The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-24

General Manager Schaff, Of the Big Four,
was in the city yesterday.
Oliver Martin Watts will be given the title
of assistant city ticket agent of the Big
Four at Indianapolis.
Charles Fuller of the Big Four passenger
force, has returned from Arkansas, where
he has been visiting relatives.
st. Louis trains over the Big Four and
the Vandalia are still late daily, being de-
layed by the improvements in progress at
st. Louis.
Belt road engines yesterday delivered to
kinSan q Co. ninety-five carloads of hogs
and cattle, one of the largest days de-
liveries in the history of the plant.
In October the surgeons on the western
lines of the Pennsylvania system examined
LAT applicants for membership In the Vol
unteer Relief Association of the company.
me Illinois Central has issued an attrac-
tive folder giving round-trip winter tourist
rates to Cuba and ocean steamships sail
ing from New Orleans in connection with
the Central
Thanksgiving day as far as practicable.
No local freight trains will be run and all
freight houses will be closed except for
perishable freight.
G. A. Chandler, civil engineer of the Mis-
souri, Pacific, yesterday started out with a
reOrganized surveying corps to begin the
work of surveys of double track from
Atchison to Kansas City.
The troubles of the Western roads over
division of the emigrant business have
been settled and the Chicago, Rock Island
d Pacific will return to the associa ton,
from which it withdrew.
Last week the Northern Pacific reduced
the working hours at it's shops and the
Great Northern took similar action. The
reduction Is stated to be on account of the
falling off in the amount of construction
and repair work.
]. Cory Winans. who represents the c.,
III. & ID. in the Northwest, left for Boston
on Sunday night, where he will assist in
selecting headquarters for the 1904 Grand
Army encampment. Colonel Winans ex-
poets to be absent a week.
Local ticket agents have received cir
culars from S. c. Donald, commissioner of
the Central Passenger Association in
structing them to erase the name of the
Toledo, st. Louis & Western on the inter-
changeable mileage book effective Nov. Is.
Beginning with Dec. / the new Western
mileage books Will go on sale. The Gre
Dental mileage is raised from 1000 to 1900
miles and the new 2000-mile book will cost
$50, with rebate of $3.50 when the cover
is returned, instead of costing $50 with $40
rebate.
The aggregate tax Of the railroad COM
panies operating in New Jersey is 81 574 500
of which the Pennsylvania road pays sii7-
$685. the Lackawanna, S2Il ,656; the Jersey
Central, 500 449; the Lehigh Valley $751;. 6SS:
the Erie, sl56,S23; the Philadelphia & Read
ing, $55.3S4.
By changes in its time table. which be-
come effective on Sunday the Union Pa
ciic brings San Francisco seven hours
nearer via Kansas City, with the shortest
time TO the East. The changes are made
possible by opening the new cutoff at
Great Salt Lake.
Edwin A. Dawson. manager of the Star
Union line, on Sunday celebrated his fifty-
eighth birthday and completed forty-one
years of continued service with the Penn
sylvania. He began work on the road as a
yard clerk in the employ of the Pittsbur.<
Fort Wayne * Chicago.
The commercial interests of Oklahoma
City have attained such proportions that
the Manufacturers and Jobbers' Associa-
ton have employed traffic manager. and
have selected j. I. Johnson. of Galveston,
Tex, for the position, he being well quail
fled through his long railroad service. His
salary will be 5000 per annum.
President Cabrera has opened with great
ceremony thirty miles more OF the Pan
American Railway, says New York Her.
aid dispatch from Guatemala city This
makes 10 miles of the line in Guatemala
leaving only about 100 miles yet to be built