The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-04
Miscellaneous Notes.

The earnings of the Lake Erie & Western rail
road for the month of September were; 1884,
$146,000; 1888, $l48, 900; decrease, 50 900
The Grand Trunk has accepted the award of
arbitration, but insists that the question Of per-
centages shall be reopened, and that the award
shall date back.
George Westinghouse, the inventor of the air
brake, is at work upor burner which will make
practicable use of natural gas as an illuminator,
as well fuel
SO heavy have been the shipments of corn
into Chicago the last two weeks that the earn
ingS of the corn carrying roads will doubtless
show a handsome increase.
The first locomotive of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad passed through tho tunnel and over the
Pittsburg 81 Western on Thursday establishing
another trunk line to Chicago,
The West Shore people say they expect to
have double track in excellent condition in full
working order to Syracuse by Nov. Is next The
company needs Lbout So 600 900 to complete a
double track to Buffalo, depots, etc.
The statement of earnings of the New York
West Shore & Buffalo road indicates that it
would have been money in its pocket if it had
never been built. West Shore is the Little
Nan Ettcote' of railroads. The longer it runs
the shorter it gets-fnancially.
The Ohio G. Mississippi stockholders now pro
pose to elect to the directory Mr., George Nor
rison, of New York, representing Barring Broth
ers interest, and two other gentlemen repre-
senting interests in the stock. This will give
the stockholders six representatives in America
and one in England out of the thirteen direc-
tors.
The charter of the New York Central was
granted for only fifty years. At its expiration a
farmer claimed that his land originally taken re-
verified to him, and undertook to have the road
elected. At Buffalo, last week, Justice Haight,
of the Supreme Court, decided against him.
The suit involved the title of all the company's
roadway.
The Chesapeake & Ohio people claim to have
at Newport News the largest elevator in the
world. It is 80 feet wide, $50 feet long and
about 1874 feet high, with engine and boiler
rooms 40xl00 and 40 feet high. The storage ca
pacity of the house is l, 900, 900 bushels with
receiving capacity of 30, 900 and shipping ca
paeity of 20 900 bushels.
The New York Indicator compliments the Rail
way Age for the deserved chastisementit has been
giving the Chicago Tribune. The Indicator says:
THE Chicago Tribune is great stickler for
anti monopoly, and if there is anything about
railroad except sheriffs execution on the prop
erJy that pleases the Tribune we have failed
ever to discover il. 1t is so strongly imbued
with the idea that everything about a railroad is
crooked that we doubt if any one could convince
it that even the rails are straight"
The Boston journal takes exceptions to the
statement of Bradstreet and says: This com
mercial sheet is wrong in claiming that the
through traffic idea is played out here. The fact
that Boston's export business is sustained better
than at other ports the present year proves this.
1t is no loss, but gain to us, that the round
about routes to the West are gwen ups practi-
cally. The more direct routes via the tunnel and
Albany have but just commenced their useful
ness in developing Boston's export traffic. :"