The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-21

loss or time.
The directors of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
dend on the preferred stock Of Ia per cent,
ana nave carried a handsome sum over IN
the treasury for future dividends.
It Is stated that the new general man
decided to continue the headquarters of the
me at Buffalo. instead of removing them TO
Chicago as had been contemplated.
The We-te~n roads have agreed to make
the same reduced rates to the Mardi Gras
IN New Orleans as they made last year.
lL.ckets viii be sold Feb. IA 70 20 and will
nave final return limit Of March IS.
W. G. Halliday. for some years assist
ant chief engineer of the Lake Shore road,
mas resigned and will go to Tacoma to ac-
sition on the Lake Shore has been abolished.
George B. McDill chief clerk to Horace
u. Burt, president of the Union Pacific Ran,
I6ad has resigned t his position to tra t
work of the many railroad branches of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
The Pittsburg Office of E. A. Ford; gen
lines west, by means of the long-distance
telephone can call up Indianapolis, Cleve-
1ano CINCINNATI and Chicago and tax with
the respective assistant and district pas
senger agents.
A rumor comes from New York that an
Important Western financial interest is
quietly acquiring the controlling interest
in the stock and securities of the Chicago
d Eastern Illinois, an interest which, 1t is
said, can contribute largely to the COM
pany's prosperity.
AS matters now stand, the Eastern roads
VIII not sell through tickets to Alaska
guaranteeing to transport passengers to
any point in the Territory, there being
some fears that the facilities after reach
Ing Seattle and other Northwestern points
Will not be sufficient to handle the BUSH
ness.
The reclining chair cars which the Wa
bash is running between st. Louis and Buff
falo are so popular that other through lines
are considering the introducing of similar
service. Many people prefer reclining
chair car to a sleeping-car berth, providing
the car at night is kept at a proper tenn
perature.
On Friday a ST. Louis ticket scalper sold
four tickets over the Chicago & Alton road
calling for passage from st. Louis to Chi
cago. All the tickets had been tempered
with, and the conductors would not accept
them TWO of the party had money and
paid their fares: the other two had not and
were put off the train.
The Southeastern Passenger Association
has become one of the best managed and
successful bureaus of this character now
in operation. The chairman of the organi-
cation Joseph Richardson, is preparing a
tariff which will enable a ticket agent to
give a rate from any point in the South to
all points in the United States where the
population exceeds 500.
At the annual meeting of the Wisconsin
Michigan Railroad Company held at
Marinette yesterday S. NJ. Fisher was elected
president and general manager and A. II.
croker superintendent The company will
hoat bonds to aid in the proposed extension
of the road to the Menomonee iron range
and pine timber belts to the north. The
estimated cost of the extension is $4,000.
President and General Manager Ramsey,
of the W9bash Railroad, says there is no
truth in the statement that the Wabash in
tends TO build an independent line into To-
ledo or TO make that city sidetrack as
reported. Toledo is one of our most i'm
porant terminals, said Mr.. Ramsey at st.
Louis yesterday. ''and all this talk about
iG y ND
foolish"
That the Pennsylvania is well prepared
to handle the large quantities of grain go
ing to Philadelphia is evidenced in the fact
that last Sunday there arrived at Philadel-
phia thirteen transatlantic steamers from
all parts of the world They are chartered
of cereals. 1t is estimated these vessels
will carry. 100000 bushels of grain and 20
900 tons of general merchandise.
On Tuesday a ST. Louis merchant pur-
chased at indianapolis three carloads of
grease to ship to ST. Louis, and has been
trying to get reduced rate to St Louis, re-
sorting to most of the tactics shippers
employ to secure cut rate. Meantime
the freight men are watching each other
closely to see that when shipped the grease
goes at tariff AS WeSt-bound rates have
been shaky for years, this firmness is a
genuine surprise.
The General Passenger Agents Associa-
ton yesterday met at the Murray Hill Ho-
TEL New York The finding of the rate
clerks, in which it was recommended that
the excursion rates of last summer be main
tanned this year, was ratified. w. T.. Davis,
general passenger and ticket agent of the
Grand Trunk Railway system, was elected
president of the association, and George G.
Welles, of Montreal. chief clerk of the Ca
madam Pacific, was elected secretary.
j. e. Turner. district passenger agent of
the Northern Pacific, has received the fol-
lowing telegram from Mr.. Fee general pas
senger agent: Rates from Puget sound
and British Columbia points were Increased,
commencing to-day to the following fig
IlxrOo md Dor 6r-cf ala
second class $S5; Juneau, $35 and $40; Wran-
gel, $35 and $40; baggage as heretofore. All
business for which deposits and reservations
have not been made must be booked at
new rate" This is an advance of $40 in
the rates to the points named.
There are now eighteen roads in the In
-Four. the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton,
the Chicago, indianapolis & Louisville, the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois, the Fort Wayne.
Cincinnati Louisville, the Grand Rapids
& Indiana, the indianapolis q Vincennes,
the Indianapolis Union Railway Company
the Lake Shore, the Lake Erie & Western,
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago, the Pan
handle lines, the Peoria & Eastern, the
Toledo, st Louis & Kansas City, the Van
dalia and the Wabash.
A number of passenger and freight men of
foreign lines arrived in the city last even
ing. Among the number were j. Frances
Travelling Passenger Agents e. C. Oviatt,
George Clifford and G. a. Bent of the same
line; F. w; Pummil. of the Northern Pa
cifc: ID. S. Wilder, of the Baltimore & Ohio;
] White, of the Georgia Central; T. f.
Sweat and b. Fowler, of the Illinois Cen
trail; ]. f. Vallery, of the Chicago Burling-
ton & Quincy Without exception they
speak of business as being good and the
outlook very favorable
The managers of the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation have recommended new rates on
grain and grain products in carloads from
Buffalo and the Niagara frontier to Eastern
points at the following rates per 100 pounds:
TO Albany, 8 cents; to philadelphia and
Baltimore 10; to New York city. II, and to
Boston, 13 New commodity rates on grain
to Pittsburg, have been fixed at cents for
100 pounds: on corn in carloads between the
same points. cents for 100 pounds, and on
grain and grain products from Pittsburg to
Erie, Pa, cents for 100 pounds.
The delegates to the thirty-thrd annual
convention of the Old Reliable Railroad
Conductors Life Insurance Association
ing the past two days. left Yesterday on
special train over the Missouri Pacific Rail-
way to Seddlia, Mo-. and from there over
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas for tour
Of old Mexico Before adjourning, the fol-
lowing officers were elected: w. o. Beckley,
St Louis. president; Ward Nichols New
Haven, Conn, W. Fl. Chilsett. Pittsburg w
L. Billings, Nashville, and j. W. King, St
Louis, vice presidents; z. Morrell, Column
bus, O., grand secretary and treasurer.
The answer of the Central Ohio Railroad
Company was made at Columbus, o., yes
terday in the United States Court to the
petition of certain stockholders who asked
for receiver and cancellation of lease held
on the road by the Baltimore e. Ohio Rail-
road Company The answer says the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad receivers say they
are not assignees of the lease and are not