The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-08
Miscellaneous Notes.

The rumor is revived that the Baltimore &
Ohio will lease the Jersey Central road.
The Union Pacific for three months ending
April l showed net increase of $i74, 625 in
earnings
The net earnings of the Pullman chow an in
crease since Jan. l of 900 over the same
period last year.
The Northern Pacific has contracts for the
shipment of 6000 head of young cattle into Mon.
tana within the next two weeks
The Boston & Maine is having 100 freight cars
built at Laconia, which will be equipped with the
| United States automatic coupler.
The entire $4,000 900 5 per cent loan of the
| Baltimore & Ohio has been placed The last OF
the bonds were sold On Saturday.
The net earnings of Northern Pacific for nine
months are So, 877, 724 an increase of $211, 900,
but not quite meeting the fixed charges.
Investigations show that the West Shore for
the quarter ending with December, did not earn
operating expenses and taxes by 100000.
The Pennsylvania railroad will have to meet
its West Shore in about year in the completion
of the Southern Pennsylvania, which parallels
it to Pittsburg.
The Boston & Lowell now gets beautiful ma
hogany finished passenger cars at Laconia for
about So, 200, which two or three years ago would
have cost over $4,000.
The Maine Central railroad proposes to put on
more style, and has ordered its conductors to
iorluWltH array themselves In swallow tall cut
away coats, bedizened with brass buttons.
President Tyler, of the Grand Trunk, is COM
ing over from England with the olive branch
The Boston Advertiser says the Grand Trunks
propensity to fight has Disguised its English
stockholders.
The Old Colony railroad has equipped the
cabOoses on its freight trains with tin emergency
cases. filled with an assortment of plasters cot
ton needles and thread, scissors, bandages etc.,
to be used in case of accident.
The Central Iowa Railway Company has made
a close running arrangement with the Chicago
Burlington q Quincy road, with which it CON
meets at keithsburg and with the st. Paul road
with which it connects at Mason City.
The Boston Transcript SAYS: The great rail
road lines of the country are engaged in spar
ring exhibition, and they do not use soft gloves
either. All parties likely to be punished
severely but they never will succeed in knock
ing each other out"
The last thirty days the overland travel over
the Atlantic and Pacific, to Mojaye has increased
by at least 20 per cent 1t is said that the local
traffic over the same road between Moiave and
albuquerque, and to and from the mines in the
Colorado and Flagstaff districts, has increased
wonderfully during the same period.
AJudge Dealy, at Portland, Ore, Monday. par
dered an opinion in the United States G;rcnit
Court, declaring the Hault railway h;H constitu-
tional on the two principal points viz That pas
senger fares shall not be Yrore than four cents
per mile, and freight c1arges no higher than they
were on January /, 1885, and that there shall be
no discrimination.
The Southern Kansas road will open liz few
days new passenger and freight line from Kan
sas City to Pittsburg and New Orleans by We
of Fort Smith, Little Rock and Arkansas O. 4.
1t will connect with the New Orldans no, ,ity
Arkansas City, forming through line da a
Orleans The line will be in opposiv o New
Fort Scott L. Gulf road on TO th
The net earnings of the New Yor
and Western railroad for March - Lake Err
crease over last year of 1853, l52 snow an In
six months ending March 81. 10 anu ior f.,l Tn
OO4. IS With the earninp :, decrease o. S2oy,
New York, PennsylvaY,ya . . ni: expenses OF th'
the increase for Ma.o >. AK ZINC 5no III lncuaea ta
SIX months 'nsse is lecrease Of So 1870 'A'
ma, ranara s hnaassS e President Adams's an
hat the Union Pacific railway
omd I ,,s sum of 800 1O4 9IO of bond:
I'D ST. stao,,S # their own road and bonds
fr M Is ,h1 branch or tributary lines
~, a,x, sest amount OF similar assets held
and t5a cor ad corporation in the United States
he sa,na ipany derives large revenue from