The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-16
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
fersonal and Local.

zion to-day.
I'll c. Diehl, general freight agent of the l., B.
" W., has gone to Chicago to assist in straight
ening the snarls of the Peoria pool.
ID. e. Boon. assistant to ticket-scalper Frey,
to-day sewers his connection with that institu-
lion, to engage in mercantile pursuits.
In the eight months ending Aug 81 the Wa
lbash shows an increase in earnings over the
corresponding period of 1885 of $748, 08O
The earnings Of the Chicago & Eastern Ili-
snois the first week of September were SAC, 36I;
sancrease over same week of 1885, S.. 754
The Beeline people are employing more men
at the shops in Nation Not only are they re-
building cars there but locomotives as we'll
c. L. Dlls, assistant passenger agent in the
C., II. & l. local Office. resigned yesterday and
has accepted local agency on the Minnesota q
North western road
There is still some anxiety regarding the
formation of the new Northwestern pool. 1t is
stated that the Chicago q Rock Island are trying
to raise q row on its formation.
Now it is stated that the Bee-line people are
not behind the road it is proposed to build
from Papa to Roodhouse, but it is highly proba
BILE that the Decline will lease it when COM
pleted.
Saturday is to be the travelling statesmen day
at the Cincinnati exposition. number OF the
indianapolis statesmen. 1t is stated, will run
down to Cincinnati on Saturday morning to
take look at things.
The Pennsylvania people are building new
freight depot at Logansport in place of the
depot recently burned. 1t will be third larger
than the old cne and will be built Of brick, with
a slate roof 1t is expected that 1t will be COM
pleted before cold weather.
The railroad companies are beginning to take
an interest in the demoralized condition of ex
press rates. 1t is alleged that the express COM
panies are turning into light weights. to make
the fight less burdensome on the express COM
panies which are knitting rates.
A war on express rates s quite imminent.
fThe Baltimore 81 Ohio and United States
press companies have dropped the rate on
oysters, and the old companies are a good deal
disturbed over it and threaten to put the knife
TO rates all classes of freight unless the two
hrstn companies restore rates
The future of the Indianapolis Weighing As
Hociation was up for consideration at the local
pool meeting, and the weighing of live stock as
well as dead freights. The action taken yester-
day means that the association will become a
more important institution than it has been, or
Ehe organization will pass out of existence
A railway official who. few months ago, paid
but 1877 for steel rails now has to pay $50 wait
until next year, when he will pay likely, $40 per
ton President Hammond, of the l., D. S., Sc
Rured sixty miles of rails on terms that it would
be difficult to beat He sold his old iron rails at
BIZ per ton and bought his steel at $27 per ton
and now has good steel track from Indianapolis
10 Decatur.
The travelling salesman of leading Cincin-
natl house was yesterday endeavoring to sell
partly used thousand mile ticket book to an In
Hianapos scalper The c. a. 81 ID. people,
over whose road the ticket reads, will be given
his name, and probably the young man will pay
full fare when he rides ovor the O., H. 81 d.
hereafter. 1t would be credit to the Travelling
Salesmens Association If they would hunt up
and weed out this class of men among them.
The Chicago and Ohio River pool has one weak
place and the sooner it is patched the better, as
now is the season when this weak place tells on
earnings. We refer to theatrical rates, which
are not we'll covered by the pool There is some
thing wrong when line gives four passes to Sc
cure theatrical troupe of thirteen from Chicago
to indianapolis 1t must be admitted that the
atrica Croupes have low enough rates. and their
baggage carried cheap enough to demand full
rates for the troupes at least, If the advance
agent does travel on passes.
President Adams denies that the Union Pacific
Us going to lltigate any new point in its dealings
with the government rule of the gov
eminent requires precise statement of the ret
earnings 1874 miles of the Kansas Pacific in
the center of a mileage of $50 miles. The road
has always reckoned the net earnings of the 394
miles pro rata, but the government now insists
on some other method, which has not yet been
discovered. The joke of the matter is, accord
ing to Mr.. Adams that the pro rata method is
the most favorable to the government by from
$50 900 to $100 900 year since it covers the rich
terminal traffic
A party of prominent railway men will leave
New York next week and pass through here on
Sept. % on their way to Seattle, w. T. The
Chicago Inter Ocean says "They will be head
ed by Mr.. W. p. Robinson, at one time with the
Missouri Kansas & Texas road, and later gen
eral traffic manager of the West Shore road. The
purpose of this party is to prepare for the lay
ing of the tracks of the road to be bnilt from
Seattle in easterly direction It is to be about
500 miles long, and will pass through territory
Tich with coal deposits, copper Mines and,
Further east wheat lands. The line has already
been fully surveyed, while the rails are now on
their way from England"
Commissioner Doherty of the INDIANAPOLIS
east bound pool. yesterday had the officials of
the Pennsylvania lines, who were in the city, on
the green carpet regarding the rumors that the
Pennsylvania lines were cutting rates in this
territory General Freight Agent Stewart
said there was no truth in the report, and Gen.
eral Manager Gray, OF the Union line, hooted the
very idea. 1t was only the facilities for unload
1ng At certain points that was drawing the Han
cock business which there is so much talk
Laying what they say to side, it is
quietly limited that the Pennsylvania lines have
been shading rates, but since tho beginning of
this week are carrying grain only at full tariff
rates This being the case, the statements of
fhe officials above alluded to are correct
AS has been predicted, the c., ST. L. & p. had
q hrst-class wreck on the j., M. & l. 'Y" yester-
day afternoon. Switching engine number 317,
going south, hauling twenty eight loaded cars
anG running within the city limits at speed of
fully twenty miles per hour, collided with engine
a54, hauling twenty loaded cars, and the wreck
will cost the company several thousand dollars.
An this case the blame rests entirely on the
master of transportation or the yard m aster who
orders the switching engineers to haul trains
around this curve at so high speed. 1t is stated
that the engineers are told if they can't haul
these trains around that curve and over the
sharp grade they will put man on the engine
who will. In the collision no one was injured.
the engineers and 6remen jumping from their
engines
The committee on district pools of the Central
Traffic Association this week busy at Chi
cago constructing the foundations of district
group pools, III accordance with instructions
krom the managers to them at the recent meet
ing in New York About every city that has a
lpool in the association lika Chicapn Peoria In