The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-06

business, and all over the Rock Island sys-
tenn passenger and freight trafnc Is IN
creasing rapidly.
The trouble between the Union Pacific
and its mechanics has been adjusted, the
company taking back eight of the eleven
men discharged, who were union men. inc
eight who were again employed lncluue
four union officers and four prominent
union men.
II is stated that the plans of the Chicago,
Milwaukee * st. Pau and the Northern
Pacific in North Dakota include a Junction
of the two lines at Linton. coun-
ty, and ii is stated that the former road
will eventually run it's trains into Bismarck
over the Northern Pacific.
The Richard Mansfield company was
hauled on Sunday from Salisbury to At
lanta, 32 miles. in four hours and thirty
minutes. The special train was run over
the Norfolk & Western from Norfolk TO
Burkeville and from Burkeville TO Atlanta
over the southern Railway.
Subordinate agents Of the Erie lines met
on Tuesday at the office of General PAS
senger Agent Cooke for conference and to
plan for this years business. Mr.. Cooke
says he looks for the largest business the
present year in the cOmpanys history, ana
the road is in better shape for handing
1t than in any former year.
c. y. Condo, who has been foreman Of
the Panhandle freight depot at Indlanapo-
lis for twenty years. has resigned and LETT
last evening for Montgomery, Ala, where
he has accepted the position of joint agent
in charge of the freight depots of the
Georgia Central and Western Alabama at
a handsome increase in salary.
There are now employed at the shops of
the Big Four at Brightwood seven hundred
men, and a portion of them are working
nights, so crowded are the shops with
work. The passenger equipment Is now GO
Ing through the shops. being reprinted at
the rate of twenty cars per month A third
new postal car was completed yesterday.
A. Nj. Stewart, general live stock agent or
/ the Erie. was in the civ Yesterday. lie
states that the new parties in control of
the property have purchased eighty new
locomotives and are receiving them at the
rate of five per week until the order is
filled. The company will soon be in shape
to handle all the business that will come
to the road.
H. G. Thompson, for many years chief
clerk of Passenger Traffic Manager Nichol-
son, OF the Santa Fe, has resigned and gone
TO the Pacific coast on account OF Ill health.
AS soon as his health permits some plan
Will be evolved to give him a position on
the coast. a. z. Morrison, ormerly chief
rate clerk of the Michigan Central. sue
ceeds Mr.. Thompson on the Santa Fe.
The New York. New Haven & Hartford
adhereS 10 its former policy TOWARD the
unions, and last week neither Chief Arthur,
of the Brotherhood of Engl-
neers, nor Grand Master Sargent, of the
Brotherhood of Firemen was recognized in
an official capacity. If adjusted at all the
wage question will be settled between a
committee of engineers and fremen and
IL OlllCldlS VI liz IOdu.
Delegates of the trainmen have been meet
ing for several days past in Chicago, consid-
ering plans of action for securing increased
pay. The plan is that a schedule of wages
be prepared which all the roads will be
willing to accept. 1t is stated, however,
that the officials of the Western systems
do not take kindly to the expected demands,
claiming that lines West are now paying
more than do Eastern roads.
A dispatch to the Journal from Sullivan
says: 1.-THE Southern Indiana purchasing
agent, w. A. Mcfarland, of Terre Haute,
has secured a necessary right of way
through this city. The tract includes 2,SOI
feet, or a little more than half a mile OF
improved property parallel with the Z. &
T. H. on the east limits of the city. The
options already taken by the company in
acquiring this right of way amount to
about $4,000"
AS a result of a conference between
Manager Herbert, Superintendent Welby
ard Superintendent Of Car Service WEIGH,
of the Rio Grande system, and representa-
tives of the Brotherhood Of Railway Train
gineers, firemen and the brakemen, con-
cessions asked for by the trainmen in the
matter of wages have been granted by the
railroad. he increase asked was, II is un-
derstood, but a fraction of a cent a mile.
Executive officials of Western lines are
making the route over the Big Four and
the Chesapeake & Ohio popular between
Chicago and st. Louis and Washington, as
they can ride over these lines on passes.
This accounts for Paul Morton, vice pres
ident of the Santa Fe, selecting this line in
making his trip East and returning by that
route. In this connection it is stated that
Western officials have instructed their
subordinates TO do all in their power to-
ward increasing the business of the two
| lines named.