The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-26

Inc result or this suit Will be awaited with
interest. 1t is understood that the Penn
sylvania Railroad regards a victory for the
minority stockholders as out OF the question.
counsel of the minority stock expresses con- con-
sustain Its view.
PERSONAL, Local and Genera Notes.
NJ. q. ingalls,, president of the Big Four,
has returned from the East.
T.. Dickinson, forinertS "A locomotive en-
gineer on the West Shora. has been apraint-
ed master mechanic of the Rutland X Ga.
madam road.
at the grounds no carloads Of stock. ma
chinery, etc., forty-two more than for the
fair last year.
General Manager Pomeroy: of the New
York Central fast freight lines, was In
the city yesterday, en- route from ST. Louis
to Cincinnati.
On Sunday the Louisville division of the
Pennsylvania lines took out of Indianap-
son and ten for Louisville.
The official classification committee will
meet in New York. Oct. IL, to draft the
new and amended classification rule, to take
effect the first of next year.
Alex. PERKS, a colonel in the British army,
stationed Mt Lucknow: India. is in the city
visiting his sister. wife of Passenger Con-
ductor McGill, of the Big Four.
The Chesapeake & Ohio is erecting at
Newport News a grain elevator costing
S5e0.O0 and ar eleva ed structural work n
INiCfIlOIlO, Nd., COStiIlB SIfJvpfVv.
Harlow G. Voorhees,, son of first Vice Pres
ident Theodore Voorhees,. has been appointed
| freight agent of the Philadelphia & Read
ing. with headquarters at New York.
diana, Decatur & Western lines. who has
been resting at Port Byron, N. Y, for a
couple of weeks, will reach home this
morning.
1t is stated that the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul has dcci'ied 10 buIld the shors
cutoff from Storm lake to the Iowa & Da-
kota division at Rock valley. 1t will require
the construction of eighty miles of new
road.
A circular will be issued to-day appointing
Frederick Zimmerman general Eastern
headquarters in Buffalo. Mr.. Zimmerman is
promoted from a clerkship in the general
offices.
Employees of he L~ackawanna object to be-
before the attorney general of New York,
who decides that payment in checks Is not
in compliance with the law and that en-
ployes must be paid in cash.
An Eastern financial paper says the fall
gre to place young Cornelius Vanderbilt in
the directorate of the New York Central
Is construed as indicating that William X.
Vanderbilt is to have general control of all
the Vanderbilt interests in future.
Freight officials in Buffalo have been
COO sssf Baskets * S,o Of On grapes rap sIa1 Whieh VIII iii If "a about bout
400 cars. The shipments are from the
BToekton district, ~ Y The grapes are
II h ~ TIC aS kd1 dS ShN u
The Republican Iron and Steel Company
has dismantled one of its mills at Alexan-
dria. Ind. and will ship the old material to
carloads and there is quite a strife between
ness.
Coal operators on the Indianapolis &
Vfncennes complain of the trouble they ex-
perience in getting coal cars. 1t is stated
that they would load fifty 10 seventy-five
S Sas a more a b day We're ' rs they furnished rhsh This his
operators on the Indianapolis & Vincennes.
After all the buster about the Monon
stock changing hands but 3.120 shares have
been sold lin the last three days and the
stock is dropping back to the old figures.
Tn control of the property Will not change
hands. said one of the high officials. unless
some syndicate wants it bad enough to pay
the owners figures.
Indications low are that the controversy
between the Chicago e Southeastern and
two land owners near Muncie. which de-
adjusted this week. The company has de-
cided to brild its roundhouse and has pur-
chased ground; but has done nothing as to
a passenger station.
The fight between Memphis and Burline-
ton roads over Kansas City-Omaha differ
entails has been called off. the presidents OF
the roads aking a hand in the matter. AS
a result notice is given of the cancellation,
on Oct. /. of all packing house rates from
Omaha to Memphis and points beyond.
The Vandalia claims TO have the fastest
freight service. size of train considered.
The train Is hauled by one of the ~ten-wheel
freight engines adapted TO either freight or
passenger service. hauling thirty loaded
cars to a train, leaving indianapolis at I
p. m. and reaching st. Louis at $50 a. m,
covering the 20 miles in ten hours and fifty
minutes.
An Eastern paper says that In the event
of Vice President Hall receiving the pref
sTeMef Haven tGT rhe & pTHss artfofS IT # r Need N not f be- :
surprise If General Manager Stevens. of the
Chesapeake & Ohio. is induced to go with
the New Haven road. although Mr.. Stevens
emphatically says he has no intention OF
making such a change.
The loaded car movement on the Big
-Four system Is nov ayer glng 100 a day
out any congestion. superintendent
Houghton. of the Chicago division. reports
an easing up in the car situation which
its orders for empty cars; still. at way
stations. much complaint is heard.
The Lackawanna proposes to get he goot
will of editors Of newspapers along its line
and to that end has extended TO them fret
transportation to witness the Dewey parade
on Friday next. General Passenger Agen
Lee says: 1T is hoped that those who &C
cept this invitation may not only enjoy tn,
spectacle of the parade. but also the good
fellowship resulting from a reunion O.
neighborly workers"
been stirred up over the announcement tina
Western lines are just now seriously think
Ing or dDOllSn1ng Tree passes turing IN,
year. This Is an old, time-hOnOred prOiec
and should not cause needless alarm. The
pass system has no good reason for it
existence. but it's adjustment is a thing O
the remote future. Let Us hear something
about advancing rates"
The rush of the excursion business nov
being over the Big Four yesterday com,
menced taking its passenger coaches into
the shops at Brightwood at the rate of five
at a time for repainting and general re
pairs. About twenty-five of the best coach
es will be remodelel and made full vesti
bule. The company now has several full
vestibuled passenger trains and they ar,
appreciated by the travelling public.
The fast passenger engine of the Monon
No. Ill, came out of the shops at Lafayette
last week. being overhauled and seventy
four-inch driving wheels put under it. Thi:
engine made its first run over the Monor
with the fast express. June rs. 1897. Up Il
Sept. 1, 1899. IL had made a trip over the
road every day and about two-thirds o.
the time has doubled the road. running
$50 miles I'm the twenty-four hours. This
General Superintendent Lowell says, is
record II will be difficult to excel.
The newest railway employees co-cpera
tive institution has been started by the cot
ton-belt men. the employees going iLto tn,
banking business. intending to ray e-pecia
attention to savings deposits. An office will
he opened at Pine Bluff. Ark, n capital G
$500. 600 Is authorized. AMI IF TITS am nv
s112.0O has been paid in almost exclusivel,
by employees of the Cotton-5elt read. 1t i
proposed to pay 4 per cent. annually On tim,
investments. r. NJ. Golbraith is presiden