The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-24

York dispatches, harmonizes conflicting in
terests and removes from the field posi-
BILE disturbing element.
The New York Central has, it is said, Sc
cured the right to run over the Toronto,
Buffalo & Hamilton railway, soon to be
built between Toronto and Niagara Falls.
The Pullman Palace-car Company has be-
gun another suit in the United States
Court at Chicago. against the Wagner
Palace-car Company, for infringement of
the vestibule patents of the frst-named
company.
G. G. Dickson, local ticket agent of the
Big Four, is to be the agent for the CONSOLE
dated lines, with ID. G. Drake, of the Bee
line office Bates House), as assistant. 1t
is not yet settled where the consolidated
office will be located.
The Bethany Park Assembly convenes on
the 31st, and will continue for three weeks.
Trains on the /. & v. will stop regularly,
and will carry passengers to and from the
Assembly at special rates. There has been
no arrangement made, as yet, for special
trains.
1t is said there is hitch in the arrange
ments for the reduced rates to the brigade
encampment of the Knights of Pythias at
Warsaw, and that some, at least. of the
roads which had tentatively agreed to
rate which would be practically 1-cent-
annie fare, have determined to withdraw
their propositions.
The Wall Street Journal claims to have
authority for the statement that in case
the boycott is applied against the Chi
cago 81 Alton by the roads in the Interstate
Association. the Alton Will Withdraw from
the Southwestern Freight and Passenger
Association and become O free lance in
railroad business, ready to fight any and
all cOmers
The meeting of the managers of lines con-
stituting the Transcontinental Railway
| Association, which met in Chicago yester-
F! day, to consider the threatened withdrawal
| of the Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific
| roads, accomplished nothing beyond APP
| pointing q committee to meet the managers
| of those roads and urge them to continue
| IN the association.
| The l., b. e. w. announces five harvest
| excursions to all points in Tennessee, Mis-
| sissippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas and
| Texas, and to all States and Territories be-
| tween the Mississippi anu the Sierra Ne
| vada, at One-half fare for the round trip
! tickets limited to thirty days. with the
usual stop-over privileges. The dates for
| the excursions are Aug. 9 and 20. Sept. 10
and "A and Oct. 8.
| Assistant General Passenger Agent Luce.
of the Lake Shore, says the Lake Shore and
| the Michigan Central are the only two
roads in that State earning enough to
bring them within the 2-cent-fare limit IN
| der the provisions of the law passed recent
ly by the Michigan Legislature; aud as
both of these lines W ere organized and now
operate under a special charter, which can
| only be amended or abrOgated by two
| thirds vote of the Legislature he does not
see how the people of Michigan are going
to secure a 2-cent fare on any road within
| their borders.
A portion of the general offices Of the st.
| Louis, Keokuk 81 Northwestern, tho Chi
cago, BurlingtOn& Kansas City, and the KeO-
| kuK x Northwestern roads will be trans
ferred to st. Louis from KeOkuk. The gen.
| eral freight and passenger agents and their
4 office forces removed a
| prOx., and will occupy quarters in the
Laclede Building. 1t is not yet determined
| whether or not all the general offices will
be removed. J. II. Palmer, at present gen.
route. will be assistant general passenger
agent of the st. Louis, KeOkuk II North
western, being succeeded in his present Of
ice by VIM. Gray, his chief clerk.
The Alton is making good thing out of
the operations of the American Live Stock
Commission Company. That association,
to avoid the payment to the commission
men of cents on every head of stock de-
termined on running private cars. None
were to be found but the Alton had about
one Thousand stock cars lying idle by rea-
son OF the employment of private cars by
other stock men, and these were leased to
the association at good figure. These
cars are now scattered from Texas to Mon
| tana, and every one which reaches Alton
| territory runs over that line to Chica 90.
loaded with cattle. Thus the Alton has
found use for all its idle cars at good fig-
ure and without cost to itself has sent act
i've and persistent drummers for business
all over the country.
Agents of the fast-freight lines complain
very much of the demOraliZing effects upon
business caused by the late reduction in
rates on corn by the Il. Il o., and the sub
sequent temporary reduction on other
grains and grain products. 1t seems that a
Baltimore house had sent agents
West to buy up, all the corn
that could be found, basing their opera
tions upon an agreement with the b. a. O.
to transport it to the seabOard at the re-
duced rate, which was soon after an
nOunced. This forced the other lines to
cOncede the rates named by the b. & o.,
and 1T is said one of the fast-freight lines
here, presuming upon the permanency of the
cut. made contracts with local millers to
carry. their -four to the seabbard at rate
which was refused by their regular Eastern
line. The result is that the flour is going
East by a roundabout route, using part
of two trunk lines which have also refused
to operate under the cut rate. This raises
the questiOn-whO stands the loss? If the
trunk lines over which the stuff passes
charge full rates the fast-freight line
which. has the contract to fill must
lose largely in the transaction. In
any case, it must be conceded that the Civ
ing of one rate for corn and another for all
other grain and grain products will have a
demOralizing and unsettling effect. and il
is to be hoped all lines will soon see their
way clear to the adoption of an equitable
and uniform basis for through business.
The present condition of things is practi.
cally discrimination, if local agents at
tempt to do business from country points
as they find that while one of their cOnnec.
tions grants the cut rate, another does not
and it is impossible to name uniform rates.
often, from practically the same territory
A prehistoric tomb just opened in La
coma is found to resemble those of Mycena
1t consists of a long corridor leading to an