The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-28

other road On that date j. S. Powers,
trainmaster Of that division. will go back
to the train dispatcher's Office and the posi-
ton of trainmaster be abolished.
John F. Miller general superintendent of
the Pennsylvania Southwestern system,
yesterday returned from the Jersey coast
His wife. who IS improving In health, will
remain there some weeks.
The passenger department of the Chesa-
kSake {. Ohio is sending O.. 49, g.. adySt-
tisement the war revenue law OF 1898, with
revised index, marginal and foot notes. Its
completeness makes 1T valuable 10 business
men.
A. A. Zion. superintendent of the Belt
road says one evidence of an improvement
in business is the tact that three new in
dustries will locate on the Belt road and
are negotias-ng to have side tracks laid to
their establishments.
The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy has
issued official railway guide of its own
almost as large as the Travellers Official
Guide. 1t shows all the towns on the sys-
TEN and gives names Of the prominent BUSH
ness men in them in every industry.
Within the past five months ninety miles
of the western division of the Peoria q
Eastern has been reballasted with gravel
and cinders, and the oldest engineers on the
road say that never before has the track of
the p. & E. been in as good condition as
now.
George T. Gunnip. general agent of the
passenger department of the Santa Fe lines,
is in the city. He states that every year
shows marked increase in travel to Cali
for business this fall and winter is more ia
vorable than in any former year
ID. S. Gray. who represents the Pennsyl..
vania lines as a member of the board OF
managers of the Joint Traffic Association,
has presented the railroad branch or the
Young Mems Christian Association at
Columbus with a check for SIS. and Oscar
Murray receiver of the Baltimore q Ohio,
has sent his check for similar sum-
c. E. Schaff, general manager of the Big
Four, was more seriously hurt in the recent
runaway than was at first supposed. A
gentleman who saw him yesterday states
tna 1 long ngSe was cut in his forehead the
lower lip was badly split, and yesterday his
neck was swollen out even with his Shout
ders
The Missouri Pacific has decided to meet
the cut rate on wheat and corn made by
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. The new
order is effective Oct. l, when the Missouri
wheat and cents on corn than the present
tariff rate for points on the line in Kansas
and Nebraska. 1t is expected that other
roads will follow suit.
Edward T. Highland, of Denver, Col, as
sistant superintendent of the Burlington &
Missouri Railroad Company, who was taken
to the Bellevue Hospital insane pavilion
Monday from the F'fth-avenue Hotel. New
York, suffering from a deranged mind the
result of overwork, was slightly better yes
terday. He is in charge of d. c. Robertson.
He will be held under observation for three
days, when Drs. Fitch and Wildman will
pass on his case. 1t is thought he will then
be sent to some private asylum.
John Rogers, an engineer on the Peoria
& Eastern's western division, has been run
ming on that road for thirty years. Benja-
min Smith. who built the Indianapolis,
Bloomington e. Western. now the Peoria &
Eastern, hired him from the Panhandle to
run the engine hauling the construction
train. When the road completed to
Charlottesville he ran the engine which
hauled the first passenger train. and on its
completion to Peoria he the engine
/! hauling the first train from Indianapolis to
Peoria.
The Terre Haute Gazette says that r. P.
Sargent who was reelected grand chief of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
will resign his position on the national in
dustrial commission. to which he was ap-
pointed by President Mckinley. Railway
officials much gratfied that Mr. Sar-
gent was reelected grand chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, as his
efforts have been largely instrumental in
bringing that brotherhood to it's present
high standard morally as we'll as in business
methods.
Inquirer: Under the laws of Indiana a
railroad company cannot collect subsidy
until it has expended an equal amount in
the construction of the road In the town.
ship which has voted subsidy and under
the law the company has to construct the
road and run a train over it's entire pro-
posed length before it is entitled 10 the SUBJ
sidy If the railroad company does not full
fill the requirements of the law the money
is refunded to the taxpayers and is paid
hack to each of them by the county treas
urer. or credited to the taxpayers on cur
rent taxes.