The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-12

directors. The annual report showed net
earnings of the year to have been $780,
SLIPS.
The Pennsylvania lines and the Pittsburg
& Erie have decided not to meet the cut
rate made By the Pittsburg q Western road
on passenger business between Pittsburg
and Cleveland.
The Panhandle has secured the contract
TO carry the soldiers at the Columbus, O.,
barracks, who are going to Manila. 1t will
require several trains to carry the men and
their accoItrements.
President Galloway, of the New York
Central. is quoted as saying that since he
began his railroad career he has not known
the outlook for railways to be more prom
Using than at present
S. NJ. Felton, receiver of the Columbus.
Sandusky & Hooking. yesterday placed an
order with the Ohio Falls works for 200
more coal cars. similar to those recently
finished, and for thirty fiat cars.
In the six months ending Dec 81 the Big
-Four lines proper earned $77SS,5S7. against
1920, S3S in the CORES pOnding six months of
1897 and against $6,6S9 423 in 1886; increase
over 1897, $367,649; over 1896, $l,O99,164
Frederick d. Underwood has been APP
pointed general manager of the Baltimore
4 Ohio Railroad in charge of the operating
department, with headquarters at Balti-
more. The appointment is effective Jan. 10.
w II. McDoel vice president Of the Mo-
non lines, who has been in New York for
several days, viii return to Chicago to-
morrow and remain one week, when he will
start on months visit to the Pacific coast.
ne CltlZ@1S OF A1dQletOWn, on the Pan
handles Richmond division, are disturbed
over proposition of the company to change
the site of the station to a point one mile
from town, by so doing getting rid of steep
grade.
The new Engine 2O7, on the Big Four, yes
terday hauled the Southwestern limited,
consisting of seven cars, from Bellefontalne
to Indianapolis, las miles, in $50 minutes.
making ten stops at stations and railroad
crossings.
Thomas Richards, Of Brazil Ind, who
sued the Chicago q Eastern Illinois for
$4,000 for injuries received in 1896 at the Ok
ford wreck on Monday received a verdict of
$4,000. The railroad attorney at once moved
for rehearng of the case.
Passenger Traffic Managers Mccormick,
of the Big -Four; Edwards. of the Cincin-
natl Hamilton & Dayton, and McCarty, of
the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, were in
Chicago yesterday attending a meeting of
the Central Passenger Association.
L. b. Freeman, city passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines al this point, Will
in few days complete his twenty-fifth
year of service with the Pennsylvania lines,
he beginning as a telegraph boy in the Of
flee of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne q Chi
cago at Forest o.
The improved condition of the Peoria &
Eastern and the increase in its earnings are
attracting attention of capitalists, and it's
income bonds which have been almost lost
sight of, are now selling at higher figures
than at any time since the company was
reorganized, in $780,
The directors of the Louisville & Nash
Vile Railroad Company have declared
semi-annual dividend of IL per cent pay
able Feb TO- report for the six months
ending Dec. 81 showed: Gross earnings, ST.
S2l ,259; operating expenses $7,725 69t; surplus
after fixed charges, $1,426 1893.
The Central Passenger Association was in
session at Chicago yesterday, discussing
among other things the abolition of second
class rates between Chicago and New York
The proposition met with a good deal of OPP
position, and there is very little likelihood
of it being adopted, for the present, at
least.
1t is stated that within a year the Balti-
more & Ohio will have an important feeder
which will penetrate comparatively unde-
veloped coal field of $4,000 acres in West Vir-
glnia, connecting with the Bellington branch
of the Baltimore 81 Ohio at Cecil, where that
branch connects with the old main line of
the Baltimore & Ohio.
On Sunday the Panhandle ran between
Columbus and Pittsburg, east-bound, forty
full trains, and west-bOund thirty-five. The
restoration of rates has not in the least af-
fected the volume of business over either
the Panhandle or the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
& Chicago. The greatest trouble is to get
crews to man the trains, so many men are
i'll with grip.
The, Columbus 90 Evening Dispatch says
the Columbus, Hooking Valley & Toledo
Railroad will be sold in that city on Feb.
p under the order of the United States
Court by the special master commissioners
No bid for less than $3,250000 will be con-
sidered on the railroad property, and none
less than $4,000 on the property of the
railroad company, a
subsidiary concern. The sale is in further
ance Of the reorganization plan.
Railroads operating east of Chicago will
no longer issue homeseekers' excursion tick
cts. &c a meeting in Chicago yesterday
of repres entatives of practically every East
eTn line, it was voted to discontinue those
rates and to substitute for them regular
tourist rates Lines operating between Chi
cago and the Ohio river, however, refused
to concur in the action. The Western roads
will also continue to issue the homeseekers
excursion tickets.
The revised official classification will be-
come effective Feb and will provide for an
advance in the minimum weight to 80 600
pounds per car on articles classified lower
Than third class which will Include fourth
fifth and sixth classes, and also on all ar
ticles covered by commodity tariffs where
present basis is less than 10000 pounds per
car The minimum under the present classi-
tcation is 10000 and 24,C00 pounds per car
on articles lower than third class.
The annual meeting of the Terre Haute &
Indianapolis Railroad Company was held at
Terre Haute yesterday, and the old board of
directors and officers were reelected. The
Terre Haute d Logansport Company has
been reorganized with the directors chosen
in Pittsburg a few weeks ago, soon after j.
r. Brooks of the Pennsylvania, bought the
property at the sale in Charlottesville. The
party of Pennsylvania officials left Terre
Haute yesterday afternoon for the East.
The car situation is being somewhat re-
lieved by Western lines permitting their cars
to go East of their eastern terminals, grain
or st. Louis. A Panhandle train on Monday
had cars OF the Chicago. Burlington 81
Quincy. the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
the Chicago & Northwestern, the Santa Fe
the Great Northern, the Northern Pacific
and the Missouri Pacific For some months
past these roads were not willing that their
cars should come further east than their
own lines, but on the promise of early re-
turn loaded they now permit them to go
forward.
Arrangements were completed yesterday
for congress of railway employees, to be
held in Chicago. Feb Is, under the aus
pieces of the Railway and Telegraph EN-
ployes Political League. Chauncey NJ. De-
pew. of New York. will deliver an address
on THE Effect of Unfavorabe Railroad
Legislation on the Salaries of Railway En-
plOyes." Other speeches will be made by
the heads of the different railway oragniza-
tioEs. Delegates will be present from In
diana, Ohio. Illinois. Wisconsin, Iowa, Kan
sas and Nebraska. The congress is called to
form national railway employees organiza-
tion and to protest against the enactment of
legislation unfaVorable to railroad interests.
Ii is expected that 900 delegates will at
tend, representing 100000 organized railway