The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-09
Personal. Local aud state Notes.

general freight agents are to get together and
revise their tariffs accordingly.
Personal. Local aud state Notes.
General Freight Agent Spriegs, of the Nickel
plate road, Is in poor health, and has gone 10
Manhattan beach for several weeks rest
The reoreanized East ~Bfandywine & Waynss-
burg company proposes TO extend It's me 10
Lancaster, where connection will be maoe WIN
she Pennsylvania road
A number of freight crews Ia the employ, OF
the Lake Erie & Western road have LETT .nss
company, TO take service on the WABASH, WHICH,
they claim. pays better wages
The Illinois Central people opened tneir chi
cago, Madison e. Northern branch Tor business
on Monday last All business oes~e nav line
and Freeport will now pass over the ne" ino' i.
Thu sb,nmsnts OF salt from Michigan City
over the r. E & W. and the La, N A. u
roads ara now reaching ten TO fifteen carloads
per day. Il is brought to that point oy vessel
The Kansas City Blaine Club, which passed
through here on Tuesday morning. en- route 10
Esv York. nav 50. 700 for the special train for
the round trip. There were 104 persons In the
party.
President Spencer, of the Baltimore & Ohio
road. has come out strongly in favor o. higher
rates and their maintenance. He says rates
should at once be advanced to remnneratIve
figures
The old project of building a railroad from
Bowling Green. KY. through Morgantown.
Hartford and Calhoun. has been revived, and
the prospects are good that it will be built. The
Legislature Of Kentucky granted a charter for
this road IN 1869.
Among other improvements suggested oy
President ingalls,, Of the Chesapeake 81 Ohio
road, is the doubling OF the track between CHI,
ton, Va, and Huntington. The tunnels and
bridge abutments between these points were
constructed for two tracks
General Manager Carson and Superintendent
Woodland. of the L., n. A. & c.. have gone
East to consult with the directory regarding
some proposed improvements. The question OF
removing the shops from New Albany to Lafay-
cite will be settled at the conference.
Passenger rates west-bound cut Of Buffalo. N;
T., have become badly dsmoralized. General
Passenger Agent Snow, of the Wabash. having
distributed mileage books freely among the
ticket ~scalpers of that city, and they are carry
ing on . guerrilla warfare with them.
A steam shovel and three construction trains
are still engaged in filing in Nichols's hollow on
the indianapolis. Decatur 81 Western road The
frestle-work 10 being filed at the rate of three
thousand yards Of dirt per week, and 1t Will re-
euire $500 more yards TO complete the work.
As illustrative of the growth Of business Ia
Kokomo, it is stated that within the last few
months the PENNSYLVANIA and the Lake Erie q
Western companies have put in twenty switches
leading to manufacturing establishments, most
Of which have been erected within the last
swelve months.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company 10 con-
siderine the adoption Of the new system of sig
mails, invented by Geo. Westinghouse. designed
20 render collisions between trains impossible.
The Pennsylvania block system covers 900 miles
of road, and il costs 5000, 900 q year TO keep it in
operation. IL is claimed that the new system
can be kept IN operation at an expense OF only
BLOC, 900 a year.
Thomas Somerville, the c., l., 81. L. & c. con-
ductor who was injured in the wreck on the
Martinsville branch, was a member or the
United States Railway Conductors and Officials
Accident Association, and, within three hours
after the accident occurred, VIM. b. Bells,
treasurer of the association, had forwarded TO
Nr. Somsrville So. which will be his weekly
benefit as long as bis injuries prevent him per-
forming his regular duties.
One of the officials of the Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy road was in the city yesterday. He
states that the management IS very ~sanguine
that q large per cent. of their losses in the last
six months will be made up before the year
closes. The passenger business OF the main
line and the extensions was never better. and
their freight traffic has improved greatly in the
last month. As rates have been restored. tho
earnings again begin to pile mp.
Chairman George Daniels, or the passenger
department. of the Central Traffic Association,
says the roads as a rule are doing a large BUSH
ness at rates that, while not showing old-time
profits, are gratifying because the loss is CON-
p~ensated by the increase OF business. This is
the position now taken by many passenger men,
who believe that . mile rate would in
cease the business to such an extent that. taken
as a whole, increased earnings can be shown.
The Journal has excellent authority for stat
ing that the relations between the Terre Haute
& Indianapolis Railroad Company and the Penn
sylvania people arc not to be disturbed so long
as VIM. r. McKeen is presidents of the I. II. s.
l., the Pennsylvania people feeling very kindly
toward Mr.. McKeen. Ii is stated. however, that
the suit testing the validity of the Vandalia
lease now before the Supreme Court Of the
United States will be allowed to go on until q
decision is reached 80 that whatever course the
Pennsylvania Company shall pursue, should any
future complications arise. may be legally de-
6ned.
The report Of James McCrea, general manager
OF the Pennsylvania lines west Of Pittsburg, for
the last fiscal year. says: AFTER paying all, ex-
penses and fixed charges and advancing 1913. 900
10 leased lines the result of the years operations
was a balance of S675. 5l6 carried to the credit OF
the profit and loss account of the lines for the
Pennsylvania company alone. From the Pitts
burg. Cincinnati & St Louis railroad a profit of
f524.670 was made, and from independent cor
porations aproht of S78,277, making q total
profit of 81. 276. 463. In consequence of the large
receipts. the management was liberal in ex-
psnditures for improvements and general bet er-
nepts. Taken altogether, there was spent for
construction, equipments. and real estate on all
the lines west Of Pittsburg the sum of So, &c.,
1872"
In commenting on an item which appeared re-
Gently in the Journal regarding the revival of
the scheme to build the Evansville. Fort Wayne
& Chicago road the New York Bulletin, of Aug.
B, says: THE best information available is that
the reports correct, and that the Evansville. Fort
Wayne & ChicagOis project amounts to a revival
of an old and promising scheme. Harry Drew,
of indianapolis. is one of the chief movers in
the interest OF the new road, and his efforts are
being seconded BY E. w. Sbirk, q capitalist of
Peru, Ind. who is the owner OF the tow path Of
the old Wabash & Erie canal Together, the
above gentlemen are now at work deciding upon
route for their Evansville, Fort Wayne s. Chi
cago line. It is understood that it is their in
tenriou to have the division extending from La
fayette. Ind. to Fort Wayne constructed first,
and that This section OF over one hundred miles
viii be completed within a year. Though there
Is 10 official confirmation. il is the opinion Of,
many that the name or the road is misleading
and that il is the intention of those interested
TO ultimately develop their property into o
through line from Fort Wayne 10 St Louis"
Miscellaneous Items.
The Los n geles e. San Diego Short-line will
be opened for business on Aug. 10.
The extension Of the Chicago, ST. Paul &
Kansas City road from Des Moiues to St
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