The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-22
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
Com missioner Richardson, of the Chicago and
Ohio River pool, is in the city prospecting.
Jacob Henry has been appointed yardr
of the Pennsylvania lin es at Columbus, O.
b K. Victor has been appointed yarimaster of
the c., ST. L. & p, at Bradford vice r. T.
Hewes.
Il is believed that in dividing business on the
new deal between the trunk lines, territory as
well rs rates, will be recognized.
Shipments of anthracite Goals to Western
markets have commenced in earnest The rate
4his year is but trihe over three mill per ton
per mile.
C. S Blackman, who is to represent the Union
Pacific at this point yesterday to the city
for permanent residence. The location OF his
once Is still question.
The central passenger agent committee meet
al Chicago Tuesday next to investigate charges
made against passenger agents, Two OF the mum
her being Indianapolis parties.
Travel to Eastern and Northern pleasure re-
sorts is at it height this week. Sleeping-car
ara crowded aud baggagemen are tumbling
.,bout the Saratoga trunks at a lively rate
General Passenger Agent j. r, Wood. of the
Pennsylvania Railway Company, says that he
viii not attend anv meeting in the near future
ifest greater interest in the situation.
The l., b. & W. people received information
yesterday that east-bound freight rates were re-
stored to tariff Since the advance at other
pcnts under the guise of old contracts. there has
BEEN some indirect rate-cutting going on at
Peoria.
Commissioner Doherty, of the Indianapolis
eEst bound pool, yesterday received kilograms
from all important Western shipping points
suying him that the toning up of east-bound
rates general, and all hands acting honora-
bly, IN the matter
General Passenger Agent Charlton, of the
Chicago & Alton, was in the city yesterday He
attributes the falling off IN their passenger
ings TO be largely due to the absence from duty
for couple of weeks of A. d. Perry, their repre-
sentative in the indianapolis district
Lewis Ssson, the wellknown L., f. e w.
conductor, died of typhoid fever at Lafayette.
Monday. He was member of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Brakemen, Crimson Lodge No ITO,
which organized there short time ago,
largely through his fundamentally.
Sealper Frey has gone to French Lick Springs
for few days, which will give the passenger
men who have been the anxious at
days a temporary rest. The fact is that but few
passenger agents have $50 to advance fine
when they are roped in by some scheming ticket
ecalper
Two sons of Cornelius Vanderbilt are amateur
printers. In their fathers Fifth-avenue dwell
ing they have room devoted to the craft with
preSs cases, type and other materials used in
printing neat little paper called the Comet.
Tbs paper they publish bears the name of the
first locomotive run on the New York Central
road
Frank Palmer. who represents the Wabash at
Chicago, was ensnared by a scalper who cut
rate a ticket he sold. The matter came up
for hearing before Commissioner Hiland, and
Frank told so smooth story that the commits
Ssonsr acquitted him, and returned the amount
OF hrs fine, which was put up pending the investi-
cation.
Enough is known already of the July earn
ines to assure that they will be better than
those for June, and to warrant the hope that the
increase will be steady from this point on. The
volume of traffic has increased from point
where railway managers more anxious
to get good rates than to increase their traffic at
losing rates.
The expression is general that the State Board
of Equalization did what proper and just IN
reducing the assessments for taxation on the
Belt road. The fact is that the Belt road is a
burden upon the roads operating, which burden
Is carried for the benefit of the city of Indian
apolis as it relieves the Union tracks. There is
no money in it to the roads operating over it.
The Denver News of the 10Th says the ninth
annual excursion of the Decline, consisting of a
special train of five Pullman palace and two
baggage cars. and carrying about two hundred
people, arrived at the Union depot at 7:30o'clock
yesterday morning A portion of the party
remained here during the day, while the others
took the Rio Grande train for Utah and the
coast
The shipment of 200 carloads of Chinese tea
from Tacoma, W. T., to st. Paul Chicago and
New York, over the Northern Pacific railroad, is
a noteworthy event, as the opening of an
tirely route for the tea trade between the
Pacific coast and the Eastern distributing CEN
Tors The time occupied in the transmission Of
the tea and the freight charges are less by the
route than over the old ones.
VIM. Nichols, agent of the Decline at this
point who fined 800 under the rulings of
the passenger agents association, forwarded his
money yesterday to Commissioner Pierson, pend
ing the investigation. Probably the passenger
agents taking this matter too seriously. The
chief object of imposing this fine is to ascertain
who is paying the scalper commissions, If the
initiatory road is not so doing. Doubtless Mr.
NiehOlss money will be returned to him upon
his affidavit that he sold the ticket at full rates
and vas in nc manner working with the seal per-
Ii is quite evident that some more systematic
plan of appraisng railroads for taxation should
be hit upon. Under the present plan the assess
1nents are not seemingly fairly equalized. For
instance, the Fandala is assessed at $l3, 900 per
mile, the Indianapolis 81 St. Louis, which par
aleiS it, but SIS 900, and the Decline
proper hut $1,000. Let person say to E. B.
Thomas, general manager of the Decline sys-
TEN. that the Indianapolis g. St. Louis track,
within the limits of the State of Indiana, was
less valuable by S., coo per mile than the Terre
Raute and Indianapolis division of the Wanda
lin, he would take serious exceptions, that the
Decline proper was less valuable by 5000 per
mile.
The Boys Think 1t Rather Severe.
Under this head local passenger agent writes
the Journal as follows
1.-THE general passenger agents entered into an
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