The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-01-25
THE RAILWAYS.
The Workings and Doings OF Railroads
and Their Employees.

The local committee of the local east bound pool
have agreed 10 maintain the Is cent rate on the
New York business.
Colonel ID. B. Wharton, of Louisville q railroad
man well known in Indianapolis, is dead. The
funeral will take place to-day.
II is understood that the j.. NJ. and ]. folks are
al this point next spring. The present structure
is very old and feeble.
East bound rates from Terre Haute are still
skaky. The Blue Line has raised the rates TO for
mer prices. The other lines continue to bin
freight at reduced rates.
The General PASSENGER Agents of the Chicago
and Ohio River pool have ratified the agreement
of pool. and there every indication that the
agreement will be carried out to the letter.
Colonel J. b. French, OF the Evansville AR
road is not for sale. Its owners he says have CON
fdence in its future and have at last succeeded in
getting 1t into position to nurse IL and bring it
out Of its present troubles.
E. B. stahlman, formerly General Traffic Man
ager Of the Monon, has been appointed First Vice
President of the l. and N. He hiss the reputation
try, and II is gratifying TO his friends 20 see him
return to more prominent position than he
formerly occupied.
A General Passenger Agent of one OF the Indi-
annapolis roaos who attended the meeting of the
Chicago and Ohio River pool on Friday ventures
the remark that IN the event that the trunk lines
continue this bitter strife for business roads
will pass into the hands of receivers during the
present year than did In 1884.
The Trunk Line pool is by no means 90 utterly
by the host OK shippers who feel II 70 their in.
terest that the competition between the different
Irnns Lines saouiS De open and nn9uestioned.
tanned on eastb0und freight at twenty 10 twenty
five cents although changes liable to be made
ductiors 10 take effect at once. while ten days
notice OF an advance is required. 1t is hoped By
railroad Managers thai they win be able 70 AVOID
any notice OF an advance can not tawe effect inside
of ten days. and after rhot 1t requires fortnight
to month to clear the roads of freight taken at
lower rate.
1t is learned that ". Peabody, Manager OF the
o. and NJ, in company with other officials, has
recently been in Washington. Ind, to negotiate
for a location for the machine shops Of the COM
paDy. In view Of the fact that only at Washing
ton is there go good facility to obtain coal. and
by reason of he fact that it is situated midway
between The term,ni OF the road the officials have
recognized the advantage of such q location ana
have consequently opened negotiations with the
town. Those shops located at Seymour and Vim
CHIMES and Carmel VIII be combined at washing
ton. Should Washington be favored with this
10 10 se o. and % but Gt 9od fur
nikh an immediate demand for Davies County'e
inexhaustible supply OF coal, supply which is
now too much In excess OF the demand.
1t is rumored that q syndicate has been. or is
about being formed in this city for the purpose of
reorganjzing the Chicago and Great Southern
Railway tnow in the hands of Receiyerl, aud 20
extend it from its present eastern terminus 70 La
Crosse Ind, where IT 10 TO connect with the Chi
cago ana Wess Mlcnlgan lor polnts IN upper
Michigan. The Chicago and Great Southern now
runs from Fair Oaks, Ind, 10 Yeddo q disEsnceof
eighty miles, and IL is also TO be extended into the
Brazil coal fields, to tap which IT built In
the first place. At FAIR Oaks connection is made
with the louisville. New Albany and Chicago for
Chicago. II is understood that the West Michigan
and Louisville and New Albany and Chicago ere
interested in the scheme for reorganizing and ex-
tending the Chicago and Great Southern. which
in connection with the above named roads wi IL
make q through line from Chicago 70 al Dromi-
nent points in Upper Michigan and poins on the
east shore OF Lake Michigan. II the scheme is car
ried out IL will seriously affect the Michigan Gen.
tral. which at present iorus the outlet for the
West Michigan to Chicago from New Buffalo,
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