The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-13

Judge TrumbuD, counsel for. the defendant COM
psny and allowed to the Supreme Court of the
United States, and his motion to amend the bill
by striking out all relating to an accounting
was granted, which leaves the one question as
20 the rescission of the lease. The defendant
company it is stated, has the whole Pennsylva-
mia system at its back. who are opposing the eff
forts of the original owners to get back their
property
Local and State Notes.
The railroad companies doing business at Bra
gil, Ind, have under consideration the building
Of a commodous, handsome union passenger
depot at that point
West-bound shipments of freight from Phila-
delphia as well as from New York, come under
the new differential deal By it the Baltimore
e. Ohio and the Erie are benefited.
General Manager Beach, of the Bee-line says
that so crowded the car-works which build
passenger equipments that it will be July be-
for the twelve new coaches they have contracted
for will be delivered.
The freight traffic on the PENNSYLVANIA lines
west of Pittsburg on Sunday last was the heav-
lest in the history of the road At Dennsou.
o., 2,240 loaded cars passed in the twenty four
hours, about many moving east as west
ward
The new classification goes into effect on the
busy preparing tariffs to be ready for the
change Several articles effected by the
changes to be made, but in nearly every case it
Is a reduction.
The Indianapolis & st. Lonis division of the
Bee-line earned in December $780, POT. Increase
over earnings of corresponding month OF 1886
s26. 1926 The I. & St L. main line earned in
1873! 81 205. 1914. increase over earnings in
1886 of 1929 299 or III per cont
The roads which brought lumber from the
Michigan pineries in 1887 handled more lumber
than in any former year. both for this territory
ond for the Eastern markets. This is due to the
fact that lake rates so per cent higher than
in either of the several years past.
c. G. +. Bent superintendent of the Ohio G
rnnn VIZ in "a
fhe fact, that he was in conference with Vice
president McCrea and General Superintendent
Miller. of the Pennsylvania lines, for an hour
more - leading to some speculation
Within the past eighteen months eight of the
eight-wheel freight engines on the l., b. q W.
have been rebuilt into passenger engines. Rebuilt
they weigh forty six tons, and handle the heavy
passenger trains run over the Peoria division
with ease. Notwithstanding the heavy grades
The Indianapolis car-works were yesterday
asked to bid on 1000 box for the Chicago.
Burlington & Northern road. Fifteen hundred
of the running that road were built
at the Indianapolis works: and that they press
them to bid on the new order is complimentary
10 the Indianapolis carworks.
Vice-preeident McCrea and General Superin-
tendent Miller, of the Pennsylvania lines. and
Gaylord Beach. general manager of the Bee-line.
spent yesterday in the city inspecting the work
on the new union station, and made q trip over
the Belt road. These gentlemen expressed sur
prise at the number of large manufactures
which are springing mp on the Belt road.
The articles of consolidation of the Indianapo-
lis 81 Wabash Railway Company with the In
dianapols, Quincy q Missouri Railway Com
pany, under the name or the Indianapolis, De-
catur a. Western railway, were filed yesterday.
The Indianapolis 81 Wabash and the Indianapo-
lis, Quincy e. Missouri railways are the Indiana
and Illinois divisions of the Indianapolis Decatur
81 Springfield.
The Pennsylvania Company has proposed to
build belt road at Marion. Ind, which will pro-
vide switching facilities to all the important
manufacturing companies there il they meet
sufficient q
stand the Cincinnati. Wabash e Michigan have
better facilities OF this character at that point
than has the Pennsylvania Company, and conse-
quently gets the cream of the business
The Island City and Digger e. Neal mines, on
the Indianapolis e. Vincennes road, are furnish
ing the Pennsylvania lines centering here with
coal for their locomotives, the Lake Erie &
Western, the c., III. d l., the Wabash at the
Peru station, the Chicago g. Grand Trunk at
Stillwell. and arrangements making to shin
a handsome tonnage 20 Chicago over the l. q V.
and the c.. st. l.. & p. roads.
Commencing with Feb l the c., l., St L. &c
G. company change the number of their stations
over the whole system. the number OF the sta
ton being based on the number of miles it is
from Cincinnati, instead of No l. 2, and on
This makes it much more convenient to do bust
ness between stations, a passenger conductor,
for instance, instead of writing from Cincinnati
TO GreeDsburg writes j to 30. the num-
Der of miles from Cincinnati to Greensburg, this
station being No So
The general passenger agents of the roads in
the Chicago e. Ohio River Association have
been in session in Chicago for a couple of davs
tins week, trying to settle their differences. but
without any Important results. The business
that the L.. N. A. 81 G. road is doing seems TO
trouble the association the most and General
Passenger Agent Mccormick comforts them Nv
saying that he has the shortest line and can at
ford TO carry passengers cheaper. At the same
time he shows proofs that the competitors that
complain the most do not hesitate to cut a rate
rather than lose a passenger.
The Decline, Lake Shore and New York Cen
trail have put on an elegant new line of sleeping
coaches between Cincinnati and the East as
usual, ignoring the Indianapolis g. st. Louis
line. There is not passenger man who does
not know that were the Bee-llne people to give
their Southwestern interest the attention which
the Cincinnati division is given much hand
somer returns would be realized. When West,
Henry Monett, general passenger agent of the
New York Central, admitted that their Indian
apois and St. Louis route had been treated shah
billy. but promised that the matter would early
bs remedied.
The roads which run through the territory
where the drought was severe last INNER are
experiencing good deal of trouble with their
locomotives. They were obliged to use any
quality OF water they could find, a large per
cent of it being hard water. and il greatly dam
aged the iues. and freight engines which would |
under ordinary circumstances haul twenty-five |
70 thirty cara viii haul but fifteen TO twenty. |
One road has been Obliged to put new fiues into |
twenty of it's locomotives for this cause on |
the n. Y, r. & .. il is stated that fifty or more
engines have been seriously damaged in this |
manner. and are now being put through the |
shops for renewal Of the damaged parts
1t is believed in legal and railroad circles that.
now Judge Gresham has decided that the lease of |
fhe Vandalia is valid. that the c., H. e. D. peo- /
pie will bestir themselves and offer to pay Mr..
Mckeen the full amount he claims under the |
deal with Ives Should they do So says an en-
tHent railroad lawyer, some very interesting and
complicated litigation may grow out of it, In
this competition g. O. Waite, vicepresident of
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