The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-05
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

the C. l., st. L. e. Co. returned yesterday from
an extended Western trip. He has been absent
one month.
B. F. Huldeman, the stenographer in the
general passenger department of the Vandalia
line, has been appointed treasurer of the Grand
Operahouse, st. Louis.
A Pennsylvania paper states that the l., B. &
w. through the month of August averaged to
Snrn over to the c., B. & G. road, at Peoria, fifty
1wo passengers per day.
the new rules and regulations governing the
Union railway and Belt roads employees strictly
forbid the use of intoxicating liquors. Any viola
tiOn of this rule will be considered cause for dis
misal.
Business upon the Dayton & Irontor formerly
r.. G. & St. L. road has outerown the equip
Henderson will soon give contracts Tor additionai
box and coal ears.
The volume OF railroad freight traffic is a sure
barometer of the general state or business
throughout the country, and that when 1t stead
xiy increases, prosperous times are a necessary
result, will not be questioned.
Receiver Humphreys, of the Wabash, says
that the rumor that the Eel river branch will go
to Lake Shore is not true. Fl. G. Wood is going
over the branch at the request of the bondhold-
ers to determine it's condition.
A temporary peace has been patched up in the
Decatur pool. The l., d. & S. people have modi-
fed their demands somewhat, and it is probable
that the Champaign & Havana management
may be whipped into the traces, as its competi-
tnrs have somewhat the advantage.
@. G.. Cochran, general freight agent of the
n. T., P. & 0. road, is in the city on official
Business. He credits indianapolis freight agents
with securing better rates on east bound business
ahAn are obtained on freights of the same class
shipped from any other Western railroad center.
The earningsl of the c., l., st. L. & G. road
for August were $199, 534 AZ, against $244. 1l6. 60
the corresponding month 1884; decrease this
year. $44, 582.18. The net earnings, however,
will not make so unfavorable an exhibit, as the
operating expenses have been sharply reduced
and the s~trictest economy p~ractised in every
department.
The fact that Dave Gray, freight traffic man.
agsr Of of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pitts
burg, or Thursday went to Chicago to meet
Manager Newell. of the Lake Shore, and
Iedyard, of the Michigan Central, to talk over
rate matters, and the latter gentlemen declined
TO meet Mr.. Gray, is causing considerable talk
la railroad circles.
Robert Geiger, general freight agent of the j.,
M IL |. road, states that the Northern lines are
losing a large per cent. of the cotton carrying
traffic, as it is being shipped from Mississippi,
Arkansas and Alabama by rail to Charleston,
Mobile and Savannah, taking the same route
used before the war, which made it a necessity to
ship cotton northward by rail.
Inc conSol engines IN service on the l., B.t&
W, middle division. make excellent time with
thirty-fve loaded cars. These engines have
proved to be economical for the company to run
10 every respect. SO evenly are they loaded
upon the drivers that they are easy on the rail
and their strength seems to be limited only by
the strength of the car coupling.
Steps will be taken. it is understood, looking
to the selling at foreclosure sale of the Louis
willie, Evansville & st. Louis Airline. Judge
Gresham is quite anxious to get the road out of
the courts. and would have ordered a sale months
ago but for a clause in the mortgage which says:
six months must pass after a failure to pay
interest before such steps can be taken"
Conductors on the Pennsylvania lines west of
Pittsburg are now being summoned to Pittsburg
TO be tested upon their ability to make out ticket
reports, according to the new rules recently pro-
mulgated. The system, it is supposed, will pre-
vent any dishonest conductor getting away with
the company's funds, and is so complicated that
u man must be well posted to hold his position.
st. Louis has been considered the banner
Western shipping point for rate cutting, going
below Chicago, but a telegram from there saws
shat Yesterday freight rates on grain from there
TO the seaboard have been brought into line with
those from Chicago. and the open rate now is
lie to New York, 12c to Philadelphia and lie to
Baltimore. A break in the higher classes of
freight is expected in L day or two.
The Terre Haute Gazette says new bonds
bearing 5 per cent. are now being engraved in
ASO AVth III lLt tHO SOh "
OF the stockholders of the t., n. g. ]. road. to
take up the 7 per cent. bonds now outstanding.
FOR the most part the old bondholders will accept
the new. The other will be placed with a trust
company in New York and sold. These bonds
are as good as wheat, as never in the history of
the road has the interest not been promptly paid.
Twenty years ago, there was, over the Bee
line, what was known as a 'good-for-nothing
rate" On this rate tobacco paid only cent per ton
per mile hauled, and some cotton was hauled on
lI-A D-A.A l. =
rata. and Johnny Brough told Lucien Hills,
then general freight agent, that the less business
they did at that rate the better for all hands.
The same classes of freight pre- now hauled at
less than three mills per ton per mile, and
President Brough's remark is much more ap-
plicable the present day than it was twenty
years ago.
Under the new rules of the Union railway and
Bolt Road Company all persons entering into or
remaining in the service of this company, are
warned that in accepting or retaining employ
haant they must assume the ordinary risk attend
Ing 1t. Each employee is expected and required
TO look after and be responsible for his own
safety, as well as TO exercise the utmost caution
10 avoid injury to his fellows, especially in
the switching of cars and in all movements of
trains. The regular compensation to employees
covers all risk of liability to accident The right
TO claim compensation for sickness or disability
is not recognized. An allowance, if made, will
be a gratuity justified by the circumstances of the
case, and previous good conduct.
In speaking of the ruInor that the Pennsylva-
MIA people had gathered in the Pittsburg & Lake
Erie road, the Philadelphia Record says: Pitts
burg shippers will soon be at the mercy of their
old oppressor. No wonder the business men of
the Smoky City are terrified. They have lust
got out of the wilderness, and to be thrust back
again into their former condition of helplessness
would be q sad blow to their merchants and
manufacturers. One reading the bitter attacks
of the Record. from day to day, would naturally
be led into the belief that it was unfortunate
that Philadelphia and Pittsburg are located on
she Pennsylvania road. In the West it is
thought Philadelphia would have been but a
speck on the map. had it not been made i'm
portant by the Pennsylvania road.
Miscellaneous Notes.
Tho Cnicaro e Northwest road rano,ts