The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-06
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


PERSONAL ami Local.
The c., st. L. & P. people have removed their
ticket office in Chicago from Randolph street to
No. 40, South Clarke street.
II. A. Lewis, western manager of the Erie
lines, has gone TO New York to put in his voice
in favor of a restoration of rates.
II. o. Garfield, commissioner of the Illinois
Railroad Freight Association, gives notice that
tariff No. 81 of this association, dated May l,
1884, covering business from Ohio, Indiana and
Michigan, will not be in force until further notice
from him.
R. NJ. Fraser, general freight agent of the
Cincinnati, Baltimore & Washington road, was
in the city yesterday. accompanied by his wife
and daughter. All were handsomely entertained
at the Denison by Henry Fraser, agent Of the
Continental line.
The dividend of the Pennsylvania road is one
half per cent. less than the last one. The Penn
sylvania is only a little ahead of other roads in
reducing dividends Railroads should not dis
tribute what they have not earned, is the motto
of the Pennsylvania people.
Mr.. NJ. Knight, general freight agent of the
Wabash road, gives notice that from and after
May Is, the line now operated by this company
between Toledo and Detroit, via Milan, Mich,
will be discontinued. and no train service will be
performed by this company after that date.
In the month of April 36, 922 pieces of baggage
were handled at the Union Depot, s,76 pieces
were checked out from Indianapolis, against
6,384 pieces in April, 1883. This goes to show
that the statement of the Journal that travel
from indianapolis proper in April, 1881, was
heavier than last year was correct.
C. H. Rockwell, auditor of the Cincinnati.
Hamilton q Dayton line, is preparing to intro
duce the Messler system of keeping railroad ae-
counts. Mr.. Rockwell is credited with being one
of the most competent auditors in the service,
and less than ten years ago he was a clerk in the
indianapolis, Peru & Chicago Office.
J. W. Finfrock, trainmaster Of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton main line, has mounted the
economy hobby and has discharged one of the
day and one of the night train dlspatchers at the
general Office. and now he proposes to let out two
passenger train crews, making Dayton a division
point-no crews to run through between Toledo
& Cincinnati.
The passenger men of the Pennsylvania road
arc distributing in the West elegantly prepared
folders. illustrative of the great limited express
operated by that company between Chicago and
New York, The folder and menu of the dining
cars are as fine specimens of the printers art as
have ever been produced for general distribution
by any railway.
The Chicago, st. Louis & Pittsburg company
propose to cut the tract of land south of their
tracks, opposite their new shops in the eastern
part of the city, up into lots and sell them to
their employees at a price which will enable them
to build on them, and in a couple of years from
now a lively suburban town of Indianapolis will
be located there.
The Bee Line, the Wabash, the L.. N, A. & c.
Airline. and the G., l., st. L. & c. road have
changed the receiving points for local freights to
their yards outside of the city depot yards, This
is done to avoid paying mileage basis where
their tracks are so connected with the Union
tracks that they would have to pay twice on the
same car, once when backed in, and a second
time when taken out.
A reduction Of ten cents per hundred pounds
OF live stock and dressed beef rates from Chicago
to New Yerk is announced, and from other
points in the west in proportion. This makes
the rate on live stock fifty cents per hundred
pounds from Chicago to New York. On dressed
beef, forty-eight cents per hundred pounds. The
step is taken, it is said, for pool protection. If
this method of doing things continues long the
roads will not earn enough to pay operating ex-
penses.
The Pennsylvania company has given orders
that until further notice it will decline to receive
shipments of grain for export via Boston, as the
New York 81 New England Railway has mott
lied 1t that that line cannot receive the same.
This refers to export shipments alone, If Bos-
ton capitalists had put the money they put into
the T., c. & st. l.. narrow gauge into improving
their terminal facilities at the Hub. the journal
would not need to record such items as the
above. Boston could well afford to expend sew
eral million dollars in permanent Improvements
to their terminal facilities.
President ingalls,, of the c., l., St. L & c.,
owes it to himself and to the position the Big
rOur occupies III tn6 CnlcagO ana ONO hlVer
pool, that the general officers of the road should
pay more respect to the rules of the pooling
agreement. One of the rules of the pool is that
any road which proposes to make q reduced rate
shall notify Commissioner Richardson Of what
they propose TO do, and he in turn
is to notify competitors of the road which proposes
to reduce the rate of such action and make the
rate open to such competitors; yet General Pas.
senger Agent Egdn, it is stated, without even
mentioning the matter to COMMISSIONS Ter Richard
son, makes a Sc round trip rate, from Gin
cinnati to Chicago. This of course has made
trouble in the pool, Mr. Egan's excuse is
ignorance of the pooling agreement, and he prom
ises 10 do so no more; but this is hardly ~satisfac-
tory