The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-17

Within the next sixty days the Monon
will have 5000 tons of new heavy steel rail
al the track of the main line.
Smallpox has appeared at various points
along the Panhandle, and an order has been
issued that employees must be vaccinated.
The Illinois Central reduced the running
time of its fast trains between Chicago and
New Orleans, the track conditions making
Increased speed safe.
]. III. p Hughart, general manager of the
Grand Rapids e. Indiana. and subordinate
officials are devoting the week TO an in
spection of the lines.
On June the Vandalia and Pennsylvania
lines Will establish an agency at the City of
Mexico. and Fred E. Young has been Sc
lected to I'LL the position.
Robert Geiger. general agent of the Penn
sylvania lines at Atlanta, Ga, who has
been in the city several days, yesterday re-
turned to his headquarters.
The engineering department of the In
annapolis q Vincennes Is preparing plans
for new depot at Martinsville, the cost
OF which Is not to exceed $4,000
DIR. Talbot local surgeon of the Penn
sylyania Voluntary Relief Association,
has gone to Cleveland for a two three
days meeting of the surgeons of the Penn
sylvania lines.
The Central Passenger Association has
under consideration proposition that all
applications for special rates should be re-
ferred to Commissioner Donald OF the Gen.
trial Passenger Association.
The Central Passenger Association has
announced its rates for travel to Winona
Lake. Ind, for the summer. One ticket has
fifteen days limit the other is general and
extends from May Is to September Is.
In the month of April III roads earned
So. S91.g79. an increase of 1854 421 over April
1880 Since jan l the same roads have
earned s2l6, $40, an increase over the COR
responding four months of 1899 of $29. 440, 474
Since May / orders for locomotives and
cars to cost over 2.649, 600 have been placed
In three days orders for l5i new locomo-
tfves were placed. that OF the Chicago. Mil
waukee & ST. Paul for forty-eight being
the largest.
Train n on the Pennsylvania lines yes
terddy brought In six sleeping cars filled
with ministers and delegates en- route to
St. Louis to attend the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian Church, which con-
vened there yesterday.
w D. Lowery was yesterday promoted to
be superintendent of the locomotive and
with headquarters at ST. Louis. Mr.. Low
cry has been with the company twenty
years. recently at Fort Scott.
George III. Daniels. general passenger
agent OF the New York Central, announces
that his road has assumed entire control of
its dining car service and presents there
with an elaborate DILL of fare as evidence
of the Improvement In the service.
BY June 1 nearly the entire distance of
the middle division of the PENNSYLVANIA
which lies between Altoona and Harris
burg. will be four-track road. Traffic over
this division is enormous, and a fourth
track will greatly relieve the situation.
The Wabash is securing a considerable
hold on the packing-house business. from
the West TO Eastern markets This week n
contracted to haul the dressed meats of a
large st. Louis packing house, amounting
TO seventy-five to one hundred cars per
week.
Last week scalpers at Sioux Falls Sc
cured thirty-five tickets to points east OF
Buffalo via the Lackawanna. An error in
making out the tickets. which were for
delegates TO the Populist convention. gave
scalpers the opportunity they so quickly
seized.
Officials OF the Western lines claim to have
learned that the Chicago & Alton does not
intend TO pay them portion of the proceeds
realized from handling troops during the
Spanish and Philippine wars. and they nro-
pose TO sift the business to the bottom and
force settlement.
The report Is revived that the wabas b
has decided to build the Fort Wayne Butler
cutoff connecting the Toledo division and
main line III this Is done the decision in
the Eel River case viii have no effect on
the business of the Wabash should IL be
unfavorahe to the company.
or the twelve carloads of horses Skinned
over the Panhandle on Sunday a consider
apie per cent were for export. over one
hundred going 10 Africa. The horses were
shipped Ia palace stock cars, and were
well looked after. Some OF them were fine
animals purchased for British officers
The new transcontinenfial limited ex-
press on the Northern Pacific is a winner. =
says District Passenger Agent Turner.