The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-27

sessions at the Claypool Hotel discussing
questions connected with their line of serv-
ice.
]. w. Osborn. a Pittsburg & Lake Erie
engineer, has been appointed engineer Of
the Salineville.' an old locomotive which
is 70 be exhibited at the worlds fair by
the Pennsylvania.
a fireman on the Toledo. St Louis &
western has been released from service
under recent rule that in the event of
callboy twice reporting fireman not found
the penalty is dismissal.
w. II. McDoel, president OF the Monon
who has been in Hot Springs for a month
and who intended TO go to Florida has
changed his plans and will go TO Los
Angeles TO continue his recreation trip.
y. ]. Normile, a conductor on the Cleve-
land * PittsbGrg, has resigned and will go
TO japan TO engage in the fight with the
Russians. Normile was a member OF
PENNSYLVANIA regiment which fought In
the Philippines.
The Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific has
announced its willingness TO Join the South
ern Pacific in the expense of building a
causeway across Galveston bay for the use
of its tracks The cost of the proposed
Improvement is estimated at S1,0o0.000.
]. B. Connors will retire from the position
of superintendent of the Scioto division of
the Norfolk & Western on March l. He has
not stated what is TO be his future employ
ment. Mr.. Connors for years chief
train dispatcher of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
* Dayton.
Instead of meeting the low rates on grain
from Missouri points TO Chicago put in eff
feet by the Chicago * Northwestern and
the Chicago Great Western the Rock
Island has issued notice that it will make
an advance of cents per 100 pounds on
wheat and corn.
Harry j. Rhein, general passenger agent
of the Lake Erie & Western; says the Chi
cago meeting was a very harmonious one
and successful in adjusting rates for the
ST. Louis exposition. He thinks a DISPOSE
ton is shown by all lines TO adhere to the
rates agreed upon.
E. z. Cost, recently elected vice president
of the Sea Board Air line. with a number
of directors. started on Thursday on an
inspection of the line 1t was stated yes
terday that his headquarters would be in
New York, but this is incorrect. His office
will be at Portsmouth Va.
The car service rules have again been
upheld by the Supreme Court of Illinois.
In case where a consignee received a couple
of carloads of coke and did not unload them
within the fOrty-eight- limit the COM
pany charged demuTage, or storage, and
filed a lien on the coke to secure payment.
George A. Cellar, of the PENNSYLVANIA
Lines West, who succeeded Charles E. Nc
Kim, who went to the Rock Island as SUI
perintendent of telegraph of the Pennsyl-
Yanla line, was given dinner at Pittsburg
on Thursday night. Mr.. McKim was to
have been an honored guest but the change
made it impossible for him TO be present.
The ingalls, block at Cincinnati has been
completed and to-day the Big Four will
occupy one of the corner rooms for its out
side ticket office, which has been fitted up
in an elaborate manner. The Queen 4 Cres-
cent, which takes four floors of the build
ing, the Chesapeake * Ohio, which takes
two floors, and the Kankakee Dispatch and
the Erie Dispatch will also move into the
building.
So far as indianapolis is concerned, the
fifteen-day excursion fare from this city TO
st. Louis and return for the worlds fair by
the agreement of all lines will be 50.
Doubtless, unless this rate should draw
large crowds, a further reduction may be
made. The fact of the business is that
much will depend upon the patronage the
roads receive. If the volume of business
should be disappointing further reductions
are likely to follow.
The Lackawanna report for 1903 is a sur
prise TO railroad officials. The increase in
gross earnings was $7,lS2, 49, net earnings
increased $62l6,219. and after charting off
ample sums for betterments, the company
showed s6.0 .23S for dividends, almost "a per
cent. on the stock. The company reported
a deficit for 1902 of s., $50 659 after the pay
ment of per cent dividend. Averaging
the two years the earnings were about III
per cent on the stock
President Ledyard, of the Michigan Cen
trail, thinks that property is now in first
class shape. During the last year the COM
pany purchased from the American Loco
motive Company, TO be delivered in Feb
ruary and March, forty engines of the
heaviest type, principally for freight traf-
fic. and in addition twelve engines are TO be
built at the companys own shops. Twenty
engines built by the American locomotive
works have been delivered.
The car famine has reached an acute
stage in the Pttsburg district and coal and
coke shipments are seriously affected. The
railroad companies, in response TO COM
plants, make the statement that the recent
winter has been the most severe on trafnc
in twenty years. 1T is shown that IL mas
been a frequent experience during the past
two months for as many as seven big 10
] haar Nv n
because Of the freezing of water pipes.
Representatives of the Ohio Shippers As
ISOLATION and officials of the railroads CEN
tering at Columbus, o., held another con-
ference on Thursday to endeavor 10 induce
the railroads 70 offer to make material con-
cessions in car-service rules and minimize
denurrage charges. The railroad officials
who We're present made an effort TO nave
the shippers abandon the bill, which is be-
ing prepared for introduction 10 the ONO
State Legislature during its present session.
The Interstate-commerce Commission has
begun an investigation of the business
methods Of the Illinois Central, Louisville
& Nashville, Mobile * Ohio ana the Soutn-
ern Railway companies, particularly regard
ing switching charges on grain shipped from
elevators in East ST. Louis TO INTERSTATE
destinations These roads have been made
respondents in the proceedings and required
TO file full and specific answers on or pc
| fore March rs next The investigation Is the
result of complaints alleging unreasonable
and discriminating rates.
II Is stated that with the advance or
spring there will be renewed ACTIVITY on the
| line of the Columbus, Lima q MilWaukee'
line which will give Lima direct communl-
cation with Lake Michigan by way OF De,
fance A regular passenger service VIII
be established between Defiance and Lima.
The road passes through the western part
OF Putnam county, Ohio, and joins at
Jones City with the Northern ono, at
bennington with the Findlay. FIT WAYNE
| <, Western and at Continental with the
aaf and
The decision of the United States supreme
Court that a railroad passenger riding on a
| free pass cannot collect damages FOR IN IN
| iuries. even when due 20 negligence on the
mart of the company. is likely to have a
moral effect of considerable interest; IN the
| case considered the man was killed on the
Northern Pacific road while UaYenhg on d
pass. The lower courts decided IN favor
| of the plaintiff. but the Supreme Court re-
versed this decision. The court held that
there could be no higher duty on the PaIt
of the railroad company than to the man
who lost his life and that there is nothing
i'm public policy to prevent contract De
! tween a common carrier and free passen-
ger exempting the carrier from liability IN