The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-25

Passenger traffic to California, round trip,
Is unusually heavy, but the one-way colon
list travel on which the low rate expires
Nov. 80 has been disappointing in volume.
much to the surprise OF passengers officials.
T. n. Hooper. president of the Colfax
Northern Railroad and formerly superin-
tendent OF the Des Moines division or the
Great Western Railway, died at Des MONIES
yesterday of malarial fever, aged thirty
six.
The 2-cent per mile fare agitation in Ohio.
which has been continued for some wears.
will be revived again this winter. and 1t Is
Claimed that the measure has enough sup
port 10 secure its enactment by the next
Legislature.
Haskell & Barker, car manufacturers. or
Michigan City, have delivered 800 or the
1,W0 cars contracted for by the Lake Erie
q Western and they are now in service.
These cars have $1,000 pounds capacity and
all late improvements.
On Sunday the through car from Indian
apolis to French Lick Springs over the In
dianapolis & Vincennes and the Monon VIII
be taken off for the winter and passengers
Springs via Limedale, the Vandalia and
over the Monon.
l.. s. Allen, formerly general passenger
agent of the Seaboard Airline. who died
at Chicago recently, had been in all heaith
for some months, but at last died OF
dropsy. Mr.. Allen resigned his position
which he had held for many years, in 1901,
and had retired from railroading.
w. c. Shoemaker. superintendent of the
indianapolis division of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton, was in the city yes
terday He reports that for the first time
In weeks all congested business on the C.,
Id. & ID. is cleaned up and the road IN shape
to receive anything that comes to 1t.
At present railway mail clerks are given
demerit marks for improper handling or let
ters, but no penalties of this character at
tach to handling newspaper mail and con-
gresham from Pennsylvania Will introduce
in Congress a bill which will extend PEN
alties to the handling of newspapers.
The Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton yes
terday received the first of the five new
passenger engines, three of which will be
put in service at once on the indianapolis
division. With these in service all express
trains between Cincinnati and Indianapolis
will be hauled by these large locomotives.
The new rooms added to the general Of
fees of the Lake Erie & Western at this
point are about ready for occupancy and
are among the lightest and most cheerful
rooms for the service intended in the city.
They will be occupied by the engineering
department and the offices Of the auditor OF
the road or Dec. 1.
1t is stated that unless the machinfsts
employed in the Baltimore & Ohio South
western shops at Washington, Ind, are
granted advance in wages from % to 81
cents per hour to 80 and 81 cents by NOV;
n they will go out on strike. The demand
would give them 81: Sc for nine hours and
$2.56 for eight hours work.
gagged by the Chicago, Rock Island & Pa
cific Railroad Company, have commenced
laying out route for the extension or that
system from Burlington, Ia, to st. Louis.
The proposed extension will run east from
Burlington and will cross the Illinois river
at Beardstown. The line probably Will
touch Jacksonville, but its further direction
is not positively settled.
Three years ago the Chicago Elkhart di-
vision of the Lake Shore ceased paying
passenger brakemen double pay for ex-
cursion train service, paying them only the
regular rate. On Oct. 1 last their pay was
reduced 50 per month. Both reductions
have been rescinded and old-time pay es-
tablished as a result of a conference or
the officials with the general grievance
committee of the Brotherhood Of Railway
Trainmen at Cleveland.
The roads which carry California BUSH
ness have agreed on rates for the General
Church to be held at Los Angeles next
May, for the retail grocery convention at
San Francisco in May, the triennial con-
clave of the Knights Templars in San
Francisco in September and the Sovereign
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows in San Fran
cisco, also in the same month. All these
organizations are given a SIS round-trip
rate.
1t is understood that the Interstate-com-
merce Commission is satisfied with the re-
port of the committee of railroad master
mechanics in reference TO the application
of the requirement of the safety appliance
law to locomotives and tenders. The adj
justment of the difficulty, which was in in
terpreting the law has been accomplished
by concession on the part of the commits
sion and willingness on the part or the mas
ter mechanics committee to meet the re-
quirements of the law when construed in
manner admitting of practical application.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul an
pounces the opening of one-day passenger
service between Chicago and Denver. The
new service began on Monday, Nov. %.
This service between Chicago and Denver
is the best any railroad running between
those points has ever attempted. All the
lines, including the c., M. & st. p, have,
up to this time taken something over a
day and a half between the two points. The
train is provided with an observation and
compartment car, a chair car and all the
latest improvements in passenger train
equipment.
The annual meeting of the representa-
in the Southwestern lines colonization
agency was held in st. Louis yesterday,
and 1t was determined that the agency
shall be discontinued at the end of the cur
rent year. The agency was established a
year ago. with the option of continuing the
work for three years If deemed necessary.
accomplished by the agency has been very
satisfactory, the tide of immigration hav-
ing turned toward the Southwest beyond
expectation at the beginning of the year,
expenses as much as possible.
The Big Four is not alone in being robbed
of moving freights. The detectives of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific have just
uncovered a plot involving the robbery of
thousands OF dollars worth of property
from that company. For months freight
has been missing from box cars while in
transit, and until the last few days no clew
! to the robbers could be found, but a wom-
an who knew of the conspiracy gave the
information, and consequences several
of the employees Of the Rock Island will be
arrested, four of whom suddenly left the
service of the company and have not yet
been located. 1t is learned that the stolen
goods were shipped East and sold and the
money divided among those engaged in the
robberieS.
The financial assistance rendered last
week to the Seaboard Airline helps many
people who are in need of aid and thus re-
moves cloud which was overshadowing
Wall street. Then came the decision of the
railroads to reduce the freight rates on
steel for export 80 1-3 per cent. 1t has
been asserted that the reduction would
work to the disadvantage of the railroads
but it should be borne in mind that the rate
applies to the finished product alone, and
that, keeping the mills busy, the railroads
Will continue to enjoy a large and profit
able traffic upon coal, coke, ore and other
materials which are needed in the course
OF manufacture, so it will be seen that the
railroads were not altogether unselfsh in
the concessions made in freight rates.
Col. Roswell E. Gooddell, who died recent.
ly in Denver. Col, at the age of sew anty-
seven years, early in the second half of the
last century was superintendent of the Chi
cago & Alton. and it was ne who executed