The Indianapolis journal., 1903-06-16

Goulds were trying to secure possession of
the B. & o., the Pennsylvania and several
a joke or a weak attempt to work the
stock market.
Manunka Chunk has been abandoned by
the Lackawanna as a junction point with
the Pennsylvania for transfer of Iassen-
gers and baggage. Transfer is now made
at Stroudsburg, to which point Pennsyl-
vania trains are run. Tourists in the
Pocono mountains will appreciate this
change.
j. F. Crawford, a well-known railway
man, Is dead at Hartland, Wis, where he
went short time ago to recuperate mis-
health. Mr.. Crawford was travelling freight
agent of the Nickel-plate, with headquar-
ters at Chicago. The body will be taken
TO Chicago t'night.
The American Association of Local
Freight Agents has elected the following
officers for next year: President. G. n.
Bugg. of Savannah. Ca: secretary, New
ton Dennison. of Toledo; treasurer, j. II.
Gardner, of Atlanta, Ga.
Ticket and passenger agents at all points
speak gleefully of the outlook for summer
travel. What effect the recent distur-
bance of rates may have Is not clear, but
independent of any increase in travel in
duced by cut rates it seems certain that
great
| The Pacific Mail Company is boasting of
bad beating administered by it's liner
Korea TO the Canadian Pacific Company's
Nagasaka % to Kobe. The Mail company's
| boat gained on her rival thirteen miles in
| eight hours and developed speed of 1876
| knots.
Fred H. Tristram, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Wabash. announces
| that the Wabash has secured a large party
| from Pittsburg TO the saengerfest to be
held in ST. Louis, and aceordingly has
road out OF Pittsburg.. The party left
yesterday morning going by way of the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie and the Erie Rail-
| road to Huntington, Ind, where they pro-
ceeded over the Wabash system
Official notices have been sent out for
! the fifteenth annual convention of the
National Association Of Railway Commits
sioners, to be held at Portland. Me-, on
July IL. A number of important ques-
| tions are to be discussed at this meeting.
| The call for the convention contains a long
| list of subjects which will be of particular
| interest. Among the questions to be taken
| up are grade crossings. classification of
| operating and construction expenses, taxes
ana Plans Plans Tor Lair f
| fication and simpifcation of tariff sheets,
railroad statistics, legislation needed. safe
| ty appliances, rates and rate making and
| forms OF reports of electric lines.
Sir Charles Rivers Wilson. president OF
| the Grand Trunk Railway, who sailed for
| England Saturday, says, regarding the pro-
posed extension of the Grand Trunk lines
Pacific coast, to cost $3.50 ,000 tits now prac-
tically assured Of success. The road will
| be divided into the Eastern, the Prairie
| and the Rocky Mountain sections. 1t is
believed that 1t will take over five years
| to complete the entire project. 1t is as
| serted that the new route will provide the
shortest line between London and the far
| East, and that Ii will also shorten the dis
tance between many United States points
and the far East, as Port Simpson is about
$50 miles nearer the ports of China, Via
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| Seattle, and about $50 miles nearer than
San Francisco, while 1t Is no further away
than those ports from Hawaii Australia
| and other important South sea ports