The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-23


Personal and Local.
II G. Diehl, general freight agent Of the l., B.
& w, spent yesterday in Chicago, in the inter
ests Of the road
The e, Il, St L. & G. this month paid by
drafts, abandoning the pay car entirely, and the
boys seem to be quite as well satisfied as under
the old way
The Great Eastern line which reaches Dan
vile, Terre Haute and Evansville over the
Chicago and Eastern Illinois interest, is reported
to be doing some rate-cutting at these points au
the e,nense. of the midland routes. 1t might be
well for freight men Of Indianapolis roads to IN
Tcstigate the matter.
The passenger rate war has somewhat sub
sided. Instead Of, without hesitation, cutting
rate IN two in the middle, a loca. agent will say
the rate is, for instance, $32 to such point. IL
anybody offers you better rate, let US know
before you takeit He will meet that rate OF
probably do better by you
r. c. J. Pendleton, agent of the Canada South
line in this section, is striking out boldly Tor
business not only for Philadelphia, Harrisburg,
Baltimore etc., but all important railroad points
in interior Pennsylvania and New Jersey Inc
Union line people will now need be on the alert,
as they will no longer have the full swing IN
the Pennsylvania district
Tho Wabash man line is crowded with bust
ness. AT Peru some 800 loaded cars pass daily.
Tie folly of allowing rolling stock to deterlorate
dsqHite apparent now with this roac. a much 700
large per cent of their locomotive power IS IN a
bad shape to do good service. Manager TAI
mage, however has ordered repairs to be pushed
and within thirty days number Of new engines
will be onsthes road
The freight men were in excellent spirits yes
terday West and north of Indianapolis, for 200
miles, copious rains have fallen, and kilograms
TO W. @. Hobbs, assistant general freight agent
of the O., l. ST. L. & G., and to n. & Elliott
master Of transportation of the Vandalla, VINO
IN, An oifr off ia hat
will hold the frost off until Sept Is there will
be the largest corn crop ever harvested in these
sections
Chief Engineer Devore, of the Indianapolis g.
Eel river road, returned yesterday from the
west end, where he went to dlsburse ~ UUO
among the contractors. johnson q Taught, on
Thursday with twenty-five teams and some fifty
men, commenced on their contract On four
sections the grading IS now being pushed ylgor,
Dusly The heaviest grading was commenced
Hrst On section 43 there are 10000 yards
Of earth to be moved.
The excellent time the fast mail trains over
thee, St L. & P. have been making for a few
months past is matter over which there IS
much favorable comment Officials OF these
roads say it matters little if the Pennsylvania
proper delivers the trains to them at Pitts
burg two to four hours late the c., st. 4. & 2.
and the Vandaiia, with their monster passenger
engines and fil'st-class road bed, strike Indian
Rpolis and st Louis on schedule time.
The impression prevails that the per cents.
recommended by Commissioners Fink for the
roads in the Indianapolis east bound pool have
been. adopted. which is not the case Two of
the roads nave made objection and Commission
en- Fink has their objection under considerations
The per cents. recommended by Mr.. Fink were:
Bee-line 299 Chicago, St Louis q Pittsburg,
294; T.. b., & W., Isl; Cincinnati, Hamilton q
indianapolis 81; Wabash, z; Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, st. Louis & Chicago, Z Louisville,
New Albany e. Chicago Airline, per cent.
The L, B. & w and the G., H. q p. claim that
their allotted per centages are below what they
are entitled to.
Buy the SUNDAY JOURNAL tomorrow. Price,
three cents.
Paying Commissions at the Bottom of the
Troubles.
The general passenger agents of the Ohio, In
dian and Illinois roads are, says railroad presi-
dent, certainly the shortest-sighted business men
he knows of or they would, without further delay,
put an end to their periodical railway passenger
rate wars which are crushing the life out of
legitimate railroadng. He then said the travel
ing public were already educated to believe that
these wars would come regularly and they planned
to make their trips at such times. Especially was
this true regarding travel to the West So far
had the matter been carried that as soon as full
rates are demanded no one travels unless their
business forces them SO to do that Isl compar-
method of doing business was INDUCED
in the worse became the situation Said official
agrees with the journal, that paying commits
sioners is at the bottom of all these rate wars.
He said he could prove that the present rate war
was broughton by passenger agent who cared
but little for the welfare of the road he repre-
scented. All he was after was the commission that
the Western and Northwestern roads, which
never fail to get their arbitrary rate, pay him
The official said he could put his finger on one
local passenger agent in indianapolis who had
been instrumental IN bringing nearly every rate
war in the last five years and was Getting rich
on the commission he received on this very cut
rate travel The fact was that these local
agents will pull the wool over the eyes of their
general passenger agents, managers, presidents.
and all hands, They misfepreSented to their
superior officers thesaction Of their competitors
Their only aim seemed to be to keep rates de-
moralized and watch closely after their commits
sion; and so long as SUCH state Of affairs exs
listed it was useless to expect passenger earnings
would foot up satisfactorily to the homogeneous
of the. roads in Indiana Illinois and Ohio, which
take part in these periodical rate wars.
ALL the news, telegraphic, State and city, in
the SUNDAY JOURNAL tomorrow Price, three
GENTS.
Give the New Management a Chance.
The new management Of the u, N. Al & c.
tystem are rapidly learning the ropes of the
ship. Superintendent Dunn is performing his
official duties quite aceeptably, making friends
of the subordinate officers and employees, and
bringing order out Of confusion Mr.. McDoeI
general freight agent, has already made warm
friends with a large number of shippers over the
road, and business is heavy over the main line,
and the same may be said of the Airline division
General Manager Carson has; an eye over all de-
partments, and, If let alone, will doubtless steer
the road through without striking financial
snag, as the earnings are daily on the increase
Jf thereare any sore-headed stockholders or un-