The Indianapolis journal., 1886-02-20

now in use. and is double one, the one retained
being exact duplicate Of the one sold and
from which reports are TO hc made and then re-
turned to the auditor for check. The new
ticket dispenses with . local case, also
with single and round trip book tickets as the
ticket can be used for round-trip as well as
single. The immense amount of printing saved,
as well as its superiority over local card tickets
is at once percevable. The ticket is stamped
at the same time tho punch marks are made.
Mr. Lynx has applied for letters patent Gen.
eral passenger agents who have seen the ticket
speak of it favorably.
The trustees of the l.. P. g. c. road threaten
TO withdraw from the accommodations the Union
Depot affords and run their passenger trains to
their depot at the head of East Maryland street
they state that the greater per cent of their
business is of local character, and the few pas
sengers they deliver or receive from the trains
running into the depot could be transferred by
bus at small cost compared with the rental
they pay to the Union Railway Company
Doubtless the matter will end in threat. as,
seriously speaking. the l., p. & c. cannot afford
to isolate itself from the connection with one
hundred or more trains which they make in the
Union Depot
The Pennsylvania Not Directly Interested.
'.The declaration or assumption that the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company is involved in any
controlling degree in the Reading syndicate.
says the Philadelphia Times. must be known to
be false by any who consider the aim of the syn
dicate The syndicate would invite inevitable
failure by being subordinate to, or dependent
upon any one Of the interested trunk lines. It's
purpose IS to assert power over and above all
the disputes of the trunk lines. and if it shall
fail in that achievement it must fail in every
thing bat disaster to itself.
1T would be simply waste of fifteen millions
of the syndicates money and waste of many
more millions in the end for sharehold
ers and creditors, for syndicate to clear Reading
of debt and start it out in fresh cut throat bat
tie against the many more powerful rivals which
surround it. For thar reason. and for that alone
the Pennsylvania corporation was addressed on
the question of the harmony with the Reading,
without which neither of the Schuylkill lines
can pay anything.
1.-The undisgnised aim of the syndicate Is to
establish Reading on solvent basis, and to es-
tablish general railroad credit at home and
abroad by the same unity of direction that OBJ
tains In all channels of private enterprise, where
men must spend their money when they indulge
in destructive rivalry"
Old Railroad Projects Coming to the Front
The rumor is revived that the Lackawanna
management have decided to extend their road
westward from Buffalo. Whether this report be
true not the movement of Presidents Sloan
and Jewett the next few months will be watched
with interest The Cleveland Leader says:
'"There is reason for believing that 1886 will
witness the construction of some very important
trunk line links at least that the steps will be
taken which will secure their construction a lit
tie later on. This week at Lisbon, O., the IN
corporators Of the Pittsburg, Marion 81 Chicago
road met and elected board Of directors. If
there is any outcome to this enterprise the Chi
cago & Atlantic will have new outlet to the
East, and there will be practically more
Chicago east bound ROAD. Also the B. e. O.
company. it is understood, has taken measures
to connect Akron with Chicago Junction, dis
tance of some fifty miles. the only missing link
to short line between Pittsburg and Chicago"
The Car-Coupling Problem.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is giving
the matter Of self car rcouplers some attention,
and the movements they make in this direction
will be watched with interest. The Railway Re-
view says:
"As matters now stand, the car-coupling
problem, although gratifyingly advanced to-
wards solution, has brought with each forward
step increasing difficulties Railway men, al
though they now have a dozen couplers of
recognized merit to choose from, yet hardly in
position to make final selections: and railway
men cannot. no matter what some of them say.
confidently award the distinction of preeminent
merit in every light to either hook or link and
tin-type of couplers. The more carefully and
thoroughly does the railway man go over the
ground, the less able and more reluctant does he
become to indorse the link and pin principle over
the hook principle or vice versa"
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