The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-24

ing a couple of weeks in this state and
Kentucky. hunting and fishing, has re-
turned 10 Philadelphia.
The roads In the Western Freight AS
soSlation interested in the controversy over
diferential rates on packing house prod
ucts from Kansas City and Omaha have
voted 70 settle the question by arbitration
as nrst proposed by the Burlington.
The asking for a receiver for the Column
Dus; Lima q Milwaukee. which for seV-
eral years has been slowly making its way
from northern Ohio to the center of Ohio,
IL Is tnoEght Is a setback to the enter
prise which ii viii be long in overcoming.
On Dec. l W. d. HuIburt. general freight
agent or the Illinois Central. with head
Suar1sFs at LoulsVilIe, VIII oe succesnr.
Of the Illinois Central ard Yazoo & MlssIs-
sippi Valley. with headquarters at New
Orleans.
district passenger agent Of the Great North
ern, with headquarters AT Pittsburg.. Mr..
Williams is but twenty-five years Of age
and has been looking after the emigrant
business Of the Great Northern at Phila-
delphia.
Harry ]. Lawrence has been appointed
traffic manager Of the Pittsburg Coal Com
pany. which does a business Of s64,000.CO a
year. Mr.. Lawrence was formerly general
agent OF the Lake Shore road and later gen.
etal freight agent Of the Carnegie Steel
Company.
One of the new passenger engines on the
Philadelphia & Reading on Monday hauled
a ten-coach train from Camden TO Atlantic
City In forty-seven minutes: distance. nfty-
five and one-half miles. This was an aver
age speed Of ~ffty-one seconds a mile. or
10.6 miles per hour.
IT is stated that the position Of chief en-
gineer of the Monon will be filed by promo
ton of one of the assistant engineers. who
are A. 5. Kent. chief engineer of the lines
between Indianapolis and Chicago, and w.
A wallace, engineer of the line between
Louisville and Monon.
Information is at hand 10 the effect that
the Detroit & Lima Northern will be alb
which owns and has consolidated the Flint
~ Pere Marquette with the Chicago X West
Michigan and the Detroit, Grand Rapids q
western under the title of the Pere Mar
quette system.
George Lowell. general superintendent. of
the Monon lines. says the road is crowded
with business. Shipments of stone from the
Bedford quarries are now ranging from
seventy to eighty carloads a day, and a con-
siderable part of the shipments go to New
York and New England points. Orders yet
TO be filled i'm this line OF traffic will reach
well into the winter.
General Manager F. C. Hills. of the Sioux
City, Neil & Western Railroad. died yes
terday at Sioux City, Ia, of arsenic poison
ing. he having eaten breakfast food in which
the drug had been mixed for the purpose
of killing rats and which was used by mis-
AXE; Mr.. Hills was an old railroad man
and had been connected with Western roads
since the sixties He was an old soldier
and a thirty-third degree Mason.
At Portland. Me-. yesterday. Judge Strout
gave a hearing in chambers on the petition
OF the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad for the
appointment of an ancillary receiver for the
Atlantic Shore Transportation Company.
The petition was opposed by the Western
National Bank. OF New York. which has a
Atlantic Company's fleet. After a hearing
the petition was granted and Francis Sway
zcy, OF New York, was appointed receiver.
Winter schedules for Florida and Ha-
vana. as well as all other Southern points,
went into effect on the Queen & Crescent,
in conjunction with the Southern Railway
and other connecting lines, yesterday. The
ice this year will be something never be-
fore equaled. There will be three through
sleeping car lines between Cincinnati and
Florida points, with two daily fast trains
to Jacksonville, one twenty-four hours and
the other twenty-six hours en- route.
Through sleepers will be run to Jackson
VILE. Tampa. to New Orleans. Chattanooga,
Atlanta, Birmingham, Knoxville. Asheviiie,
Columbia, s. c., and Savannah. Night
trains will carry free reclining chair cars.
A battle Of locomotives is the exciting
point of friendly rivalry now agitating
the Lake Shore and New York Central
railway systems, both Vanderbilt proper-
ties. and giant engines Of prodigious
strength ard wondrous speed are hauling
each doing its utmost to ~outstrip the
other and at the same time to draw a
longer string of cars. One of these moguls
on the New York Central hauled a train
which was more than q quarter of a mile
I'm .ength from New York TO Albany. 143
miles. recently, in three hours and fifteen
minutes. General Passenger Agent Daniels
has exploited the run extensively and mas
laid particular stress on the size of the
engine that pulled the train.