The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-12

Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
The effort to break east-bound rates out Of
chicago has failed.
{. Foster. the grand organizer of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Brakemen. is in the far West
organizing associations.
The general committee Of the Chicago and
ohio River pool meet at the Office of Commits
eaoner Richardson, Chicago, tomorrow.
The earnings of the c., l., St L. & c. road for
The FIRST week in April were $50. 154S3. against
81. 800 the corresponding week Of 1885; decrease
this year, So. 745.1 II.
The Eve Western lines brought into this sta
tiOn last week 2,518 loaded cars, against 2.47S in
The week ending April 3. and against !, 800 the
corresponding week OF 1883.
Thomas Noonan, general manager Of the
Kankakee new fast-freight line, will arrive in
Ehe city to-day and begin making arrangements
10 open for business May l.
The Vandalia has some twelve hundred loaded
ears between Terre Haute and East st. Louis
Askapding-en side-tracks, laden with freight for
Bk Louis and other Southwestern points
People identified with the syndicate say that
Ehe PENNSYLVANIA railroad will finally control the
Jersey Central road; but it will be done quietly
md through the Drexel-Morgan syndicate.
''Double-header' is the name of a new railroad
paper TO be published twice a week at Pueblo,
~ OOuu a KILL, WIN " yOdIo LAG pOSh al
Engineer on the Denver & Rio Grande, is the ed
tor.
The passenger men who represent the L., N.
a. 81 c., Airline, in this district, are doing some
good work, and the passenger traffic OF the line
shows a steady, healthy growth. The same is
Erue of the freight business.
The Bee-line yesterday turned over to the c.,
BE- L. & p. the last of 5000 tons ordered by the
pool commissioner to be diverted to the latter to
bven up per cents. The Decline has during the
lime earned its full per cent in the pool as well.
Now that the low ranscontinental rates are to
rule another week, it is expected travel to the
Pacific slope will be heavier than In any preded-
Ing week. The strike troubles last week acted
rs q check of travel westward and even east
ward, but it is believed the scare is now we'll
nigh over.
General Agent Wetsell, of<the vandslia, ex-
poets this morning to be notified that he can re-
sumo taking st. Louis business. Matters are
moving much more smoothly at East st. Louis,
and it is believed that the delayed freights to-
day will begin to move without interference or
the mobs.
Friends of the Erie claim that Judge Gresh-
ANS decision in the Chicago & Atlantic case
is a victory for the Erie management, while the
Chicago &c Atlantic people say the advantage
rests with Jewett 1t is thought by parties not
Interested either in the Erie or the Chicago &
Atlantic that the Judges opinion will finally re-
suit in a compromise.
The agent of the Wabash and Hoosac Tunnel
lines positively contradicts the reported cutting
Of east-bound rates. He says they have not
taken q dozen carloads in three days, and every
pound contracted for paid full rates. The re
ported shipments of 100, 900 bushels Of grain via
the Chesapeake e. Ohio are contradicted, as well,
By reliable parties who have investigated the
story.
Merritt Seeley, one of the victims of the Deer
field disaster, was for several years employed by
the United States and Canada Express Com
naaV- and for a time had charpa of its Offices in
Boston and in Concord. N. FL. More recently he
was the agent of the National Express Company
In Boston. He was vice-pressidsnt of the Ex-
pressmens League. He had many warm friends
among those who knew him..
The Indianapolis roads which are members of
the weighing association began last week to
weigh all local freights shipped. On Friday last at
the c., st. L. 81 p. depot alone the weights
given on the shippers bills fell 81 900 pounds be-
low actual weight, and at other depots the show
ing is fully as much at variance. The net results of
the few days weighing will probably lead all
roads centering here TO appointing a man whose
special duty shall be to weigh freights and see
that they are billed out on actual weight The
revenue derived therefrom would pay the wages
Of dozen men if the results of the last weeks
weighing is a criterion
Commissions Blanchard has issued a call for
another general meeting of the Central Traffic
Association, to be held at the Office in Chicago,
on Thursday, April 10, when a number OF i'm
portant questions in both the freight and passen-
ger departments will come up for consideration.
Among them are the system of reports for east
bound tonnage; uniform system Of inspection
and weighing; west-bound and east-bound
through freights. In the passenger department
the question of passenger commissions, restora-
hon of through rates, the basis of theatrical and
special rates, the issue of passes, etc, will be
considered.
A meeting Of the executive committee Of the
Railroad and Steamship Agents Association. of
Boston, was held on Friday, at which a%ppropri-
ate action was taken upon the death of Mr.. e.
r. Whitehouse, travelling passenger agent of the
Chicago q Atlantic railroad, who was killed in
the accident on the Fitchburg railroad, at Bard
wells Ferry, on Wednesday evening. A COM
mittee consisting of Messrs. o. w. Jordan. pas
genger agent Of the Erie railway. and A. V.
Fisher, travelling passenger agent of the Fitch
remains to Unity, Me-, and represent the associ-
alton at the funeral of the deceased, which oc-
curred yesterday. The decease was quite well
known in Western railroad circles.
Below is shown the east-bound car movement
over the four leading lines in the week ending
April 10, as compared with the week ending
April 3, and as compared with the number of
loaded cars forwarded in the corresponding week.
1856
Corresponding
April 10. April 8. week. 1885.
Beeline.-..-.-.- 5I4 519 s72
O., St L. & P...-.. 296 1888 857
Z, B. w.. 279 445 728
G., II, g. L...-...- $50 238 646
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