The Indianapolis journal., 1883-03-17

getting further protection by making special
tariff rate for them, which shall discriminate in
their favor as against importers This singular
proposition is being urged upon traffic managers
with protective persistency since the passage OF
The new tariff law, which does not insure them
all the protection and profits that they as Amer
lean manufacturers, insist they are entitled to.
THE SHORT METHOD.
party signing himself Railroader asks the
best method of computing the tons OF rails re-
quired for one mile of single track. The short
rule to 6nd the number of tons of t2,24O pounds)
rails to the mile is TO divide weight per yard by
and multiply it by IL. Thus for 56pouud rail,
! divide So by z, equal g. multiply by H. equal 80
| tons of one mile of single track. What Is known
as the long method is more troublesome way
| to compute tons ana no more exact.
TAKE THE BEAM OUT OF YOUR OWN EYE.
The Cincinnati papers, which are so troubled
regarding the transfer companies at Indianapo-
lis, it is said, will find on Investigation that the
transfer company of Cincinnati has no more
mercy on shippers than do the companies here,
exorbitant not being big enough word to cover
| the rates charged, and the transfer company at
Cincinnati as well is owned by railroad men and
| its presldentl Is a general freight agent. Our
| fellows Only charge ls cents to cents per 100
pounds on contracted frelghts transferred, while
the Cineinuatians charge 5 cents per 100 pounds,
and likely dip deeper on uncontrolled frelghts
where the rate of transfer, as at indianapolis, is
optional with the transfer companies.
EVERYBODY SATISFIED.
The railroad commissioners of New Jersey
have just made public their first annual report
The State has, in all, over 1,s00 miles of roads,
and stands second in regard to railway facii-
ties. There is one mile of track for every four
miles of area, and, compared with Massa-
chusettes the leading State, New Jersey has no
! debt incurred in the building of railroads The
| total capital invested in railroad property is
| S214, ,349. The cost of the roads and their
| ennlnmanta amOnntR6
| gross earnin gs in 1881 were S3l ,e45, ,S02. Net
earnings were ST sos, l, aud the interest paid
on bonds, ETC., was Sc, ,596,338 For the year
| 1892 Commissioner Reynolds puts the gross
earnings at $36. .00O, 900; net income, after
deducnng all expenses at least Sl5, ,ooo, 600
The commissioner calls attention to the liberal
| policy of most of the roads Not a single COM
plant has been made as to either rates of pas
| sengers Of freight traffic.
THE IMMIGRANT POOL WEAK
The trunk line immigrant pool, which has
been in operation but few weeks, is shaky.
The steamship agents seem to be the disturbers.
A circular has been issued, suggesting to the
steamship agents to combine against the four
trunk lines in the pool and give their business to
some railroad outside of the pool probably the
Delaware, LackawanDa & Westerly unless the
commissions are increased to 10 per cent. The
regular commission was formerly Is per cent,
and IN some instances, where railroads were
competing for business with specific lines of
steamships, high as 25 per cent. was paid.
By the establishment of joint agency at Castle
Garden the first of the year, and pool being
| formed of The New York Central Erie, Penn
sylvania and Baltimore & Ohio railroads, the
commissions were reduced to per cent. 1t is
also stated that some of the lines in the Castle
Garden pool are dissatisfied because the New
YORK Central got more than its allotted 81 per
cent. of the immigrant business at the expense
of Erie, which is allotted in the schedule Al 12
per cent, and that this done through the
efforts OF one OF the prominent steamship lines
to favor that company.
THE GREAT DIsTURBER
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Pennsylvania road, on Tuesday last, is said by
the Philadelphia Press to have been boisterous
scene. E. I. Parker, usual, there with
his war-Paint on. Mr. Parker and W. f. Lock
wood, who are arrayed jointly against the pres
ent management were first to enter the Music
Hall, in which the meeting was held. Over 600
stockholders were present, comprising a very
large proportion of the wealth and brains of the
State of Pennsylvania, and to these were opposed
two men determined in policy of destruction.
Parker arose with much dignity, and on behalf
OF himself and "Other holders of stock of the
Pennsylvania railroad" protested against the di-
rectOrs of the company nsing capital the sur
plus net earnings or the company remaining af-
ter the payment of cash dividends, because the
surplus net earnings of the company remaining
after all expenses lave been paid or provided for
belong 10 the stockholders individually Mr..
Parker read quite freely from the annual report,
and was quite severe IN his comment Is, referring
to a resolution he Parker) introduced at the an
nual meeting in 1882.
"Why has the president not mentioned it in
his repOrt" Receiving no answer from Presi-
dent Roberts, Mr.. Parker glared at him and
added. ''why does he not speasq Is he dumb2"
81 arise to point OF order" called out a voice
from an obscure portion OF the hall.
81 won't be Interrupted" shouted Mr.. Parker
frantically; "I won't he interrupted by man-at-
ter a long pau5e-"or beast"
ResumDg his attack upon the policy of the
managers, Mr Parker was apparently settling
himself for a long speech, when a score of voices
clamored, "fime! tiInei"
"I appeal to the meeting for a hearing"
shouted Mr.. Parker above the tumulr. The
should sit down, and down he sat. 1t was only
for moment, however. In a few seconds the
obstructiOnist returned to the attack, and being
again repulsed remarked:
"Now am done. | find 1t impossible to beat
any more brains into your heads than you al
ready have"
Mr.. Parker is said to have risen thirty-one
times during the meeting to put in his oar. OF
course, what he says is thought but little of,
he is looked upon by the management OF The
road as crank. He managed, however, to get
In the last word by submitting a series of resOlu-
tions asking the appointment of a committee OF
hye stockholders to inquire into and report how
the expense and construction accounts are kept.
Action on the resolutions was Indefinitely post
poned, and the meeting adjourned.
General Wagner one of the large stockholders,
created considerable merrment in the meeting
by some sharp shots. One just after Mr. Parker
had taken his seat WAS very pointed. The Gen
eral remarked that shakespeare wrote a COM
edy."
HE did, did hel" exclaimed Mr.. Parker, Wis.,
ibly nettled at the abrupt check.
'tYesl" continued the General, coolly. at was
Il Comedy of Errors and in it were two Drom-
los" AS the speaker uttered the last words he
glanced significantly at the two ohstructionsts.
The point was too much for the meeting it
burst forth into an uncomfortable fit of laughter
from which it was finally recalled by the warn
ing tones of the chairman's gavel.
The School Board.
At the regular meeting of the School Board