The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-09-04
Miscellaneous Notes.

Central and Running Mate" is the new title
bestowed upon the New York Central and West
Shore combination.
the $500, 00O. 900 of stock and bond capital of the
railroads of Pennsylvania is water.
1t is claimed that the restoration of rates on
the New York Central to two cents per mile has
not decreased the passenger traffic.
The statement or the Canadian Pacific shows
gross earnings for July of $90S. 900, net earnings
$446, 600; an increase in net earnings of 1921, 900
over same period last year.
The Baltimore Il Ohio denies officially that it
is making a innocent rate to New York on grain.
The road does not want freight at ID cents to
New York and 10 cents to Baltimore.
The statement of the Chicago. Milwaukee g.
st. Paul railway for July shows the gross earn
ings to be ST., 767, 900. a decrease, as compared
with the same month last year, of $58. 348.
The Kansas City, Clinton & Springfield road
will be finished and the securities delivered
about Oct. l. Ninety per cent. of the subscrip-
ton has been called, and the balance will be in
September.
The railroads centering at Duluth are arrang-
ing for increased Terminal facilities at that point.
The Omaha Is to build a mammoth freight depot
and the Manitoba is to provide enlarged yard
and track room.
The ST. Paul's new station in Milwaukee will
cost $500, 900. A double-track iron bridge, $50
feet long, is now being built across the Menomi-
nee river, and buildings on the line of the route
surveyed for the road leading to the station are
being removed.
The Railway Age says: GA narrow guaee
railway in Ohio, which cost s4O0, 900. is now Of
fered for sale for $40. 900. These insolent CAPT
tai lists who undertake to crush out the liberties
or the people by building railways for them are
taught a lesson once In a while"
The Boston Advertiser says: 'sThe hitch or the
lltcleE, real or Imaginary. in the napotl9fjOpG
looking to a comprehensive adjustment of the
railroad troubles will prove a sweet boon to the
surviving bears, to whom a railroad row always
materializes in the shape of balm in Gilead.r
A novel shipment is now on its way across the
continent from San Francisco, and consists of
seventeen carloads of whalebone, aggregating
LIS. 900 pounds. 1t is the product of a seasons
catch of a couple of whalers north of Behring
straits, and is consigned to New York dealers.
The Chautauqua Lake Railway Company has
been organized to build a railway from James
town, N. Y, along Chautauqa Lake. to Mayville,
and possibly around the lake, a distance of forty
miles. A. A. Pope, of Boston, is president, r.
N. Marvin. of jamestown, vice-presidert, and
Eugene Fay, of Boston, secretary and treasurer.
The Grand Trunk railway has issued a circular
to all ticket-agents on the Erie railroad stating
that hereafter it will not pay commissions on
tickets sold. Agents protest against the order,
and the indications are they will turn business
to the Michigan Central, as the New York,
Pennsylvania 81 Ohio, the Fries American
connection, has also refused to pay commissions.
According to Poor's Manual the Boston e. AL
bany carried in 1884 3,325, SIT tons of freight,
upon which the receipts were 81, 090. 1902, and the
expense of handling 81, 007, 445, leaving a profit
of only $S2. 857. The receipts were /. 90 cent per
ton per mile, cost of handling LOT cent per ton,
and the profit 1-50c per ton per mile. or in other
words. a ton of freight was carried fifty miles in
order to earn a profit of a cent, and 5000 miles
to earn a dollar, net. This takes into account
both local and through traffic.
A strike of small dimensions and short dura-
ton occurred on the Connoton Valley railway
Wednesday. The brakemenh had been paid 81. 70
per day, and it was decided to reduce them to
SLIGO, commencing Sept. l. They did not take
kindly to this new order of things, held a meet
ing, and decided that they would not work for
the proposed wages Mr.. Reynolds called the
men into his Office, made a satisfactory explana-
ton. and in n few moments the men resumed
work, with three exceptions, and business on the
road is now moving along as quietly and system
atieally as ever.