The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-10
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



was in the city yesterday. on official business.
Ten miles of additional sidetrack is to be put
in on the main line OF the c., l., St. L. & c. this
season.
The L, B. 6 w. people have under considera-
ton the opening of an outside Office on Washing
ton street, in addition to the one they now have
on South Illinois street.
President Ingalls, has ordered four new en-
gines, and should the business of his road con-
tinue as heavy as for three months past ha says
he will order eight more, all to be heavy freight
engines.
Scalper Powell threatens to sue the Chicago,
Milwaukee 81 st. Paul road for $48 of commits
sons which he claims they have owed some
years. If wise the scalper will move slow in
this matter
T. L. Dunn, who in few days retires from
the SUPPLEMENTARY of the L.. n. A. 81 G. road,
is arranging his affairs TO spend the summer in
Europe, for the benefit of his health. Mr.. Dunn
has been in continuous railroad service twenty
years. and certainly is deserving of good rest.
j. B. Corners, train-master of the Toledo Ann
Arbor 81 Western railroad. who was injured in
the wreck on that road Wednesday night, is a
brother of M. 5. Corners, train master of the
c., H. 81 l. road. The latter received a tele
gram yesterday stating that the surgeons
thought none of his injuries to be of serious
character.
The New York & New Haven road has notified
general freight agents of the indianapolis roads
which forward New England business that
hereafter it will charge arbitrary all
such business This is of the results of the
passage by the Legislature of Connecticut of a
law which obliges all roads in that State to make
the same rates on long haul as on short haul
freights.
1t would be good policy for the j., M. & /. peo-
pie to hold back their morning accommodation
train south until the limited express arrives
when wait of three or four minutes will accom-
modate several passengers coming west on the
limited. Two mornings since the limited was
put on passengers who should have gone on
the j., NJ & |. train have been obliged to wait
until the afternoon.
General Freight Agent McDoel, of the L., N.
A. 81 c. road, spent yesterday in the city He
states that last year 600 carloads of coal were
handled by that road and 5000 carloads of
stone, and from both of these classes of traffic
they expect large increase this year. as SO
many manufacturing establishments are resum-
ing operations and there is so much greater de-
mand for stone for building purposes.
Mention was made few mornings since that
the Jeffersonvie, Madison & indianapolis road
had notified connections that hereafter it
would not accept the prorate through
business, consequently the l., B. 81 W. will
hereafter do all it's Louisville business by the
L., N. A. q G., connecting at Charlottesville,
and the Bee-line with the L., n. A. q c., con-
Meeting at Greencastle The j. M. e. l. took
the step it did because it did not pay it to haul
freight prorate The L., n. A. & G. people
take the ground that it will pay them to handle
it, as it will naturally draw other business to
their road.
Mention of the promotion Of j. X. Lape, form
er master mechanic of the Bee line, made a
morning or two since. in commenting on said
promotion, the Big Springs Paragraph, Texas
says: 'Mr. Lape becomes general master me-
chanic for the entire Texas & Pacific railway
embracing about l, 476 miles, headquarters, Mar
SHALL Texas, Mr.. o. A. Haynes, who formerly
held this position, being appointed inspector of
locomotives, cars and machinery, with Office at
St Louis. AS master mechanic Of the shops
here, Mr.. Lape has proven himself worthy ard
capable--giving general satisfaction; he is
cellent citizen, and, while we regret to lose him
and his family from our town, it is with pleasure
we note his promotion. His new duties will
often call him to this point, and we hope he may
become no stranger among u.s."
The Kentucky Legislature Controls the Pa
cific Roads.
The San Francisco Chronicle is greatly dis
turbed over the lease of the Central Pacific to
the Southern Pacific The Chronicle says: at
now turns out that while the people of California
were wondering from what source help could
come, the railway triumvirate was connecting a
scheme which was calculated to defeat all at
tempts to bring the railways under subsection
The last report of the Railway Commission of
Kentucky hints that the Legislature of that State
is under the control of c. p. Huntington and his
associates and now comes the proof of the fact
IN the passage of an act incorporating the South
ern Pacific Company, with power to lease and
operate railroads in other States. The corpora
tors are Stanford, Croker, Huntington g. Co.
Then followed the lease first of the Southern
Pacific railroad, branches and leased
lines, for ninety-nine years to this Ken
lucky corporation, and henceforth the
people of California, if they have to complain of
the railroad, expected to deal with a Ken
lucky corporation, with headquarters at Frank
fort or Louisville. The Central Pacific Railroad
Company and the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company are California corporations, operating
under the laws of this State. They cannot
shuttle off their subsection to our laws by sham
lease to sham corporation organized by their
own officers. Neither the courts nor the State
officials will recognize the lease the charter
of the Kentucky concern. They will deal with
the companies as State corporations, subject to
our laws" The article, which is quite lengthy,
closes by saying: ''How Kentucky must have
fallen from the honorable place it filled in the
days OF Henry Clay 1t seems now to be the
private preserve of G. P. Huntington. Time was
when Kentuckians owned themselves. Now they
are owned by Wallstreet sharper, railway
huckster, who uses the Legislature not only for
the purposes of the Chesapeake & Ohio, but to
pass any acts he may need to defeat the popular
will in other States"
What Will Become of the Nickel-Plate.
The future of the New York, Chicago s. St
Louis road, the Nickel-plate. is matter over
which there is much speculation. The obvious
thing for the Nickel plate bondholders now is to
get the road away from all entangling alliances
with the Lake Shore and then to go to work to
develop the local traffic. Since the Nickel-p plate
has been in operation, which is almost ever since
twas built, the Lake Shore has managed it.
The result has been to deprive it Of all local
business and make it a carrier of through hnsi-