The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-12-22
AFFAIRS AMONG RAILWAYS.
Resignation of General Manager
Paine of the West Shore Road.
Introd uctIon of the Lunch Service on the
Bee-Line-Many Lines Make High
Local Rates in Iowa.

tween the Illinois Central and Texas q ST. Louis
roads,
On Monday last. Pullman sleeping car began
to run on the Oregon e. California railroad be-
tween Portland and Grants Pass, making two
round trips week.
Trains on the Chicago & Great Southern are
now run daily from the end of the line in War
rem to Fair Oaks, on the Airline. where they
make connection for Chicago The track is now
within about mile OF Attica.
The reported lease of the Pittsburg & Western
to he Erie, is believed to have been IA scheme to
advance the value of ITS securities The Baltl-
more u Ohio is at present endeaVorlng 10 put
the p Il W, on paying oasis.
Edward r. Bacon, of New York. who was
chairman of the purchasing trustees OF the Ma
rietta Il Cincinnati railroad, as reorganized' It's
said, has been appointed vlce-preslden5 OF the
C., W. & B. Railroad Company.
The l., b. g. W. earnings for the third week In
December were S46,228 40, slight decrease
IRON the corresponding week of last year In
the second week of December the Big Four
earned ) 10, 1913 90, decrease of So4l9O
Exncessmen are glad enough Christmas comes
but once year II Santa Claus had been "born
twins" they would nave struck The amount
nj matter they handle during The holiday sea-
sOu is tremendous and grows year by year.
On and after Wednesday next the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe will run both It's daily trains
so as to make connection at Deming with the
Southern Pacific for San Francisco. Al at pres
eDt. however, only the morning train will run
through.
The President has appointed John G. Wyman,
4 of New York, Fl. Watkins, of New York, and
Frank A Truesdell, of the District of Columbia,
"a commission to examine completed portions of
the Northern Pacific railroad in Washington
Territory.
The Washington, Cincinnati & st. Louis rail
road has been sold to a syndicate composed of
A. H. Martin, of New York; FL. d. Cook, of WASH
! ingtOO; ce-president Joyce, of the Shenandoah
Valley road, and others. Work on the road VIII
begin soon.
Cincinnati railroad men and others are begin
ming TO the advantages which would accrue
TO that city from having an extensive locomo-
tive works, and it is probable that steps will at
j early day be taken to secure such an estab-
lishmenG there.
About the first of the year the Chesapeake &
Ohio road will put on sale round-trip tickets be-
tween Cincinnati and Newport News and Old
Point Comfort, for the benefit OF winter tour
lists The Chesapeake 81 Ohio now have an ele-
! CANT hotel at Old Point Comfort.
Pensacola. Fla, will become in the near future
an important coal-exporting point, if the plans
of the Louisville Nashville railroad DO not
Iniscarry., new cotton compress is also about
completed there, and will greatly facilitate the
shipment of cotton by sea and rail-
The Boston & Albany freight traffic was I'M
usually large in November. The number of
freight cars received from the New York Cen
tral at Albany 14,597. There were re-
ceived at Worcester, westoound, 11,7l2, and
east bound, 10, 500. The west-bound movement
from Boston reached a total of IL ,27S cars.
The rumor of discovery in the accounts of the
New York & New England railroad of cOnsid-
cradle increase Of the floating debt proves we'll
founded. bur the officers declare emphatically
that there Is no reason for apprehension. as the
increase is not enormous, and the directors are
fully prepared to meet the obligations which it
pats on them
The passenger department of the Florida Cen
trail u Western railroad has just issued the sec
0nd edition of a book OF one hundred pages,
titled: From the Apalachicola to the ST.
eJOnDs; or Through the Uplands of Florida" Civ
ing general description of the line, and the
country lying along the entire line of the road
and Its branches.
The last spike was driven on Tuesday, at
Ypnngstow u, o., on the PlttsbuTg Cleveland e
TeladO railroad. Frank A. Dean. who has been
general agent or the Lake Shore road at Pitts
burg, has accepted the position of general
freight and passenger agent of the PittsDurg,
Cleveland Il Toledo The new line will be open
J for business on Jan. 1.
The largest contract ever let for foundations
a of bridge piers to be put in by the pneumatic
process has been awarded to William Sooy Smith
Il Son, engineers and contractors of Philadel-
phia, by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany for the foundations OF Its great bridge
across the Susquehanna river on its new line
from Baltimore to Philadelphia.
Henry Wood, general manager of the Little
Rock & Fort Smith and Little Rock, Mississippi
81 Texas roads, has taken steps to secure hos
piial for the care of employees of his lines. Cir
culars are now out, and after the LIST OF January
an assessment of fifty cents per month will be
made on each employe of the companies to
ate the fund, TO be known as the invalids' fund
Some time ago the statement was made that
to a connect ion with the Philadelphia & Read
ing. Dat this way expression was paralyzed by
the seeming geographical difficulties In the way,
but relief comes on reading that the Bangor &
Portland road is little local line in Eas tern
Pennsylvania, and that the proposed extention
will be ten miles in length.
Thest Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita road is now
IN operation from Fort Scott to Wichita Kan, a
length of 160 miles. The company expect to
make a connection with the old Lacede line
and come to st. Louis. On the other end of the
line the road will be extended from Wichita to
Trinidad, Col, making it from Fort SCOTT to
Trinidad 700 miles in length. When the ST.
Louis end is completed the entire length of the
st. Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita road Will be
1000 miles.
Mr.. Potter Says War, But Acts Peace.
Notwithstanding the declaration by General
Manager Potter, of the Burlington route, of his
belief that the famous tripartte agreement
wOnld result in war, at meeting of the repre-
eentatives Of the passenger departments of the
81. Paul, Rock Island &c Burlington and Alton
roads, held in Chicago on Thursday, to consult
upon steps to secure the sale or tickets to Mis-
souri, river points equal to the advantages given
the Northwestern and Wabash lines by the or
der of Commissioner Person, of the trunk lines,
permitting the latter to sell tickets from New
York to the Missouri river via the Northwestern
ami Wabash at a reduction of S4 from the tariff
the representative of the Burlington road stated
that while the objects of the meeting met the
approval of his line, its relations toward the
noCA lslhuu ~ obs OWlHS 10 Jno
agreement, were such that he could not take
formal action with them. SO nothing was done
beyond decision to adjourn from day to day till
the tripartite difficulty was settled. In the
time it is generally understood the roads rep
resented in the meeting selling tickets TO
Missouri river points, through scalpers; at So,
cut of $3.50.
N. Y, N. III. III. Annual Figures.
The directors of the New York, New Haven &,
Hartford Railroad Company submit the follow
ing report of the business Of the company for
the year ending Sept. 80, 1888:
Income from transportation of
passengers northumberland. SIS, 749, 472.74
Income from transportation of
freight, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2,5O1, 623.4l
Income from TRANSPORTATION of