The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-14
IRON HIGHWAYS.
Irregularities in East.Bound Freight
Rates Which Demand Attention.
John Rogers aud His Little Railroad
Contrect-The Difference Between
the Screecher and Steamboat
Whistle Other Items OF
the Rail.

Scalpers are complaining of dull times,
bat il is highly probable that they are get
ting their share OF New Orleans business.
Superintendent Evans, of the Nickle-
Plate, was in the city yesterday. Mr.. Evans
is well known TO Indianapolis railroad men.
It is just probable that the railroad re-
porter OF the st. LOUIS Globe Democrat will
make the acquaintance of Captain Hayes,
Vice President OF the Wabash before he pub
fishes any more interviews with that official
On the 18th a new timbs table will go into
effect on the Air Line The train which ar
rives here at IL p. M. over the c., H D. will
leave for Chicago at l1:20. arriving at Chi
csgo az q. m. The train leaving Chicago
at p. m will arrive here ct 335 a. m. The
travelling public Will be greatly benefited
by this change.
A rosdmaster on one of the Indianapolis
lines says that mistaken impression seems
to prevail as TO the life OF steel rails. The
very best steel rails turned out will not last
he says, more than fifteen years. although
there are many people who believe that they
will be as good as new after GERS have rolled
over them for quarter of a century.
Treasurer Osborne, Of the Cincinnati, In
dianapolis, st. Louis and Chicago Road, makes
the following statement of earnings for the
first quarter of this month. Passengers Sl2-
1892; local freight, S1O,67O CO. foreign
freight, So ,649.00; line freight, IS 326 IS;
express, 1915; mails, 81 1873; total SAL $40. SO.
The total earnings for the same period in 1884
were $35. 301.43.
The December report of the E. and I. q.
speaks well for President Mackey's retrench.
ment policy. There is heavy increase over
the earnings for the same month in 1882. 1t
is fact that this road is being run on
more economical plan than any other in the
State Of Indiana Not that the management
10 mean or penurious, but because it is nee
essary in these dull times There is no rail-
way President in the country who will be
more willing to pay his employees high
wages in the event that business picks up in
the spring, than Mr.. Mackey. Heis man
who believesin the old saying, Live and let
live
The information comes from Litchfsid
that retrenchment Of expenses on the I. and
st. L. has taken the form oil dispensing with
a number of the higher officials and consoli-
dating the offices. One roadmsster on the
Western division does the work formerly
performed in addition to the superin-
tendency OF bridges and construction, the
| latter office having been abolished entirely
Nearly all the travelling officers have bean
dispensed with or transferred to other de-
| paTtments. The wages OF subordinate en-
Toyes have not been seriously reduced tue
company apparently being disposed 70 kesp
up the reputation as paying the highest
average wages of any in the country.
When they adopted the steamboat whistle
about six months ago, the Bee Line PEG Die
set good example, but other Indianspo lis
roads do not it seems see it in that light.
| They are reluctant to substitute the shrill
| screening whistle with one OF the deep
| toned steamboat ornaments, notwithstand-
| ing the fact that the latter has proved
I! grand success on the Bee Line. The steam
| boat whistle has little or no effect on an in
| valid, while the demonlike soreech of the
other will make him or her feel ss though they
were on the verge of eternity, and in many
| instances it has assisted materially in send
| ing human beings to that land from whence
no traveller returns sooner than they would
have went had it not been in existence. The
| 'scTeechers" must 90.
| ANNUAL MEETING OF vANDALIA STOCKHOLDERS.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 13-The annual meeting
of the stockholders OF the ST. Louis. VAn.
| dalia and Terre Haute Railway Comps ~,
| was held at Greenville, ILL.,, to-day. The
annual report shows that the gross earnings
| for the year ending October 81, 1884, were
| 81, 400 307; rental receipts from lessee was
| 80 per cent. OF this amount, or S447 1892,
| against which there were charges of 1852 0S3,
having a surplus OF $85 009. The expenses
| of operating the road by the lessee were
| 81, ia 764, which is 81 $40 more than the
| percentage OF earnings allowed the lessee
| for such expenses by the terms of the lease.
| There were, however, included in the ex-
/ penses, $97 $40, expended for betterments
and increase of equipment. The following
| Board OF Directors were elected for the en-
suing year: Thomas d. Messler, j. N. Nc
| CulIough, William Thaw, Pittsburg; w. Il.
| McKeen, Terre Haute; Robert l. Delaney,
Marshall, ILL.,; Abraham Mcneil. A. G.
| Henry, Greenville; Charles Sey bert Hegland
J. S. Peers, Collinsville. The Board organ
| lied by eiecting Thomas ID. Messler, Presi-
| dent; John z. Davidson, Treasurer, and
Williamson Plant, Secretary.
JOHNNY GOT MAD.
John Rogers, of the Minnie Palmer Com
pany, after negotiation with the c., II. and
d. and Kankskee people at Indian iDolis,
contracted with the former to bring the COM
pany from The Circle =" as the center of In
dianapolis is known, TO Cincinnati. The
contract included the provision that Pail
man car should await the company at the
| Union Depot after the performance and be
| taken on the express at q. m. The ticket
was furnished and the money paid for it.
4 DuAAAe iuc dAtcAuoOu u OaluTUoy
Passenger Agent Stevenson, after corrsspnd-
ing with the Pullman Company. who could
| not furnish the required extra car. wired
his agent at indianapolis that the Palmer
Company would have to depend on the sleeper
on the express. This Mr.. Rogers. unaware of
the c., II. and ID. q correspondence with the
Pullman people, construed into bad faith,
Cancelled his contract with the O.. II. and D.,
received his money and came to this city by
the Kankakee. The whole matter seems TO
have been a Misunderstanding, and would
rot be worth mentioning except for the
fact that the contract included hauling from
here to Detroit, and that Mr.. Rogers and his
company will now go via the Columbus and