The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-13
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


represents shows the damage to their business
the strike causes.
The c., l., st. L. & G. is placing in this Sec
ton some new Chesapeake 81 Ohio cars for load
ing, of superior build. Thesescars are "a feet
long, and have acarrying capacity of % tons.
The Baltimore hnep is TO be the name of the
new fast-freight line which commences business
May /. operating over the c., l.. St l.. & G. and
the same connections which the Continental line
did
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois continues to
show an increase iE earnings, the first week of
April reaching $500. an increase of So 86l over
earnings OF corresponding week of 1885 Earn
ipgs since Jan. l, $437 902; increase this year,
1924, 39I
III. c. Diehl, general freight agent, of the l., b.
&c W., returned from New York yesterday.
Mr. DieEl states that the general feeling with
the trunk-line managers is that it would be I'M
wise to reduce east-bound rates with the opening
of navigation.
Now that the PEORIA Decatur & Evansville
railroad has passed under the control of the
Evansville 81 Terre Haute, the general officers
are beginning to tender their designations Geo.
L. Bradbury. general manager, and II. G. Parker,
traffic manager OF the P, D. & E., have already
done SO.
Paymaster Shepherd. of the Wabash system,
paid on the l., p. & G. division yesterday for
February service. It might be well for Judge
Gresham to stir up the receivers of the Wabash
keeping
long out of their pay. 1t is exactly contrary to
the laws of the State Of Indiana
Time works many changes in railway opera
tons. Less than year ago general passenger
agents were bitter in their denunciation of ticket
scalpers because they, in selling tickets, adopted
the rebate system. Now, the general passenger
agents have adopted the same tactics-in fact,
going further than the scalpers ever did in the
matter. =
BY careless transpostion of figures yesterday
in the weekly statement of the movement of
cars the L, ID. & S. was shown to have handled
at this point last week 342 loaded cars, against
$40 In the corresponding week of 1885, when it
| should have been 342. against 399 in the CORE
spending week of 1885, 1t was the Wabash
which handled $40 cars last year.
The local freight agents met at Commissioner
Doherty's Office yesterday to compare notes on
the result OF their weighing last weeks out
bound shipments. The difference between the
weights given on the shippers certificates and
| the actual weight was a great surprise, far ex-
ceeding what it had been estimated heretofore.
And, taking the exhibit of last week basis,
the roads would derive thousands of dollars an
nually were they to weigh all freights and bill
their actual weight.
The Boston Advertiser copies the item which
appeared in Thursdays Journal to the effect that
D. j. Mackey had his sseye sot" to secure control
of the L., E. & St L. Airline, and adds Mr.
Mackey is probably about the last man who
would get control OF the road referred to. He
will have to be contented with acquiring posses
sion of the Peoria, Decatur & Evansville, so far
as controlling all roads out of Evansville goes,
for the Louisville, Evansville IL st. Louis is not
to be secured and the eye which is 'sot may as
well be taken Off.
tits interesting to watch the experiments of
railway commissions in reducing freight rates
The Minnesota commission proposes to reduce
rates on the Manitoba road, simply because it
made large profits, it seems. If good manage
ment is to be taxed in this way, there will be but
little encouragement to the careful study of the
railway problem on the part OF managers. Thir-
teen years ago the Minnesota Legislature under
took to effect important reductions of railway
rates, and did damage which it took the railroad
system Of that State years to recover from.
" Z. Malott, vice president of the Union Rail
way Company, is expected home from Pittsburg
this morpiag. where he went to confer regarding
the new Union Depot enterprise with the Penn
sylvania officials. 1t is stated that some new
scare of legal character has come up, which
is delaying matters. Good weather is now here,
and there should be dilly -dallying. The
ground on which the Union Depot will be built
could have been purchased for $25, 900 less than
it now can one year ago, and the depot can now
be built at $25, 600 less cost than it can be con-
tracted for sixty Gays from now
When Commissioner Daniels, of the passenger
department of the Central Traffic Association
gets little time he should at once revise his
rate-sheet, as it works an injustice to Southern
roads which do a Kansas City and Nebraska bust
ness. For instance man can go to Council
Bluffs by the northern lines at 1896 rate. If
the southern lines make the rate there is
no money in it to them on account of arbitra-
ries demanded by the roads west of Kansas
City. Again. under the present rate sheet, the
fare is $l2 60 to Kansas City by all Indianapolis
lines, yet ticket can be bought to Lincoln,
Neb.. $50 miles beyond Kansas City, at $11.7O
This the ticket scalpers are taking advantage of.
In conformity to the act recently passed by
the legislative bodies of Massachusetts, the Bos-
ton & Albany Railroad Company will begin
weekly payments May l, instead Of July l, as
Albert Holt, will have charge of the division
east Of Springfield, and his son, Warner r. Holt
will take the western half of the road Two new
assistants Geo. III. Jones and Geo. H. Lucas
will be kept busy in the paymasters office, in
Springfield. This new method of paying rail
road employees will be watched with interest. 1t
may prove to be practical on New England
roads. but on a system like that of the Pennsyl-
vania Company it would seem impossible to car
ry out
by numerous newspapers last week to tine effect
that the Missouri Pacific road bed and
equipments were In a wretched condition and
unsafe to travel over, even in the daytime. Peo-
pie who are accustomed to travel will know that
there is not word of truth in the statement
and that the Missouri Pacific is one of the best
roads running west from St Louis, vet the re-
port, as untruthful as it was, has its effect on
parties who are not we'll posted on railway mat
ters and the local passenger agent of one of the
Indianapolis roads, which in its connections is a
competitor of the Missouri Pacific, is so narrow
minded that he uses newspaper clipping as evil
dence that it would be unsafe for grangers or
this class of travel to 60 over the Missouri Pa
cific road.
1t is believed in railroad circles that Albert
Meter is working to secure control of the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton e. Dayton lines in the inter-
est OF the Pennsylvania Company. notwithstand-
ing the fact that j. NJ Mccullough is quoted as
saying the Pennsylvania people did not want
it. That it would be more valuable to them
than to any other railroad company it connects
with will not be for moment questioned 1t
would give the Pennsylvania Cincinnati line
from indianapolis, a Chicago line from
Richmond, and also let the Grand Rrapids e.
Indiana directly into Cincinnati It would