The Indianapolis journal., 1889-09-09

believed that within the next eighteen
montha the financial troubles which the
deal aJove alluded to brought on will be
overcome.
The Baltimore & Ohio road is chafng
under the sharp competition which the
Chesapeake & Ohio is giving it. The devel-
opment of the passenger traffic of the Z. q
o. has been one of the surprises In railroad
circles. which is made very apparent in the
earnings from month to month. In the
month of August the earnings of the Chesa-
peake & Ohio passenger department
reached S137.24O.
The shippers on the line of the Indi-
annapolis IL Vincennes road are scolding
over the treatment they receive IN the
matter of cars. They say that the Penn
sylvanla management Is forever howiing
about the small deficits which the /. & V.
shows from year after paying its exorbi-
tant mortgage interest, but will not give
the shipper cars to swell the revenue and
do away with deficits.
The roads crossing Indiana come up with
New Albany & Chicago earned, gross. S2S2. :
PSI, an increase this year over the cor
responding month in 1883 of Sl9,15 making
the largest earnings in any month in the
history of the road. The Ohio d Mississippi
earned S402. 794, an increase this year of
So, $40; the Wabash, 81, 1,314, ,207, an increase
this year of S43, 1884; the Lake Erie & West
ern, $25S 729, an increase this year of So, ,55S;
the Chicago d. Atlantic. Sos, 704, an in
crease this year of Sl7.4
The Big Four deal has been of great bene-
fit to Indianapolis roads In one respect.
Under the old order of things the Pullman
and Wagner cars run over Indianapolis
lines were those which had become toe
worn and dirty to run between Chicago and
New York. and were put on to the south.
driven both companies to the putting on OF
the best cars which their establishments
turn out, and some of the finest sleeping
car equipment in the world now. passes
through Indianapolis nightly over the Van
derbilt and che Pennsylvania lines.
The Pennsylvania Company has made q
change which will be appreciated by the
patrons of its lines who cannot afford tC
ride in Pullman cars. A passenger leaving
here at p. NJ. on the fast express, taking a
day coach, reaches Columbus at p. NJ
There one change into day coach is made
which runs directly through to New York
city without further change. Heretofore
the train reached Pittsburg about A. NJ.
cars for New York unless ne was in a sleep
ing coach. The new departure does away
with this annoyance.
| 1t is stated that the effect of the new
Michigan railroad law will be to reduce
| passenger rates, not only in that State
but between Chicago and New York. The
Michigan Central road is not subject to the
| provisions of the law, owing to the con
| ditions prescribed in its charter, but i
| compels the Chicago & Grand Trunk to re
| duce its rates to the basis of cents mil,
| in the State of Michigan. This causes re
duction of 81 in the rate from Chicago tS
| Port Huron, and consequently similar re
| duction in the established rate to New
| York. OF course the Michigan Central viii
find it necessary to meet this rate, although
| not forced to do so by the law. The Other
| east-bound lines viii naturally find it t,
to their interest to follow suit, and the re
| suit is a general reduction in the rat,
| through to the sea-board. The Michigan
law becomes operative Oct. /, after whicl
| time the first class fare from Chicago tG
| New York will be S22.25, instead of S23.2
as at present
The Canadian Pacific, in it's contest will
| the Northern Pacific, has taken a new an(
important step. The Northern Pacific, as i
| we'll known, is heading through Montan:
and the Northwest Territory, of which lin
one or two hundred miles are built from
Winnipeg, for the Saskatchewan river, an,
it is expected to reach there next year. Th
Canadian Pacific will take immediate step
to head it of. and has let a contract, whicl
is not yet made public, to build about 20
miles of new road 1t will build this fal
from Regina to Prince Albert, on the Sas
katchewan river, to which place the North
ern Pacitice is also headed, under the char
ter lately granted to the Regina & Lon
Lake Railway Company. Next spring tn
line will be extended from Prince Alber
head pass of the Rocky mountains to Van
couyer. The Yellowhead pass is said to b
the best and easiest of all the Rocky mount
ain passes. Thirty thousand tons of stee
| rails are now on the way from England TO
the new line.