Kansas City, yesterday gave
J. w. Sherwood full charge of ali shops on
the line, in addition to his duties as super
intendent of the Eastern division of the
road. which extends from Frankfort to To-
Iedo.
John Engelke baggage master at the
UNION Station, is so i'll that he has been
Belgium in 1874, came to this country when
a young man and entered the service OF
the Union Railway Company as a janitor
Oct. H. 1855
In the year 1897 the Canadian Pacific re-
eeiyed only O.7S cent per ton per mile for
freight that II carried, and only LIZ cents
per passenger mile carried, against O.75
cent per ton per mile on freight in 1896, and
against l.S3 cents per mile per passenger
carried in 1896
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, on
Saturday received the last new box car
from the Peninsular (Mich) car works, on
an order for five hundred. The Barney q
Smith works have delivered but small per
cent. of the five hundred those works are
to build for the c., II. & D.
It is conceded that the railroads won
substantial victory in bringing about the
tabling of the 2-cent-fare bill by the Senate
of Ohio Before sending it to the table the
railroads succeeded in lacking on an amend
ment to make it pententiary offense for
a railroad official to issue pass or for a
legislator to receive one.
r. b. Turner, general superintendent of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, and
A. j. Ball, assistant superintendent of mo-
tive power of the same line, were in the city
yesterday and spent most of the afternoon
at the shops of the Indiana, Decatur &
Western, where a number of their engines
and cars are being rebuilt.
A through rate of 81 cents per 100 pounds
on flour from Minneapolis to New York
went into effect yesterday. 1t is stated that
the Lake Shore and the Michigan Central
agree to share pro 2r rata in the cut It is ex-
Erie will make similar rates to-day. 1t is
done simply TO meet the rate of the 500
lines, 1t is stated
The members Of the Western Inter-
changeable Mileage Bureau have voted in
favor of admitting the Wabash and the
Toledo, Peoria & Western roads to the use
of interchangeable mileage tickets between
Chicago and number of points in Iowa
and Illinois. This arrangement will be APP
piled on through business in both directions
ness
General passenger agents Of the Western
roads reported yesterday that the effect of
the cut rates in tranScontinental traffic has
as yet had no demoralizing effect on the
general business of the roads. The reduced
rates have now been in effect for some time
time no reductions have been made in local
rates by any road. The roads are now
quite confident that their plan for prevent
Ing decentralization of intermediate business
will be successful
The Pennsylvania Company has put in
some elegant new compartment cars be-
tween Cincinnati and Chicago but contin-
ues to run some of the most common of
the Pullman cars between Indianapolis and
Chicago, and between Louisville and Chi
cago, and the discrimination in favor of
the Cincinnati lines is causing unfriendly
comment, the more SO from the fact that
the Big Four and the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton, in connection with the Monon,
have just put on some fine Wagner sleep
ing cars.
The handsome increase in earnings of the
Indianapolis lines since Jan. / over the cor
responding two months of 1897 is In some
measure, says one of the officials, due to
the better rates at which both passengers
and freightS have been carried since the
first of the year, when all lines in the old
Chicago and Ohio River Traffic Association
agreed to restore and maintain rates AT
tariff. 1t is said that while east-bound
freight rates have been more or less demon
allied at Chicago, from Peoria, st. Louis
and Indianapolis business has been carried
at full tariff rates