The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-10

two passenger engines. The latter. with
five vestibuled cars, i1ove up the Eeavisst
grades at a speed of twenty-five miles an
hour. performing better than the guar; rtee
promised.
The Central Freight Association yesterday
decided 10 drop commodity rates Jan. ] and
TO restore the rates which were In erect a
year ago. The new rates Will be on an aver
age Of Is per cent. higher than those now
effective and will be applied to nearly two
thirds Of the varieties of freight handled by
railroads.
]. NJ. Kiner, for the past ten years agent
OF the Pennsylvania lines at Wilkinsburg.
mas resigned and goes to Silver City, y. NJ,
10 engage in business. His wife's health ne
cessitated a change in climate. When Mr..
kiner was appointed agent at that point
the businesses was about 5000 month; now
IL is 10000 a year.
The average salary OF a dining car waiter
Is 80 month, his meals being furnished
when on duty. This is about the same that
a sleeping porter receives. On good
runs II is stated that the tips" double the
salary paid by the company. One porter on
one OF the trunk lines averages more than
800 month in tips" alone.
AT the Shelby-street shops of The Big
-Four two new boilers are bei IL pr into
position. and smokestack two hundred
feet high was raised yesterday. j nese
pollers viii furnish steam &c heat the SHOPS,
ing on side tracks Jf in NE the e yard Ihe entire
plant is OF superior construction.
The Wabash Railroad has more than
eighty section men gathered from all points
at Peru snd aresSS Srk six on raes new fee
In length, are down. The full plans call for
Yards thirty-five tracks wide. The yards
telegraph station. They will be the most
important on the eastern division of the
system when completed.
D. 3. Martin manager OF the passenger
traInc OF the Baltimore & Ohio lines has
just completed his thirty-second consecutive
year in railroad service. He began his
service with the old Bee-line as clerk at
layton, o., in 1861; in 1857 he was appointed
general passenger agent of the Bee-iine; in
1889 general passenger agent of the CONSOLE
GATED Big Four lines remaining there until
Baltimore & Ohio.
General passenger agents of Illinois lines
nave agreed on rate of / cent a mile from
al parts of the State to Chattanooga. Tenn,
ano return on the occasion of the dedica-
ton or the Illinois monuments on the Chick
amauga battle field Nov.23 Governor Tan
ner and his staff and the Board of Illinois
commission ers will attend the ceremonies,
teaving Chicago on special train over the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Nov. 49, A large
delegauon will also go from Chicago.
The Pennsylyania Railroad, the Southern
Railway, the Florida East Coast Railway
system, the Atlantic Coast line, the Nor
folk Western and the Chesapeake &
Ohio have arranged their winter Schedule
for Southern business through to Port
Tampa. 1t IS thought the schedule as now
arranged will be the most satisfactory to
est In the business this year is due to the
opening up OF Cuba as a resort for winter.
NOV 10 application blanks for joint annual
clergy certificates emitting the holders to
reduced rates accorded clergymen by the
lines of the Central Passenger Association
In the coming year will be in the hands of
the various ticket agents. Beginning Jan
l there will be issued to clergymen a book
containing one hundred consecutively num-
bered requests for clergy tickets, one of
which the holder of the certificate will be
REQUIRED to sign and deliver to the ticket
agent for each ticket purchased.
IT is announced that, commencing Dec 10
1899. the Southern Railway Company will
operate through train service over it's new
line via Columbia, Perry, Blackville and AL
lendale, 5. c., to Savannah, Ga. It's through
car service will be operated i'm connection
with the Plant system south of Savannah
and the Florida East Coast Railway to
points on the east coast of Florida, where
direct connections to Key West Fla,
Havana. Cuba, and Nassau. n. p. via
Miami. Fla, will be made with the Florida
Fast Coast steamship line, and in con-
nection with the Plant system south of
savannah to other points in Florida, in
Guiding points On the west coast.