The Indianapolis journal., 1885-08-21
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


freight lines will be held at Commissioner Fink's
Office in New York Aug 26 and 81
Tappen, Dakota, on the Dakota division Of the
Northern Pacific, has been opened for business,
and Mrs. II. Penney appointed agent
The Wabash road yesterday turned over to the
l.. B. & ". fourteen coaches laden with excur-
si0nsts to the Soldiers Home, Dayton O.
Advices received at Commissioner Finks Office
from many roads in the West point to an early
restoration of through rates.--New York Mail.
IL you take the shippers words east-bound
rates have been restored on next weeks business.
All of this weeks traffic is on the in transit
bass.
One Indianapolis firm has in the last thirty
days shipped some 1000 carloads OF wheat 10
81 Louis most of which passed through eleVa
aorC.
A f. Touzalin is the newly elected president
nf ahe Chicaco Burlinpton & Northern, and w.
II Holcornb general manager, carrying out the
prediction of the Journal few days since.
President Mackey has disposed of the bonds
issued to build the extension OF the Evansvilie q
Indianapolis straght-line from sWashlnRton to
TOrthington, Ind, at very satisfactory figures.
The understanding with general freight agents
OF Western roads was that all roads advanced
rates 10 the tariff of July 13, Monday last
From the above clipping it would seem some
roads did not.
The executive committee of the Indiana divi-
siDn Of train dispatchers meet at the Grand
Hotel, indianapolis next Wednesday evening to
make the arrangement for holding their annual
meeting in November next.
The fast mail trains on the c., St l.. & p
roaa are now hauled between Columbus and
indianapolis by three class III" engines bnllt at
Altoona specially to haul their heavy trains
waisch now are seldom late.
u T. - 80 limo
during the absence of Mr.. Nicholson at Terre
HAnte has been cutting rates, it seems and he
tafls reporter of the Terre Haute Gazette he
had authority from headquarters so to do.
General Freight Agent L. A. Emerson, of the
Missouri Pacific, gives notice that connection has
been made with the Kansas City & Southern
railway at East Lynn, and that could be
interchanged between the two roads at that
point
For six months past the c., st. L. & P. company
hare been testing on engine No. 3o4 spark
ar<ester the invention of a resident of Dennison.
0ASe So satisfactorily has it performed that it
viii doubtless be adopted on the passenger
engines on all Pennsylvania lines as early as
practicable.
Appointment railroad official writes the Journal
as follows You can say officially that none OF
tbs roads in the Canada Southern fast-freight
line have any idea cf disseminating the working
of the line at Indianapolis. The agency has been
offered to a very competent freight man. who is
nov travelling freight agent"
The sharp advance in stock of the ST. Louis.
Alton & Terre Haute road is attributed to the
revival of plan abandoned because Of the un-
promising business outlook some years ago for
reducing the interest charges. The road is leased
10 the Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati & Indi-
annapolis at a minimum rental OF $40, 0OO.
The announcement that passenger rates have
bseE restored on the New York Central and the
West Shore to the old standard of two cents per
mile, instead of the runous rate of one cent per
mile. should afford general satisfaction. Such
changes mean that large amount of capital,
distributed among many investors is about to
earn reasonable compensation.
There is said to be no grounds for the charges
preferred against the Vandaia line Of selling
tickets from ST. Louis to Chicago, over the
Illinois Central road, at reduced rates. 1t
claimed that the scalpers were helping the line
by keeping good stock of tickets on hand,
which were sold at cut rates, contrary TO the
rules and regulations OF the Chicago, st. Louis
and Missouri river passenger agreement.
In railroad circles there seems to exist belief
that the establishment of the Central Traffic
Association is too honorable scheme to be long
lived. AS the Cleveland Leader puts it, 1.-The
plan rests upon the sadly shattered proposition
that the porcine nature of some of the roads will
be buried. and only the general veal Of the roads
consulted. The principle is altogether too sub
lime to be successfully put into effect" The fact
is that the Central Traffic Association depends
entirely upon the trunk lines, for the latter con
trol rates, and as long as the rates are unsettled
the association can exist only in name.
Manager Mcdonald. of the Champaign &
Havana road, is calling on the l.. B. & W. peo-
ple for more cars he being unable to supply the
demand for cars it's line. Business on this
line under the present management increased so
per cent. in June over the month preceding, and
an July increased 90 per cent over June. If cars
could be obtained to supply the demand the
orA rn,1ia chaxu I,vr~
increase over July. The road is managed in a
very excellent manner as the business shows.
The line offers, well, superior advantages to
the travelling public 1t makes Ne. connections
with the other roads, makes good time and is
offiHered by accommodating conductors.
An old passenger conductor remarked
loosely last evening that he would have
to eat ''liver' for supper, as on his
train he handled 204 passengers that day
and had collected but one cash fare, and that was
only % cents. He then said that but very few
people now boarded the trains on his road that
had not purchased ticket Why said he, ten
years ago in handling that number of passengers
/ would have collected fares from fully onehalf
OF them; but now the travelling public are
educated up to purchasing tickets before board
ing train, and, for one, | glad of it. He
wishes the law that any person taking
passage on a train without first buying ticket
was liable to imprisonment Then passenger
conductors would be free from all charges of
nSSuohoSty, ana SpotteFS Woulu De OOlSeu 10
seek some other disreputable business.
Anumber of officials of Western roads and of
roads il the Chicago and Ohio River pool met
yesterday at St. Louis to confer regarding trans
mississippi rates. and the diversion Of freight
southwark from Kansas City via Memphis and
Arkansas City by the Fort Scott G. Gulf and the
Southern Kansas roads. St Louis is being ser-
onsiy and sorely hit by the opening of these new
channels, and has lost large trade that it has
heretofore controlled, and it is anxious TO devise
some means whereby portion of it can te re-
gained The same is true in measure of many
Of the Ohio river points. The matter was sup
posed to have been arranged some two months
ago by an agreement between the Kansas and
Missouri roads, but the trouble has broken out
afrssh. and ST. Louis wants the screws put on liz
a TnRLner that will protect it from the natural
diversion OF traffic to the section indicated
number of business men and capitalists,
several of whom were from abroad, yesterday ac-
companed V. T. Maiott, vice-presdent and
general manager of the Union Railway Com