The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-13
the law

Indianapolis last week 4.ss4 loaded cars, sol
Iss Sre Tnan IN the iGiorCespGndng week Oh
| 1.1Ss
The vandalia handled at indianapolis last
| week 2SSS loaded cars. 297 more than in the
| corresponding week of 1888. The road
| brought in from the west 1,457 and for
warded west LOCI loaded cars. OF the in
| bound movement 1l5 cars were loaded with
| live stock.
Chief Engineer Kittredge. Of the Big
| -Four. has asked agents at stations on the
| lines to take more interest in making the
| surroundings Of the depots more attractive
by sodding and flower beds where ii can
| readily be done
Charles r. Van Etten. general manager Of
| from that position Saturday and the opera
ton Of the road has been placed in the
hands of j. S. Barrow, general passenger
and freight agent.
The Big Four will, as its coaches go
| through the shops, provide the newest and
| best OF them with full vestibule intending
TO have all its through trains between Cin-
| cinnatf and Chicago and Cleveland and St.
| Louis full vestibuled.
The high waters at Cincinnati last week
! made bad work for the Big -Four in hand
| ling it's business. These lines owing to this
! trouble handled at Indianapolis last week
! but S,49s loaded cars, 1,i64 fewer than In the
! corresponding week of 1898.
| Within the next twelve months three hun
| dred miles of the Baltimore q, Ohio South
western will be laid with steel rails weigh
/
| early as possible the track from Cincinnati
| TO Aurora will be doubled.
The directors Of the Pittsburg, Youngs-
! town * Ashtabula, a Pennsylvania Com
pany interest, have declared a 31b-per-cent
serni-annual dividend on the preferred stock
ana a S-peT-cent dividend on the common
| stock, payable March %.
1t is stated that no road in the Central
franc Association territory has profited
more by the restoration and maintenance
! OF rates than the Monon lines, these lines
| every week since the reform became ef-
year.
W. c. Colburn, president of the Detroit
Bridge and Iron Company and interested in
Detroit yesterday The wife of c. O. Waldo,
| general manager of the Cincinnati, Hamil-
| deceased.
Charles Hine. trainmaster of the Big Four.
| contributes a very readable article to the
March Century entitled Notes from Ex-
perience OF Perils in Railway Service" con-
trasting the perils of military life and rail-
| way service. Mr.. Hine served with the
United States regulars in the Cuban cam
| paign.
Louis Webb. recently appointed chief
clerk OF d. G. Edwards, passenger traffic
manager of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Day
ton lines, represented the g.. II. & D.
at the meeting of passenger. officials in Chi
impression. Mr. Webb is an expert in rate
matters.
A conflict of authority has arisen over the
recently published statement concerning the
date OF the first locomotive run into Altoona
Feb. ., 1S04, was given the time, but this
has stirred up good deal of discussion. IL
Is now claimed that the run was made in
1917, put no change has been made in the
other figures.
1t was rumored that the Pennsylvania divi-
dend Will be increased from to 6 per cent.
The company's annual report was looked on
as extraordinarily good This is true how
ever, only in comparison with other roads
and not with its own history. Gross earn
in6S showed an increase OF about ST. $50 OO0
but net increased only 100000.
II. NJ Bronson, assistant general passen-
ger agent or the Big -Four, on Saturday
received letter from b. F. Kelsey. city
ticket agent who was expected home last
week, saying that the weather in North
Carolina had been such that he had re-
manned longer than he had expected to when
leaving six weeks ago, but he now ex-
pected to be at Indianapolis tomorrow.
The Erie officials say that within a few
weeks they will. for the first time since the
division was built, be able to secure di-
rect entrance into Springfield. This is TO be
accomplished in conjunction with the Penn
sylvania lines and the Ohio Southern and
will be effective as soon as the new pas
senger station, which is now in progress,
Is erected. The three lines will form a belt
line of the town.
The Fitchburg road is receiving special at
tention just now because OF the reiterated
assertions, first, that it is about to pass into
the Vanderbilt system, and, secondly, that
new president is coming out of the West
The Fitchburg development has been from
little local road OF ninety-three miles in
1873 with average freight rates OF cents
per ton per mile. to a line of ass miles in
1885, with a ton mile rate of S4 mills. 1t
Is more decidedly than any other New Eng
land road freight rather than a passenger
road.
F. Ingalls, president of the Big Four and the
Chesapeake & Ohio, arrived here yesterday
In his private car. The members of the par
ingalls, Mr. and Mrs. n. II. Davis and Miss
Harrison all of Cincinnati The Wander
bilt special train of four cars arrived here
W. X. Vanderbilt Fl. W Mcvicker and
wife. o: Harrison, jr.. and wife, T. s. Taller
and wife, Robert Bacon, L. Jacobs jr., and
w. s. Hoyt."
With the first of next week the Panhandle
VIII resume double-track work on the Pitts
burg division in the vicinity of West La
The work is quite extensive and will ma
terially extend the rapidly growing double
track system Of the PittsbUrg division.
Grading was commenced last fall, but the
work was interfered with by the advent Of
winter. This Improvement is in addition 10
the eight miles of double track which will
be completed the coming summer west of
Columbus on the Indianapolis division, in
Guiding renewal Of the Scioto river bridge
Presidents Truesdale and Canniff practic-
ally admit that arrangements are under way
for the formation OF a traffic agreement be-
tween the Lackawanna and Nickel-plate
f f6a IL Is not generally orally known that If
crate through New York-Chicago trains
they will be enabled TO make good time |
The mileage of the two roads is shorter |
than any other between the two Cities and
with a nine or ten-hour train on the Lack
awanna and twelve-hOur train on the |
west-bound line Neutrality-suspicious. service |
would be possible. Nickel-plate operating |
officials believe that they can run one train |
each way daily in twelve hours.
The Burlington route announces additional |
Improvements in its passenger service from |
st. Louis and Kansas City TO the far North |
west. 1t inausurate on March IL through |
firSt-class daily sleeping-car service from st. |
Louis. Kansas City and ST. Joseph to Butte |
March Is through tourist sleepng-car service |
every Wednesday from ST. Louis, and on |
March IA and every Tuesday and Thursday |
thereafter from Kansas City and st. Joseph |
to Seattle Puget sound, Washington and |
Montana territory, VIA the same route. This |
Is the first through service to be estab- |
hshed between the southern gateways of st. |
Louis and Kansas City and Montana and |
Puget-sound territory.
A decision sustaining the legality Of the |
so-called BLACKLIST against railway en-
ployes has been rendered by Judge Evans, |
at Columbus, o. A brakeman in the en- |
ploy OF the Pennsylvania lines was dis |
charged on account OF a freight wreck, for |
which he claimed he was not responsible. |
The company refused to give him clearance |
papers, by reason OF which. he claims. he |
was unable TO secure employment on any |
other road. He alleged that all trunk lines |
are in a combination and pledged not to en- |
ploy any railroad man unless he has clear |
ance The company flied a demurrer 70 |
the petition, which was sustained by Judge |