The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-03-05

of their holdings of Monon stock IL the
Southern wanted it.
The low colOnst rates are now i'm effect.
In previous years the rates were only in eff
feet on certain days. which resulted in
heavy travel on such days, but this year
they are good every day of this month
and through April and the travel will be
more evenly distributed.
Saxby's Magazine for March contains pic
lures Of Charles r. DAILY, recently APP
pointed chief assistant passenger agent of
the Lake Shore, and of John Daily. Eastern
passenger agent of the road, and spea ks in
complimentary terms of the ability OF both
as passenger officials.
f. II. Guigan. formerly superintendent OF
the western division of the Wabash, mas
been appointed manager of the Grand
Trunk Railway with offices in Chicago he
viii have charge of maintenance OF way
and transportation and will report directly
TO General Manager Hays.
The biennial meeting of the Brotherhood
or Locomotive Engineers Will be held IN
May next, when, Grand Chief Arthur says,
probably some action will be taken for a
uniform schedule of wages and the adop-
ton of standard rules on all roads In the
United States will be asked.
meeting of stockholders of the Lake
Shore road has been called for March 20
to vote on the question of extending its
lines from Ashtabula to a point in Trum-
bull county, Ohio. The proposed extension
will pass through a rich farming country
and several towns with large manufactur-
ing interests.
The Vandalia will at once commence the
erection of a stone building for repair
shops at Logansport. The machine shop
will be 120 feet long by seventy wide. and,
it is expected, will give employment to
seventy or more men Other buildings Will
be erected in the near future: making TINS
a more important division point.
The Financier says that the series of an
N 20 hN
past few weeks means that the money
market will be called on 10 furnish some
thing like $4,000 OoO for new stock and ad-
ditlOnal bonds and this has led the Specu-
lative public to assume a conservative at
titude pending further Developments.
The general accounting department OF
the Iowa Central will be removed to Mime
apolis on April l, and Frank Nay will be
come auditor of both the Iowa Central AMI
the Minneapolis & ST. Louis, retiring T. l..
WATSON. This indicates that both roads
are owned by the same parties and in the
near future, despite denials will be merged.
J. j. Hill has temporarily checked the
Baltimore & Ohio entering the Union Sta
ton at Chicago, ii being a Pennsylvania
interest. and the Chicago. Burlington s.
Quincy, which represents the Hill interest,
will not consent to the change unless the
Pennsylvania gives positive assurance that
it will remove its freight house along the
river south of Madison street.
Lake steamship lines that do passenger
business. especially in handling summer
tourist traffic, not only ripe for
fight with their railroad connections, but
rather DESTROYS to break the alliance be
tween the two interests that up to this
time has been tremendously maintained.
The contention Is entirely over the paying
of commissions by the lake lines.
The railroads of Ohio are arranging to at
tempt TO secure another decision from the
State Supreme Court in regard to their
right to charge for fractional miles in sell
ing tickets from one point to another. The
~ IL, Ia@s osr,of
the Big Four decided that the road could
not charge for fractional mile. The roads
have refused to revise their rate sheets and
the fight will be taken up again.
A. ]. Fraser, superintendent of the Queen
& Crescent. with the approval of w. j.
Murphy general manager, has issued cir
culars appointing A. ]. Love assistant SUI
perinteudent of the. Alabama Great South
ern Railroad, vice Charles f. Hickey,
signed to other duties; j. G. Nelson, road
master, with headquarters at Birmingham,
Ala; V b. Lang, master mechanic, with
office at Birmingham, Ala, vice w. n.
Cox, resigned.
John ]. Cotter has resigned as train
master of the st. Louis division of the
Wabash, having been offered division SUI
perintendency with the Denver & Rio
Grande Railroad. Superintendent Alexan-
der Robertson, of the middle division of
the Wabash. has issued circular an
nouncinG that business previously handled
through the administers office will here
after be handled through the office of the
superintendent.
The growth and continued heavy travel
over the Pennsylvania lines is remarkable.
Trains and p east are daily run in two
sections between Columbus and Pittsburg,
and Trains and 20 also, notwithStand-
ing the fact that five through trains have
been added between Pittsburg> and st.
Louis and Pittsburg and Chicago in the
last four years. With the taking effect of
the spring time table two more through
trains will be added.
large sum of money on its Louisville di-
vision, renewing bridges laying a good
deal of heavier steel rail and bringing 1T
up to a high standard. Seven years ago
the company expended a good deal of
money in that direction, and the track from
Indianapolis to Louisville was for years the
best of any division of the pennsylvania
lines west of Pittsburg. The Panhandle
from Indianapolis to Columbus now ranks
as the best track.
NJ D. Woodford, president of the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton * Dayton and its allied
lines, expects to have the extension of the
Indiana Decatur * Western completed and
in shape to run into Springfield by May L.
1T is reported that the Illinois Central will
join the Cincinnati, Hamilton * Dayton in
terest and establish fast through service
between St. Louis and Cincinnati. In such
case the Indiana, Decatur & Western would
go into Springfield over the Illinois Central
mean trouble, as il would necesSitate a
crossing of the Wabash track at Body
What originally led to a boycott of the
Illinois Central on the ant-pass question
the boycott however, now being lifted
was it's refusal to grant request from
the Michigan Central for sixty-one passes
for representatives of the fast freight lines,
and another from the Baltimore * Ohio
Southwestern. The management of the
Illinois Central consistently contended that
if it's six agents in the East were denied
transportation by the trunk lines the COM
pany could we'll afford to take similar
action concerning the seventy or more
lines. The Illinois Central did no more
| than did the Santa Fe, and in fact, every
! Western road except the Chicago az Alton.
| and the refusal of the latter made il i'm
! possible for the other lines to carry out
| their programme, as it would undoubtedly
| have injured their traffic and the Alton
would have been benefited.