The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-06-07

make an agreement for the interchange Of
traffic. The Tennessee Central has decided
TO seek relief In the courts.
President Rouse of the Missouri. Kansas
e. Texas, has returned from Colorado and
went east yesterday on his private car.
The Indiana. Decatur & Western has
awarded the contract for a new depot at
Decatur 10 cost 5000. II will be construct
ed Of brick. resting on stone foundation.
will be lighted by electricity and have all
other modern improvements.
The Huron e. Western Railway Company.
just organized TO build a road connecting
the Ann Arbor and Detroit Mackinaw, is
believed to be in the interests of the Wa
bash. 1t is little else than a coal road and
can be utilized part of a belt line.
It has leaked out that what stirred the
Chicago roads up TO faster service was the
fact that the new train the Big Four will
put on made IT possible, In connection with
the Missouri Pacific. to make the run to
Denver from East St. Louis quicker than
via Chicago
The pension system which the Philadel-
phia & Reading has adopted extends to
employees engaged in any capacity in the
operations Of the company. and covers all
who have attained the age of seventy and
have been in the employ of the company
thirty years.
The freight men. who have been in ses-
sion for a couple of days at Indianapolis,
kindly remembered Thomas Smiley. chair
man of the executive committee, who did
one, by presenting him with Mystic
Shrine pin, which cost $50.
Two thousand men in the employ of the
New York Central have been granted a
ones are telegraphers. train dispatchers.
tower men and signal men. II dates back
to include May. and increases the pay rolls
of the company Sl25.OoO per year
The Office of general manager of the
Great Northern. which has been vacant
since 1895, has been revived and John F.
Stevens appointed to the position. w w.
BrOughton has been given the title of gen.
eral freight agent of the Eastern division
F. f. Ward is continued as general super
intendent.
Excess fare on limited trains running at
higher speed than others may be abolished.
| but recent action taken by the strong lines
makes il much less probable than hereto
| fore. 1t has been a big bone of contention
| for several years, and cogent arguments
are advanced by the advocates of the plan
well as it's opponents.
| The Pennsylvania special" which the
| Pennsylvania will put on June Is, will run
| daily between New York and Chicago. leav-
! ing New York at 1:55 p. m. East-bound II
| will leave Chicago at u o'clock noon. 1t is
| the fastest train ever scheduled over the
| Pennsylvania, and will be surpassed by no
/ train now in service as to equipment.
The tenor of the remarks of the travelling
| freight agents is to the effect that their la
| bors have been increased by the cutting off
of free transportation Before this oc-
| shipment and sometimes a light one, would
| promise free transportation to the shipper;
| now he is not allowed to do so, but must
| get the business at full rates without re-
| bates or free transportation.
Freight men who are in the city and
| travel quite extensively say that the pros
poets never were better for the Western
/ and Northwestern roads at this season of
the year. The acreage planted in corn and
| oats is enormous, and Is now in prime con-
| dition, and this is moving the old corn
| farmers have been holding, and the next
| few weeks will see a large grain move
| ment.
Over the New York Central the new
| Neutrality-suspicious. train between New York
| and Chicago is not as fast as the Empire
| State Express, which has been making the
| run between New York and Buffalo in
eight hours and fifteen minutes for the past
| eleven years. and it is no faster between
worlds fair train, run in 1893 for six
months. In both cases the question of the
permanency of the service depends upon
| the patronage the trains receive.
c. F. DAILY, chief assistant general pas
senger agent of the Lake Shore, is enthu-
siastic over the new twentieth century linn
| tied which will be put on June 10. He says
| Ii will he the best equipment that can be
| built. Recent tests have demonstrated that
five cars can be hauled over the distance in
twenty hours and the only question now to
found willing to pay s33 for a ride from
| Chicago to New York TO make the trains
| profitable.
by June 1 of 1903 the Tehuantepec Rail
road across the isthmus Of that name In
| Mexico will compete with the Panama
route and the American overland lines for
a share of the shipments between the At
| lantic seaboard and the Pacific coast The
| statement was made by j. G. Allen, of the
City of Mexico, general manager Of the
road, who is in San Francisco. He also
| said that ii was the intention, between now
| and June ! of next year, to have steamer
| lines between New York and CoatZacoalcos
| the Atlantic terminus of the road, and be-
tween Salina Cruz. the Pacific terminus
| and San Francisco"
The New York Evening Post said last
| night: 1.-The Union Pacific Railroad Com
| pany has increased its holdings of Southern
| Pacific stock from $4,000 900 to 900
| 1t was intimated to-day that the additional
| purchases had been made to provide against
the probability of speculative interests Sc
| curing any very considerable block OF
| Southern Pacific shares to the detriment
of the Union Pacific property. No formal
| announcement has yet been made of the
| new purchases. An officer of the company
| admitted, however. that the stock had beer
secured adding that the details probably
| would be given out at the next annua
| meeting.