The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-29
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and General Notes.

The Transmissouri Association will meet
in regular session in Kansas City on the 9th
of August.
The work of extending the Toledo. CO.
lumbus g. Cincinnati road southwark from
Findlay is to be begun at once.
The Big Four is anticipating a much
larger business this season than usual In
carrying people to and from Acton.
On tomorrow Chairman Walker will
hear argument in relation to the relative
rates on salt from Chicago and st. Louis.
Huntington's new Texas line, the Gulf,
West Texas IL Pacific, has reached Bee
vile, Tex, and freight and passenger traffic
will be receivable In a few days.
The Cincinnati papers say John X. Nc
Cord Will leave that city on the 9TH prox.,
to take charge of the Indianapolis passen-
ger department of the g., IL. d ID.
1t is stated that d. j. Mackey has ordered
a cessation of work on the L. Il X. east of
AZalia, as the route of that road would be
changed so as to run via Columbus.
The gross earnings of the Louisville e.
Nashville show an increase for the third
week IN July of SS,725, and for the. three
weeks of the month an increase of S49, 355.
The Schenectady ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS are
heavy passenger engines, fifteen mogul
freight engines and seven switching en-
gines.
1t is said the Union Pacific is now abso-
Lutte owner of the South Park road, and will
at once put it in first-class condition, widen
ing the gauge, and adding important ex-
tensions and firSt-claSs rOlling-stOck.
Judge Burke does not think the Hooking
Valley road will pass into the hands of a
receiver. 1t is said the road has no floating
debt. and the desire of the majority of the
stockholders is to make 1T earn all the
money possible.
The Pennsylvania Company has instruct
haOO1 " a q a
tiers on its system east OF Pittsburg to carry
without charge baby carriages, when
babies TO whom they belong are aboard the
trains. This is liberal treatment of that
class of travel.
| Assistant General Passenger Agent Rob-
| erts. of the Pennsyfva lines, at Cincin-
| natl, says the reduced rate from Cincinnati
| to Chicago was given by his company be-
| cause other lines, through mileage books,
| were giving a rate of $3.50, being 80 below
| the regular rate. Under the law the re-
| duced rate must stand at least ten days.
The sea-board rate of $3.50 per hundred
on tirst-class freight, which went into effect
| OIL Friday On the Fort Worth road, via Gal
weston and the Gulf, has been promptly
! met by the other rall-and-water lines. as
| authorized by the Transcontinental Asso-
| citation. The reduction does not apply to
all-rail routes. and, consequently, grain
| rates are not affected.
p. ]. Flynn, formerly general freight
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more recently general agent of the same
| company at Denver, has been appointed
| general Western freight and passenger
agent of the Missouri Pacific. with head
| quarters at Denver. He will have charge
| of the traffic in Colorado, Wyoming Utah
| and northern New Mexico.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company has
| notified the Iranscontinental AssOcia-
ton that unless the subsidy granted
the Pacific, Mail by the railroads
i 10 will
rates and take all the freight it can get
| This, in view of the refusal of the South
ern Pacific to cOncede the differential asked
by the Canadian Pacific, is regarded as the
| first step in war against the Canadian
| Pacific.
| The appointment of III. s. Fraser to be
! district freight agent of the Big Four hangs
| fire, but it is. nevertheless. regarded as a
certainty. Whether he will assume his new
duties on the LIST prox, or on the LIST of Sep
| TENDER, is unknown to officers of the line
| in this city. The only thing known GER
tainly about the matter is that everyone
| comedies the appointment to be an excel
lent one, and that it will be greatly to the
| profit of the consolidated lines.
Through circular, the Louisville &
Nashville road has asked all it's connec-
| tions to discontinue selling tickets over it's
line in connection with the Louisville. New
| Albany d Chicago. 1T having stopped all
interchange OF passenger 1 traffic with that
| ion of business by the L., n. A. 81 c..
| through its Louisville cutoff and Queen Il
Crescent connection, and its refusal to
| share business with the l.. & n.
The Michigan law regulating the passen-
| ger rates on railroads in that State fixes the
| fare at $50 for .0O0-mile tickets in the lower
peninsula and at SO in the upper Tickets
| are good for use by the purchaser or any
member of his family for two years. Any
| unused portion is to be redeemed but in re-
4 ad
company is authorized to charge 2 cents
| per mile for the portion used. Thus, if 500
miles of a S25 ,0O0-mile ticket, has been
| used, the holder is entitled to receive back
81; but if S94 miles had been used there
would be no drawback. On a $50 ticket
there will be no drawback if 667 miles has
been used.
The Big Four will not-at least at pres
ent-meet the cut made by the PenDsyl-
vania lines between Chicago and Indian
apolis, Cincinnati, Louisville and New AL
bany Should the reduced rates of the
| Pennsylvanla be retained, however for
any length of time. the o., i. IL w. will
make rates to all Western points on basis
to correspond with the Pennsylvania's Chi
cagO rate. If this is done-and the O., l. &
| w. people say it will be necessary to take
| such n step-it is difficult to see how war
| of rates on Western business can be avoided:
| as q cut to make rates correspond with the
Chicago. rate of the Pennsylvania will
affect the rate to every Western point
reached by all lines out of Indianapolis
All lines except the c., w. & M. have
fully decided not To grant the One-cent-a-
| mile rate to the KniPhts of Pythias for the
brigade encampment at Warsaw. This sea-
son will probably witness the end of the
| one-cent rates. Such business is not
profitable TO the roads seeking OF accept
ing 1T, and probably never would have
| been asked by any organization had it not
! originally been rendered by roads seeking
TO cut into the traffic of a rival line. The
| trouble with the q. A. X. this year did not
arise through the fact that that order was
| merely trying to beat down the railroad
managers. but almost entirely III not
quite, from the fact that it felt it had been
Disseminated against. the one-cent rate or
less being granted to other and much
smaller organizations, while denied to
! them.
There was a meeting of the st. Louis
freight committee on Friday, which was
| largely attended. Among those present
were General Traffic Manager Murray, of
the Big Fonr; General Freight Agents Hill.
| of the Big Four. Hubbard of the Vandalia,
Duncan of the o. K NJ, Fletcher of the c.,
| V. IL c., Weed of the T.. st. l.. Il h. c..
Parsons of the Mackry lines. and Freight
Traffic Manager Knight, of the Wabash. 1t
was decided that proportionate grain rates
| from East st. Louis on the business coming
from connecting lines should be withdrawn
on theusnal legal notice. Also. that the tariff
established as third-class rates to the mid
die and Western States should be with
! drawn. No definite action was taken on
:he question as to the limit to be allowed