The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-31
THE IRON HORSE.
The Railway Exposition at Chicago
Some Important Meetings to
Settle Differences--Notes.

CHICAGO, May 30-Nearly six thousand
persons attended the Railway Exposition yes
telday, and showed By their examinations
ana remarks that they viewed the exhibits
win great appreciation and understanding
= number OF prominent, railway people, con-
Vefssnt with matters pertaining to construc-
Iloh and operation matters, were in attend
ance and seemed well repaid. The number
OF new exhibits that have arrived
since the opening is great, and the
large building and annexes arc al
most crowded with the finest display of rail
way machinery and rolling stock ever col
iected at any one time. The annex is COM
pieteiy hlled now with magnificent and
passenger, freight coal live stock refriger,
ator, construction, track-laying postal, din
ING, sleeping and wTecking cars, as well as
Wlth some very fine street cars of new and
signals will repay half a days study at any
Time. 1t has cost thousands of dollars to put
the electric signals i'll place and large crowds
ale watching their mode of work
SETTLING DIFFERENCES.
A number of meetings were held at the
office of Commissioner Midgley requiring the
presence of Representatives from all the lead
ing lines in the west
The first meeting was in regard to the new
live stock rates from the west to this city
having been quite generally demoraiized of
late, a war being imminent There We're
present representatives from each line
in the Northwestern Traffic and
Iowa Trunk Line Associations
committee was appointed consisting of a
representative of each of the last named lines,
and one each from the st. Paul and North
western roads. The committee reported to
the general meeting late in the afternoon that
it had agreed on ra~1s from about forty
points, which, with few exceptions. were
similar TO those in vogue during 1882 These
rates were adopted at once, thus preventing Il
war. The new rates will go into effect at
once.
A meeting was then held of the Iowa Trunk
Line association and the general manager of
the Chicago & Alton road to consider the
trouble in regard to the pro-rating of Cali
fornia business. a committee was appointed
to go to New York and confer with the rep
FeSentativeS OF the eastern trunk lines in |
regard to the proportion of California bust |
ness that the Iowa trunk lines shall have be
tween Chicago and the Missouri river |
points, and Messrs. George Olds, F. p Ripley |
A {. Bird,C. h. Chappell and j. w Midgley, |
were named.
An adjourned meeting of the general man |
ayers and general passenger agents of the |
roads in the Iowa Trunk Line Association |
was the next to be held. 1t was for the pur- |
pose of settling the passenger difficulties re |
lating to through business between here and |
Council Bluffs. No understanding was ar |
rived at, the st. Paul road making the same |
demands as on former occasions This |
demand the others refuse TO accede u /
and there the master rests
a meeting then held of the general |
passenger agents of the western lines for the |
purpose of adopting some notifications for |
the baggage rules, il being decided best to
make some reductions, which were agreed to
The new charges are l3c per 100 pounds for
any distance between one and thirty miles;
- cents per 100 pounds for distance between
81 and 80 miles, no charge to be less than pc |
Baggage going more than fifty miles win be
cha sged according to the old agreement
The general managers and general passen-
ger agents of the lines interested i'll the fight
affecting business from Peoria and keolluk to
Missouri river points then gathered and dis
cussed the situation. They found that -
cents from Peoria to Kansas City did not pay
dividends, SO they wisely concluded to restore
rates out of Peoria, and ordered an agree
nent to be entered into, to take effect o.
once.
NOTES.
The war ON rates out of Peoria has ended
The western extension of the Atlantic DC
Pacific ROAD has bann run1nIptad m the (S,Io- |