The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-10-14
AFFAIRS OF TIE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

ZONES West again next month.
A meetiae of the Local Passenger Agents As
Eoeiation has been called for tomorrow at 10
o'clock a. NJ, to restore rates again.
Fred Rogers, travelling freight agent of the
chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad, is in the
city for a day or two, prospecting for business.
Capt. c. NJ. Gray. assistant general freight
agent of the Lake Shore, is in a very feeble con-
Eition, and confined to his home. He is now in
his ~eightieth year.
So long as sub-agents are scattered over the
, country adjacent to Indianapolis. selling tickets.
who never hear of it when rates are restored,
Just so long will passenger rates be demoralized.
Paymaster Snee, of the c., st. L. g.. P, is on
his monthly rounds. and Paymaster Sullivan. of
the c., l., St. l. & c., starts out on the same
mission to-day, both paying for September
service.
General Passenger Agent Baldw win and Gen
eral FLeight Agent McDoel, of the L., n. A. q
C., spent a few hours in the city yesterday. Both
report the business of their departments as
quite satisfactory.
The Peoria. Decatur & Evansville road earned
last month $74, 564. an increase OF S3,938 over
earnings of September, 1884. The earnings for
the first nine months of the year were $54l, 028,
u decrease this year of $50, 023.
The Chicago Tribune says: ut is quite GER
tain that for the present at least none of the
roads will dare to cut rates, as the trunk lines
are evidently in earnest and mean to carry out
their resolution not to tolerate any cutting OF
rates hereafter"
II is said that one of the objects of Jay Gould's
present visit to the West is to look over the Cen
trail branch property of the Union Pacifc-re-
Gently released by the Missouri Pacific for aterm
OF twenty-five years-and decide as 10 the policy
of extending it to Denver.
After wrestling with the subject of equalizing
freight rates to Texas points in a series of ses-
sions, the general freight agents of the middle,
Western and Ohio river south bound roads ad-
journed without accomplishing the desired
object. and the attempt will be abandoned for the
present.
The opinion prevails with Western railroad man
ayers and general freight agents that to insure the
strict maintenance of rates throughout this win
ter a strong money pool will have to be formed,
by which each line is guaranteed a certain per-
centage of the business, and there will be no in
centiye for cutting rates.
An l., Il. & w. official states that since they
entered into the favorable traffic arrangement
with the Erie people on through passenger bust
ness, although their plans are not fully perfected,
they have carried more New York passengers
than they did in the two years or more they ran
in connection with the Baltimore & Ohio road.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday last Indian
apolis dealers shipped over the Bee line and c.,
St. l.. e p. roads to Eastern markets 4. 800 bar
rels of dressed poultry, or an average of 100 bar
,els per day. This is said to be the heaviest
shipment made in the same length of time from
indianapolis since it became SO important a prod
nee market.
The c., l., St L. & G. road earned the first
week of October $40, 422. 06, against $50, Cos. "a
khe corresponding month of 1884. There was a
decrease in freight earnings of So, 1872. AZ, while
Shere was an increase in passenger earnings of
S74. 81. This is the first week the passenger de-
partment has shown an increase in earnings for
come months.
u. B. Thomas, the new general manager of
the Richmond IL Danville road. will urge the di-
rectors to make the gauge of the track uniform
over the entire system. There are now three di-
visions broad gauge. 5 feet; two divisions narrow
gauge, 81 feet; the remainder is standard gauge,
a feet 81 inches. He proposes to make the entire
system standard gauge.
1t is reported that E. S. Bowen, vice-president
of the Erie road, has resigned on account of i'll
health, and that Charles Paine has succeeded
him. Mr.. Paine was at one time general super
intendent of the Lake Shore road, then general
manager of the West Shore road, and more re-
Gently general superintendent of the New York,
Pennsylvania 81 Ohio road.
The passenger department of the Michigan
Central has issued a neat folder, giving the
thrOugh-car service and connections of the line
at Detroit, Toledo and Chicago, west bound. As
an aid to conductors in giving them the informa-
tion necessary to a ready reply to the thousand
questions asked daily by travellers in regard to
connecting lines it is invaluable.
President Mackey, of the Evansville e Terre
Haute road, seems to have at last reduced sala-
Ties to such a figure that the employees strike. and
the strike promises to reach all departments
unless matters are promptly adjusted. Time is
showing that a railroad cannot be fully main
tanned physically and men be paid living wages
on IL per cent. of the gross earnings, especially
when rates are low.
The various Eastern railroads and fast-freight
lines have issued circulars TO all agents contract
ing east-bound freight to faithfully adhere to the
resolution passed by the trunk-line presidents
ordering the maintenance of the twenty cent
tariff. and that any agent found cutting rates
hereafter will be subject to peremptory discharges;
and the soliciting agents for once believe that
the presidents are in earnest in this movement.
Reports from all quarters confirm the serious
purpose on all sides to do all that is possible to
restore and maintain rates. The resolutions
passed by the trunk lines pledged their com
panies not to permit any reductions in east-bound
rates by their own officers, and not to accept at
through rates traffic from connecting lines which
have cut the rates, even though the cut is made
wholly out of the connecting lines proportion of
the rate.
The Baltimore & Ohio Cumberland rail-mill is
10 be rearranged for structural iron, and will start
mp in three months with orders enough to run it
year. Had the controlling stockholders of the
indianapolis rollins mill months ago. when a
similar change was urged by VIM. C. De Paw,
carried out his idea, it would have been of great
benefit to the city and doubtless profitable to
the company, as the demandf for heavy structural
IRON is steadily increasing and the new mill is
well adapted to such work.
William r. McKeen, president of the Wanda
fla. was in the city yesterday. He reports traf-
&c on their whole system as quite satisfactory:
especially is their coal traffic more than usually
heavy. In fact, it seems limited only to cars
that can be commanded to carry it. Shipments
from Clay county block-coal mines never were
heavier. On the western division fully the
usual amount is being mined, and in addition to
this, the mines on the t. ii. & L. division are
producing ten carloads of coal where, two years
sgo. they were producing but two or three.
The Pennsylvania line is falling back into its
slden-time habit of bringing its trains into Indian
spolis one to two hours late. General Superin-
sendent Miller should at once give this matter
-.4aut;ap To 10 c,,ra f1a;y <,a,rc n,n ,x.-< $500