The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-24
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

eAM TOT 1uii assessment on the general STOCK
hOlders.
The earnings Of the Wabash road for the FIRST
week IN April were $202 3l3 against $2l7, 756 for
rho same week last year.
Railroad people say that the trunk lines have
peen drawn closer together than ever since the
nsr1kes broke out, ana they propose to make q
stronger pool on freights and passenger bust
ness.
). w Sherwood general superintendent, L
~ Morris, chief engineer of the C.. H. 81 La %
G.. and a party OF friends, left yesterday noon
IN special car for few days, fishing IN the Kan
kakee river.
The attempt to advance transcontinental
Freight rates has not. thus far, met with all the
assistance from the Union Pacific road that the
lines running out of Chicago could wish Tor and
naturally expected.
Rnmbus. after considering uniform system of
OoSlecting freight charges, have agreed to adopt
rho plan settled upon in Cleveland, Chicago,
Gsscinnati and indianapolis
Yhe Fort Wayne, Cincinnati G. Louisville
zaliroad Company have made their annual state
mbne tor 1885 public. Gross earnings or the
gear were 1926 $50 "; operating expenses, $205,
5laS3; net earnings, 1924, 93l a.
Contrary to some newspaper reports Commits
EiDnar Blanchard, of the Central Traffic Associa-
kssm, has reported to Mr.. Fink that the meeting
OF the association in Chicago, on Thursday and
Friday OF last week. was harmonious
President Carpenter, of the American Electric
Headlight Company, meets the officials of the
Pennsylvania Company to-day, at Columbus,
o. to close contract for supplying 100 of their
ios0motives with their electric headlight.
The Union Railway Company are doing good
deal of work on the Belt road in the way of gen.
eraf repairing, and on Monday next will begin
rssaying the Union tracks with Pittsburg steel
rasAs. weighing seventy pounds to the yard.
Eseck of the L., n A & c. has advanced two
ponss In the last day or two, which leads to the
bAaaef that some syndicate is after that road or
x6ns favorable traffic agreement is about to be
De1ae between the L. N A. 81 G. and some one
ct ats connections.
President Greene, of the Columbus, Hooking
NAAsey 81 Toledo railway, says, in his report,
GhAt arrangements have been made between the
CAseago & Atlantic, the Kanawha 81 Ohio, and
Tho chesapeake & Ohio for through line from
chicago to Newport News.
The earnings of the l.. B. & W. the second
sResk in April were $50, 297, decrease as com
pared with the earnings of the corresponding
wssk in 1885, of 81. O99. Since Jan. l the earn
ADgs were 1922 1884, an increase over the corr
responding period of 1885 of ST., Gas.
The Vandalia and l., & st. t. are still troubled
To gey rid of their freights at East ST. Louis
signed to Western points The bridge is over
4axed. Every year makes 1T more and more evil
dent that second bridge is needed at that point
befween East St Louis and st. Louis, proper.
The Pennsylvania people are grading the old
-, M. % j. yards, and are laying an extensive
system of tracks. which cars laden with
freight for the city proper will stand, and thus
enable shippers to load and unload freight easily
DBd without the interfering of shifting trains
Tine first coal ever shipped from Pennsylvania
30 California passed over the Baltimore 81 Ohio
road yesterday. and came from the OsceOla Coal
Company. 1t was for the Los Angeles, CAL, Gas
Company, and crosses the continent in the
f1i ea tina COol in Cali 10
worth $40 a ton.
The Commercial Gazette says: with the c. j,
l., S. l.. & c. and c.. H. & d. under NJ E. In
CALLS and O. p. Huntington, it would be almost
n necessity for the Pennsylvania to build its own
Chicago line into that city, and the Red Bank
extension, often celebrated in local paragraphs
would become a certainty.
There is considerable stir in freight circles
over the fact that the c., FL. & l. yesterday
backed twenty-five cars of the Lackawanna fast
freight line into Elevator ID" to be loaded with
grain for the East Of course. competitors
charge that this business was secured by q cut
RATE The shippers were Mutchner 81 Higgins
The railroad strikers at ST. Louis compelled
She Ohio Falls iron works to temporarily shut
down, as the product of this mill goes very large
~ in that direction and cannot be shipped while
The strikes are on. These strikes have for the
HAme reason, to greater or less extent, Affected
several other of the New Albany manufactures.
For the accommodation of people in southern
Indiana the management Of the Cincinnati, Wa
bash 81 Michigan road will. early in May begin
running its express trains Nos. and 6. through
from Indianapolis to Warsaw, the latter point
trains now run only between Wabash and In
0ianapos.
The three men elected to succeed Hugh Rid
de, resigned, as arbitrators of the Chicago
pool, are: President r. r. Cable, of the Rock
Island; Vice-preei.ent j. c. McMullin. of the
Alton. and Vice president T. j. Potter, of the
Burlington. They will, soon as the Chicago
pool roads have submitted their respective argu-
ments and accompanying statistics, award the
percentages upon which the business east
bOnnd viii be divided
Tne dining-hall of the new Union Depot it is
pad. will be one of the most commodious and
handsomely htted-up rooms of the character in
she country. Of course, Dinner Brothers. with
Thomas Taggart as superintendent, will be the
proprietors. Under their management, the
dining hall and restaurant of the present depot
ARE credited with furnishing the best meals to be
had at any depot in the country
When the paymasters make their rounds pay
Ing tor Apr. services when the employees on
the east and west lines will most feel the effects
Of the strike. On the Bee-line and ]. 81 st. L.
The Vandalia, and O., st. L. & P. and the l. b. 81
w. freight train crews will not receive more than
ono third their usual amount of pay; shop men
about one half their usual wages. The section
men, as we'll, will feel it severely. Some will
NOS have than weeks pay coming to
them. Really the c., l., st L. g. g. road is the
Gully Indianapolis line on which the pay Of en-
paoyes has not been more or less curtaied as a
result of the strike at East ST. Louis and in the
Southwest
There is official authority for stating that
there Is strong movement on foot looking to
the closing of all outside ticket Offices at the
railroad centers covered by the present trunk
line pool and by the new Central Traffic Associ
alton IL is argued that large per cent of the
INSTRUMENTATION originates in outside ticket
ounces, SO eager are ticket agents to sell that
they may secure commissions. This is q matter
IN which the passenger committee may well
move cautiously, certainly, until they have the
ticket-scalpers better under their control, as
every discharged ticket agent would come ont
within thirty days as a full-fedeed scaper.
An official of the Baltimore g Ohio road who
was IN the city yesterday stated that the B. Il
O. management did not yield one inch to the
J.