The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-21
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


y. d. Iurner, superintendent OF the nrsL anu
third divisions of the c., St L. & p, is SO i'll as
to confne him to the house.
c. S. Wheaton grand chief of the Order of
Railway Conductors, is to be in the city to-day.
Tomorrow he will attend q grand union meet
ing Of conductors at Columbus. o.
President Garrett cabled from Europe that it
was his wish TO have the Baltimore & Ohio keep
its agreement with the pool, and if this be
so it is difficult to see how there can be rup-
ture.
Judge Burke, acting president of the Bee
line, for the first time attended the trunk-line
pool meetings, and in his remarks at the meet
ing on Wednesday took strong grounds in favor
of pools.
The officials of the United Express Company
are good deal disturbed lest the Erie Express
will root them off of the L, B. e. W. The Erie
Express Company is making earnest move in
that direction.
AS with the more important roads, the earn
ings of all the minor roads in Ohio. Indiana,
Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Texas are stead
lily increasing, not only over last year, but over
any previous year.
The fact that the receiver is spending money
SO literally on the Peoria division of the l., b. 81
w. in the improvement of road-bed and its equip
ments and so little on what is now known as the
eastern division excites remark
w. Fl. McDoel. general freight agent of the
L., N A. & c., his numerous friends will be
glad to learn, is some better For three weeks
lie has been confined to his bed, but is now able
to sit up few moments at a time.
The Baltimore & Ohio troubles are interfering
somewhat with the through business of the c.,
L.. st. L. & c., but the road is experiencing big
boom in local traffic handling on the main line
from $50 to 700 loaded local cars per day.
A freight Office has been established at Potts
vile. Ind, on the Detroit and Indianapolis di-
vision of the Wabash railway. A. j. Petty, jr.,
as agent. Freight shipments for this point may
be received without requiring prepayment in
future.
Mr.. Gardiner M. Lane assistant to President
Adams. of the Union Pacific, arrived home from
Europe Thursday. Mr.. Lane found that there
was no need of establishing transfer Office of
the company in London while the stock is not on
dividend paying basis.
The c., ST. L. g P. people are not at all salts
fed with their allotted per cent in the Indian
apols east-bound pool and should their business
continue heavy for sixty days TO come as for
sixty days past, they will ask for readjust-
mont of percentages.
Commissioners Blanchard telegraphed to Chi
cago on Thursday that one result of the meeting
was to agree to abrogate the charge of So per car
for sundry cars to elevators the abrogtalon 70
date from July l. This is a concession, or re-
duction, that shippers have long clamored for
They have succeeded at last.
There is good authority for saying that there
has been informal correspondence between the
Pennsylvania and Commissioner Fink intimat-
ing that the former would demand that the per-
centage to the Baltimore & Ohio be taken away
and given outright to the line over which it was
originally taken The company has made no
formal demand.
Since the truuk-lne pool was organized the
Pennsylvania has paid over an average of 81, 600
per day to even up per cents. aud the greater
part of this money has gone to the Baltimore d
Nha vol hos 0lc Maid n alfrc
1t is not to be wondered at that President Rob-
erts is seeking for relief through ali increased
percentage in the pool
Springfield TN. business men have formed an
association to break up railroad pooling. But no
association of business men can prove half as
harmful to railroad pooling as the members of
the pools. If there was alternative. the inf
deity of railroads to their pledges is such that
nearly every pool in the country would be broken
up by internal dissensions-
c. e. Henderson, general manager of several
roads and who has made himself some notoriety
in lifting crippled roads out of the mre finds his
match in the Dayton & Ironton. In spite of his
economical management the gross earnings IN
June fell off sharply, and deficit of 90 per
cent is shown. and the deficit of the first six
months of the year reaches $22 1856 80.
The members of the Travelling Passenger
Agents Association are certainly big-hearted
fellows as is shown in the fact that after learn
ing that their treasurer was short and knowing
Lnat tn6r6 was no prospect OF ever recovering
one dollar OF it, finding out that he was broke
they paid his hotel bill, SIS, and made up an ad-
ditional purse of So and presented him with it
But when Colonel Hickin made motion to
make him an honorary member of the associa.
ton the boys cried enough"
@. w. Fairbanks, attorney in the Cleveland e.
Canton railroad suit left last evening for Boston
to take testimony going to show that the Corbin
syndicate the legal holders of the stock voted
at the last annual meeting. In this case the
Corbin syndicate has the advantage over the
Blood syndicate, as should the court decide the
election was not legal and proper he will order
another election and appoint his own judges, and
the Corbin people are now in shape to show that
they have majority of the stock.
General Manager B. Durham, of the Balti-
more & Ohio road. has issued the following no.
tice: Hereafter, the line between Baltimore
and Keyser, w. Va.-including all branches
will be known as the eastern division OF the
main stem, and the line west of Keyser-includ-
ing Keyser yard-will be known as the western
division. The following appointments have been
made, to take effect Sept l, 1856. Mr.. Thomas
Fitzgerald, division superintendent, in charge of
the eastern division; Mr. Charles Dunlap, d.
vision superintendent in charge Of the western
division"
All over the State new railway projects are
coming to the front, and supposed to- be.dead en-.
terprises are being revived and with this town
ships are being asked to grant liberal subsidies
to these enterprises. OF course some are worthy
of encouragement while others are only schemes
of broken down railroad men who see in agitat-
ing such schemes way to replenish their thin
books. That it will be wise for township
authorities to investigate and endeavor to ascer-
tain the value a road will be to their townships
before burdening them with railroad debts must
be admitted.
The Merchants Exchange of Lafayette has
asked the L., N. A. 81 &. management TO rescind
an order made some weeks ago prohibiting trav-
cling men from riding on freight trains. As yet
superintendent Woodland is not inclined to heed
their petition. He says the order was made be-
cause the road was deriving revenue from
this traffic the travelling men, who were the prn-
cipal patrons of freight trains paying no fare, as
they managed, through their shrewdness to get
on the good side of the conductors by treating
them to cigars, etc.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company practi-
calIy says to the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad