The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-01

testing, the deck timhers and floors have been
renewed, and many other repairs have been
made 1t ia pected that certain improvements
Introduced will add to the speed OF the vessel
The timetable will shorten the time be-
tween Boston and Washington.
THE BOYS WORRIED.
Employees on the Wabash system consider
ably disturbed over a report that on the jay
Gould lines west OF the Mississippi. the en-
piOyes are being paid in cash for December ser
vices, and are asked to take scrip for labor per
formed in November. Now the employees east of
| the Mississippi fear that when Paymaster Shep-
herd comes round month hence, or more, they
Will be asked to take cash for January service,
and scrip for labor performed in December.
AFTER THE RAILROADS AGAIN.
| Minnesota railroad commissioners have stirred
up hornets nest by ordering the Illinois Cen
! tral to charge no more for hauling lumber from
Dubuque 10 intermediate places than through
! to Webster City, where there is competition
| with the Northwestern, the rate now being 10
cents TO the latter place and 81 TO some OF the
other stations. the principle is declared that
| only when the traffic begins and ends within
| the State have the commissioners authority TO
act IN this way, hut even then the presidents es-
tablished Will offset the business of 900 OF the
1000 stations
| THE SALE CONFIRMED,
Judge Drummond has confirmed the sale Of the
Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central road, no
exceptions having been taken to the confirma-
ton. The road was sold Jan. 10, in this city by
Master Commissioners illam P. Fishback and
John d. Cox, under concurrent DEGREES of the
/ United States circuit Courts of Indiana, South
ern Ohio and Northern Illinois. The sale was
to William l.. Scott, Charles ]. Osborn and
John 8, Kennedy, the price being $13,5oo,o00.
OF this sum 712 bonds of ST. 900 each and judg-
in fnxrnp of Oaaf
bonds are to be credited. The balance is to be
paid in cash or in bonds of like issue. The
purchasers are the recognizing committee for
new road. the Chicago, st. Louis d Pittsburg
| Railroad Company to be formed at once. The
old road is 587 miles in length, and has been
operated for several years by the p, G. ~ st. Il.
company, the latter coming into Chicago over
the road just sold. The trustees under the
mortgage just fOreclosed are James A. Roosevelt
and William r. Fosdick
FRUITLEss LITIGATION.
Parties who are puying in the Indianapolis,
Bloomington & Western back-pay claims are
making slow Roadway. Most of tho creditors
who have been able spunky enough to hold
such claims up to the present time are spunky
enough to hold them until they get the
faoee of their claims, with interest. 1t may be
| we'll for the management of railroad properties
which are under financial cloud to draw
lesson from the litigation in this case which has
| covered several years. and deprived 1900 or
diana, Bloomington g. Western Railroad Com
pany, which now owns and operates the road,
has suffered indirectly by this dilly-dallying III
| the payment, well. The defendants now have
to pay these claims in full, pay per cent. per
annum interest on them from April Is,
| 1879 TO October 81, 1881, and
| per cent. per annum since that date, unless they
| can buy them up through some bank at dis
| count To this must be added litigation, which
has cost fully one-haf the amount of the indebt-
| edness, it is stated, and, after q summing up Of
| the whole matter. nothing has been gained eX-
| cept mourning the ill-will OF the 1900 or more
| creditors.
| NEW MATERIAL FOR RAILS
Railroad men are greatly interested in the
proposition to utilize paper for the manufacture
of rails. Paper has proved to be one of the best
materials for wheels, and now an inventor pro-
poses to make paper equally as serviceable in
rails. Iron rails now out of date, and posi-
bly, at no distant day paper rails will take the
place of steel rails. 1t is said in favor of the
the material that the cost per mile will be
less than One-thrd than that of steel, and it Will
last much longer, being almost indestructible.
There Is no expansion or contraction from heat
| and cold, consequently no loose open joints,
and being so much lighter than steel or iron, the
| rails can be made longer and connections per-
fectly solid, making the road as smooth as one
| continuous rail. The adhesion of the drivers OF
the engine to this material will be greater than
| that of steel, consequently the Saline weight en-
| CINE will haul larger load. There will be "a
| great saving of fuel, and the smOOthuess of the
rail will lessen the wear and tear of rolling
| stock. The rails are made wholly and entirely
| of paper, and so solid that the sharpest spike
| cannot be driven into them. The action of the
atmOs phere has effect on it; will neither rust
nor rot, and, with paper whe Is and rails of the
same material, our palatial trains will glide
| the prairies at the rate of sixty miles hour
with as little jolt and jar as ON an ocean steamer