The Indianapolis journal., 1902-10-03

Francisco as chief dispatcher. has been pro-
NOTED to the position of train master of the
western division of the San Francisco road.
Norman NJ. Breeze, general agent of the
Chicago Northwestern, was in the city
yesterday. He says the new fast train serv-
ice recently put on is proving profita Bile, and
the passenger business OF the road has been
the heaviest for some months in the roads
history.
c. Z. Webster. who has been principal
assistant engineer of the New York Central,
recently resigned, has been appointed chief
engineer of the Buffalo & Susquehanna,
and E. B. Freeman. his assistant. who re-
tired at the same time. is to be chief en-
gineer OF the Buffalo & Susquehanna.
The Wabash system has closed negotia-
tions for the Marietta, Columbus & Cleve-
land Railroad, fcrty-three miles in length,
from Marietta to Palos, where Ii reaches
the Toledo & Ohio Central. The considera-
tion is $4,000. The Wabash will use the
road in connection with its seaboard line.
Western roads have agreed to participate
in the reduced rate to be made for gov
eminent employees in Washington who may
be returning TO vote al the fall elections.
The reduction will be one fare for round
trip. commencing Oct. and running to
Nov. j, tickets good for return for thirty
days.
w. II. Coleman. general freight agent of
tne u van nandaIia' was In the city YESTERDAY; i
locomotive at its command in service, and
coal traff1c is the heaviest in the roads his
| lOTy ana llmlteQ 10 the supply OF cars. InlS,
with the other heavy tonnage, makes busi-
ness very heavy.
Superintendent Parker of the Monon was
In the city yesterday. He reports business.
heavy. The Vandalia and the Big Four
are delivering large quantities of soft coal
for Chicago, Michigan City and other points
| on the Monon line. This business is limited
to the cars the Monon can furnish.
Edward Dickinson, general manager of
the Union Pacific, who, 1t was reported
from Kansas City, had resigned to accept
| an official position with the Kansas City,
Mexico & Orient, is In the Black Hills and
| could not be seen. President Burt, how
ever, denied that Mr.: Dickinson had re-
| had no intention of leaving the service of
/ the Union Pacific.
The Pennsylvania and the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroads after receiving notice that
the Big -Four intended using the same rate
per mile through Cincinnati that the Balti-
more q Ohio uses through Washington, re-
fused to name their southern rates until
1 the matter had been discussed by the
| Traffic Association and some decision
| reached. 1t is understood that a special
meeting of the general passenger commit
to settle the dispute.
The old controversy over the differen-
| tial rate on Southern business has come
up again. and the Big Four. the Baltimore
| d Ohio and the Pennsylvania en-
gagged In It, The latest development Is
that the Big Four has announced through
the rate meeting at Cincinnati that 1t will
make the same rate per mile through Gin
cinnati that the Baltimore & Ohio
through Washington. This means whole
sale reduction of rates to Jacksonville and
upsets all previous arrangements.
Traffic officials Of the Grand Trunk have
for more than year been making marked
effort to establish between that system and
the Western roads of the United States an
amicable relationship that will secure TO
| the Grand Trunk Western freight and pas
senger traffic from all lines entering Chi
| cago and Detroit, and there is said to be
no truth in the stories concerning the ac-
| auisition by the Grand Trunk of an Amer-
| can line To establish a Detroit and st.
| Louis line would destroy at once the lucra-
tive friendship between it and Western
| lines.
Suit has been filed in the United States
Circuit Court in Los Angles. CAL. by At
! Valentine and Special Assistant United
States Attorney j. II. c all. on the part of
the government, against the Southern Pa
| ciflc Railway Company. 1t Is an action to
recover the excess over the purchase price
| received by the railroad corporation from
| the sale of lands within the forty-mile limit
| or the old Atlantic & Pacific grant from the
! San Francisco connections to the Colorado
river under the act of July 7, 1866, and in
wolves thousands of acres.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Dayton now
has belt line covering the prosperous
| cities of the central Western States. On the
main line are Cincinnati Dayton, Toledo,
Detroit; on the western line Indianapolis
| Decatur and Springfield, H. On Monday
the company will begin running passenger
trains to Springfield, ILL.,, and as soon as
| connection is perfected the road will go
| into Kansas City and st. Louis by direct
| connection. The Cincinnati, Hamilton &
| Dayton road has a controlling interest In
1 the new system. NJ. d. Woodford, presi-
| dent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Day.
ton. will be at its head; c. G. Waldo. gen.
eral manager; d. G. Edwards, manager of
the passenger traffic and A. H. McCloud,
manager of freight traffic.
meeting of the general passenger
| agents and auditors of trunk line railroads
slider the establishment of an interchange
able mileage bureau, the object being to
| provide an interchangeable mileage ticket
that will be good on roads throughout the
trunk line territory. Although no officiaI
| announcement was made, 1t is said the SUBJ
| committee having in charge the plan of ar
! agreed on practically all details and will
| be ready to make a report containing a
| definite plan and recommending the add-
| ton of an interchangeable mileage system
at a meeting of the general trunk line pas
\ senger committee Oct. 2S. The plan
contemplates the creation of an inter-
changeable mileage bureau which will have
| charge of the system. The matter has
been before the trunk lines for some time
| and has been strongly urged by business
| interests.
| the South to double-track its lines. Among
the numerous other Improvements on it's
| lines South is the lowering of the grade
| line until the maximum is now twenty-six
| feet per mile. The most important work I'm
the recent operating history of the road is
| development of the terminal service and
| steamship connection Grain from the en-
tire Mississippi basin, as well as the prod
| ucts of the flour mills of the Northwest is
| now sent via New Orleans at a cost which
| competes successfully with other routes.
| The strategic strength of the Illinois Cen
trail is shown in the fact that New Orleans
exported S36,202 bushels Of wheat, or about
| 11a per cent. of the total exports in 1895.
| while in the last fiscal year "a, 4,410979 BUSH
els, IA per cent. of the total was sent
| from that port. In 1895 New York shipped
| SO per cent. of the total: In the last wear
! but IL per cent. The same comparisons are
said to hold good in corn and cotton.