The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


ferbohal anu Local.
The Section Foreman is the name of new
journal at Mount Auburn, Ia, published in the
interest of railway section foremen, by w. Z.
Brown and NJ McInteer.
The Standard Oil Company ships to the Pa
cifc coast $500 cars yearly. upon which it pays
. special rate of 721 cents per hundred pounds.
against 100 charged all other shippers
Notice is given by the Northern Pacific road
That Cinnabar, NJ. T., on the National Park
branch, 0S3 miles west OF St Paul, Will be
opened for freight business to-day, with D. Z.
MeGilvra as agent
few years ago the grain and flour tonnage
of Minneapolis was divided between two roads,
and they received 40 cents per hundred pounds
for the haul to Chicago. Now i've roads are
competing for the business and they get 10
cents per hundred pc1nds.
President Benedict has agreed to submit his
statement as to the future policy of the Chicago
e Atlantic on before June /, and, the pool
roads claim, will express wish and desire to
work in harmony with the trunk-line pool and
fhs Central Traffic Association.
The Chicago Times says: The violent effects
nf the strike troubles the railroads over.
but the dullness of trade will be felt for months
to come. There has been rush of delayed or
ders during the week that has made business
lively, but this over, all of the managers expect
a season of partial stagnation.
East-bound travel is go heavy that for sew
pral nights past the Vandaiia and Pennsyl-
vania lines have been obliged to put on an
additional sleeping coach out of st. Louis. and
last night an additional sleeping coach was put
0n, making eight out of Indianapolis, 80 crowded
were the regular sleeping-coaches.
The Ave Western roads last week brought
into this station 2 857 loaded cars against 1894
in the week ending May and against 1910 the
corresponding week 1885. From the above 1t
will be seen that 537 fewer cars were brought
into Indianapolis last week from the West than
I'm the week preceding and lib less than In the
corresponding week 1885.
The Michigan branch of the American Train.
Aispatchers' Association will meet in Toledo.
General Manager T. P. Brown. of the Toledo,
Columbus 81 Southern, with his characteristic
generosity has rendered the association ex-
eursion to the great gas wells at Findlay, o.
The meeting will be held at the c.. Fl. & d. dis
Asspatchers' Office, at IL o'clock on Wednesday
morning.
The Passenger Conductors Life Insurance
Company of the United States will meet at
Philadelphia, Pa, May H. This is one of the
best and most worthy of all the railway associa-
lions, and 1t is pleasure to note that
kt is prospecting finely, and that its promise
Of future usefulness was never more iattering
There will undoubtedly be large attendance at
fhe Philadelphia meeting.
The Rairoader says: '"The recent commun-
iskie demonstrations by the foreign sociaistc
e2sment of Chicago are a disgrace to the labor
cause. We have full faith in the intelligence of
American workingmen. and particularly railway
employees. None found more ready to obey
the law, and it is most unjust that they must,
even in a remote degree, suffer from the odium
brought upon the labor cause by the lawless vio-
1ence of those ignorant and turbulent importa-
lions"
n. NJ. Fowler, trainmaster OF the Chicago
Milwaukee & ST. Paul railway. has issued the
following telegraphic order to all agents and OPP
erators under his jurisdiction: 'sWithin the
n
IN nearly every Office this division to do your
feiegraphing. l have repeatedly forbidden this,
and hereafter / shall not permit any person not
employed by the company for that purpose to
pse the wires under any circumstances, except In
cases of sickness or leave of absence"
The Chesapeake g. Ohio is again in Chicago
for export business and somewhat disturbing
rates, bat the other roads will not meet the G. &
q. Commissioner Blanchard says "For the reg
MAR through trunk lines to attempt to compete
with patchwork system that is willing to han
de freight without compensation, merely for
the sake of advertising itself, would be folly, as
they would lose their profits On business that
pays for the sake of handling increased
amount of freight without remuneration"
- The Wabash people seem to have thought bet
Ger of the matter. and have not as yet carried
out their notice of withdrawal from the Indian
npoiis Weighing Association. The fact is, if all
ROADS will act squarely and aid the officials of the
association, it would be hundreds of dollars
n road underbills 1000 to 5000 pounds
an q car, for the sake of currying
favor with the shippers, it is an injustice
TO all other parties shipping over their road who
are not so favored, and q method OF doing bust
ness which will in the end bankrupt any road in
the country
Below is shown the eastbound movement of
loaded cars of the five leading lines for the week
ending May Is, compared with the week pre-
ceding and with the corresponding week, 1885,