The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


D. d W. road. Is expected home this morning
l6om the East.
Trunk line meetings are declared off for ten
lAsyR Commissioner Fink expecting to be absent
from New York until the middle of next week.
The O., Fl. g. D. is now controlled by New
York directory. for the first time in its history.
HBrstofore Cincinnati men have controlled the
property
The Indiana Midland road will be opened for
Business again on Monday next. between Ander-
pOn and Westfeld, the washouts of a few weeks
ago having been repaired.
=. J. Flanagan, roadmaster of the western d.
VISION Of the Southern Pacific, which includes
RlB miles of track, has resigned his position. r.
d Kellogg is his successor
Bse-line stock sold yesterday at nine points
ADORE the quotations of ten days ago. Evident
~ she purchasers at the advance figures have
agrsak confidence in the property.
The Bee-line people are figuring to have the
lay over of the afternoon limited train at In
u1iaDap0lis but fifteen minutes instead Of fifty
6ss minutes. as under the present timecard.
Stock Of the c., l., St l.. & G. was sold yes
4erEay at ninety -four cents on the dollar or
within six points of par There are parties hold
ing some of this stock who paid only two cents
ion ahe dollar for it.
Is is announced that a general meeting of the
Central Traffic Association will be hold at Cres
son, Pa, June 70, at which traffic originating at
sinlEzior points and business destined to Buffalo
drcza Western points will be considered.
Two engines have been fitted up by the Penn
EylEania Company to haul the trains between
New Albany anG Louisville. New suburban
caEs are to be added to the outfit of the road. 1t
As RsOposed to run trains between the two points
s&yREy twenty minutes.
The heads of niue conductors on the Lake
a6hsge road have tumbled into the basket this
ewask. A majority were old men on the road.
No explanation of the cause for their dismissal
us given. Freight conductors have been pro-
mBasd to their positions.
o. the ffty-eight trains which arrive at the
Uessn Depot daily, all but sixteen carry mail
Enaster and in the first fifteen DAYS of June but
HhFee arrived at indianapolis late This is GER
tA1nsy good record. In the three the trains
WRfs but few minutes late
H. E. Ingalls,, president of the c., l., St L. &
&C, was detained at Chicago yesterday to help
Rt1lghten out the Central Traffic Association
Makters. Mr. ingalls, is in some sense the father
Df sbis association, and he is said to be quite
anxious to get it in good running order
West bound trains are now well loaded with
sDHnkards, who are returning from their annual
Enesting. 1t is stated that about so per cent of
khs original purchasers of these tickets return on
xhPzn- the rest go into the hands of the scalpers
Hnx will be used in demoralizing west-bound pas
BsRger rates.
Eastern papers state that the friction over
'weEa bound traffic out of New England points
sdus 70 system of undertaking similar to that
1wfzseh is disturbing the east bound situation, is
! bes2g reduced, as the trunk line agents at
/ question points are closely watching all transfer
arasAc where the scheme is attempted to be put
I1nio effect.
Il agree with Solomon in the opinion that all
sxhings must have an end, said G. P. Hunting
fxeD, in New York, the other day, when speaking
Df the transcontnental war. 81 should say that in
thr scurse of two or three weeks something might
!ba accomplished, but certainly not in few days.
NO attempts have been made recently to settle
1his quarrel"
Who is to get the school s.marmsn for Topeka
Ks sAe leading question with the passenger men.
gIbe l. g. St. L. and the Vandalia are In the field
Ias we'll as the l., b. g. W.. and all are making an
earnest hight for the business. The Chicago g.
trAlsen have decided not to run a chair car from
Indianapolis out over the l., B. & W., but will
txreat all roads alike in the matter
The Cleveland Leader says regarding passen-
Ifser rates at Cleveland, that the situation is
srny appalling. Even the semblance of a virtuous
lJnai0tenance of the rate-saeet inaugur ated by
EGeBmIssioner Daniels, or by the passenger COM
sznittee, Is melting away. The passenger agents.
z3le Leader says, are DOMINIC their war paint
eoDmissioner Daniels has sent message to the
1rinquent roads upbraiding them, and request
nng them to restore rates and then adhere to
them.
9he new management of the Cincinnati Ham
Elton 81 Dayton Railway has completed the re-
organization of the Cincinnati. Hamilton &; In
annapolis. and the Cincinnati Richmond & Chi
cago railways by the election of new boards
ssFhe officers chosen for the first named road are
president, Christopher Meyer; vice-president, G.
e. Waite; secretary and treasurer, +. H. Short
2fm the second named road, president, Eugene
Zimmerman; vice-president, secretary and treas
GreF, same as above.
Poultry shippers at this point are up ia arms
Rnd-allege that they ars Disseminated against as
2 result OF pooling the business here. 1t is al
legged that shippers at Terre Haute use the same
sized barrel to ship poultry in do the Indian
Apoils shippers, yet at Terre Haute it is billed
out nfty pounds less per barrel. The Indianapo
us dealers are to bring the matter before the
Hoard OF Trade railroad committee. 1t is SO
Bong since anything of this character has come
mp that the committee may have lost its grip.
Commissioner Daniels, of the Central Traffic
Association, passenger department., has called a
special meeting to be held at Chicago, June %.
IN hls circular he says the following subjects
viii DO considered: First, special fares second,
basis OF percentages. He adds sIn view of
khe present demoraiZed condition of passenger
rates west of the territory of this association.
and the immediate necessity for joint action to
prevent this Generalization extending to lines in
Dur territory, and the great Importance of the
MATTERS to be brought before this meeting, it is
hoped that every line in interest will be repre-
Bented, and that you will come prepared to re-
main two or three days if necessary. to COM
plete the business. 1t will undoubtedly REQUIRE
Two days, aud may take three"
Mention was made in yesterdays Journal that
fhe trunk line managers were turning their at
fention to the too common practice of under
billing through eastbound freights. The New
York Tribune says: "sShort billing is still
practiced by some of the Western roads as
kneans of evading rates, and it is intimated that
che Erie's large share in the tonnage is secured
by concessions the tariff But. as respects
this point. no particular trouble is likely to re-
suit At the moment. because the Erie has some
pool deficiency to make up. 1t has come to be
accepted among the trunk lines that where
road cannot normally maintain the percentage
allowed by the commissioner any concession in
rates that does not demoraize the situation
may be winked at as a sort of free and easy diff
Gerential to equalize the respective standings of
the pool competitors. AT the same time Com