The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-08


they went north it would be decided upon where
side-traeks should he put. and their length,
and that other matters of detail preparatory
to opening the road for business, would be
looked after. He thought that The road would
be in shape to commence running mixed trains
over it by Monday next, and that by April /
regular trains woald be put on between Indian
apolis and Chicago.
THE AIR LINE AND THE UNION DEPOT.
AS a report current on the street yester-
day that the Union Railway Company had re-
fused to allow the trains of the Chicago & In
disnapolis Air Line to run into the Union Depot,
it will not be breaking confidence with officials
of the Union Railway Company to state
that the report Is false. Tho APP
emit OF the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago,
road, which ls to operate the Chicago u Indian
apulis Air Lire, was up for consideration at the
NEE ting Tuesday, and the general manager OF
| one OF the roads owning the Union railway prop
erty states that 1T was decided to make tempo
rary arrangements for their trains to
no permanent leasing arrangements
would be entered into until the question at issue
between the Union Railway Company and the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad Com
pany had been decided upon by the courts, : on
such decision rested their action in the future
when application Is made by new roads to lease
the accommodations and facilities which the I'm
ion tracks aud Union depot afford, but no official
had even suggested shutting their trains out of
the Union Depot. Arran gements have already
been made for the Air Line to do their freight
| business at the Wabash city freight depot and to
use the Wabash tracks as far Massachusetts
avenue to gain entrance into the city. Between
Massachusetts avenue and the Union tracks the
track is owned jointly by the Wabash and the
Bee Line, and 1t will be necessary to arrange
with the latter well as the Wabash TO us9 this
piece OF tracks.
AN UGLY WAR ON PASSENGER RATES IN PROS
PECT.
So large a per cent. of the travel West via
Kansas City, of late, has been going over the
i dali A. Al. &
has excited inquiry by competing lines, who
claim that their tickets being sold
through scalpers, and indications now
are that first-class railroad war
on westbound rates is to be inaugurated.
The Missouri Pacific has heretofore refused to
pay scalpers here commissions for selling their
tickets, but now propose to do rather than
have the Chicago IL Alton head them off, mean
time the Indiana, Bloomington q Western, and
the wabash people are becoming uneasy and
threaten to not only pay commissions to the
scapers but protect themselves further by re-
opening their outside local ticket offices, and on
the whole the situation is becoming interesting.
To add fuel TO the flame a war on rates has been
1naugnrated, as well, at Columbus, o..
E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the Pitts
| burg, Cincinnati q St. Louis lines telegrapned
H. n. Bronson, general passenger agent of the
Indiana, Bloomington & Western road, that he
had withdrawn from the Columbus rate-sheet
and would no longer be governed by its rulings
Mr.. Bronson answered him by telegraph that
the heavens would not fall because he had done
so. The fight at Columbus originated on the
question as TO what shall be the limit of tickets,
and seems to be between the p, c. e. St. L. on
| one side and the l., b. IL w. Columbus, Hooking
Valley & Toledo and the Baltimore & Ohio on the
other, sll of which competing at that point
for Chicago business.
G., c., c. q l. ELECTION.
| CLEVELAND, March THE stockholders of tho
Cleveland, Columbus Cincinnati & Intlianapo-
lis railway, at the annual meeting to-day, elected
| B. s. Brown, of Columbus; George II. RUSSELL of
| Cleveland; A. G. Dulman and William Bayard
Cutting, OF New York, directors-alI reelected
| except Mr.. Cutting, who is president of the st..
Louis, Alton & Terre Haute, and who under
| agreement of the lease of his road to the Bee
Line. takes the seat in the board of directors made
vacant by the retirement of II. r. Baltzer, of
| New York. President Devereaux voted the
| Vanderbilt shares. special meeting will be
called to vote on ratifying the lease of the st.
| Louis Alton d Terre Haute.
President Devereaux's annual report shows
| that the total earnings for 1882 were S4,44I,-
600, an increase of about q per cent; total
penditures, S359O,000; the operating ex-
penses were Goa per cent, slight decrease; the
| net earnings were 1881 $50, an increase of
| creased $4,000, and is now, Sc 365 900. The
| company lost ten days business by the Cineln-
| natl food.
The directors reelected General ]. II. Dever-
eux president; Stevenson Burke, vice president:
| George II. Russell, secretary and treasurer; E.
d. Thomas, general manager, and the other Off
| Gals.
| The indianapolis & st. Louis directors met
here to-day and selected the old officers: General
Devereux, president; Judge Burke, vice-presi-
dent L. b. Thomas, general manager, and the
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