The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-01-17
Miscellaneous Notes.

The Fitcbburg road (Hoosac Tunnel route),
the Boston Herald says, is bringing three-quar-
tiers of the grain from the West into Boston.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe is hard at
work making surveys for the location of an ex-
tensve cattle yard which it proposes to build at
once near the Link road" which connects the
road with the Southern Pacific at Ell Paso.
Major Charles A. Evans of Denver has fur
nished the Chicago Railway Review with set
of rules for testing automatic carcouplers, and
while they may not be perfect they certainly
aid in reducing to system study which has
become the confusion and plague of railroad
commissioners, master "ar builders and other
officials
Most of the Southern roads are having pros
porous winter business The travel to New Or
leans and to Florida from the Northwest was
never so great as now. An instance is shown in
the increase of IL per cent in the earnings of the
Louisville 81 Nashville for the first week of Jan
uary over the same week of 1884. The Memphis
& Charlcston's earnings for December also show
an increase of II per cent over December, 1883
The famous tripartite alliance between the
Union Pacific Rock Island & ST. Paul. a part of
whose provisions were set aside to enable the
roads, with others, to try temporary pooling
agreements antagonistic to the alliance, will
soon come into force again by the termination
of the temporary pools, unless some arrange
ment to the contrary is made. A meeting upon
the subject will probably be held within few
days.
In their annual report the Railway Commits
sioners of Massachusetts say upon the subject of
Sunday trains, that only four in the Common
wealth are run with its sanction. The board has
been asked to prevent the operation of some
roads. or to prosecute the offending companies.
The Commissioners have no power whatever to
prevent the operation of Sunday trains, and be-
lieve that it is not their province to promote
prosecutions.
The Railroad Gazette gives table of all re-
corded changes in the grain rate from Chicago
to New York since March l. 1864, nearly twenty
one years. The highest rate, it appears, was
| ST. go per 1000 pounds JAN l. 1865, and the low
est 10 cents May l, 1873. The Gazette closes its
article by saying: 1T is evident that there can
| be no such reduction of rates hereafter The
charge having fallen from SO to % cents, there is
| little room left for it to fall Nowhere else on
earth are rates SO low, and whatever reduction
| in working EXPENSES may be made hereafter, it
| cannot be made possible to reduce charge of
% cents by SO, 10, or even % cents
| In commenting on the war now going on be-
| tween the West Shore and the New York Cen
tral roads, the Philadelphia Press says 1.-THE
| end is merely a question of time, and when it
comes Mr. VanderbilJ's capital will have crushed
the less favored company out of existence The
West Shore lost more than So, SOC. 600 last year.
and did not pretend to do anything but pay cur
rent expenses. Mr.. Vanderbilt has no doubt de-
termined to make this case as desperate as pos
sible SO that it may serve as warning that his
road cannot be paralleled with impunity. The
contest may last little longer but the life blood
of the smaller company has been flowing for
some time"