The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-30
TRADE, LABOR, INDUSTRY.

The Southern Pacific Railroad has grant
ed an increase in the salaries of all sta
ton agents and telegraphers between Ell
Paso and New Orleans ranging from s.. so
TO SIS per month, the total being about
$4,000 a year.
An American Chamber of Commerce was
organized at Berlin Thursday night, with
l01 members, who are engaged in business
in Berlin, Hamburg and other German
cities. II. Kreismann, of Chicago, former
ly United States consul general and now a
street-railway owner, was elected president.
The Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph
Company filed amended articles of incor-
poration in the office of the Kentucky sec
rotary of state on Thursday, increasing the
amount of it's capital stock from $40, 900 900
to $20000.0O0. a recording fee of $4,000 was
paid into the State treasury by the COM
pany.
1t is understood at st. Petersburg that
Charles NJ. Schwab is negotiating for the
haulage of a three-car special train from
Virballen, station on the frontier of
Prussia and Russia, TO Port Arthur. The
Russian authorities prefer stopping the
heavy international sleeper at Irkutsk
Siberia, and substituting lighter cars from
that point onward
The Cincinnati & Columbus Traction
Company of Cincinnati filed certificate of
increase of its capital from $4,000 to 81 5O0-
900 at Columbus Thursday. Half is to be
5 per cent. cumulative preferred stock. The
company will build an electric line from
Cincinnati to Washington G.. H., and there
bus over the Columbus & Southwestern
system.
Anthony III. Brady, who, with G. K. Bill
ings and G. c. Knapp, of the Peoples Gas,
Light and Coke Company of Chicago. re-
following statement: I'VE visited Paris
with the view of investing capital in the
gas plants. After looking over the situa-
ton We have made proposition to join
in the enterprise. This proposition is now
being considered and it is expected that a
definite conclusion will be reached within a
short time"
The six steel freight steamers and the
Great Northern elevator in Buffalo, owned
by the Northern Steamship Company have
been sold to syndicate composed of the
New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the
Erie the Lehigh and the Lackawanna
railroad interests, and will be operated in
the future under the joint control of the
Erie the Lehigh and the Lackawanna The
deal does not include the transfer of the
passenger steamers Northwestern and
Northland, which will return to the Buffalo
Duluth route.
The freight traffic on the Dutch Railroad
Company'S system in Holland is suspended
in consequence of the strike of the three
hundred freight enginemen in sympathy
with the employees of several Transports
ton companies who have been on strike for
some time past The employees of the state
railroads threaten to join in the strike. A
detachment of marines is watching the
Dutch Railroad Companys premises. There
was a conflict between strikers and nom
strikers in the suburb of Durgerdam
Thursday. Several men were seriously in
jured. Troops have been ordered to Arm
helm.
An American syndicate, in which are
well-known New York financiers, has been
formed to take control of the principal
street railroads and electric lines in Hol-
land. A statement given out says: The
Netherlands Tramway Corporation, capital
s., 500 900, has been formed to purchase
"a
1t has purchased all the street railroads in
the city of Harlem, Holland. Franchises
have been obtained and contracts let for the
building of double electric railroad to
run from the center of the city of Am
sterdam to Haarlem, a distance of twelve
miles.
In the Reichstag on Thursday Home Sec
rotary Won POsadowsky-Weh elmer support
lutely prohibiting the use of phosphorus in
the manufacture of matches, said the gov
eminent had acquired the patent of new
igniting substance which was harmless to
the health of the working people and had
placed il at the disposal of all the match
factories which were still using phospho-
rus. He knew some manufacturers con-
tended that phosphorus was not injurious.
but the government had accumulated testi-
mony showing that even years after men
had ceased to work in match factories they
contracted phosphoric necrosis.
Herr Ballin director general of the Ham,
burg-American line, announces that the
agreement signed at Cologne on Saturday
last by the French Transatlantic Company
with the shipping combination did not pro-
vide for the former entering the combina-
ton, thereby confirming previous state
ments on the subject, that il was the gen.
eral traffic agreement of the North Atlantic
Steamship Company, which has been in
existence for eleven years and which also
includes Dutch and Belgian lines. In view
of the situation at present existing. he
added. the French line would not enter the
combination and the latter did not desire
IL TO do so.