The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-14
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS
What the Freight Men Say Regard
ing the East-Bound Pool.
Probability that the c., 1, st. L. & c. and l.,
NJ A. & c. Will Be COMMUNICATIONS
of General Character.
THE EAsr-BoUND POOL.

indications that Ius establishments Is Quite
Remote.
For six months past Commissioner Fink has
been urging the six roads leading east from this
reinb to re-establish the east-bound pool, and
the arrangements OF some of the roads have
shown disposition to carry out Commissioner
Thinks wishes, and talk pool strongly when they
get together. General Manager Thomas, OF the
Bee-line, and Edgar Hills, assistant general
freight agent, seem anxious that pool should
he established Mr.. Hills endeavored TO get the
officers together, and he says il. the Indiana,
Bloomington & Western would go into it the
pool would be organized. Manager McCrea and
other officials of the Pennsylvania lines express
"a Willingness to enter into pooling agreement.
Zone of the Pennsylvania officials remarked that
THE L, B. & W. were hanging back in the matter,
and would rather postpone its establishment for
o year, he had heard. In answer
to the remark that the l., b.
& W. were ready to go into pool, providing
they could get the per cent. they thought they
were entitled to, the official asked Show much
they wanted" and when told the same per cent
as the c., ST. L. & P. or the Bee-ne. he inquired,
s'woud they be satisfied with thata" One of the
officials of the Cincinnati, Hamilton Indian
apOIs road said he presumed their people wouid
be willing to go into pool ont would i noJ oe
them under the old pooling agreement
as their business had quadrupled since
shat pool passed out of existence.
-. E. Henderson, general manager of the l., B. d
~ :, when asked whether he would go into an
, ,east-bOund pool, said he thought they would go
into pool under certain conditions but were
like rhe girl who had never been courted and dld
mot know what she might do did she have an
offer of marriage. The L., B. Il W. people had
mot yet been asked to go into pool. There had
Tbeen some talk with H. @. Diehl, their general
freight agent, but. the matter had not been
fbrOaohed to him by competing roads. When
asked upon what conditions he would go into
ltbe poo he said on the same conditions as did
fthe Decline and the c., St. L. q P. In answer to
the question "Do you expect the same per
csnrs," he said Eyes" When asked if he would
mot be willing TO arbitraSe In the liking OF per r
arbitration in the Chicago and Ohio river pool
W. G. Hobbs, assistant general freight agent of
the c., l., st. L. & c., said he could hardly see
any reason for the establishment Of pool, as
l0ast-b0und Rates were now being strictly MAN.
tatned. However were pool established,
doubtless their people would go into 1t, as they
were willing to submit to considerable injustice
rather than to create trouble, as was evidenced
lin the mann er they were accepting the situation
lin the Chicago s. ONO River pool. John Osborn,
commercial agent OF the Wabash. thought his
people would go into pool on east-bound 0usl-
mess out of indianapolis readily as they were be-
Bleyere In pools as a preventive of rate-cutting.
When asked what per cent the Wabash would
want he said he had not given the matter sur
dicient thought to even intimate what per
cent they would be satisfied with. To
the remark that the l., B. & W.
people said they would not go into a pool unless
they we're given the same per cent. as the Bee
line and the c., st. l. & P, he said "Henderson
lie right; they entitled to the same per cent
Their line is short and direct as the Bee
line and about as good as the c., st. L. d P.
They carry their business as well and as
promptly as either of their competitors and
should have the same per cent in an east-bOund
pool. One of the gross mistakes of arbitration,
thus far, has been the cutting down of the per
cent. OF a road because it is a new competitor in
the field. You might well say that man
twenty-five years old should not receive the
same pay as man fifty years old, even if he did
do the work assigned to him as we'll and as ex-
peditiousy as did the older man."