The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-10

ing alleged secret rebates or otherwise dis
in freight rates.
An official OF the Santa Fe states that
the corn movement in the territory which
these lines pass through Will break all
records and much more than make up the
shortage on wheat.
c. G.. Warner. vice president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific. has almost fully recovered MS
health and Is now performing his usuaI
duties and receiving the congratulations
of his friends at St. Louis.
II is understood that George V. Massey
now assistant general solicitor OF the PENN
sylvania, will be promoted to general So
licftor, the position made vacant by the
death OF James A Logan.
orders have been issued to have the roll
ing stock of the Columbus, Sandusky q
Hooking Valley, recently acquired by the
Pennsylvania. sent to Columbus to be re-
built, remembered and relettered.
Louis ID. Foquette, assistant engineer OF
the New York. Ontario & Western, has re.
signed that position to become engineer or
the Fremont. Elkhorn & Missouri valley
Railroad. with headquarters at Omaha.
Surgeons of the Pennsylvania voluntary
relief department were In Fort Wayne on
Wednesday and examined two engineers
who applied for pensions. The names OF
the engineers have not yet been made pup
lie.
The Chicago g. Eastern Illinois trust GER
tificates, in exchange for Chicago & East
ern Illinois stock on the basis of $50 for
500, are now being delivered in New YORK
by the st. Louis & San Francisco Com
pany.
The Chicago Great Western issued or
ders on Friday to suspend all Improvement
work planned. involving an expenditure OF
100000, and this has given new ground
for the report that a change In ownership
has been effected.
D. J. Birmingham, commercial agent of
the C., r. 1. & p, has just returned from
visit to Des Moines and Davenport. la.
He also attended the meeting of all the
Rock Island commercial agents held in
Chicago Nov. !.
The Financier, in it's current issue. under
the head of THE Work of an Able Oh-
cial," comments on the great business done
highly complimentary terms of George III.
Daniels. the general passenger agent
The Chicago. Rock Island &c Pacific will
put on a new Portland car via the wabash
Denver west. II is announced that the first
car will depart on Thursday. Nov 20. and
the trip will be made IN eighty-one hours.
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania tunnel
Tuesday before tine Board o of Aldermen of
New York, and II is stated further that
In case the contract Is rejected the Penn
sylvania will not renew the petition for the
franchise.
The Western Maryland Railroad has
given q contract to the Cambria Steel Com
pany for 300 additional steel coal hoppers.
each to have a capacity Of nifty tons. The
Central and Pktsburg division Of the Wa
bash system.
India, Japan and China are now sending
missionaries to this country to convert PEG.
pie to the faith of Buddha, and the Central
| Passenger Association will have the ques-
ton up whether these missionaries are en-
titled to travel at the half rates of the
| clergy bureau.
| Under the new Baltimore & Ohio sched-
ule, soon to take effect, the company will
| run vestibule passenger trains between
Wheeling and Pittsburg. 1t is also the in
tention TO run the coaches through to Chi
| without change.
The Northwestern lines have agreed upor
$40 round-trip rate from Winnipeg t
| points in Canada and New England. ticket:
ninety-day limit. The Minneapolis Chicago
lines will join with the Northern Pacif,
| and Great Northern in meeting the Cana
| dian Pacific rate.
1t is announced that the Wabash ha.
! made arrangements to enter st. JOSEPH
over the Santa Fe track from Lexington
Junction, and In return the Santa Fe will
use the Wabash track into ST. Louis, form
| ing a short line between ST. Joseph and st
Louis, which the Santa Fe has been trying
| to establish for some time
After thorough test of several months
between the Baldwin Atlantic and Brook
y
| Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburg road, Ii Il
stated to be an established fact that TIL
Baldwin machines are the best. The Bald
win machines are equipped with slot slid
valves, while the Brooks engines have pis
ton valves.
Lines in the Western Passenger Associa
ton have Joined with those in the Contra
Passenger Association in granting rates 70
holidays. which will apply in all centra
and Western territory covered by associa
ton lines: The rates will cover Thanks
giving, Christmas and New Years, an.
will be one and one-third fares for tn
round trip.
General Manager Hays, of the Gran,
Trunk, is quoted saying that the Gram
Trunk will eventually be transcontinenta
line. He said it might take two. five o
ten years to accomplish, but the Gram
Trunk will go to the Pacific coast. and tina
one of the roads which would be brough
into the Grand Trunk system was the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois, another tn
st. Louis San Francisco.
H. j. Rhein. general passenger agent o
the Lake Erie & Western. has receive
s1.6O as restitution money for a passag
over the L. e. & w. L want to be a Chris
tian, and as God commands us to straight
en- up and pay that we have Ezekiel xxi
l5) robbed, send this money. / am tryin
TO live for eternity and the Judgment
The Lord bless you till we meet at tn
bar"
1t is evident that the Chicago Grea
| DrOI
erty. and it is proved that it was no blu
that the road would be extended to Oman
and Sioux City. There have been later In
timations that the Great Western will nc
stop at Omaha. This company has ordere
from the American locomotive works thirt
new passenger engines and thirty heav
freight engines, to be delivered early ne,
year.
Indications are that the Pennsylvani
will this year earn s215,Ooo,OoO. During mir
months of this year the gross earnine
have increased Sl3, 40S. 600 and the operatin
expenses s9,56S,20O. At even this rate ii
gross earnings will be $215, 100000. In 10
they were $19S 626, SIS, and in 1899 sl52 900 10
In September all lines showed a gross /,
crease of $ls66.700. representing an III
precedented soft-coal movement and re-
ord breaking merchandise tonnage At II
same time IL should be borne in mind tn:
: the cost of operation was 81, COS 900 lars,
than year ago, due to the higher lab,
charges, the increased cost of material ar
to the legitimate advance in transport,
ton charges from the enormous tomas
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