The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-13


THE VERY MAN THEY NEED.
The rumor is again current that d. W. Caldwell
is to retire from the Nickel-plate and ac-
cept the position offered him some weeks ago
on the East Tennessee, Virginia Georgia road,
and they really need a No. railroad man at the
head of matters. The East Tennessee, Virginia
& Georgia has now about 1850 miles of road in
operation, extending in various directions TO
nearly all important PORTS in Tennessee, Geor-
gia and Northern Alabama With the proposed
Southwestern roads, at Little Rock, of course
some more important eastern connections to the
Atlantic seabOard would soon be made.
MARCH EARNINGS.
Earnings of sixty-one roads for March, as re-
ported by the Financial Chronicle, show gain
of s., 1868, $685. or an increase of the first quarter
of the year show a gain of $5,673,319. The
only lines exhibiting a decrease in March are the
Des Moines & Fort Dodge, 1926; st. Louis g.
Cairo, 81 ,937, and the PEORIA Decatur & Evans
vile, $S,514. On these roads, representing 40
per cent of the mileage of the country, the gain
for the month was 1873 per cent upon a mileage
9S per cent greater. 1t is curious to note that
the first quarter of the years earnings have in
creased almost exactly as much as the mileage,
the gain over last year being SO per cent
HAVE REASON TO BE DISTURBED.
A railroad man who has been in st. Louis for
couple of days states that the Wabash people are
considerably disturbed over the scheme of she
luuidud, DlOuuiiuEbOH ~ MeeloIu cOmpobJ "a
tending their road from Decatur or Whereabouts
TO st. Loris and the tone of their remarks indi-
Gates that they feel that the Wabash has missed
a figure by treating the H. ID. IL s., now
the st. Louis division of the l.. b. d W.
So shabbily in the matter of interchange of bust
ness. contract made between President Ham
mond, of the l., ID. IL s., and Vce-president Hon
klns, of the Wabash, at the time the l., d. q 8.
was opened for business to Indianapolis has
been wholly ignored by the Wabash people; con-
seqnently the l., b. d W. people, as in the case
OF their building east from Indianapolis, do so to
protect their property from being crowded out OF
existence through dishonorable actions on the
part OF their competitors.
THE SITUATION WITH WESTERN POOLS.
In the West the railroad freight pools seem to
be working more smoothly. At Decatur the
roads have adjusted their per-cents satisfac-
torily, and next week it is thought at Peoria an
east-bound pool will be re-establshed. The
roads in the st. Louis pool looking upon
each other with less jealousy and seem more in
clined to act fairly, and at Chicago the pool is
operating like charm. The Chicago IL Alton
has Withdrawn their notice given some time
ago OF their intended Withdrawal from the chi
cago and st. Louis pooling agreement, and
really pools firmer foundation
than ever before. Whether the Chicago pool
Will be able to overcome the friction which the
new lines will likely create when they demand
recognition is still question. The Nickel-plate
New Albany IL Chicago wants 10 per cent,
and in few days the Chicago a.
Atlantic will put in a demand for 20 or 20
per cent, and if this thing keeps on there will he
no business left at Chicago for the old roads
Doubtless the new lines are demanding large
per cents. with the expectation of getting only
half the per cent they demand on being recog-
nized as trunk line competitors.
THE ENTERPRISE UNDER GOOD HEADwAY.
1t is daily become more evident that the rail-
roads which are inclined to step on the dressed
beef carrying trade inauRurated the movement
TOO late, and it is likely end in agitation only
The men engaged in dressed-beef shipment are
not sleeping. are they pursuing, nor on a
Journey aTI and 1t Is probable that
something more than raise the rate of freight on
dressed beef to fight them successfully. The
rate is now 60 per cent. above the cattle rate.
and it is said to be high as the dressed beef
men stand. The managers and freight
agents of the railroads have been consulting the
question of raising rates, but the companies
doing the carrying threaten to secede from the
east-bound pool If rates are advanced, as they
have contracts running several months, and
which they cannot abrogate.
Referring to carload of beef sent from st.
Louis to New York in LOrillard refrigerator
car, a New York dealer said to a reporter of
New York paper: 81 am certain that if beef can
be brought to the East in this shape, il is better
than city dressed, because the animal does not
waste its vitality in transit, and those vitalizing
portions are saved to the consumer, and the re-
suit is better beef at the same cost as city
dressed"
In the car spoken of we're twenty carcasses
and they arrived In New York in such condition
that they looked like vened marble The even
ness of temperature was snch that the thermOm
eter registered but 10 difference between the
ends where the ice stored and center of the
car, and but 40 between the bottom and the top.
The temperature OF the car was 26o, but it can
be reduced 10 100.
WORRYING COMMISSIONER FINK.
NEW YORK, April 12.-Pool Commissioner
Fink to-day heard complaints of about thirty
live stock shippers from Chicago to New York
and the explanations of railroad representatives
The former complain of discrimination, which is
alleged TO have existed in railroad rates he
tween them and the shippers of dressed meats is
unequal to them, and they ask that equitable
schedule rates be formed to govern all railroad
companies In their charges. 1t is not thought
that a settlement can be effected.