The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-04


The Hooking Valley road earned in Sep
TENDER $3.50, 326.09, an increase over Sep
TENDER, 1901, of $50, 5S2.04.
T. b. Fogg has been appointed industrial
and immigration agent of the Missouri Pa
cific and Iron Mountain lines.
The Eureka Lodge of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen will give their annual
ball Oct. 81 at Tomlinson Hall.
There were handled in September on the
Big Four system 697, 7S6 passengers, against
622, $50 in September of last year.
With the taking effect of the new time
card on the Santa Fe the Colorado flyer
will be taken off and the California limited
made daily train.
The Pittsburg rate-sheet committee has
decided to re-establish second-class rates
to all Western points, which were abol-
ished about year ago.
The Knickerbocker on the Big Four for
Cincinnati last night was run in four Sec
q. A. r. people to Washington.
M. r. Coutant, master mechanic of the
Eastern division of the Wabash, has re-
signed. He will go to the Erie as master
mechanic of the Susquehanna division.
Charles Birmingham, general yardmaster
OF the Peoria * Eastern at Danville, Ill,
has resigned and been succeeded by j. B.
Taliaferro, promoted from train service.
]. Hollenbeck, formerly with the Indiana.
Decatur & Western, now district passenger
agent of the Louisville G. Nashville, with
headquarters at Atlanta, is in the city.
Edward Needham, master mechanic of
the wabash shops at Ashley, has returned
from Denver. bringing with him wife.
daughter Of Master Mechanic Bell, of the
Denver & Rio Grande.
Henry H. Roberts, representing the pas
senger department Of the Lehigh Valley
road is in the city. He states that the
Black Diamond Express run on that road
is doing big business and steadily increas-
ing In popularity.
Henry p. Barnum has been accepted and
enrolled as a freshman in Purdue Univer-
sity. and the expense of his three years
scholarship and all expenses connected
Herewith will be paid by the st. LOUIS
Railroad Company.
The Southern Railway, which purchased
the Louisville, Evansville & st. Louis, is
spending considerable money in enlarging
its freight yards at Princeton, Ind, and
when the work Is completed Princeton will
be a much more important division point
d. G. Edwards. passenger traffic manager
OF the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, has
appointed III. j.. Sugra northern passenger
agent, with headquarters at Detroit, and
K. V. McGrath succeeds Mr.. Sugra as trav-
cling passenger agent, with headquarters at
Findlay.
The question of the powers and authority
Of the ticket agents and conductors to take
up clergymenS permits when they are
found in other hands than those of the
person to whom issued has been raised in
ger associations.
Benjamin Norton, president and general
manager of the Toledo, st. Louis & West
ern, has been in St Louis two or three
days comforting with the local officials
of the line. He feels that the Clover
leaf is not getting its share of business
from that point
The Chicago & Alton has added a grill
room to its dining-car service. In the
front part of the car is a room furnished
with a sideboard and a table. at which six
persons can be served. This is the first
railroad in the United States to have a
grill room on a train.
The handsomest passenger train run in
the country Is said to be the Blue Grass
Special on the Queen & Crescent, be-
tween Cincinnati and Lexington. The cars
are all vestibuled. artistically painted in
the highest order in every respect, and
very popular with high-class travel
Assistant General Superintendent Storrs
of the Lake Shore, Is said 10 be one Of the
busiest men on the road He has under
taken to prevent congestion at Ashtab ula
and on Monday there were 800 cars of ore
in the yards at Ashtabula waiting to be
forwarded. The roads ore traffic is
heavy beyond PRECEDENT.
The Southwestern passenger bureau has
announced that the colonist rates for the
Southwest will become effective Tuesday.
Oct. %, and continue until the last date in
April 1903 They will be effected from
Kansas City. ST. Louis and other Mississippi
standard one way rates, plus 81, continuous
passage.
George T. Gunnip, general agent of the
passenger department of the Santa Fe. and
G. l.. Segraves, who represents the Santa
Fee. were in the city yesterday. Mr. Sc
graves accompanied G.. A r. people of
Kansas, who filled twenty coaches. and
who were at Chicago turned over 10 the
Big Four and the Chesapeake & Ohio for
Washington
The Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul Sc
cured most of the Grand Army business
from the Northwest. and there is a good
deal of feeling over the matter on the part
of competing lines. The connection from
Chicago is over the Monon the Cincinnati
Hamilton x Dayton and the Chesapeake &,
Ohio. and ii Is alleged that these lines Sc
cured the bulk of the contractable business
from Iowa and northern Illinois.
w. II. Truesdale, OF the Lackwanna, saws
there is truth in the story that the
Lackawanna had lost 100000 in freight
because Of the roads advocacy Of the anti
pass agreement. II the travelling freight
agents who were obliged TO pay fare have
boycotted this road their boycott has not
been effective. as their Western freight
business was larger last year than ever
before.
The Pennsylvania has been experiencing
difficulty with it's section men on the mid
die division between Altoona and Harris
burg They cannot get American work.
men any length of time and cannot get
them TO report In cases OF emergency, and