The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-31

all crossing agreements with the Penn
sylvania have been adjusted and there is
no trouble between the Wabash and that
company.
Next Monday night the Big Four will
furnish two special cars from Indianapolis
TO carry the Shriners who go by way OF
the Missouri Pacific the Denver & Rio
Grande and the Southern Pacific TO San
Francisco.
The Panhandle is substituting electric for
steam power at its shops in Columbus.
o. The company has contracted for three
500-horse power vertical noncOndensing
compound engines TO take the place Of two
large steam-power plants.
On June 1 all ticket offices outside OF the
union station at Terre Haute will COM
mence closing at noon on Saturdays for
the summer. and. commencing Saturday.
June I. all ticket offices in Indianapolis
will be closed at noon until Sept. g. incud-
ing that day.
George T. Gunnitt. Eastern passenger
agent of the Santa Re. was in the city yes
terday. He states that business continues
heavy beyond precedent, and passenger
earnings will in the fiscal year ending June
30 show an increase over the preceding
year OF at least H,700,O00.
John McNamee. who represents Frank
lin county in the House of Represen natives
of the Legislature of Ohio. is prominently
mentioned as the successor of Frank p.
Sargent as grand master of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen. Before
elected TO the Legislature he was employed
on the Pennsylvania lines.
w J. Murphy, of Cincinnati. general
manager Of the Queen & Crescent road.
was stricken with paralysis yesterday
in Louisville. He was taken to his home.
1t is not thought the stroke will prove
fatal.
Everything works favorable TO adopting
the per diem play of payment for cars
after July l. BY imposing a charge of 20
cents per day that freight car is off the
road and in use of another, instead OF
charge of 8 cents per mile run (the present
rate, it is expected the department of rail
road car accounting will be revolutionized
and order and accuracy esta blished. 1t
will require but a slight increase in clerical
help.
The sale of the Columbus Lima & Mil
waukee Railroad to John d. Rockefeller
was confirmed yesterday by Judge DON
nelly at Lima, o.. b. c. Faurot, who pro-
failed TO give the $4,000 bond required TO
secure a stay of the courts order The
transfer will be made on June ID. and 1t is
thought the road, now in operation be-
tween Lima and Defiance, will be COM
pleted TO Columbus.
The Pennsylvania lines are TO run a per-
sonally-conducted tour TO Yellowstone Park
from Indianapolis. The train will be full
vestibuled, and the trip will cover twelve
days Only 100 persons will be carried on
the train. and although Aug. IA is the date
w. w. Richardson, who will personally
conduct the train, has had applications for
f1fty-five reservations of berths. 1t bids
fair to be more popular with pleasure
seekers than was the Cuban tour of last
winter run by the Pennsylvania. District
Passenger Agent Richardson has prepared
a handsome itinerary of the trip.
The Chicago & Northwestern and the
Union Pacific railways have adopted
new schedule whereby passengers from
Atlantic coast points will reach Denver
with only two nights on the road. From
Detroit. Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chi
cago only one night will be required Com
mencing June the Colorado special which
now leaves Chica go at 10 a. m, will start
at $50 p. m, arriving in Omaha at sos
a: m. Denver at 2; m and -, Colorado
solid between Chicago and Denver. with
through drawing room sleeper to Colorado
Springs. EaSt bound. the train will be
known as the Chicago special, and will
leave Colorado Springs daily at 10 a. m.
and Denver at l p. m, arriving in Chicago
at p. m, conveniently for making con-
nections East.
A friend OF w. B. Leeds, president of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific. who is
now recovering from an operation for ap-
pendicitis, relates the following incident
in relation TO his youthful days: Mr..
Leeds. when a lad of thirteen years, was
George Browns partner in a pOtato-bug-
picking enterprise in Wayne county, In
diana. One afternoon the employer went
to the potato patch where William and
George were supposed to be at work, but
they were not there. Instead, he found
them swimming in the creek. The farmer
was dissolved. Soon after this incident
William entered railway work and his ca
reer has been characterized by a series
of rapid promotions, which have placed
him at the head of one of the great rail-
ways systems of the country.
The next annual meeting of the Railway
Accounting officers of America will be
held in Hot Springs, Va. At the final ses-
sion of the association the following Of
ficers were elected at the St. Louis meet
ing: President, William b. Bend. vice pres
ident and auditor of the Chicago Great
Western Railway, St. Paul, Mimi; vice
president. ]. w. Renner. controller of the
Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, Pitts
burg; second vice president, A. d. Parker,
general auditor of the Colorado & South
ern Railway, Denver; secretary and treas
urer G. c. Phillips. Chicago The report
of the special committee on additional sta
tistics for the Interstate-commerce Com
mission was adopted and the following
were named as a committee to go to Wash
ington and present a memorial on the sub
ject to the commission: r. M. Riebenack.
Philadelphia c. l. Sturgis. Chicago; II. NJ.
Kochersperger. New Haven, Conn; A H.
Plant, Washington, and II. G. Whitehead.
Chicago. President Bend will be a men,
Der of this committee eX officio.