The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-11-27
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


OWlng TO the increasing business or the ROAD,
eight regular freight trains have been added to
the service of the freight department of the L.,
n. A & c. r. r. between Chicago and Louis
vile.
Mr.. Depew is very confident that the injunc-
ton against the lease of the West Shore by the
New York Central will not hold. and that it will
be undoubtedly dissolved. The Times and
Herald attribute the New York Central injunc-
ton to the Gould party.
The employees of the setting-up department. Of
the Lafayette car works, to the number Of about
fifty, are out on strike. The company had just
contracted for large number of coal cars 20 be
completed by a certain time, and the trouble is
rather annoying to the company.
Railroad matters were unusually quiet yester-
day. much more so than on Sunday The local
ticket offices and the freight depots were all
closed by 10 A. NJ, and no freight trains were
run except those carrying live stock or perish
able freight, and a ajority of the railroad en-
ployes made it a genuine holiday.
W. r. Woodland general superintendent Of the
L., N A. q c., was at Charlottesville on Wednes
day, and stated that there is probability of the
road being divided into two sections, and Craw
louisville, being at the middle of the road, was
likely to be made the transfer point. In such
case double track will be laid through Craw
louisville, and other improvements will be made.
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out OF the shops at Indianapolis, rebuilt, and it
is claimed, the fastest engine on the Pennsylva
MA system. She has a new steel box, and the
boiler ali modern improvements OF valve, resting
On hvefoot six-inch driving-wheeis, has a l7X24-
inch cylinder and weighs about forty three tons,
and rests very gracefully her wheels The
engine is neatly though not gaudily painted
The Chicago papers have much to say over a
remark said to have been made by Commission
er Fink, to the effect that at fifteen cents per
100 pounds rate from Chicago to New York, the
roads had not carried it at loss. While this
may be true, it is nevertheless as true that but
for the profits on their local business and bust
ness for interior points, there is not one of the
trunk lines or their Affiliated lines which would
for the last two years nave been able to pay
operating expenses, say nothing about fixed
charges.
One of the immediate effects of the current
advance in railroad rates is, naturally enough,
heavy falling off in grain and -four shipments
from the West to the seaboard 1t will require
some time to adjust the grain markets. and other
markets as well, to the new range of transporta-
tion charges, and until these matters are set
tied it is inevitable that more or less disturb
ance should occur. The check in the movement
of breadstuffs is, however, not altogether due to
the advance In railroad rates. but in good de-
gree to a determination on the part OF holders
in the West to wait for niger prices later in the
season.
President Roberts, OF :de Pennsylvania lines,
can hardly be blamed that he does not Weld in
every point to the Baltimore q Ohio road in the
matter of handling the Baltimore & Ohio's New
York passengers. Under the pooling contract of
1854, which ran twenty-five months, the Penn
syivania was over about $3.50, 900 and the New
York Central $50, 900, while the Baltimore &
Ohio fell about $3.50 900 and the Erie $50. 600
short of their allotments The differences had to
be settled in money, and the Pennsylvania was
therefore placed in the position of paying the
Baltimore q Ohio $3.50, coo bonus for maintain
ing rates. In this time the total income to the
New York division Of the Pennsylvania from
passengers delivered to the Baltimore e. Ohio,
received from that company, was little more
than $l5l 000 and in addition the Pennsylvania
was obliged to furnish solid trains to the Balti-
more q Ohio and haul the sleepers and express
cars OF that company. The contract was abro
gated because the Tenns7 felt that it was
too onerOuS.
The bondhoders of the Huntington car and
car-wheel works sold the plant at Hunting
don this week, to Percival Roberts, of Phladel-
phla. a cousin of the president of the Pennsyl-
vanla railroad. The consideration $40, 600,
and a stipulation that the works should he op-
Grated in Huntingdon 1t is rumored that the
works will be operated by the East Broad top
railroad which taps the bituminous coal regions,
as erecting and repair shops, the purchaser be-
ing one of the largest stockholders and d.
rector. The shops are splendidly equipped. Elk
cepting the shops of the Pennsylvania and
Reading railroads, they are second to none in
the State, and are estimated to be worth from
$3.50 900 to 5000, 900. They formerly belonged
to Blaln Brothers. who are now in Florida
and were closed by the sheriff. To protect
themselves the bondholders were obliged to
purchase, and they will realize about 80 per
cent. of their claim. The Blain Brothers it
will be remembered. figured quite prominently,
some years ago, in the indianapolis malleabe
iron works.