National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1885-09-14
RAILWAY NOTES.

A dispatch from Chicago mentions n rimor
that the trunk lines have made nm agreement
for seven.year money pool, but the story is
not credited.
A table showing the eastbound shipments for
last week discloscs the fact that the Vanderbilt
roads have been doing large percentage of
the business.
The general passenger agents of the Trans.
continental Association held their first meet
ing at st. Paul Saturday. A round.trip rate of
San Francisco for the g. A. II. meeting next
year.
Eastbound rates continue thoroughly de-
moralized, the only feature being that the roads
are reluctant to make contracts for large ship
ments at prevailing figures owing TO the heavy
loss sustained on each car load brought for
ward.
Maj J. F. oBrien, formerly assistant general
manager OF the East Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia railroad, has been appointed general
manager and agent by the receiver of the
Lackawanna and Pittsburg railroad, with office
at Angelica, N. y.
The reduction of expenses ordered by the
pennsylvania railroad officials applies to opera.
the cutting off of one hour per day from each
workman and the suspension OF work on Sat
urdays, making the total loss of time to each
man fourteen hours per week.
Nearly all the contractors on the South Penn
sylyania railroad have assigned their contracts
at the request OF the American Construction
Company, which Is building the road. The
company is paying on the contractors for work
done, and soon all work on the line will be
stopped until 1t is taken up by the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company.
The master In the suit brought at Philadcl-
phia by Charles S. Wheelan and other holders
OF the adjustment scrip of the Reading Rail.
Trustee Samuel W. Bell to compel the latter to
sell the s3,l7l, 500 of income mortgage bonds
pledged with him as trustee for, the scrip
holders brought In his report last Satur-
day. The master holds that the. court
should not exercise Its equitable jurisdiction
by compelling the trustees to sell.
Much excitement prevails among the officials
OF the roads in the Northwestern Traffic Associ.
alton over the announcement ofthe consumma.
ton ola pooling agreement between the st
Paul. Minneapolis and Manitoba railway and
the Canadian Pacific railway, which virtually
shuts out the roads between Chicago and ST.
Paul from participating in the traffic from Ca.
madam points to Manitoba points, placing tina.
business: both freight and passenger, in the
Manitoba forms the only American connection
with the Canadian Pacific, but 1t Is not prob
able that 1t will enjoy the monopoly much
building line to Manitoba from Fargo, and
this latest outrage by the Manitoba road will
stimulate other northwestern lines TO carry out
their projected schemes for reaching Manitoba
over independent routes.
AT the meeting of the general managers of
the lines forming the Transcontinentul Asso-
citation at st. Paul another effort was made by
the Representatives of the Southern and Cen.
tral Pacific to have the matter of awards of per
eentages referred to the presidents of the diff
ferent lines for Il final settlement, but this was
defeated by majority vote. They then offered
resolution to have the general agent make
out a balance sheet showing the operations OF
each line, but this was also defeated. A resOlu-
tion was then adopted by majority vote, that
each line should make ont II statement of its
claim against the Southern Pacific for each OF
the six months, from Jan. ! to June 80, and
draw on that road for the amount due. Mr..
Stubs, of the Central Pacific, then notified each
road not to make out such draits, and also
notified them II made ont they would not be
paid. by an agreement made at previous
meeting among the lines, the business for July,
August, and September was amiCaby adjusted,
the agreements being that settlements for these
three months should be based on earnings for
the previous three months and not OH an
award of percentages made by Messrs. Bosue,
Ford, and Grey.
The Chicago Tribune says; "CoIsirrlble
surprise has been expressed wig, Just upon the
announcement of the settlement of tile West
Shore and South Pennsylvania affairs in Il sat
isinctoTy manner to Vanderbilt and the Penn
sylvania people, u new aud most disastrous
freight war should have broken out, and which
has assumed greater dimensions than any sim
| liar fight heretofore. II Is learned from good
authority that the real cause for the trouble is
! the determination of Vanderbilt not TO recog-
nize diteTenti0l rates to the various seaboard
points hereafter on export business, He takes
the ground that SO long as this dinerentiRl-rltc
problem has not been solved uniform rates can
not lie maintained, and that Il Is better 20 fight
| the matter out right now than 10 make new
| agreements to he broken again In n short time.
| The Pennsylvania aud Baltimore aud ohio are
| determined TO charge the dilerential to Phila-
| delphin and Baltimore. Thus when the Van
| derbllt roads made the rate to New York 10
| cents the abovenamGd roads made the rate to
| Philadelphia cents and to Baltimore cents
| ThereupOn the New York lines came down with
| the rates to New York. nnd the Philadelphia
baltimore UO
lower IN order to maintain the ditierentiOl.rate
principle"