The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-11
phia & Reading Company at its annual
meeting in June, vice retiring director j.

phia & Reading Company at its annual
meeting in June, vice retiring director j..
S. Harris.
The Chinese Eastern Railroad has in
augurated steamship service from Dalny 10
Shanghai and from Dalny to Nagasaki for
the conveyance of passengers. The jour-
ney from Paris TO Shanghai or TO Nagasaki
can now be accomplished in eighteen days.
Isaac c. Cotton. formerly a banker and
railroad man. IS dead at the home of his
brother. Rev. w. s. Cotton, al Toledo. o.
He was connected with the building of the
Wabash Railway in 1852 and with the con-
structiol of several roads in the Eastern
States
The Wabash extension into Pittsburg
from Jewett, o., sixty miles. is almost in
a straight line, stretching across valleys
and tunneling hills 10 accomplish such re-
suits. The railroad company is sparing no
pains to keep the line of even grade and
avoid curves.
George T. Gunnip. general agent of the
Santa re. in the city yesterday. He
has JUST returned from a three weeks trip
10 the Pacific coast. and states that the
Pacific coast business gives promise of be-
Ing heavier this year than in any year since
the coast became so popular resort.
A. ID. Murray. who has been promoted on
the Frisco line to general agent at St.
Louis, was in the city yesterday, accom-
panied by c. c. Spaulding and II. II. Powe,
travelling freight agents. the latter being a
new man in this territory. L. Liston, rep
resenting the Union Pacific. was also in the
city.
At the annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Missouri Pacific Railway yester-
day the following directors were elected:
George j. Could Russell Sage, Edwin
Gould, James II. Hyde, John d. Rockefel-
Ter, jr., Frank ]. Gould, Howard Gould.
Samuel Sloan, Parmelee Prentice, Fred T.
Gates, c. Warner, Russell T. Harding and
w. Bixby.
1t is feared in railroad circles that should
the dissatisfied employees of the Wabash
tn "a N
Eastern Illinois, the Chicago & Alton and
the Illinois Central 1t is even asserted
that the trainmen on the four systems are
In combination for the furtherance or
which the contest on the Wabash is merely
an initiative measure.
The action taken by the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul in placing in service a new
fast mail train between ST. Paul, Mime
apolis and Chicago bids fair to result in a
speed war not only between the cities men
toned but between Chicago and Omaha
The new train connects with a new mail
train on the Great Northern and the North
ern Pacific. and points along the coast are
brought six hours nearer Chicago.
A call has been issued by the locomotive
engineers of the Southeastern States for
a general meeting al Huntington, Va. 1t is
expected that one hundred engineers on the
c. & o. and b. & o. and minor roads will
be present. The object of the session has
been kept quiet, but IL is rumored that
legislation which was refused by the last
Legislature of Virginia will be discussed
and some plan of action for the future
mapped out.
The National Railroad Association Of
Clerks is increasing in membership rapidly.
The object of the association is mutual
benefit and a good time at its meetings.
In business way the different divisions
formed in railroad and steamship afralrs 10
give lectures at semi-monthly meetings.
There is nothing of the labor union feature
in it, and questions of that character will
be carefully avoided.
For the first time in some months the
yards of the different roads centering at
Indianapolis are about cleared OF delayed
freight. The last two or three weeks the
roads have spared neither time nor ex-
pense TO clear up the congestion, and are
taking freight from one another. many OF
Although there are large quantities OF
freight TO be moved il is believed no sucn
congestion will occur again as that OF Feb
ruary.
On Saturday musical comedy will be
given under unusual conditions The
'Prince of Pilsen'' troupe, when en- route
from Cincinnati to New York, will give the
final rehearsal before the opening OF the
musical comedy at the Broadway Theater
the following week. There will be nne
orchestral accompaniment, but no specta-
tors save quick glimpses by the inhabitants
of rural towns as the flying train goes by.
Ii will be the first case on record or mu-
steal comedy on the rail.
The Interstate commerce Commission has
ordered a further hearing in what is known
the Southern merger case, to be held In
New York city on March u. This is the
| case brought by the Kentucky railroad com
| mission against the Atlantic Coast line
the Southern Railway, the Louisville &
Nashville, the Cincinnati Southern, the Gin.
cinnati. New Orleans & Texas Pacific and
| the Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville
Railroad companies. The complaint alleges
that the defendant lines aggregate $500
miles and have an operating income oil
more than $50 O00. 000 and that j. p. Nor
gan & Co., of New York, has secured prac-
| tically the controlling management of all OF
| them
The Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern has
| its best engineers trying to solve the PROB
/ lem of stopping immense landslide that
| has been coming down ON its main tracks
| for several weeks, and is continually grow
! ing more threa tening at Fritchton, Ind.
| where the company recently made a long
| and deep cut, shortening the track two
miles. There is mountain of clay $50 feet
| high that has broken loose from the
| Wamplcr farm. and is carrying trees and
| poles along in coming down on the track
| leaving breach 500 feet wide between the
| slide and the farm. 1t is said TO be one OF
! the most remarkable as well as the most
expensive freaks ever encountered by q
| railroad company. A steam ditcher and
! force of twenty-five men are kept busy
night and day removing the clay from the
main track, and meantime the company is
| puzzled to know what to do in the matter
in legal way, as the farmer who owns