The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-25

Cleveland, for the opening of the Office of
the Western general freight traffic manager
of the Erie. which will be presided over by
G.. @. Cochran.
The first Of the new type of large pas
senger engines on an order for five given
by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois arrived
on Saturday They are TO haul the through
fast express trains.
On June % the Pennsylvania will put on a
line of through sleeping cars from Pitts
burg 10 Atlantic City. Train 2. leaving In
dianapolis at 7:15 a m, makes an excel
lent connection with the new line.
The Panhandle freight and ticket agency
at Honey Creek. Henry county, Indiana,
viii be abolished July l and John SharkeS
agent, will be transferred to Eaton, o.
Honey Creek Will become a flag station
only.
Contractors have taken up the task of
figuring to bid on the construction OF the
great new union station and ONCE building
of the Pennsylvania Railroad system at
Pittsburg. Bids are TO be received till next
Wednesday.
On Saturday on the Indiana, Decatur &
Western a train of thirty-seven stock and
refrigerator cars. hauled by two locomo-
tives. made the run from Decatur TO In
d~ianapolis In less than eight hours-dis-
lance 155 miles.
Closing the city freight depots at 4 p. m.
on Saturdays and at 5 p. m. other week
days is pronounced a success. now that all
roads are in the movement, and shippers
are as much pleased with the reform as
are the railway employees.
President Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania
lines. who was to have sailed for Europe
some time in July. 1t is thought that some
big railway deals are still pending which
led him 10 postpone his trip.
The reorganization committee of the To-
ledo, St. Louis & Kansas City gives notice
that the time for the deposit of the pre-
farrn6 and nrnpnnn stool has hQan Qx-
tended to July l6, after which date no stock
will be received without payment of pen
atty.
On Friday. July 10, the stockholders of
the Cleveland, Akron q Columbus, now
part of the Pennsylvania lines west, will
meet to consider the action of the directors
in creating a loan of $4,000, 600, most of
which will be expended In bringing the road
and its equipment up to a high standard
The City Council of Richmond has taken
action that makes it probable the city will
secure a new depot from the Panhandle
Company. The matter has hinged on the
vacation of a certain important street, to
which the Council has finally agreed. The
company expects TO expend 10000 In con-
verting the present depot into a modern
structure.
The Vandalia Company on Friday gave
Rev. Arthur Yeomans. who lost a foot last
February when put off a train between
G~reencastle and Reelsville, $1,000 in cash,
although the company was not thought to
be liable. and a pass to St. Louis. The
company left ii to three men as 10 what
was fair i'm the case and they suggested
the mode of settlement.
The Chicago Great Western reports gross
earnings for May of SOS, 491, an increase of
$50, ~ as compared with the same month of
last year. and net $751;, 977, an increase of
$50, 404. For the eleven months ending May
81. the gross earnings were $6.167. $50. an in
crease of $S24,5S0 as compared with the
corresponding period of last year, and net
$2.051.345. an increase of S2sl.329.
1t is settled that the Big Four will for
its present fiscal year show an increase of
s3.O0O.O 900 over the corresponding period of
the previous year, as at the close of the
second week of Jun since July l it had
earned S15,9 40, an increase over the
OF $2,947, 1s9, and there will be the increase
of the last two weeks of June to add.
Information has been sent out from Gen.
trail Passenger Association and Western
Passenger Association territory to the ef-
feet that ministers permits, emitting the
holder to a rate of half fare. will be with
drawn after the first of July. 1t is under
stood that the same rule will apply to
others engaged in religious work. who here
tofore have been granted a similar conces-
sion upon the part of railroads.
NJ. 8. Connors, general superintendent of
the Hooking Valley Railway, gives notice
of a number of changes in the transporta-
ton department. to take effect this month.
L. b. Porter was appointed agent for the
company at Glen Roy, Ohio, vice +. w.
Everett, transferred. S. It. Rathburn. has
been appointed agent for the ompany at
Hobson, Ohio, vice NJ. III. KanOde, trans
ferred; j. c. Atkinson resigned the agency
at Minerton, o., and j.. G.. Blore has been
appointed agent for the company at that
point.
There are LOO employees of the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois and quite a number Of
the employees of the Peoria a. Eastern
whose homes are in Danville. Ill, where
there is a fourishing branch of the Young
Mems Christian Association, and the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois offers to give $4,000
for a building to be erected at Danville for
the use of the railroad branch of the Y. NJ.
c. A. providing the members will raise $500
to equip ii properly. The employees Will
readily raise tina sum and the building will
be erected on the company's grounds at
Danville Junction.
TIL Chicago & Northwestern's new bridge
across the Des Moines river, between Boone
and Ogden, will be 2,6S5 feet long and 1S5
feet above the river. The channel span
will be 300 feet long. IT will be supported
by seventy-four pedestals and the channel
span by eight cylinder columns. The ma
sonry will be completed by Aug. 1. and the
steel work by Jan. i. The distance between
Boone and Ogden will be shortened three
miles by its construction, and the use of
the bridge by the will give ii
the short line between Omaha and Chicago.
Compared with other bridges the Des
Moines structure is the highest double
track long bridge IN the world. Ine Drldge
has a total weight in metal Of $3.50 tons.
'If an arbitration board is called to-
gether." said a local passenger official, lit
will have one less subject to contend with.
as commioners have been almost effectually
effaeed from the consideration of promi-
nent railroads. There are still the two both
ersome questions of excess fares and differ
entails to be commended with, and it is conf
IDENTIFY believed that these will also be
wiped out by some agreement similar to
that on commissions, being entered into.
The trend of general opinion among rail-
road officials seems to be that both excess
fares and djfferentials have seen their day
and that some other arrangement will have
TO be entered into to even up conditions. III
indeed IL is desired 10 make any conces-
sions to the weaker lines"
The stockholders who are invited to put
more money into the Toledo, st. Louis &c
Kansas City road, In order to save what
they have in already, naturally ask for ex-
plicit Information about the present earning
power of the road. No facts whatever bear
ing upon this subject are presented by the
reorganization committee. No income ac-
count is presented either for a series of
years or for a single year, Notwithstanding
the fact that if the property in 1859 really
earned enough money 10 pay its interest,
this knowledge would be of the utmost con-