The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-12
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Harry Wetsell. general agent of the Vandalia
ls 90 much better that he was ct his office for
low moments yesterday.
William King. in the Wabash ticket Office, has
been appointed agent at this point of the Detroit
b Cleveland Steam Navigation Company
The Vandalia folks will send twenty coaches
90 Logansport to accommodate the crowd VINO
hesire to attend the railroad conductors picnic,
1t lake Maxinkuckee, on the 10th.
Austin Corbin, president of the l., Il. q W.,
expected TO have come West with j. D. camp
bell, but was so i'll as to be unable to leave home
being confined to the house for the first time In
many years.
report is current that the Baltimore & Ohio
had made a traffic agreement with the Reading
For three years, and had made arrangements for
Due with the Jersey Central for similar period
For trackage rights and terminal facilities IN Jer-
Soy City
The new box cars the c., l., ST. L. g. c. are
building are equipped with the Wagner car door,
which prevents cinders, rain or snow reaching
khe interior OF the car. and while the door fits so
closely, it is opened and closed easier than any
Dther car door now in use.
President Clark, of the New York & New Eng
land railroad, has gone to Europe. All right.
He made enough money by manipulating the
Bale of the State bonds to warrant a very gener-
Dns vacation expenditure. 1t might not be wide
Df the mark says the Springfield Republican, to
Say that Massachusetts pays the freight
A meeting Of the central committee Of the
Central Traffic Association will be held at Com
missioner Blanchard's Office to-day. A num-
Der of matters of detail are to be disguised. The
Inter Ocean says: "None of the lines are In
clined to critcise the workings of the pool but,
On the contrary, are prasing it very highly and
pre- proud of the fact that for once the rates on
bAst bound freight are remunerative."
Freight circles are somewhat disturbed over a
shipment Of several hundred cars of grain off Of
The Champaign & Havana line via the l., b. 81
w. eastward. The fact that the property is re-
billed at Danvilie, Ill.,, creates a suspicion that
there is something crooked in the rates. Prob
ably the matter will be investigated just now
1t is of interest to note that there is shipment
or sufficient tonnage to create some talk.
The Chicago Business, pool-hating journal
says: ut is not certain that Mr.. Benedict, the
newly-elected president of the Chicago q Allan
tic will put the road into the trunk-line pool.
He has long been Mr.. Jewetts confidential ad-
wiser and 'best friend" and has taken the presi-
dency at Jewetts solicitation. The G. & A. has
never done better than at the present, and there
il no reason why il should want to change
Bee-Iine official says that the running time
pf their express trains between St Louis and
New York will be shortened on the 30th, regard
tess OF all protests OF the Pennsylvania people.
This will doubtless lead to the Pennsylvania
nnd Vandalia again putting on their limited
frains George w. Boyd, assistant general
passenger agent of the Pennsylvania, says it
was mistake the taking the trains off after they
had once been put on.
1t seems well settled that there is to be no re-
duction in east-bound rates. Lake navigation
Is now well opened and rates are firm by the
water routes. General freight agents show no
disposition to encourage such a movement. The
general manager of a Chicago road says it is a
long time since any of the roads made as much
put of their traffic as they are at present. Far
more is being made at present with Is cents
rate on grain to New York. with l5. 900 tons
freight per week, than was made year ago when
5000 tons were shipped weekly at Is cents per
100 pounds The Is cents formerly charged
hardly covered the actual expense of shipping.
30 that the 10 cents raise in the rate are almost
Ill profit, while the % cent rate is responsible
Tor the maintenance of all local rates.
The last convention of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen, which was held at Phila-
Helphia, authorized committee TO revise the
constitution and bylaws of the organization
Rnd report the same for action at the annual
meeting at Minneapolis In September. For this
purpose committee of five began its labors at
Terre Haute Monday. The committee is COM
posed of Grand Master Sargent and Grand Sec
fetary Debs. of Terre Haute; VIM. Hugo, of In
dianapois; w. E. Taylor, of Fitchburg, Mass.
end G. W. Gardner. Of Fort Dodge, Ia The
Terre Haute Gazette says the committee will
thorough revision will be made of the constitu-
lion and bylaws of the order, which has out
grown the present set There will be some rad
lcal changes.
The live stock agents look for largely increased
shipments after June /. Frank Reynolds, q
veteran in the business, says CRASHED cattle
will come on the market fully two weeks earlier
this season than they did last year. The lines
Interested in the live stock traffic from the
Southwest have finally succeeded in forming an
agreement for the maintenance of rates on live
stock from points in the Indian Territory to st.
Louis and Chicago Heretofore any attempt to
hx up such an agreement has been fruitess,
although uniform rates were occasionally main
kained. The lines that have signed the agree
lnent fixing rates and differentials are the Mis-
touri Pacific, the Santa Fe, the Southern Kan
pas, and the st. Louis s. San Francisco. This
business is very heavy, no less than 5 600 car
loads of cattle coming from the Indian Territory
to St Louis and Chicago from July l to Sept
30, last year.
1t is becoming daily more evident that a war
On east-bound passenger rates is impending. It
Is alleged that while the c., III. & d. and the T..
B. g. w. are allowed q differential rate or east
bound tickes sold, they not holding
Rates to tariff after taking out the differential
Their competitors say that daily they lose bust
hess which goes over those roads at cut rates.
More especially is the c.. Fl. s. ID. censured
6am Stevenson, they say at the Cincinnati and
Mt the Chicago meetings said that he would be
able to maintain tariff rates if allowed differ
Bntial and this was granted, yet it is alleged
that the c., Fl. g D., through its Indianapolis
agent. Colonel Shaw, or through the scalpers, is
doing more business than ever before ont Of
mere. al = at rates which must Dring Oh war, as
Ehe Bee-line and Pennsylvania people will not
be lookers-on many days, traffic association or no
lraEie association.
Indianapolis chances to be one Of two points
In the United States from which hair is pre-.
pared and shipped. Loose hair is billed as first
elass freight; compressed hair as sxth-class
In shipment to Boston, for instance, loose hair
would be 1.03 per one hundred pounds; COM
pressed hair az cents per one hundred
pounds Quite stir has been created in local
freight circles over shipments by two lines, of
late at sixth-class rates, hair put up in new
form, simply twisted, and then tied with rope,
Instead of compressed. Agents who failed to
get the freight allege that taking this twisted
hair at sixth-class rates was emitting the rates.
end the matter is to be referred to Commissioner
Fink, who will probably get over the trouble by
making special rate on twisted hair. As the
bhipment Of this article in q year amounts to