The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-07-12

General Manager Schaff. of the Big Four.
passed through the city yesterday, en- route
TO ST. Louis
s H. Fulton; assistant general freight
City. died on Monday at Flagstaff, Ariz.
Bertram Young, auditor of freight and
ticket accounts Of the Lackawanna, ha;
rendered his resignation. to take effect
Sept. 1.
Rate clerks Of Western roads will meet
tomorrow TO compile rates from common
points to Philadelphia for the Grand Army
encampment.
Baldwin locomotive works for fourteen At
lantic locomotives, compounded on the
Vauclain system.
The Canadian Pacific gives notice that It
will no longer exchange round trip excur-
sion tickets with the Great Northern o.
Northern Pacific.
@. W. Kittridge, chief engineer of the Big
-Four. who has been East with his family
Tor some time, will return to his office in
Cincinnati to-day.
The B. & o. Southwestern has placed an
order with the American Car and Foundry
Company for fifty refrigerator cars of 40
90 pounds capacity.
The Canadian Pacific earnings for the
week ending July were $4,000. an in
crease over the earnings for the corre-
spending week last year Of $41. 0O0
The Big Four has put a steam shovel at
work on the Terre Haute gravel pit, and
will. during the next forty days, get out
1.5oo yards of gravel per day to be spread
on that division
J. R Cavanagh, superintendent of car
service on the Big Four, left for Cairo last
evening to lock after the car supply on
that division to accommodate the Increasing
business from the South.
Ticket agents have been notified to discon-
tinue the sale Of tickets to Winona with
coupon emitting the holder to admission to
the grounds, as such coupons are no longer
| honored by the Winona management.
The period for the sale of tickets to glass
workers visiting their former homes in the
East has been extended to the 18th inst.
as Albany, Philadelphia and Wheeling and
all intermediate points
The regular monthly conference of the
executive officers OF Western and South
western lines was held in st. Louis yester-
Day 10 consider the general situation. Thir-
ty-hve lines were represented. 1t was de-
| cided to maintain existing rates.
President Robinson. Of the, st. Louis &
San Francisco, says the wheat crop of
| Oklahoma will reach 10000 900 bushels. and
that the same Territory will have 300 900
the Kansas wheat yield at 81, 0OO, 900 bushels
The Western Passenger Association has
appointed a committee, consisting OF George
IL. Heafford, of the Milwaukee & st. Paul
| 8: Eustis, of the Burlington, to make an
other examination Of the interchangeable
| mileage system
Articles of Incorporation have been filed
ern Railroad. This road will be a branch
| Of the Rock Island, extending that system
into Dakota and Minnesota. The capital
| stock is 100000 and the incorporators
are all officials of the Rock Island
The Quincy route composed Of the Omaha,
Kansas City & Eastern and Omaha & st.
| extension to Springfield, ILL.,, in twenty
days. 1t Is also surveying line from Lib
erty to Beardstown, to connect with the
i give Quincy two additional outleta toward
the seaboard.
The Financial Chronicle computes the
gross earnings OF seventy-two railroads for
| crease of H.152.e52. or 1923 per cent; Of
| ffty-two roads for the fourth week of June
at 4as ssog an an Increase re- of Ms5s2 O., or
the month Of June at $50, ia, 164, an increase
of $3.6707f4. or 1879 per cent.
Mr.. w. II. Ijams, who has been recent
ly reelected treasurer of the Baltimore &
Ohio, has been in the employ of the COM
pany for forty-six years and has been
treasurer since May. 1866. When a small
that Baltimoreans arranged to celebrate the
| laying of the cornerstone of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad on July 4, ISIS.
The Northern New Jersey has been leased
/ to the Erie for the full term of its cor
| porate existence. The Erie pays all charges
and dividends Of 4 per cent. on the 81 600 900
the Northern shall make a new loan of
100000 at not exceeding AZ per cent. OF
/ the proceeds Of the loan SS04 900 is TO be re-
| tanned to meet the maturing issue of per
| cents.
| The opinion entertained by the Kansas
| City Journal of the freight men in that
/ vicinity may be judged by the following:
| 1.-THE Ananias Society OF the freight repre-
| sentatives met yesterday as usual in the
| transit inspection office in the Exchange
| building The pipe was Lit at o'clock and
\ burned steadily for over hour. George
| Marsh. of the Alton, did most of the smok-
ing. There were others. however. who got
| a few puffs.'
| A special from Dallas, Tex, says w. c..
Conner. president of the Dallas, Fort Worth
/ & Gulf Railway Company. has returned from
| New York and reports that he has secured
ample capital to construct the road. and
that engineers will be put In the field at
| once. The road will. on an average, run
| within eight or ten miles north of the
| Texas & Pacific. Mr.. Conner promises that
| trains will be running on the new road be-
tween Dallas and Fort Worth by the end
| of the year.
The new Columbus Bridge Company, of
| Columbus, o., has recently shipped for the
! Magdalen & Bogota Railroad Company of
the United States OF Colombia five steel
road There is one bridge with a span of
40 feet two with spans of 100 feet each
| and two OF thirty-six feet each. The COM
pany has also built number of locomotive
| turntables for the Mexican Central Rail-
| road and at present has work ahead for
| Havana Cuba and San Juan. Porto Rico.
Weekly Crop Bulletin.