The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-18

went to Chicago last night to attend a
meeting OF the executive or the
Peoria 81 Pekin Union Railway Company,
TO be held in that city to-day.
General Isaac wistar, president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad anthracite coal COM
panies. reached his seventy-hfth birthday
on Saturday and was handsomely remem-
bered by the attaches In that department.
The general was also the recipient of num-
erous other congratulations from railroad
officials.
An official Of the Big Four said yesterday
that these lines had advanced the pay of
wages, and he knew of no further advance
contemplated. In some departments, he
stated. wages have been advanced three
per cent. cut that year.
The Philadelphia & Reading has issued a
new poster portraying Time with a scythe
In the one hand and in the other an hour
glass. to symbolic a train every hour be-
tween New York and Philadelphia Be
meath the hourglasst is seen a train speed
ing to New York. which looms up in the
background against a saffron sky.
The trunk lines have reached the same
conclusion arrived at some time ago by
the Central Traffic lines that the issuance
Of interchangeable mileage Is not for the
interest of the road. The demand for this
form of mileage comes from the Travelling
Nlth = AcSOCldllODs ~ AOl 1CoAo ptA-
sistently endeavored to force it upon the
railroads.
The Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe and
their connections are in receipt of a petit
hammedan priests asking that they be given
the courtesy of half rates for overland
trips. Christian ministers and Jewish rabbis
get that courtesy. also Christian mission
aries and Sisters of Charity. The petition
urges that no discrimination should be
made against these Oriental priests.
The express companies are declaring their
semi-annual dividends. The directors. of
such action. Ordinarily the directors of the
American Express Company would have
declared the semi-annual dividends last
Wednesday, but the meeting was post
poned on the account of the absence of
President Fargo. who is in Europe. The di-
rectors will hold a meeting tomorrow,
when II Is expected some action will be
taken.
On Thursday, in the United States Court
at Pittsburg. the case of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company ousting the Western
Union Telegraph Company will come up for
a hearing. The telegraph company has
asked for an injunction restraining the
Pennsylvania Company from removing any
poles, wires or fixtures Of the plaintiff cor
poration. This move is looked upon as a
bash interests and the Pennsylvania-Cas-
satt corporation.
The Pennsylvania Company has accepted
the Chicago-Grand Crossing track eleva-
ton ordinance. All the other companies
provides for a little more than six miles
Of main track and twenty-one miles OF
side track. making a total of ~thirty-eight
twenty-five subways and eliminates six
teen grade crossings. The work will cost
over 100000, and 1T is expected will be
completed next year.
w. B. Poland, engineer Of maintenance
| of way on the PittSburR division of the
Baltimore & Ohio, was yesteday appointed
superintendent Of the Indiana division oil
headquarters to be at Cincinnati. A. W
Thomson succeeds him at Pittsburg. Mr.
Poland was formerly engineer of mainte.
nance OF way on the Big -Four. and re-
signed when the Spanish war broke out
AT the close of the war he re-entered rail.
road service on the B. & o.
In the case of the Central Trust Com
pany, Of New York. trustees for bondhold'
ern Railroad Company Judge Humphrey
at Springfield, ILL.,, yesterday issued In the
Federal Court a decree of foreclosure and
ordered the sale of the road. The sale will
The road is a stub OF the Wabash running
from Sydney to Champaign, Ill. The pres
ent suit was brought to perfect the titl'
under which the decree of foreclosure wa.
Issued amount to $1,000 o
Formal notice was posted by the LAX,
Shore Railway Company yesterday an
nouncing IN advance Of 10 per cent. II
wages to all switchmeno outside OF Chicago
The Chicago switchmen were recent!
granted an advance, and the increase an
nounced yesterday is in the line of equali
feet Nov. /, and benefits about 1000 men
While no official notice has been ISSUED
by the Nickel-plate road concerning an ad
vance of wages to its switchmen 1t is un
derstood the matter is under consideration
and that favorable action will probably re
suit.
W.. H. Bancroft, president of the Oregon
Short-line road, is in San Francisco. Hi
headquarters is at Salt Lake City, and h
ure and partly for business. In an inter
view yesterday he said: 1.-THE report tina
President Hartman has sold 800 miles o
the track out from Salt Lake TO Senate
Clark is untrue. President Hartman ha
not abandoned the plan Of building a roa'
from Salt Lake to Los Angeles, and worl
wish to deny emphatically that an agree
ment between President Hartman an,
Senator Clark has been entered into"
The s~tockholders Of the atlantic Coas
Railway Line Company yesterday voted t
ratify the purchase of the Louisville 4
Nashville. The following was given on
by the secretary of the meeting: 9TH
stockholders of the Atlantic Coast Lin
capital stock by 81. 800. 600, to be issued il
stock of 1000 shares at 500 a share and t
also ratify the purchase of the Louisville
Nashville Railroad. The stocks and bond
are to consist of $35. 0O0.0 900 In collatera
trust bonds at 4 per cent. for fifty years
to be applied to the payment of the 80
shares of the capital stock OF the Louisvill
& Nashville as a pledge for the collatera
bonds"
Beginning Jan. l the Illinois Contra
will change the method of disciplin
of employees of the transportation depart
ment. The new system is a compromis
between the Brown system of record sus
pension only and the old actual suspen
sion for every offense. The men are t
be divided into two classes. Glass A mel
will be those who have worked for tn
company two years with less than sixt,
days suspension against them; Glass i
will include newly hired men and thos
failing to gain Glass A on service. Glass
men will be suspended only on record an
will lose no actual time. Glass b mel
will lose all time for which suspension i
ordered.
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