The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-06

The brokers are preparing for their annual
meeting
The Indiana Railway Guide FOR May has
been issued
The east bouud lumber rate hes bsen re-
duced from IS 70 %.
The indianapolis rate sheet for the month
OF May has been distributed.
p. Z. PoindexteT hiss been appointed agsnt
Of the J III. sad ! vt Jacksonville.
W. s. Bslthim, General Passenger Agent
Of the l., \. A. add c. saysthat tue passen.
ger business Of tbs road IL increasing r. pidly.
at a meeting Of the local Passengs. Agents
Association yesterday afternoon it vas agreed
10 abolish all crcssrosd agencies on May 10.
Rates TO AtchisOn, Sc. ice and LeaveE worth
were advanced.
The subject OF eating in transit is one
which has been sgitatsd Of late, and various
conclusions reached by various writers.
The opinion has ben ventured by many
that the basket lunch VII eventually super.
sede the eating -hOuse and dining room car.
The basket Lunch is consumed st leisure,
and requires M cumbarsOme dining roam
arrangement. II has become very popular
on number of tbs Eastern railroads, and
viii no doubt be puton many Of the Western
lines ere long.
tie limited are anxious to show how fast
train can be hauled between indianapolis
ard Terre Hauie, and considerable rivalry
las sprung up IS to who can make the best
time. The west-bound limited was an hour
late IN leaving INDIANAPOLIS on Monday.
Tie engine vas run by Nick DOdson. Andy
Walker made the run q short TINA ago ia
ninety-fOnr minutes, and Dodson attempted
10 beat this record. IN this ne failed, bat
succeeded IN sharing honors with Walker, IS
tne train vas standing 81 tue depot in Terre
Hau!e just nInety.four minutes af Ler 1. left
Indianapolis.
a correspondent of the Pail Mall Gazette
compares the fast trains of this country, and
easily shows that there are a great many
more fast tFains-f0rtv miles sn hour or
more-there than here. There never was
any question about that among vell-in.
formed people. We have felt justified Ia
some complscencg because we lave few
trains which maze ssgood tine IS the fastest
last train abroad. There are. PERHAPS, but
half dozen such trains here, sDd of those
which are not the fastest, bat run forty miles
an hoUr or moro, there are scarcely as many
here, while there are score and perhaps
hundreds in England.
In local railway circles yesterday it seemed
generally accepted that the Pennsylvania
was bidder for the control OF the c., Il. aud
D., and that success depended upon the one
question not altogether simple as to whether
the Erie management can, in court, establish
its right to vote the pooled stock. President
John King. Of the Erie, is no lightweight in
hight of this kind, but the logic OF the sit.
nation stems TO be against him. 1t is gen.
orally admitted that 1t would be q big thing
Ter the Pan-Hardle sad not bad thing for
the city, except so far as it might IN a way
sntagOnize one of the city's best prove
friends, the Big Four management, by Civ
ing the Panhandle through line of its own
from Cincinnati to 50. Louis-Cincinnati
Commercial Gszstte.
Notwithstanding ell the abuse that is be-
ing heaped on the fast freight lines by maya
zines devoted to railway interests, prominent
railroad men say that their adjustment
would retsrd the railroad business greatly,
and an official of one of the Indianapolis
iirts said only yesterday that they could not
be dis1 ensed with entirely, nor is il likely
that they ever will be. In many instances
fast freight line SCENTS are accused OF rate
cutting when they are not guilty, and one
paper has the assumption TO say that as long
as these lines remain IN exis'enes rates will
De demoralizeG. This is chestnut" and
very broad one too. for If such was the
case the fast freight lines would have been
things OF the past ere this writing. Fast
height lire agents may be sinners, but they
are not uear 50 wicked q class as some OF the
newspapers would have the public believe.
Canada is the country Of light railroad
earnings. The ayersgs earnings per mile OF
the 800 miles in operation for the year to
June so. 1884. as reported by the Chief En-
gineer and General Manager Of the Govern
ment railways. were IS l01 per mile, against
s., A6l for the railroads OF the United States
IN the last year reported. The Canada
Southern led, with SIC, 600 per mile. Parts
OF The Grand TrunS may have exceed ed this.
bat tne whole system IS given together. earn
ing al average OF So go per mile. The two
companies together, having 81 per cent of
the whole Canadian railroad mileage, had 60
Ter cent OF the total earnings aud the other
Il irty-six companies, with 6,625 miles OF
Itsd, earned but So 3l3 1S4, or an average
OF 8 0l0 per mile, on which railroads would
sfarve to death almost anywhere else in the
wor.d. 1t might be thought, perhaps, that
TIE average is brought down By the large
mileage OF the new and urdeveloped Cans
dian Pacific, but its earnings are sDove the
average OF the thirty six rosds, not bs,ox.
Among them all only two earned more than
$500 per mile, and these together have but
nhy'seven ard half miles OF road. All
the other extreme are earnings per mile Tor
the year oil SO. $50, 1854. S2S3, Si36 S4S6
snd 500.
BIG TOUR EARNINGS.
Er. f. F. Osborn, Treasurer of the Cipciu-
natl, lndar apolis. ST. Louis and Chicago
Railway Company, makes the following com.
lsTative statement CT approximate earnings
for the fourth week OF April:
Approximate. Actual.
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