The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-03-26

business of supplies, is eligible to membership
Meetings are to be held on the second Wednes
day of each month. The yearly assessment was
fixed at 81,
1t costs as much to travel 200 miles westward
from Denver as from New York to Kansas. The
railway fares on the mountain roads are exces-
sively high, A carload of freight was brought
from Liverpool, Eng, TO Denver, for $50 a ton,
but a Colorado railroad charged S12O for carry
ing it 120 miles farther.
THE ERIE REACHIN OUT TO Fl
Learning that engineer corps for some days
past had been making a survey from a point on
the Chicago g. Atlantic road to StreatOr, ILL.,,
steps were taken to discover in whose interest
these surveying corps were employed, and it
proves to be that the Erie parties, or those
who built the Chicago & Atlantic, are behind
the movement, and that as soon
as the line is located to Streator,
ILL.,, the engineer corps are instructed to continue
their survey northwest, st. Paul being the point
they are TO strike for. An official of the Erie
interest states that the parties who own the Chi
eago & Atlaptic are fully determined TO have a
line of theft own into the Northwest. and the
OF the surveying corps Indicate that
there is good basis for such a statement.
fHE PROJECT NOT ABANDONED.
s~orpsweeks since mention was made that the
higher officials of three or four of the leasing
lines and their attorneys had been il conference
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second union railway company and cutting loose
entirely from the present Union Railway Com
pany and locating a Union Depot further east.
Inquiry regarding the matter-Saturday last
developed the fact that the scheme had
by no means been abandoned, but the parties In
the movement had come to the conclusion that
a step of this character must be taken in self
protection, they alleging that the enforcement
OF the regulation OF the Union Railway Com
pany, that no leasing line should sell tickets out
side of the Union Railway offices, is working
great injustice to the leasing lines.
STEPPING ON THE TOES OF THE WHITE LINE.
A new fast-freIght line has been operating for
some weeks in a quiet way over the Lake Shore
and Bee Line system, which by railroad men has
been chrlstened the "Silent Line" but its real
title is the Buffalo & Western, and o. B. Skinner,
traffic manager of the Bee Line system, is said
to be the daddy" of it. 1t has been seriously
cutting into the business of the White Line, and
about a month ago the White Line people
kicked vigorously, and it was supposed
that the young innocent" had been
squelched, but IL is stated such is not the case,
but that In q silent manner it is working on the
Bee Line system AID scooping in business which
belong rightrully to the White Line, and as Gem
eral Manager Darling returned from Mexico last
Saturday, fun is looked for unless the b, & W.
line takes a back seat. The advantage the b. &
W. line has is that it Is entirely independent.
Only Bee Line, Lake Shore and New York Cen
trail cars are run, and they pay no tribute TO any
line m~anagements, but their earnings all drop
into the treasury of the respective companies
direct
A COMMONPLACE CHARITABLE ENTERPRISE.
The superintendent of several of the Indian
apolis roads are seriously considering the estab-
lishment of a hospital at this point, where rail
road men who are injured or are sick and home
less can be taken and properly cared for. 1t is
stated that within the last thirty days the
great need of such a hospital has been made ap-
DaFpnt snVpPal timaa and rnat the lives Of two
men have been lost within the last two months,
which could have been saved if they had been
properly treated when first injured. The super
inteudents who have taken an interest in this
charitable enterprise express the opinion that
were such a hospital established on even a lin
tied scale Its value would be SO apparent
that soon all the roads of the State would be-
come interested, and possibly it might become a
national institution. Superintendent Sherwood,
of the C., L., st. L. g. u, states that it is not iu-
tended at first to establish a hospital on an ex-
tensive scale, but purchase a lot and put a neat,
not very expensive, building upon it; place a
suitable man In charge of IL, and, until such a
time that a competent surgeon can be stationed
at the hospit al, arrange with two or three OF the
more eminent surgeons and physicians or the
city to attend to cases as they may come up. By
arranging with two or more were one
away from his Office another could readily be sum
mOned. Every railroad man the railroad reporter
OF the Journal has cOnveTsed with look upon
the movement with favor, and those who have
xamine into the expense of such an iDstitu-
ton are of the opinion that were all roads cen
tering here to take hold heartily of the enter
prise the expense would not be as great to each
as the present method which is that each com.
pany shall employ its own surgeon, and the sut-
ferer be sent to some private house or hospital.
FREIGHT BUSINESS.
The train records show quite a tumble In the
car movement over Indianapolis lines, the sharp
est break being with the Bee Line and p, c. & st.
L., and with both there was a falling off in west
as well as east-bound traffic, The decrease is
fully as marked in the former as in east-bound
tonnage. Freight men, however, think the light
movement but temporary, as there are still large
quantities of grain and produce to be forwarded.
1t is stated that export business
has beer fully as heavy this month as in March,
1882. The falling Off In west-bound tonnage
W as rather expected, as for some weeks past it
has been remarkably heavy: then general busl-
ness is quiet, and wholesale merchapts are
purchasing cautiously as well as retail men.
North and south roads are carrying a good deal
of lumber, and doing a good local business in
salt. Local traffic, with all of the Indianapolis
lines, is highly satisfactory to freight men.
Below is given the number of cars received and
forw arded at this point in the week ending
March n, at IL NJ, as compared with the move
ment of the week preceding:
Name of Road. Mar. MAR "a Inc. Dec.
80 ~