The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-25

per barrel for hauling flour from Terre Haute to
indianapolis would seem little enough. but the L.
d St L. on Monday, dropped the rate to Scents
per barrel, and the Vandalia in turn, offered the
same rate yesterday. If this is to be the pro-
gramme, the sooner an eastbound pool is estab-
lisned at Terre Haute the better, as, sooner or
later, the employe or the stockholder must suffer
when local rates become demoraized.
TIE RAILROADS OF NEW YORK.
State Engineer Seymour, of New York, last
week made public his annual report, showing
that there were 1924 steam roads in the State.
There are 1860 miles of main lines ia opera
ton, and 1859 miles of branches. There were
629 miles of railroad completed but not in OPP
Grafton September 80, 1882. The number of
locomotives in use in the State is 3,541, and
there are 2,297 frst-cass passenger cars. There
are also $50 second-class and emigrant cars.
Ihere are S76 baggage, mail and express cars,
ana 14O,Z4O freight cars in use. The total cost
OF the roads in operation is 1852, SOS, 94S. The
total receipts from all sources were Sl18.7 1885,
1885, total expenditures, $1l7, 462, 593. Forty
seven persons were killed and "a injured dur
ing the year.
TO BE UNIFORMED.
June is the date fixed upon Cor passenger
train men on the entire Wabash, ST. Louis g. Pa
cific system to appear in uniform. The conduct
ors will have a cutaway coat with four buttons
down the breast, two behind, two on each sleeve;
two outside check and four inside pockets Six
one inside pocket. The baggagemen, brakemen
and porters will have single wor-
sted sack coats with buttons and
pockets, vest ana pants same style con-
duetors; all snits Will be made of Metropolitan
clotE. The conductors buttons Will be gilt those
on the suits of the others Nickel The Wabash
button is TO be worn only when on duty; dupli-
cate set of plain buttons VIII he furnished with
either man to be worn only when not duty.
The conductors caps will be black gros grain silk;
vizor glazed leather, with gilt ''Wabash" button
1hrni red wit he ton
and bottom. The Gaps of the others will be of
farmers satin. silicica lining, black glaze vizor
nickel wabash" buttons, badges white painted
on black gros grain ribbon. A ST. Louis firm has
been awarded the contract for making the out
fits.
THE MATTER BECOMING INTERESTING.
Commissioner Fink ordered that the agent OF
the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville road and of the
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road should
be discharged. This the respective roads re-
fused to do. and, as a consequence, were prac-
tically cut off through business with their
Eastern connections, The outcome Is
watched with much interest, Commissioner
Fink has gone so far that to retreat would be dis
graceful and suicidal to all pooling agreements.
III. G. Parker, traffic manager of the Peoria, De-
catur a. Evansville road, says, through the Pc
oria Journal, that the facts in the case do not
justify the verdict. The trouble originated
follows: From Greensboro, town on the Oh o
head to New York is forty-three cents per hun
dred pounds divided, allowing the railroads
thirty five cents per hundred poands, while the
Ev ansvlls tariff rate is forty cents per hundred
pounds A tobacco shipper came to the Empire
Line agent and arranged to ship four or five cars
or tobacco from Evansville that had originated
at OweEsborO. and the transportation drays
delivered the tobacco al the p, d. e.
depot, and the same way-oilled
o. k, but it was soon ascertained 10 have
been incorrectly billed and an attempt made to
correct it, which seems to have failed, and the
x hath hal YtNfin al 4 rhnfr &c
accountable; but the p, d. d e. refuse to remove
him until the officers, as well as Mr.. Fink. are
convinced that their agent was clearly impli-
Gated In doing wrong.
ONE METHOD OF ENCOURAGING HONESTY
An official high in authority on one of the
Indianapolis roads. who once conductor on
one of the Minnesota roads, in speaking of the
wholesale discharge of conductors on the Penn
sylvania lines, remarked that the best way to
make honest conductors was to pay them sal
aries which justify their dressing well and liv-
ing in respectable style at least. He then cited
case on the northern road above spoken of
whore there were a large number Of passenger
conductors. The general manager summoned
them to his Office Sunday afternoon and gave
them general talk Among other things,
speaking of the necessity of their
dressing neatly, and of their being
careful to make CORRECT returns of
cash fares collected, he told them he had con-
fidenee in them and desired that they remain on
the road and that they should prosper in a
financial way, laying up something from each
months earnings; and TO show his anxiety that
they should prosper and yet be honest servants
of the company ne then notified them that
dating from the first OF that month their pay
would be $i25 per month, an advance of $25,
and further ordered them to go TO a merchant
tailoring establishment to be measured for
neat navy-blue suits, and stated that hereafter
two such suits wOnld be furnished them annual
ly and would be paid Tor by the company; and
the party who makes this statement says he
don believe of those thirty or more con-
duetoTs, from that time on, appropriated any of
tine company's money to their own use.