The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-11-17

run as extras, and the moment a train is
made up 10 go out ii is dispatched.
Railroads OF the Western Passenger As
sociation yesterday formally decided not
TO authorize the granting OF cent-a-mile
rate for the proposed encampment OF
the Grand Army of the Republic. at Den
Yer, next August. Unless the veterans back
down from their stand. Cleveland IN all
probability will be the location of the
thirty-hfth annual encampment.
Robert E. Hamill, general attorney of the
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway.
n hose headquarters Were in Cincinnati
died on Friday night at Phoenix. A t.
after lingering illness. Hamill was forty
five years old, born in Alabama, graduated
from McKendry College at Marshall. ILL.,.
and practiced law there until 1897, when
he went to Springfield. Ill, and was asso-
ciated with John NJ. Palmer in the law
practice
Sidney Van Dusen, secretary and treas
urer OF the Travelling Passenger Agents
Association, has named the following as
committee on arrangements for the next
annual meeting at Los Angeles, Cal: The
chairman Of the committee is =. r. FitZ-
gerald, Of the Texas Pacific; the other
members are James Gass. of the Wabash;
u. T. Swan. Of the Denver q Rio Grande:
George T. Gunnip, of the Santa Re, and
X. G. Haase, of the Baltimore * Ohio
Freight officials at Chicago believe that
the arrangements entered into by the Illi-
nois Central railroad and two steamship
lines. which operate between London and
New Orleans and Hull and the Louisiana
of Western rates. The arrangements will
give the Illinois Central an opportunity
To do its own export business, and that
road will make a strong effort to secure
for the London line the packing-house bus
mess of Kansas City, which has been
strongly competed for for many years. In
the past the competition for this traffic
has been attended by almost constant rate
decentralization.
What is regarded by freight officials as
one of the biggest contracts for the trans
portatfon OF lumber ever let in this coun-
try has been secured by the Northern Pa
cific Railway Company. Arrangements
have been made whereby the Northern Pa
cific will carry 90,0O0,0OO feet of logs from
Cloquet in the northern part of Minnesota,
to Saltwater, Mimi, where the logs will be
thrown into the Mississippi river and
driven down To Muscatine, Ia, where the
Muscatine Lumber Company will convert
them into lumber. The contract calls for
the delivery of the logs within three years.
The logs will be carried over the Duluth
Short-line TO Bald Eagle, where they will
be switched to the Saltwater branch.
Mr.. William w. Ray has resigned his
position as chief train dispatcher of the
Vandalia line and will hereafter devote his
entire time to his commercial interests
He has purchased the entire interest in the
Marion County Coal Company, of Indian
apolis, and the Central Coal Company, of
Terre Haute. MIR. Ray entered the service
OF the Vandalia line July /, 1881, accept
ing a position as operator in the Office of
Mr.. Joseph Hill, general superintendent
He had previously been employed as OPP
orator on the Pennsylvania lines. In Feb
ruary. 1882, he was made train dispatcher
at Terre Haute which position he held un-
I'll Sept. Is, 1884. when he was made chief
train dispatcher for the main line division.
His railroad work has been of such high
order that his superior officers very much
regret TO have him leave the service