The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-09

minus Init was Obliged to depend on Western
connections, who often treated them shabby,
for their business. Now they have become
trunk line, reaching Chicago over the n. Y, p. IL
o. and the Chicago & Atlantic, and Cincinnati
and Indianapolis through the Cincinnati, Ham
llton Dayton lires, now controlled oy the
Erie Under its disadvantages the lasttwo years
the business of tho road has steadily increased'
and the latest report, that for December 1857,
shows an increase in earnings over December,
1881, of $120,79 or per cent, and in the net,
S6O,356. or 1924 per cent The gross earnings
have only once been exceeded in December and
Thu net only twice. The gross earnings OF the
last quarter we're fig per cent. ahead OF the pre-
vious year. and only trfe less than for the
last quarter of the year before, and the gain In
the net was II per cent.
POINTERS FOR THE BOARD OF TRADE RAILROAD
COMMITTEE.
A Brownsburg shipper writes that the l., B. d
W. has advanced the rate on grain from to Z
cents per 100 from that point to Indianapolis,
but offer to give him good rate If he Will snip
his grain to Sandusky or Cincinnati. Another
party states that the Wabash is charging him
% cents per 100 pounds for freight shipped to
Lagro, while merchants in Chicago are given an
l 8 cents per 100 pound rate to that point, the
distance being the same from indianapolis TO
LagrO that it is from Chicago to Lagro. Ihese
| are the exactly which should Dc referred
! to Court Holiday, the newly-appointed secre-
| tary of tine Board of Trade railroad committee.
His duties are to endeavor to adjust dlscrlmlna-
tions of the character above named.
REFORM WHICH MAY WELL BECOME GENERAL.
One of the greatest annoyances in travelling
is that of entering coach where the seats are
one-half occupied by small packages, bundles
and often boxes which should be carried by ex-
press companies. The Boston g. Albany road,
! Monday last, inaugurated reform which should
be adopted by all railroad companies of the
country. circular gives notice that after
March 5, 1888, whenever any bundles, pack
ages articles of merchandise of any kind are
offered for transportation, you Will fefer tne
|
panles. In case there is no express on the train
| by which the property is to be forwarded, you
may forward such articles, III case the owner
accompanies them, collecting regular excess
| baggage rates for the fun weight, to whatever
! point you check mark the same. Whenever
light and bulky articles are offered for transpOr-
| taion, you will estimate the weight, calling ten
| cubic feet equal TO one hundred pounds. Whip
cases, carpet sample cases. tOOl-chests, pedlers'
packs ana articles of like nature should not be
checked or marked without first collecting ex-
cess baggage rates for the full weight"
| mr. CARPENTER REFUTEs THE INDIANAPOLIS
CHARGE
''MILwAUKEE, Mar CHI III Editor of the Trib-
une. lin this mornings paper under head of "A
| Budget of Facts and RumOrs from Indianapolis,
| in your railroad department occurs this passage:
! Complaint is made that the Chicago. Milwaukee
& st. Paul passenger men have been down here
and MADE deal with scalpers by which rates
are cut as much as SO. The boys are evidently
mana ing things in the absence of Messrs. Mer-
| rll and Carpenter L do not usually notice
such sQuibs, but this is one so utterly destitute
OF foundation and grossly untrue, and puts
| the Chicago, Milwaukee, & st. Paul railway In
| such "a false position with reference 10 its rail-
way connections, that it Is but just to expose the
falseh0od and L ask you to give this as prom-
nent place in your columns as the other items
Neither this company, Its officers, its agents or
boys deal in that way, nor have we cut any
rates A. V. II. CARPENTER,
| general Passenger and Ticket Agent"
The above appeared in the Chicago Tribune of
yesterday. The item which Mr.. Carpenters
denial is based taken from the Journal, but
it is nevertheless true. Scalpers selling tick
cts at Scout, purchasing the tickets at the
Union Depot and the matter was mp for discus
! sion before the officials of the Union Railway
! Company at their recent meeting. The point
made by the Journal was that Mr.. Carpenter
| did not know what was going on.
INCREASE OF RAILROAD ACCIDENTS
The unusually large number of railroad acct
dents the last few weeks has been matter over
which there has been considerable unfavOrable
comment. and undoubtedly there has been too
many; but a scanning OF the record will show
! that large per cent. have been due to broken
rails, bad trestes bridges aud not to the care
lessuess of train men. On the Wabash alone, IN
the first sixty days of this year, there
occasioned by broken rails, and in the neighhor-
hood of 100 broken rails were discovered by sec
ton men, IL is stated, before any damage to
trains was done, and that railroad magnates
should be more cautions i'll their purchases of
steel rails is daily becoming more apparent. In
commenting on the numerous accidents this
year it should as well be borne in mind that Jan
uary and February were the severest mouths,
say Western railroad mon, that they hava ever
experienced. Snow. ice, floods, broken down
! telegraph wires, severe cola have all combined
I to make OneratlOn difficult. In January the
Railroad Gazette reports total of l6S acct
dents, in which % persons killed and 80
injured, an approximate daily average of sig
accidents, 81 killed and q injured.
Thirty of the killed and 81 of the injured were
railroad employees; 25 of the killed and 1873 of
the injured were passengers or others riding
the trains. or the whole number of casualties
81, or 1913 per cent, were to employees and 163,
or 64.2 per c6nt, were to passengers.
The tOtdl number. both of accidents and casu-
alties, was much above the monthly average of
last year, but the month was very bad one for
railroads. -Four accidents reported on Indi
annapolis roads proper, and dozen more on
| Indiana roads, but general managers believe the
accident epidemic to be about over for this ear.