The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-21

Crescent were distributed. conductors and
engineers making the best record receiving
$40 and fremen $50.
Oscar Murray. vice president of the Balti-
more q OHIO, has issued a circular Announce
Ing the retention of all employees who were
In the service during the receivershlps oy
the new company.
The second week In August the Big Four
over the corresponding week Of 1898 or
S~6.SS2.lS. The first two weeks of August the
lines earned 1854, 064.6s.
The rate war that was imminent among
the lines in the Central Freight Association
over the flour rate, st. Louis TO New YORK,
mas ended, the ST. Louis lines having with
drawn the reduced tariff.
The Illinois Central, the Mobile G. Ohio,
the Louisville & Nashville and the New
Orleans & Northeastern have fixed upon
august 20 to run their annual excursion TO
Chicago from Southern points.
c. c. Clarke has succeeded Theodore F.
Brown as passenger representative of the
Big -Four. at Chattanooga. Mr.. Brown, who
%retires. has been with the Big Four as
travelling passenger agent twenty years.
An official circular announces that W. A.
Of the Philadelphia division Of the Phila-
delphia & Reading. Mr.. Garrett was for
some years a division superintendent on the
of like mileage can there be found as many
veterans at the throttleS of the engines
hauling the fast trains as on the Panhandle.
and many of them have won laurels in max
Ing fast runs.
A. j. Corbett. grand junior conductor Of
the Order of Railway Conductors, who re-
sides at Nashville. Tenn, is visiting various
lodges in Indiana and Ohio, making adj
dresses and increasing the interest in the
organization.
The Panhandle statement for July will be
given out this week, and will show that for
July the gross earnings increased over July
1898, $4,000. and net earnings Sill, 900. For
the seven months the gross increase was
$A7,00 and the net $4e0. 800.
Last week the laying Of a second track on
the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne G. Chicago be-
tween Lima and Fort Wayne was begun,
and the Improvement is now to be pushed.
Within twelve months the greater portion
or this road will be double tracked.
Colonel Samuel Moody. assistant general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines
west, Is again confined at his home at Bea-
x ssy f his illness Rg Illness IS not The Of r q sefians
nature. and is due largely to overwork.
The passenger and transportation officials
or the ~Pennsylvania lines west are preparing
q fast train schedule between Cleveland and
CINCINNATI, TO be put In operation as soon as
the condition OF the Cleveland, Akron &
Columbus division will admit of fast service.
The management of the Baltimore & Ohio
Is planning to continue the betterments to
the property. improvements are now
planned which will cost 100000 or more.
During the receivership s35. 900. 900 was ex-
Pehueu OH the roduDed ana Tor new equip
ment.
& Dayton lines at this point, says the COM
pany expects TO get into its new depot
iS and Mpv a large a. T }arce st stone Sricki f0unda ii sroo is
ing the walls. The building will extend from
New Jersey TO East street.
Passenger officials Of the leading roads
nave settled a question that has been vex-
ing traffic men for years, and have agreed
that hereafter, when temporarily reduced
rates are given on any occasion, children
between five and twelve years of age will
be carried at half the reduced rates.
The annual convention of the American
Association of Travelling Passenger, Agents
at Denver, Sept. 10, 20 and q, promises to be
the most interesting in the career of the or
ganization. The opening address will be
made by +. ;. Eustice, general passenger
agent Of the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy.
1t is claimed that the new passenger en-
gines on the Pittsburg & Lake Erie could
readily make the run with the heavy ex-
press trains between Pittsburg and Cleve-
land in two hours and fifty minutes. The
tanks are of such capacity that the run
could be made without taking fuel or water
en- route.
1t is stated that continued mutterings OF
discomfort are heard along the line Of the
L~ackawanna road. Sc far as the trainmer
are concerned it will probably result in the
the per diem system of paying, as on the
Chicago a. Rock Island, the line from which
President Truesdale went East.
Col. G.. A. Dean. land commissioner Of the
Missouri Pacific Railway, says the shifting
movement OF people in search of homes
from the West and Northwest to the South.
west is remarkable. The climate of Arkan.
sas and other Southwestern territory is at
tracing more people every year. Land car
be bought in Arkansas at prices which at.
tract many. Large deposits of zinc ore are
being located, and all over the State there
and other industries are being located.