The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-14
Personal. Local and State Notes.

that these roads that continue to pay COM
missions are guilty of discrimination.
Personal. Local and State Notes.
l.. G.. Keis. manager, and Fred Purcell,
auditor, of the Empire line, are IN the city.
III. Il. Dering. assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsylvania lines, Is IN the
Northwest ON official business.
The Haskell Il Barker car-works, of
Michigan City, is building go lron-ore cars
for the Duluth d Iron Range road.
Stock of the Louisville, Evansville 81 st.
Louis road has advanced six points since
the Mackey syndicate took hold of the
property.
1t is understood that the Cincinnati,
Hamilton IL Dayton will commence using
the Belt road for transferring its through
business on April /.
eight roads for February were So, 50. 06S.
an increase over February, 1883, OF Sl,lO0,-
9S7, or SIS per cent.
General Manager McCrea, of the Pennsyl..
vania lines, and General Manager Waite, of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton g. Dayton, are TO
be in the city to-day.
There were shipped from the Kanawba
valley last year by rail. 20 962, $50 bushels of
coal: by river, 20 100 625 bushels making the
total shipments 4l,663,3l1.
The c., l., st. L. q G.. is furnishing $50
cars of dirt day to make the till on the
chesapeake CS O0lO TOdQ Oh Inc SOuJu Siuo
of the Ohio river at Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati, Wabash Il Michigan
company has added to its freight equip
ment fifty box cars and twenty-five hat
cars. and in May will add as many more.
Track-layers on the Ohio Valley road
were within a mile of the river with their
track on Tuesday night. A new telegraph
line is being put up between Henderson and
Evansville in the interest of the road.
The additions which the L., n. A. d G.
people propose to make to their shops at
New Albany will cost SIS, 900. The work of
the Louisville Southern line will be done
there as well as that of the L., N. A. g. &.
Freight business with a number of the
| roads has dropped off sharply the last few
days. The c., l., st. l.. 81 G. Is handling
four hundred cars q day less than last
week, and the Vandalia three hundred q
day less.
Boone township, Warrick county, having
given the Vincennes, Oakland City 81
OwensbOrO road the cold shoulder, several
| of the best business men of that place have
| promised to secure the right of way for the
| company.
| President Colby, of the Wisconsin Cen
| trail road, when pressed, does not deny that
| this road Is soon to be absorbed by the
| Northern Pacific. 1t is believed that with
| in q short time such information will be
made public.
The Central Association of Superintend-
| in session several hours, discussing the de-
murrage question, and as they could not
| agree, the whole matter was turned over to
| the general managers.
A passenger and freight-rate war has al
ready broken out between the Louisville 81
| Henderson Packet Company and the Louis
| vile, st. Louis q Texas road. The packet
| line people claim that the railroad COM
| pany first broke the agreement.
An important conference regarding the
| new association is to be held at Chicago
| to-day, at which Judge Cooley, Commits
sioners Fink, Blanchard, Faithhorn and
| Midgley, and a number of the presidents
| of the leading Western roads will be pres
| ent.
The possibility that tile Ohio & Mississlp-
| pi would be paralleled between Jefferson
| vile and Charlestown, Ind, has led the o.
| & Nj. people to give better facilities to the
/ patrons of the road between these points
! and to the putting on of better equip
/ ments.
| IndianapOlitans are especially indebted
to George w. Boyd. assistant general pas
senger agent of the Pennsylvania road, for
| the handsome treatment they received at
| Washington. Being an Indianapolis man, he
| knew what would please the people from
this city, and made it as pleasant as posi-
| BILE for them.
| The Lake Erie g. Western road earned in
| the first week of March SAG, S46.S9, against
| S31 ,209.W in the corresponding week of
| 1888; an increase this year of S15641. S5.
! The Evansville q Terre Haute $15,5S7. an
| increase this year of 81 ,272; and the Louis
| vile, New Albany a. Chicago S36, 49, an in
crease this year of S2.702.
| Freight rates to tho Pacific coast are I'M
| questionably too high for the manufacture
| ers. On desks the Indianapolis cabinet
works has to pay S2.75 per 100 pounds to
company made o contract to cover their
shipments for six months to England at
So 3-S cents per 100 pounds.
| Wells. Fargo 81 Co. have secured the ex-
| press business on the Pittsburg d Western,
| which let's them into Pittsburg. By this
| deal another road which started out to do
/ it's own express business abandOns the
scheme. The Denver & Rio Grande is now
| the only line of any Importance over which
| the railroad company does its own express
| business.
| The promptness with which the L., N. A.
| e. T.. manager discharged the agent who
| violated the agreement between the roads
| on rate matters is looked upon as very hon.
orable by railroad officials who believe in
living up to agreements. Since Aug. %,
| 1888, this road has acted very squarely on
| rate matters, and no case can be made
| against it.
| DR.. Donough, general ticket agent of
| the Union Railway Company, and George
vania lines at this point, have received or
| ders to resume the sale of tickets over the
| Chicago L. Alton, the Pennsylvania lines
| west of Pittsburg being the last to lift the
| boycott. Several of the trunk lines placed
| the G. x A. tickets on sale last week I'M
| cOnditionally.
| On Sunday last the Mary Anderson troupe
| was carried over the L., n. A. 81 G. road,
| from Chicago to Indianapolis, at speed
| which nearly equaled that made by the
Journals special train when the national
| Republican convention was held, in Chi
| cago in June last. This road still secures
| most of the theatrical business nOtwith-
! standing that all the roads have been strict
ly maintaining theatrical-troupe rates.
At the Chicago, Lodi e. Southeastern
| railroad annual meeting of stockholders,
| yesterday, the following were elected di-
| rectors: Thos. N. Rice, Rockville; Homer
| Sewell, COvington; RObt. j. Safely, Cedar
Rapids, Ia; j. j. Safely, Lodi; Chas Il.
| McEwen, Lodi; Marshall Nye, Crawfords-
| vile. and Otto Gresham, indianapolis. At
forwards the directors met and elected j.
j. Safely president. and Otto Gresham Sec
rotary and treasurer.
General Passenger Agent Brydon, of the
| Lake Erie 81 Western, who has been in Chi
cago for couple of days, returned yester-
day. He says he IS convinced that the
| present movement to bring about a main
tenance of both passenger and freight rates
| in all directions is an earnest one, and will
be successful in its results. In fact, he
thinks that at the present time rates are
better maintained than at any time since
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