The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-03
Miscellaneous Notes.

Michigan Central earnings on through bust
| ness last week are alleged to have been the larg
| est of the year.
| Craigellachie, which means "stand fast" is the
| name of the new railway town that has sprung
| up around the golden spike of the Canadian
| Pacific road.
| Bulls in Lake Shore say that earnings in No
vember make a good showing. They fell off
| early in the month, but for the last two weeks
| have been large.
The Staten Island Railroad Gazette says the
Baltimore 81 Ohio project is expensive, and will
be valuable mainly for freight, as the ferriage
will make much delay in passenger time; for the
long trip West or south over the Baltimore q
Ohio line, the disadvantage is less marked In
any event. the Staten Island terminal has got to
| be created yet.
Governor Robinson's, of Massachusetts,, sale of
| New York and New England railroad bonds has
| plunged the State into an animated controversy
with Cyrus w. Field and Russell Sage greatly
| to the satisfaction of New York critics of those
men. The Governor has undoubtedl done what
| seemed to him best for the Commonwealth and
| no one will impeach the conscientious quality of
| his action.
| 1t is stated on the authority Of one of the
| directors of the Washington e. Waynesburg
railroad, that the Pennsylvania Company has
| obtained control of the road, and will make it
standard-guage road. At meeting in Waynes-
| burg, on Tuesday, JohI E. Davidson, of Pitts
| burg, was elected treasurer A movement to
| extend the line to Blackvile, w. Va, is said to
be on foot.
The statement of the Louisville G. Nashville
Railroad Company for October shows gross
earnings of 81, 1852, $40; operating expenses $718,
255; net earnings 1914, 084 This is decrease
in gross earnings of $l72l2 an increase in oper
ating expenses of $25. 051, and decrease in net
earnings or $42, 20. as compared with the same
month last year. The above does not include
$3S, 443 expended for construction this year.
against $l4, ia for the same month last year.
The Delaware e Hudson Canal Company are
placing new kind of signals on the headlights
of the engines of their road. They consist of
colored glasses to be placed in a slide on each
side. on which will be ground the number of the
| train, to enable trainmen, dispatchers and other
employees of the road to distinguish the differ
ent trains at night. When train is running as
an extra, large *" is shown in connection
with the number. The scheme has been in
operation on several other roads in the country
for some time past.
The Philadelphia Times says regarding the
Philadelphia & Reading road, that while credit
ors and spectators have been jostling each 9TH
over the helpless corporation, its debt has been
increasing at the rate of nearly half a million
month, and without any compensation to cred
iJors. 1t is now obvious that adjustment or
scaling of the debt can be attained this side of
foreclosure and foreclosure will come in the end,
and In the interest of the parties best able to
protect themselves. Many who now refuse to
| take what the corporation could be made to pay
them will then get nothing, and the stronger par
ties who can splash the little fellows out will get
even, with large profits to boot.