The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-06


SITUATION promises 10 grow worse and an
open cut by some OF the lines is likely 10
DC maze unless an agreement Is reached.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
AT the Panhandle shops the men are now
gwen half holiday on Saturday on alter
nate weeks.
1t is stated that the Lake Shore and Mich
Igan Central will each this month be in the
market for fifteen passenger locomotives.
In May there were handled at the Union
station baggage rooms 50, 246 pieces of bag
gage. against 1855 in May 1898; increase
this year, $3.50 pieces.
On July the headquarters of the Nation
al Dispatch fast freight line will be removed
from Boston TO Buffalo and placed in charge
OF General Manager Charles A. Hayes.
The broom corn raisers of Illinois will to-
Gay make trip over the Indiana Decatur
| < Western and the Cincinnati. Hamilton &
Dayton TO Cincinnati on a special train
President Thomas, of the Erie lines, de-
| MES the report that the company proposes
TO build direct line from Cleveland to Ma
rion to connect with the Chicago & Erie.
| General Passenger Agent Davis, of the
/ Grand Trunk. with all of his subordfnates,
including travelling passenger agents, yes
terday left Toronto on weeks fishing and
1 hunting trip.
eTal ticket agent at the Union Station.
SHOWS the receipt from sales of tickets in
| May to have been s14,s5I.20 in excess of
tf'ose of May, 1898.
| Ohio the first ten months of it's present
| fiscal year show an increase over the cor
| responding period of 1898 of $1O3,O11 and a
| net increase OF S62,503.
1 K indianapolis leased lines for the month
| of May were s2S5, $3.50, decrease of 81
| ST.17. and of the Terre Haute q Logans-
port s6O,1l9-e4. an increase of 50. 1915.
| Charles Cory. superintendent of motive
rover of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day
| ton. is in the city looking after the rebuild
II N n$ - ~ @ II
| the Indiana. Decatur & Western shops.
| Sunday was busy day at the Union Sta
| ton. In addition to the regular train serv-
were brought in on special trains. and for
| tty-two coaches left the station in the morn
| ing.
| F. w Brazier. who succeeds s. A. Crone
as assistant superintendent of the New York
Central. held similar position with the
| Illinois Central in 1896 and for seventeen
| road.
! The railroads centering in Boston. the
/ New York, New Haven & Hartford lead
/ Ing, have taken concerted action against
4 granting passes to the aldermen of Boston
/ and their friends, as they have abused the
| privileges.
| George Haylor. district passenger agent
l of the Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton and
! natl yesterday to confer with Passenger
/ Traffic Manager Edwards on questions per-
| tanning to summer travel.
II "A. "A. VI. Young, VINO lew months ago
l resigned as assistant general freight agent
| of the Lake Erie & Western TO become gen.
eral freight agent of the American Tin-plate
Company. Is said to be making an excellent
I record in his new position.
]. A. Barnard. general manager of the
| Peoria e. Eastern. and his brother. the en-
sineer Of MAINTENANCE of OF way OF the In
/ turned last evening from a few days visit
to their father in St. Joseph. Mo.
Andy Walker. the oldest engineer in time
IN Ix.1t
spoiis division of the Vandaiia. was taken
| i'll on Friday at the Sherman House, and
| yesterday 1t developed TO be typhoid fever.
He was removed at once 10 his home In
Terre Haute.
Laborers. watchmen and gate-tenders on
the Delaware. Lackawanna Western road
| had their pay reduced to 81 per day. and
| there is a good deal of III feeling over the
matter on the part of the employees and
4 patrons of the road.
| again strike. When the men reported
| for duty yesterday they were refused tools
and were told that they would have to APP
| ply for positions the same as any outsider,
i as they had been discharged. This the men
| refused to do and the strike was declared en-
again.
| the Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburg trains
| would be running into Pittsburg by July /.
Recent movements of the Baltimore & Ohio
| indicate that IL will be otherwise: The lat
| ter is said to be in position to dictate the
| policy of the Pittsburg & Western. over
whose tracks the B., r. & P. expected TO
| get into Pittsburg.
j. l. Smyser. late president of the Ohio
| Falls car works, at Jeffersonville, Ind, sold
his stock on a basis of l4l for both com
| money in purchasing the Equitable build
ing at Louisville. KY. Within the last four
months stock of the Ohio Falls car works.
| now owned by the American Car and Foun-
dry Company, was selling at 80.
The Baltimore & Ohio under the direction
1 OF Charles Selden, superintendent OF its tele-
| graph system. is experimenting in the mat
ter of transmission of telephone messages
| over regular working telegraph lines. He
| claims to have succeeded in establishing
| Washington from the Baltimore offices, and
| he thinks IL can be done to Pittsburg and
| Cincinnati with some slight changes.
Freight rates east and west bound are
| now so we'll maintained that IL is feared
| the order to advance class rates % per cent.
from the Atlantic seaboard to points in the
Northwest on June 20 viii be s an entering
said to be considerably disturbed over the
matter. Prediction is made that the advance
will never become effective and that freight
| rates by all-flil lines are now as hign as
| they ever will be.
Conductors on the Michigan division of
the Vandalia. the old Terre Haute * Lo-
gansport road, have an excellent staying
record. A j. Knapp has heen on the line
between Terre Haute and I.ogansport twen-
X-seven years as a passenger condHctqr'
Murray twenty-four years and j. W. Cas-
key twenty-five years, and all are very
competent men in handling trains and max
ing proper returns.
| Last month the Union Pacific received
from the Brooks locomotive works four
monster freight locomotives. and this month
Will receive four more of the ss.rI.e type The
weight of the engine is 1856 600 pounds. 167. 0oS
pounds resting on the driving wheels OF
which there are six fifty-seven inches In
diameter. The boiler carries pressure of 20.
| POUNDS 10 the square inch. The engine has
2s2 two-inch fiues and the firehoX has a
heating surface of 1000 square feet.
The Edgar Thomson steel works are fill
ing an order for the Baltimore a Ohio for
| one thousand tons OF steel rails of new
design. which IL is believed will lessen the
! wear grades and curVeS and give longer