The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-05-23

assured. Late rains have done much to
Improve the hay crop. which has become
an important one for Indiana and Illinois.
The 4 per cent. bonds which the Southern
Railway and the Louisville < Nashville
road are TO issue in payment OF their Mo
non purchase will be a joint liability on
both roads. Should either road default on
its obligations the other would be liable
Tor the entire amount. This statement Is
made on the authority of j. P. Morgan
& Co.
G. A. Clark. division superintendent of
the Springfield division of the Illinois Cen
trail. with headquarters at Clinton. H.. will
be transferred TO Fulton, Ky, where he
will hold the position of division superin-
tendent Of the southern division. He will
be succeeded by c. Dougherty. roadmas-
ter OF the Illinois Central at Champaign.
Mr. Clark was recently promoted from an
Iowa division.
Another speed war is probable between
the Northwestern lines. The Chicago a.
Northwestern, with the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific, has broken the time
agreement. This has stirred up competing
lines, and some fast runs may be looked
for: The Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
Will undoubtedly meet the time made by
the chicago & Rock Island and the Chicago
& Northwestern, which is eleven hours
from Chicago to Omaha.
The Akron & Barberton Belt Railway
company was formed at Pittsburg yester-
day by the election of the following Of
ncers: James McCrea. president, and 5. b
Crea, first vice president of the Pennsyl-
vania lines; L. B. Thomas, chairman of
the executive board of the Erie lines: W.
II. Newman, president of the New York
Central lines, and Oscar G. Murray, first
vice president of the Baltimore & Ohio
lines.
Unless the executive officials of Western
lines force the matter there will be few. if
any. Withdrawals of reduced tariffs which
have been put in force since the issuance
of the injunctions of the United States Cir
cult Court. This fact developed yesterday
at a meeting of the freight officials of
western lines in Chicago After an all-day
session practically nothing in the line of
discarding low rates was accomplished.
and there IS little prospect that anything
can be done by the freight agents.
Last week a junk dealer at Findlay, o..
had an order for two carloads of brass
filings from a Cleveland house. and as the
difference between brass filings and cinderS
is about $50 per car, he billed the cars as
cinders, covering the filings with cinders.
BY mistake the cars were missent and the
filings were dumped in a fill the railroad
was making. He tried to recover and the
company offered him S35 the price of the
two cars of cinders. The filings were val
ued at 81, 500
At the annual meeting of the Cleveland
& Pittsburg Railroad Company yesterday
all the old directors were reelected. The
road is operated by the Pennsylvania Com
pany Under lease. The report of the di-
rectorS shows that the company received
in rentals and interest from the lessees last
year Sl,155,957 and interest on balances to
make its total receipts 81. 1871, 800. 81 1t PAID
in dividends 1885, 40; interest on bonds,
$358,9SO, and maintenance and current eX-
penses SO, 492. %. The report of the lessee
company showed total earnings last year
of $5,4s4,04.4S, expenditures of A.7S1, O6Os5
The American Association of General
Baggage Agents closed its annual meeting
at the Victoria Hotel. Chicago, yesterday,
with the election OF the following officers
for the ensuing year: President, John Os
born. Illinois Central; vice president, G. G.
Denton, Nickel-plate, Cleveland: secretary
treasurer, j. f. Quick. Grand Trunk, To-
ronto. The next meeting of the association
best method for securing a uniform local
excess baggage rate throughout the coun-
try was the principal matter which came
up. committee of six finally ap
pointed 10 present a plan which could be
universally adopted.
Mai or s. X. Hooper. general passenger
agent Of the Denver & Rio Grande, stopped
over in Pittsburg on Thursday TO see the
company'S representative at that point and
to visit old-time associate passenger Off
Gals. Major Hooper is one of the four
ranking general passenger agents in the
country in years of possession of that title.
He received the title first in 1868 on the Mo-
non. The other three are f. A. Ford, gen.
eral passenger agent of the Pennsylvania
lines west. who became general passenger
agent of the Bellefontaine Railroad in 1865;
@. II. Goodwin, of the Southern Pacific. who
gained the title first in 1864 on the old At
lantic & Great Western. now the Erie, and
w. l.. Danley, who has been general pas
senger agent of the Nashville, Chattanooga
e. st. Louis since 1866.