The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-30

sl3. 1906. against S12.SS7. lS2 in the CORE
spending period of 1901. and its gains IN
passenger earnings are fully as striking as
in it's freight revenue.
The American Ticket Brokers' Associa-
ton will hold its annual meeting in Chi
cago May Il and Is. having changed the
place OF the meeting from Minneapolis.
The association is said TO be prosperous,
having over 275 members
a deal will be completed this week by
which the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad viii
secure right OF way from Canton, o., 10
East Liverpool on which to build road
TO the coal deposits at West Point, SIX
miles north of East Liverpool.
Passenger earnings of the Lake Shore
road for 1901 show an increase of 20 per
cent. over 1900, portion of which was due
TO the Pan-American Exposition. For the
west-bound business exceeded east-bound
traffic.
j. Z. Quick. secretary of the American
Association Of General Baggage Agents,
announces that the general convention Will
be held in Chicago May p, when action Will
be taken on certain new rules which VIII
effect radical changes in the methods OF
carrying baggage.
What were known as the full crew
bills requiring that passenger train
shall be run with less than four men and
no freight train with less than five men,
passed the Ohio Senate Yesterday and are
now laws. The bills were advocated by the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.
1t was officially announced at Montreal
that the Canadian Pacific has acquired the
Ottawa, Northern q Western road COM
binatiOn of small lines, including a tram
way line near Ottawa, which when put in
proper order, will shorten the transconti-
mental route by over thirty miles.
a company has been organized at vinita,
l. T., backed by the Frisco Railroad Com
pany, TO build a line seventy-five miles in
Length uniting the main line of the Frisco
at Vinita with the Frisco extension from
Blackwell, o. T., TO COffeyville, Kan, join
ing the latter at Bartlesville, 1. I.
c. r.. Fitch, general manager of the Erie,
yesterday surrendered his office to Vice
President Willard, after years OF faithful
service. He has been with the road twelve
years in an official capacity and now retires
solely on account of i'll health. In 1891 he
was general superintendent of the road.
The weaker lines raised such tumult
over the abohshing of sec0nd-class fares
that it really forced a withdrawal Of the
proposition. Their abolition would give the
strong lines every advantage, as the public,
at the same rate, would naturally take the
best service.
The Big Four is making extensive ar
rangements for handling the travel during
the week of the encampment and the dedi-
cation of the soldiers monument Extra
trains will be run over all divisions and on
Thursday, the day of the dedication, trains
will be run from indianapolis over every
division between 10 D. m. and IL p. m.
Railway officials who were in New York
to attend the annual meeting of the Ameri-
can Railway Association state that much
was said about holding more meetings in
Indianapolis when the Claypool Hotel is
completed. 1t is highly probable that next
year a number of railroad meetings will be
held in this city. so easily is it reached
from all directions.
The transportation of 1876, 900 homeseekers
from the Eastern and Southeastern States
record within sixty tie
figures being above, rather than below.
that number. 1t is also estimated that p. coo
freight cars carrying furniture and other
articles have been moved as result or
this immigration. The movement is still
heavy and bids fair to extend into May.
E. L. Browne, representing the passenger
department. of the Toledo, St. Louis q
Western, was in the city last night. he
states that the passenger business OF the
road is steadily increasing and that the
company has not abandoned the idea or
has secured an option on Silver Wood
Springs and may make a Chautauqua out
of them.
d. Bowes, assistant general passenger
agent of the Chicago * Alton, was in the
city yesterday. He credits the marked in
crease in passenger earnings of the Chicago
q Alton to the fact that the company has
worked TO build up its local. as well as
through business and as fine equipment Is
run on its accommodation trains as on its
through passenger trains, which are said
TO be as fine running out of Chicago
Master in Chancery Allen, at Greenville
ILL.,, yesterday sold the Chicago, Greenville
| & Southern Railway under a decree of fore
| closure issued by Judge Humphrey in the
! United States Circuit Court in the case OF
/ the Metropolitan Trust Company of New
York against the railway company. The
/ road runs from Durley to Greenville and is
/ operated in connection with the Jackson
\ Vile x st. Louis. The firSt-mortgage bond
/ holders bid i'm the road.
! financier, in speaking of the rumor that
/ the Monon, said the affairs of the Louisville
/ & Nashville were now so tangled. owing
/ to the furry in it's stock, that it is not III
condition to acquire the Monon any other
road. and further, the natural outlet for
! the Louisville a. Nashville was over the
/ Evansville * Terre Haute and the Chicago
| &, Eastern Illinois, and he expected TO some
/ day see these lines affiliated by lease OF
| otherwise.
The ST. Louis & Gulf Railway Company
! has absorbed the following railroads in the
| Houck district in southeast MisSouri: The
! Cape Girardeau, Bloomfield Southern
/ Railway Company, the Kennett & Osceola
| Railway Company, the PeniscOt Southern
/ Railway Company, the st. Louis, kennet
| Railroad and the Moreley and Moorehouse
| Railroad Company. The assent of the
| stockholders of the companies concerned
was flied with the secretary of state OF
/ Missouri yesterday. The St Louis * Gull
! Railway Company was chartered by the
/ secretary of state on the 18th OF this month
with a capital stock of 100000 The con
! solidation gives the ST. Louis & Gulf Rail
way, the stock of which is mostly owned
! by Lewis Houck, a line from st. Louis
/ through southeast Missouri into Arkansas