The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-18
Miscellaneous Notes.

The st. Paul road has completed its line to
Ipswich, and opened the same for traffic.
Pullman earnings increased $50, 900 in August,
and are expected to show gain of $l00 900 in
September.
1t is officially learned that the Reading rail-
road syndicate and its opponents have agreed on
terms of compromise; that President Gowen will
retire, and be superseded by Austin Corbin, or
some other syndicate representative.
Gossip says the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
people will secure the money for building to Chi
cago by further issue of Chicago, Kansas e
Western securities But all of this talk may be
preliminary to an arrangement with the Chicago
e. Alton.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company has
secured the lease of two piers in New York city,
one on the East and one the Hudson river
which will greatly facilitate its arrangements
for receiving and shipping freight No date has
yet been fixed for the receipt of freight.
The trunk lines are deeply provoked by the at
titude of the Baltimore & Ohio in regard to
freight rates. A report has emarated from a
trustworthy source to the effect that the Balti-
more & Ohios cut in second-class freight would
be met by the establishment by the trunk lines
or joint agency near Castle Garden.
The directors of the Peoria, Decatur & Evans
Vile Railroad Company, at their meeting yester-
day, passed resolution to convert the present
income bonds of the company into 5 per cent.
forty-year bond, dated Nov l. and directed tina
stockholders meeting be called on that day to
vote on the ratification of their action,
The Philadelphia Press says the fact that the
earnings or great railroad like the Northern
Pacific are now being published every day must
not be taken as an indication that the manage
ment is overanxous to furnish the public with
information 1t implies rather that Messrs.
Coils & Leavy, or some other equally shrewd
firm, is "buIling" the stock. and gives out
the daily earnings because they happen to be
good.
The Philadelphia Record says: "There was a
little attempt to galvanize the Reading railroad
corpse but with no success 1t is mournful to
see how slow the old jade is nowadays, when in
her time she has led the merry dance in the
three great markets Of Philadelphia, London
and New York. Those We're days when Phila-
delphia spectators did not play second fiddle to
any Others but more frequently started the air
and made the others take the tempest"
Captain Sanborn, master of transportation for
the Old Colony railroad, has made an estimate
of the number of passenger cars entering and
leaving the Boston station daily the present
season, and finds the average to be nine hun
dred for each weekday. or this aggregate about
two hundred are ''empties'-thatis cars without
passengers going out to or coming in from the
South Boston yards. leaving about seven hun
cred cars with passengers aboard outgoing or in
coming daily at this station.
A Boston & Albany engine and FIVE passenger
cars now being fitted up with the necessary
appliances for testing the Martin anti-tire car
heating system. This system provides for heat
ing with steam from the engine, thus doing away
with all danger from fire in the ears, and the in
ventor claims to be able to heat cars so that
they can be properly ventilated without discom
fort In the coolest weather. No rubber hose is
used, all the pipes being Of metal, and an au
. tomato arrangement allows the water to drain
of, so that no care Is needed in this respect.
The couplings are made to adjust themselves to
all motions of the train