The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-08

owing TO the anti-pass agreement il is still
a question where the next annual meeting
which was planned 10 be held in Wash
ington, will assemble. II is understood that
the Travelling Passenger Agents Associa-
ton is in the same dilemma. At the meet
ing last year Philadelphia was selected,
but il will not be held there il is stated.
F. W. Buskirk. assistant general passen-
ger agent, representing the Erie lines IN
the West. says the company viii not re
duCe rates TO meet trolley competition. lie
admits that their passenger earnings
short travel are affected by the electric
lines, but says that not only the lonS-haul
passenger business, but also the freight
traffic of the road is greatly increased
through the building up of the communities
on the electric lines.
Contracts have been closed by which the
Oklahoma * Indian Territory Railroad
Company will begin the construction with
in ten days of line from Hickory. through
Sulphur Springs to Davis, on the Santa
re main line. 1t absorbs the Sulphur
Springs government franchise granted one
year ago. The Santa Fe has signed con-
tract with the city of Shawnee TO extend
through that city the Eastern Oklahoma
now building 200 miles south
The Vandalia is pushing the improvement
to it's shops at Terre Haute. erecting a new
building two stories high, 155 feet long by
102 wide, putting in new turntable seven
ty-five feet in length. and Will have ten
pits in the repair shops, where that num-
Der of engines can be undergoing repairs
at the same time. The company is stead
lily increasing its force at the shops, now
employing the largest number of men In
the company's history.
An Eastern financial papers says: There
are railroads and railroads, but only one
Pennsylvania. 1t is something more than
merely interesting, it is important, that
President CasSatt's system has done the
greatest one years business ever recorded
by any railroad in the world, and highly
significant. 1t is admiration compelling,
and the announcement of the fact will ar
rest business attention on the two heml-
spheres and add another to the long list
of American achievements of late.
AS a result of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton taking control of the Findlay,
Fort Wayne 81 Western a number on
changes will be made or have already been
put into effect w 3. Shoemaker, assistant
superintendent of the c., H & d. at Toledo,
will succeed B. w. Fenton on April 1; w. n.
Morse, who has been local agent at Find
lay; has been made cashier at that point point;
and A. w. Brown has been made general
agent at Findlay. o. c. Reese, former
cashier. has been transferred to Lima.
Warren J. Lynch, general passenger
agent of the Big Four, yesterday returned
to his headquarters. In conversation he
said the long-distance telephone had been
a more trying competition on the steam
roads than were the trolley lines. The troll
ley lines, he said created new business
and added commerce direct, while the long
distance telephone curtailed the passenger
earnings direct. The trolley lines were In
a condition which could be met, While IL
was difficult to offset the operations of the
Iong-distance telephone.
The Salt Lake City News says that ]. c.
Stubs, traffic director of the Hartman
lines, will in a few weeks remove his head
quarters from Chicago to New York. The
office of assistant general traffic manager,
formerly filled by Edwin Hawley, whose
resignation has been announced, Will not
be filled, Mr.. Stubs taking up that end
of the management at New York. Mr..
Stubs, ii is stated, is now with PreSi-
dent f. III. Hartman on the latters trip
Southern Pacific lines
Mexican roads. His removal 10 New York,
it is said is for the purpose of bringing
into closer touch the management of the
road with Mr. Hartman at New York
Don't be afraid of the big officers Of
railroads. They are all men just like your
self, and you have nothing to fear from
them so long as you perform your duties
the Western Passenger Association, in ad-
dressing the members of the Chicago Rate
Mems Club at their monthly dinner AMI
meeting. Mr.. Mcleod said that the rate
clerks of the country represented the back
bone of the transportation business in many
ways He said If general passenger agents
were required TO sit down and ngure out
their own tariffs there would be fewer rate
wars. Mr.. Mcleod said that the demand
for good rate men was stronger than ever.
Little surprise is expressed in New York
railroad circles at the announcement of
the dissolution of the various Western rail-
road associations and pools. The result
was regarded inevitable in view of the
aggressive attitude OF the lnlerSIdle-COIn-
merce Commission. The adjustment of
the associations will not it is said. affect
the Trunk-lne Association and the Central
Passenger Commission. The Trunk-line As
ISOLATION has no jurisdiction west of Chi
cago, while the associations the dissolution
of which has just been announced had
headquarters in Omaha, Council Bluffs,
Sioux City and Kansas City. Trunk line
officials say that one Of the chief reasons
for the dissolution of the Western pools
lay in the inability of those in power to
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