The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-12
THE RAILWAY QUARREL
The B. T. 0. Secures Temporary injunction
Statements of Pennsylvania Officials.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. lin the United States
District Court for the Eastern district of Penn
sylvania, Judge McKennan presiding, this morn
Ding, upon motion for a preliminary injunction
made by George Shears jr. G. j. johnson and
John McCleve, solicitors for the Baltimore q
Ohio Railway Company, against the Phila-
delphia, Wilmington & Delaware Railway
Company, Friday, Oct H. was set as day for
arguing the motion, and pending the argument
q restraining order was granted The order
Restraints the defendant, its officers, agents and
servants from abrogating or violating the exist
ing contract relations now in force between it
and said complainant, and also forbids any
change in existing arrangements under the con
tract and compels defendant to receive and do
NIL manner of business as agreed upon in the
contract
An executive officer of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company says of the controversy with the
Baltimore & Ohio Company: ION May ID last
Vice-presdent Thomson, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and the Philadelphia, Wilmington &
Baltimore Railroad, served proper legal notice
ON Robert Garrett of the Baltimore & Ohio,
terminating all contracts or arrangements then
existing for transportation Of business of the
Baltimore G. Ohio between Baltimore and New
York, on and after June IA, 1884 Before the
requisite thirty days notice. as given, expired,
the Baltimore & Ohio officials arranged with Mr..
Thomson for temporary continuance of the
business until further notice by the Philadelphia,
Wilmington & Baltimore or the Pennsylvania
railroad. This temporary arrangement was
made with the distinct acceptance and under
standing on the Part of the Baltimore & Ohio
officials that the notice of May Is should not be
considered qualified"
Assistant General Passenger Agent Boyd, of
the Pennsylvania company, was also interviewed
with reference to the statements of G. K. Lord,
general passenger agent of the B. & 0. railroad,
In regard to through passengers ticketed by the
latter line from New York to the West. Mr..
Boyd said 1.-The situation is somewhat comph
Gated to-day, and is not improved in any way by
the latest action of the b. & 0. company in OBJ
tanning an injunction this morning. l notice Gen
oral Passenger Agent Lord of that corporation,
is quoted as saying that the number of passen-
gers carried between New York and the West
by his line averages $4,000 per month, of whom
1000 were carried between New York and
Chicago, 5000 between New York and st Louis
1000 between New York and Cincinnati and g.,
900 to points west of Cincinnati and Chicago. Now
here are the exact figures showing the amount
of FIRST and second-class business out of New
York to points reached by the Baltimore g. Ohio
for August, which is fair indication of the gen
eral travel by that line The total number of
passengers so carried, was 1642 of which 415
were to Washington and local points 1,227 be-
ing to competitive points; that would be, you
see, about forty passengers per day, instead of
about ten times that number, as Mr.. Lord
claims. This is the business for which the Balti-
more & Ohio asks us to run two through trains
aud a Joint train, the total revenue therefrom,
to u.s. being $l45 per day. Mr.. Lord also says
passengers ticketed through Baltimore are
allowed to stop in that city and Washington,
whereas it is a fact that 40 per cent. of the
tickets sold from New York to the West through
Baltimore in August were of the continuous
train form, good only to destination, without
stop off privilege, and majority of them were
taken up on the train leaving New York at
night and passing through Baltimore before
daylight, showing the unreasonableness of the as
sePtiOn. Then, again, he claims that by the
action of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
In withdrawing its special train service and re-
quiring the Baltimore & Ohio to pay us S.. 80 on
every passenger between Baltimore and New
York, instead of So 62, as at present the bust
ness is made improbable to his company, while
the figures already given show that greater loss
has been sustained under the present arrange
ment by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. A
slight difference in rates should not affect the
business to such an extent as to cut off all
through tickets and deprive the Baltimore of its
natural connections. The general passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio says the prevail :
ing rate between New York and Chicago is $15,
whereas he always assured us he has maintained
the regular pool rate, $3.50. 1t would, there
fore, seems that he has been ticketing passengers
from New York to Chicago at So so less than
was charged from Baltimore, the rate to Chicago
from that city being $3.50. This certainly
does not indicate any very great desire on the
part of the Baltimore & Ohio officials to carry
out their Wanted policy of favoring the city in
whose affairs they claim to have such deep in
forests. Then again, it is unreasonable
10 suppose the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
would take any action that would be prejudieiai
to the commercial interests of Baltimore, for
she is quite as largely interested in the welfare
Of that city as the Baltimore & Ohio could pos
sibly be. 1t is also evident that the passenger
manager of the Baltimore g. Ohio road recog-
nizes the fact that the action taken by the com
pany is simply right and proper, and they have
no just grounds upon which to build an argu-
ment against discontinuance of the present traf-
fc arrangement They seek to divert attention
from the main issue by attempting to make out
that business interests will suffer on account of
passengers being carried in the cars of the
Pennsylvania railroad instead of those of the
Baltimore & Ohio"