The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-20
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.

used for Commercial Express line freight,
A letter from Buffalo calls attention to Grover
Cleveland's career as a railroad wrecker in con
nection with the Buffalo & jamestown road.
Buffalo, Cleveland, Detroit and Toledo have
become involved in the rate war, and low prices
are now offered 80 any one DESTROYS of leaving
those cities.
This is a joke: Joint Agent Moore, of Chica-
60, writes that east-bound freight rates from
that city are firmly maintained, all reports to the
contrary notwithstanding.
The September earnings Of the Atlantic &
Pacific were the best it has made, being close
upon 800, 900. The road is earning more than
operating expenses at present
The Trinidad News claims to be in possession
of facts which warrant it in saying that the work
on the extension of the Denver d New Orleans
railroad will begin by Nov. l.
In the contest between the Western Union
and Baltimore & Ohio telegraph companies in
Texas the former has been worsted and the B.
g. o. will extend its system into that State.
The Chicago east bound roads say they shipped
east last week 1912 tons of -four, %, $40 of grain
and =, T95 of provisions, a total of 30, III tons,
1883.
1t is declared in London that Sc. 500, 900 of the
New York Central debenture bonds were actu-
ally negotiated last June, which was before Mr..
Vanderbilts famous denial of such issue was ut
tered.
The depot at Lafayette Junction is q disgrace
to the roads using it, and should either be closed
altogether or fixed up so that passengers could
wait there a few hours without dying of the
blues"
The Chicago & Atlantic road has sub-let its
Offices in Commercial Block, Chicago, and
moved way down town, in order to reduce eX-
penses. The change caused a sensation in rail
road circles.
Mr.. w. f. Phillips, late master mechanic of
the Texas & st. Louis railway at Tyler, Texas,
has accepted a position with the American Brake
Company, in st. Louis, where he will have
charge of its shops.
The petition of the Wabash receivers. filed
Saturday, indicating a determination to keep the
Indianapolis, Peru s. Chicago division, will
somewhat upset the speculations that have been
rife in certain circles for some time.
Florida business is picking up. Every year
there is a large eflux from st Louis to Florida,
composed principally of invalids and spectators.
Trains to the South contain from ten to fifteen
people every day who are bound for the land of
the Everglades.
The Central Pacific. for the first eight months
of the year, shows gross earnings of $l4,3S5,503
a decrease of 10 per cent, but the operating ex-
penses an increase of $l,214, III, which reduces
the net earnings for the eight months to :, 1919
007, against So, 594, 006.
Globe-D Democrat: AL Delano, well known
among railroad men as one of the best clerks
that ever put pen to paper, and also as being
Enthusiastically, has disappeared from the city,
it is thought, with funds belonging to firms with
whom he has business connection. He was a
forwarding agent.
The quantity of anthracite coal sent to mar
ket for the week ending Oct. IL was 795, 545 tons.
as against Go, 564 tons for the week previous, and
126, 466 tons for the same week of last year.
The quantity for the year so far is p, 1856
tons, against "a, 900, 1913 tons for the correspond
ing period of last year. a decrease of l 1888, 779
tons.
p. Nolan has been appointed general road
master of the Queen & Crescent route, covering
the whole line from Cincinnati to New Orleans.
Mr.. Nolans railroad career began in 1876, when
he commenced at the foot of the ladder as a
section laborer on the Cincinnati railroad, and
gradually worked his way upward to the position
he now so ably fills.
The Chicago committee on east-bound traffic
have made the following classifcations, the i'm
portance of which ~iustites the Journal in devot-
ing a portion of its valuable space in spreading
them before a waiting world: Silk cocoons, Il.
c. H., double first class; elk-horns, set up, boxed
or Grated, first class; oyster pals (newh fourth
class, same as barrels.
A Boston tape" says the Union Pacific land
trust has SO. 900. GOO on deposit with trust com
panies in New York and Boston, and loaned on
collateral. Several papers are calling the atten-
ton of President Adams to this statement, with
the common thai, if true, Trustee Ames is lay
ing himself liable to criminal prosecution, be-
sides making himself responsible for the money.
At a recent meeting of the stockholders of the
Cincinnati. Van Vert & Michigan road, the old
board of directors and officers were reelected.
The companyis making great effort to get the com
pleted road ballasted and i'll solid condition before
winter sets in. The traffic over the completed
line is said to be sufficient to meet fixed charges.
H.. r. johnson, recently of this city, is general
freight agent of the road.
The new corn is beginning to move by rail.
The l., B. & w. is the first in the field with
three carloads. The corn is better now than
last years was at Christmas time. What's
more, there is plenty of it. A stock man said on
Saturday that three bushels of this years corn
would go further than five of last years, and
there are five bushels this year to three last.
The outlook is certainly encouraging to the
freight lines.
The large decrease in the earnings of the Chi
cago & Northwestern for some months past is
due first to the diminished movement of iron
ores from the Lake Superior mines; second, to
some diversion of the lumber traffic of northern
Wisconsin from the direct routes to Chicago.
The st. Paul has not been affected by the iron
ore trade, as 1t has none, and has been less
affected by the changes in the lumber traffic
than the Northwestern.
General Superintendent Jordon, of the Mobile
& Ohio railroad, to whom was referred, as arbi-
traitor, the division Of Selma's cotton business
among the railroads interested and forming
a pool, has rendered his decision. The East
Tennessee, Virginia g. Georgia gets AZ per cent,
the Cincinnati, Selma & Mobile 81 per cent, and
the Louisville q Nashville 80 per cent. The lat
ter road really gets only II per cent, 20 per
cent. going to the Georgia Central.
The east span of the new Big Four bridge over
White river was swung into position on Satur-
day afternoon. Chief Engineer Morris is push
ing all repairs and Improvements so that at the
close of the month the services Of the large force
of men now employed may be dispensed with.
Probably $50 men will be discharged with the
beginning of November in the road repair de-
partment of the Big Four alone. Expenses are
to be cut down to the lowest notch consistent
with safe management.
t a meeting of the Chicago committee, Sat
urday, every one Of the ~virtuous members put
himself on record as confident that the pool lines
adbar;n0 ctr;of1r 70 fauiff pa+ao II uroe