The Indianapolis journal., 1904-03-18

either to Huntington or Wabashs while
southwark the extension will be from Penn
vile by way of Portland to either Union
City or Greenville. o. The line now mas
lis fiat cars employed IN hauling gravel;
and new rolling stock is being purchasfo
daily.
The Springfield Union Depot Company
has been Incorporated with capital of SlO,-
600. j. B. Laying and Z. F. Osborne, vice
president of the Big Four, are the incor-
porators. The corporation will purchase
ground and build and maintain a union
station at Springfield o.
The Chicago & Alton made fast run
between Chicago and st. Louis as test
of what can be done in the way OF re-
ducing the present schedule. The tram
made the trip in six hours and twelve MIN
utes; deducting stops the running time
was five hours and fifty minutes for the
2S3 miles.
decided to make Chicago stopover place
during the st. Louis exposition, and this
action threatens Generalization In all East.
ern territory. A committee or the Central
Passenger Association. held a meeting and
discussed the situation, but was unable TO
agree on action.
Much extra work has been occasioned for
ticket brokers of the Baltimore & Ohio by
the great fire at Baltimore. The offices
of the company were burned and with them
the reports of the agents for many months
back. Agents all over the country are send
ing duplicates of their monthly reports, De-
ginning with November.
Hunter Mcdonald, chief engineer of the
Nashville Chattanooga q st. Louis, was
Yesterday elected president of the Amerl-
can Railway Engineering and Maintenance
of Way Association. w. s. Dawley, CHIEF
engineer CT the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
Railway Company, was made secretary.
George w. Kittredge, of Cincinnati, was
elected a director.
The January statement OF the Philadel-
phia & Reading Relief Association shows
an expenditure of $35, ,926. 20, of which $27,7O
was paid out for deaths and S15,1l6.15 for
disabilities. The number of deaths was
9s. of which were from accidental and 81
from natural causes. The expenditures or
the month were the largest of any month
in the history of the organization.
Benjamin Wood a conductor on the Ma
tional road of Mexico, who was arrested
running, established the fact that he did
not take charge of the train until the
freight was stolen. He has sued the co,d-
pany for $4,000 damages, and the Oroer
of Railway Conductors has advised that 1t
will furnish funds for the prosecution OF
the case.
Ticket scalpers and the railroads seem to
be engaged in fight to the finish The
| recent sweeping injunction gained by the
railroad companies in st. Louis and con-
victions of Buffalo, Atlanta and Memphis
| scalpers have stirred the railroads to fur
| ther efforts to put an end to ticket scalping.
| The authorities of st. Louis and other
large centers have come to the assistance
! of the railroads, and 1t is now proposed TO
| attack Chicago scalpers.
Justice John NJ. Harlan, of the United
States Supreme Court, was in Baltimore
| on Wednesday and In conversation said he
could not add anything bearing on the IA
| nous Northern Securities case other than
! that contained in the decision. He added:
81 gave the evidence conscientious consid-
| GRAFTON, viewing every point carefully and
overlooking nothing of moment. The case
was an important one. and will no doubt
| be used as a precedent for other cases to
| come before the Supreme Court. / dis
o1,o 6trtU n he IN
| and hope it will be considered as right and
just, as 1 intended it should be-"
The Great Northern officials have served
notice on shippers and residents along the
| the train service over that part OF the
| system will be abandoned Sept 1, and the
| country between those two points VIII be
compelled to depend on wagons In the
| future as a means of communication. Not
| town on the line to be abandoned furn-
ishes revenue to the railroad. 1t is eighty
| miles long and the new line, which will
strike the terminal, will be 112 miles long
! The Great Northern obtains by the new
route a richly productive country and
| avoids about 1000 feet of grade.
Purposing to promote temperance among
| all grades of its employees, and as an
! economical step, the managements of the
| ST. Louis & San Francisco and the Chi
| cago q Eastern Illinois have determined
| wine feasts among their travelling, district
| and general agents. For years 1t has been
|
| what they termed policy money On
| every expense account about one-half the
| items have been for drinks suppers and
| other expenses incurred in preserving policy.
| This reform is in line with a general rule
| against intoxicants which is now being
| enforced on nearly all roads. Up to this
| time, however. the rules were applied only
| to the employees OF the train and operating
| departments.
| Official announcement has been made of
| several important changes which will soon
| be made in the personnel of the executive
/ department of the Northern Pacific from
! the general managers office to that of man
| ager of coal lands in Montana. The first
| change announced is the resignation of w.
II. .Phipps. general land commissioner in
! Montana for the railroad, who will go into
| business General Manager Thomas Cooper,
| Il is announced, will succeed Mr.. Phipps as
| general land commissioner. II. ]. Horn,
| now general manager of Northern Pacific
| coal lands in Washington and Montana will
| succeed Mr.. Cooper general manager. j..
| +. Menzies has been appointed in charge
of the coal lands in Washington and he
| will work under the direction of Charles
| NJ. Levy, assistant 10 the president. Robert
Pettigrew becomes general manager OF coal
lands in Montana and will report TO the