The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-10

On Sunday the Cincinnati Northern will
establish double daily passenger train serv-
vision
The receipts from sales of tickets at the
union station on Massachusetts avenue for
the year 1893 were 16 per cent. in excess of
those of 1897.
w. A. Cox, general agent of the Chicago
d Northwestern for central Ohio, has been
in the city for few days coming here to
attend the funeral of his mother.
G. l.. Peck, superintendent of the Pitts
burg division of the Panhandle lines ac-
companied by his wife has gone to San
Diego TO be absent several weeks.
Sidney Van Dusen. travelling passenger
be married on Feb. II. and his friends in
Pittsburg on Wednesday night gave him
banquet
The Big Four expects to have its new
passenger station at Terre Haute ready for
occupancy by May /. The rooms are ready
for plastering and the eighty-foOt tower is
nearly finished.
Private advices received in New York
state that the suit brought by the State of
Texas for the forfeiture of the charter of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, of Texas
has been settled out of court.
Oscar c. Murray, who is on a Western
trip, says the rate situation is now better
than It has been for many years. and the
3. < o. officials, well officials of COM
peting lines, are well pleased.
The Wabash is so pressed with business
that II has leased from the Big Four four
freight locomotives, from the Monon two
and from the Cincinnati Northern two for
service between Peru and Detroit.
w. l.. Mitchell, agent of the Pittsburg
Fort Wayne & Chicago who died a few
days ago from the effects of a mad dogs
bite, has been succeeded as agent at Shields
by his widow. Mrs Nora Mitchell
An official of the Wabash writes the
Wabash has more freight offered than it
can handle and the road is now in the mar
ket for twelve more heavy freight loco
motives to clear the congested sidetracks.
The Wabash has purchased at Peru a
large tract of land which ii will utilize for
additional tracks at that point, the present
yards not being of sufficient capacity now
. that Andrews mas been abandoned as a di-
vision point
The Golden Gate special of the Pennsyl-
vania road left New York on Wednesday
with over one hundred tourists in charge
of Tourist Agent Murphy. The tour covers
thirty-hve days, nineteen of which will be
spent i'm California.
Mechanics and machinists employed in the
shops of the Wabash at Fort Wayne who
have been with the company more than one
year have been notified of an increase in
wages of from TO TO is per cent, according
TO the term OF service.
The pay rolls of the Panhandle and the
Pittsburg. Fort Wayne q Chicago for jan
uary are the largest in the history of either
line Some Of the engineers will draw for
their months service SIRE to $173, and some
OF the conductors $50.
The consolidation of the West Shore and
the New York Central places General Pas
senger Agent Daniels: who, after April /,
Will be passenger traffic manager, in a posi-
ton TO carry out his policy Of "a common
time and common fare
Albert s. White formerly general freight
agent of the Big Four. now freight traffic
manager of the American Tobacco Com
pany, who came West to attend the funeral
OF Mrs. Cox. his wifes mother, returned
yesterday 10 New York
T 3. Blackstone, president of the Chi
cage a Alton. in thirty years of railroad
service has never accepted a pass for any
member of his family from any road and
tion Of president OF that road.
{. ID. Simonson. who has represented the
Santa Fe lines in New York, has resigned