The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-01
Miscellaneous MOTIFS.

About $40 coo, 900 will be spent by the West
ern roads for new mileage this spring and sum-
mer.
1t is reported that the West Shore has not
earned its operating expenses for the first quar-
ter of this year by 100000
The Mexican Financier believes that railroad
will be built connecting Mexico with Central and
South America along the Pacific coast
The Chesapeake & Ohio people have ordered q
thousand new freight cars, thirty -four feet long,
and with twenty-five tons capacity each.
President Adams of the Union Pacific, thinks
transcontinental passenger rates will never be
fully restored President Adams is right
There is some reason to suppose that the Rock
Island may be back of the new line projected to
parallel the Manitoba in Dakota, as lately men
rioned
The Union Pacific management is making an
effort to devise means for securing funds to
build six hundred miles of branch lines in Ne
braska this year
The local business of the Erie road is said to
suffer considerably by the sharp competition of
the Delaware e. Lackawanna which is steadily
in the field for all traffic possible to be secured.
The better net earnings of the Erie which
were mainly secured by cutting down salaries
and wages, are said to be in danger again from
the advances which the company has been forced
quietly to concede to avoid strike.
The Dayton & Northern Railway Company is
the latest addition to the paper roads of the
State of Ohio. The principal Office of this com
pany is located in Dayton. and the proposed
road has that city and Delphos as its terminal
points.
It is stated that the Manitoba road will not.
as has been reported, turn all of its Chicago
business to the Chicago. Burlington e. Northern
road. 1t would be impolitic to antagonze the
other Chicago roads by such course They
would be inclined to build into Manitoba terri
tory were this to be done.
1t is the protested belief among their Compel
itors that both the Atchison, Topeka g Santa Fe
and the Atlantic & Pacific beaten in the
railroad contest which has been so long and
fiercely waged. They were quite jubilant over
the prospect which seemed to be afforded for a
speedy restoration of rates all around. and each
had his version Of the manner in which the de-
feat of the Atlantic 81 Pacific had been brought
about.
General Manager Galloway, of the Union Pa
chic, announces that that company proposes to
at once begin the erection of union depot in
Omaha to cost $400, 900, plans for which have
been drawn and adopted. The trains of the
Chicago roads, which now stop on the east side
of the river, will run into this new union depot
on the west side when the new Union Pacific
bridge, now being constructed, is completed next
year.
The Boston e. Albany to-day will adopt the
weekly payment system. 1t is stated that this
change will entail other departures from the Gus
toms heretofore in vogue on the road. For in
stance, conductors, who in common with the
rest of the employees. have been paid monthly,
have been given weeks vacation in each year;
their pay has gone on when they were sick and
they have received no extra pay for extra work.
Hereafter, it is said, they will be put upon a
days basis, receiving so much for each days act
ual service. If they are prevented from work
ing by sickness, they will lose their pay during
their absence; if they desire vacation they will
have to take it at their own expense; they will,
however. be given extra pay for extra work.