The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-03
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| ern division.
In speaking of the friction over the car
service rules, General Manager Mummert
| said that not over per cent. of the
shippers complained of their rules.
c. c. Rhodes, station passenger agent OF
| the Big Four, the New York Central and
the Chesapeake & Ohio at the ST Louis
ticket office, was in the city yesterday.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy has
shortened the running time between Chi
cago and st. Paul thirty minutes, and is
making the run in u hours and 80 minutes
Ticket scalpers have again been enjoined
/ from carrying on their business in Hous-
| ton. Tex. One more test will be made of
| the validity of the ordinance prohibiting
| scalpers.
George w. Cobb. passenger agent of the
| Chicago, Milwaukee, & ST Paul at Phila-
| delphia, has been transferred to Kansas
City as general Southwestern agent of the
same line.
The semi-annual dividend of per cent
guaranteed on Chicago & Eastern Illinois
| common stock trust certificates of the St
Louis q San Francisco has been declared
payable Jan. 2, 1904
| William Bronson, assistant general pas
| senger agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio,
| who is on a Western trip, spent Tuesday
| with his father and mother. Mr.. and Mrs
| William II. Bronson.
| The Supreme Court of Missouri has de-
! cfded that railroads cannot charge higher
| toll for freight going in one direction than
| Is charged for the same class OF freight
In the opposite direction for the same dis
| tance.
The receipts from sales of tickets at the
| Big Four ticket Office continue to exceed
| those of the corresponding period last year.
and 1T is evident the present year, so far
as indianapolis Is concerned, will surpaSs
| all records.
A Big Four circular announces the pro-
motion of George Defenbach, division
general freight agent and Walter Nichols.
who has been division freight agent at st.
! Louis, to assistant general freight agent.
The Lehigh Valley has made arrange
ments which give II another outlet to East
ern States. the arrangement going into
effect on Tuesday of this week. The new
route will be for freight requiring rapid
| transportation and coming from the West.
The Chicago Great Western is reported
to be negotiating with the Colfax & North
ern, ROAD to prevent the chicago K asaS
is effected the road will be extended to the
coal fields owned by men in Des Moines Ia.
The Chicago & Northwestern passenger
department. issued Thanksgiving greet
dining cars OF the road together with re-
ceipts for special Thanksgiving dishes, by
Robert Johnson, chef Of the dining car de-
partment.
upon which the special excursion was to
leave Cleveland for Florida and Cuba has
been changed. 1t was originally planned
to have this train leave Jan. 4. Now it is
proposed that 1t shall start from Cleveland
Jan. IL at 1928 p. m q
The Monon is said to be the only road in
the United States which a1oa has postal S car
never been in wreck, but 1t Is cOpsld-
cred certain that it would not be damaged
by one as would a wooden car. nor could
1t take fire and burn.
1t is now an assured fact that the Erie
cutoff between Cleveland and point near
Marion, o., will be built, thus placing
Cleveland on the main line of the Erie IT
| fS ole IQnr
made in the line near Cleveland, practically
rebuilding the Mahoning division.
There will be no one selected to hold the
title of president of the Michigan Central
when Mr. Ledyard steps down and out.
President w. III. Newman of the New York
Central, will become tho general head OF
| the road, as he is of the Lake Shore now,
with Mr.. l. Hommedieu general manager.
The funeral services of l.. S. Van Dyke.
storekeeper of the Panhandle lines at Co
lumbus, o., were held on Tuesday in that
city. The deceased was member or the
Broad-street Presbyterian Church, mem
Der of number of lodges, and leader In
the Railway Mems Protective Association.
The big freight engines recently pur-
chased by the Big Four are hauling enor-
nous trains on the western division. 1t
is not an unusual thing for a train to con-
heavily loaded. and one day recently one
of these locomotives hauled lis cars in one
train over this division.
E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of
the Pennsylvania lines West. announced
yesterday the appointment of c. l.. Kim
, | ball, of Cleveland, as successor TO the late
II. 1. Dering, assistant general passenger
agent at Chicago. MIR. Kimball was assist
ant general passenger agent at Cleveland,
| and is one of the oldest men i'm the employ
| of the Pennsylvania Company.
The October report Of the Peoria & East
ern. published this week. shows the great
est earnings for October of any month in
the history Of the road, and for the first
ten months of the current calendar yeas
IL has earned a surplus over and above the
annual interest on the income bonds, pay
; able next April, with the November and
December reports yet to be included.
. The Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg
the Cincinnati, Hamilton Dayton. the
Erie and the Lehigh Valley railroads have
: applied to the Interstate-commerce Com
mission for additional extension of time fol
} compliance with the provisions Of the safe
, ty appliance law. Most of the roads ash
| until Jan. /, 1906. A hearing has been fixed
, on the question for Dec. 16 at Washington.
: 1t is announced by responsible parties
st the San wa s to baSe
secured running rights over the new VAL
> ley division of the Missouri Pacific from
Memphis to New Orleans has come to moth
| ing. The Rock Island Frisco interests will
| now build their own line through that ter.
: ritory, closely paralleling the Gould line fol-
300 miles.
Pennsylvania Railroad have been closeted
in the Windsor Hotel at Philadelphia fol
an indefinite length OF time. The firemen
made demand for increase in wages
} and asked the same pay under the new
schedule of nine hours day as they re-
ceived when they worked ten hours. Efforts
E are made to conceal every act taken by
!. the committee.
The interchangeable mileage bureau es.
tablshed few months ago by members OF
| the Trunk-line Association has met with
i entire success. During October it issued
an average of $50 books q day, large in.
: crease over preceding months, and NOvem.
Der showed further gains. Cases OF at.
tempted fraud have been much fewer thar
with the misuse of the old mileage books
issued by individual roads.
, The rumor is again current that the
Gould and Cassatt war, which grew out OF
the extension Of the Wabash system east
. | into the heart of the Pennsylvania terri
, | tory, has been settled definitely and ami
| cably, after several days of negotia tons
The strength in the Gould securities is re-
garded as indicating that such is the case
. | The strength of Pennsylvania is as strik
!. | ing as that of the Gould stocks.
The Twentieth Century Limited train or
/, the Vanderbilt lines has recently been max
ing some remarkable runs. With its regu
lar train and hauling an additional private
| car, carrying President Newman and Vice
President Brown, and despite the fact tina
, | and a strong wind the train made its fas
! | schedule and arrived at some division
| points four five minutes ahead of time
| Mr.. Brown said, in speaking of the run
that they could readily make 1t two hour.
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