The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-25

yards $50 carloads of live stock, against $40
in the preceding week. and for private
switches on its line S97 cars, against GA in
the week preceding.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
NJ. Z. Ingalls,, president Of the Big Four
lines, left last night for New York city.
He will be away several days.
General Manager Pennington, of the 500
line. denies emphatically that he has been
offered. the position of general manager OF
the Erie.
pany has orders for over $4,000 new freight
cars, representing a total cost to the rail-
roads OF $4,000. 900.
AT the meeting of representatives of the
Wabash, held in st. Louis last week, 70
per cent. OF the stock and 80 per cent.of the
debenture bonds were represented.
II. A Smith has been appointed commits
sary agent of the New York Central, his
Jurisdiction TO extend over the Boston &
Albany, now controlled by the former.
Roads of New England have agreed to
conform to the requirements of the Trans
continental Passenger Association in the
matter of the sale of colonists tickets.
]. H. Mcconnell will. on April l, retire as
superintendent Of motive power of the
Union Pacific. He has been connected with
the power department of the road for
thirty-three years.
Final hearing on the long-standing case
or Western stock dealers against the rail-
road terminals at the Chicago ~stockyards
has been set for March Is in the United
States Supreme Court.
The Wabash has refused to grant the re-
quest of competing lines that ii advance its
passenger rates between New York and
Kansas City on account of its improved
service and shortening of time.
II is currently reported at Tacoma, and
is generally believed in railroad circles,
that the Northern Pacific is negotiating
Tor the purchase of the Southern Pacific
Inc from Portland, Ore, TO San Francisco.
passenger association including fourteen
roads which practically have entrance into
omaha. The new association has asked to
be recognized as a branch Of the Western
Passenger Association.
President Norton, of the Toledo, st. Louis
d western, who has just returned from
New York, is and evasive
In his replies concerning the future of the
road, admitting only that it may be pur-
chased by some strong line.
ID. l. Roberts, general passenger agent
or the Erie, will put on three new fast
trains with the taking effect of the spring
schedule. The trains will be from the West
and South and Independent of the new
train run jointly by the Erie and the Penn
~sylvania.
The engineers and fremen on the Grand
Trunk, who nave grievances, claim that
Charles NJ. Hayes, late general manager of
the road, made promises to them, covering
in effect what they now ask and which Mr..
Reeves, his successor, says he cannot see
his way TO fulfill.
The directors of the Evansville. Terre
Haute * Chicago have declared a dividend
of ~ per cent, payable May l, on it's COM
mon stock. Last fall a dividend of 5 per
cent. was declared, payable in two INSTALL
ments, and the second installment of 2Aa
per cent. will fall due April 16.
The Lake Shore is painting some Of it's
passenger equipment a bright. glistening
red, and may decide to adopt it as the
roads standard color for passenger equip
ment. Some years ago the company aban-
doned yellow and painted its coaches olive
green, but this gets rusty looking in a
short time.
A. H. Mofett, general Southwestern pas
senger agent of the Chicago, Rock Island
& Pacific. will tomorrow go to New York
as general Eastern agent of the company.
Mr.. Moffett has been in continuous railroad
service for thirty-five years, fourteen years
of the time having been located at Kansas
City.
The New York Central now has eight
trains every day to Chicago, seven 10 Cleve-
land, three to st. Louis. four to Cincin-
natl, two to Toronto, four to Montreal. five
to Detroit, twelve TO Buffalo and Niagara
Falls, including the famous Empire State
express, and sixteen trains between New
York, Albany and Troy.
One of the reforms of the present day in
railway operation is the improvement of
the passenger day coach. Why more atten-
ton has not been given to this matter in
the past is a surprise, as the day coach
traffic constitutes a very large volume of
the traffic on all lines. Even among the
better class of travel it resents the appear
ance of being forced back into a sleeping
car.
been made to the Lake Erie & Western
track since the Lake Shore took control
of the property is shown in the fact that
a special train on that road carrying the
Sousa band last week made the run from
Muncie to Fort Wayne, sixty miles, in
eighty minutes. This is a good record for
that division, where two years ago thirty
miles an hour was deemed high speed.
4. w. Lee, general passenger agent of the
~Lackawanna Railroad, has just arranged
for the purchase of fifteen new passenger
coaches of the latest type and has requested
the Pullman Company to assign fifteen adj
ditional sleeping cars for the service be-
tween New York and Buffalo. Another
large order has been placed for eighty new
locomotives OF the most improved pattern,
nearly all of which will be put into the
passenger service.
The Grand Rapids & Indiana people are
much interested in a road now in process of
construction to Ludington, Mich; IT is ex-
pected the track layers will reach Hesperia
in a few weeks. From there the road is in
a direct line to the Grand Rapids & In
diana's northern division, striking Cedar
Springs or Howard City. 1t is expected
that If everything goes smoothly the Grand
Rapids a. Indiana will be able to use ii to
get a portion of the business from the
Northwest. which now goes exclusively to
the Pere Marquette road.
The six lines between Chicago and st.
Paul have a time agreement which forbids
any one handling passenger trains between
the two points i'm less than thirteen hours,
but the Chicago, Burlington q Quincy, the
Chicago, Milwaukee ~ st. Paul and the
Chicago & Northwestern have been run
ming ten-hour trains without sleepers, and
the weak lines have entered a formal pro-
test. The travelling public do not see why
passengers should be on the road thirteen
hours to cover 400 miles and is making pro-
tests against abandoning the faster sched-
ules. Meantime the weak lines threaten TO
cut the bottom out of rates IL the strong
lines continue to run ten-hour trains, and
as a result the situation is becoming in
teresting.
among the relics of John y. Robertson,
who died recently in a Western city, were
two books which he had compiled in 1872,
which a friend thought would be valuable
TO the Lake Shore Railroad Company and
forwarded to them. The Lake Shore was
then in its crude state and Just entering
upon the season of development. The off,
cial list gives Horace f. Clark. OF New
York. as president, ]. H. Devereaux as gen.
perintendent. Addison Hill as general
freight agent and j. w. Carey as general
ticket agent. all Of whom are now dead.
OF all the men employed In an official ca
pacity with that property but two remain
j. +. Freeman, then, as now. the general
baggage agent, and William Kline, superin-
tendent OF telegraph.
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