The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-07
Miscellaneous Items.

The cut in the fiour rate from ST. Paul to
Chicago by the c., b.. q n. is likely to lead
to another rate war between the lines Oper-
atlng between the cities named above.
Capitalists friendly to the Baltimore g.
Ohio road have decided to build a belt road
around Baltimore, for the purpose of facili-
Eating the through business of the b. d ..
Last week an orange train, consisting of
nine cars, made the run from Ogden to
Omaha, 1,032 miles, in IS hours and 90 min
utes. which is fast running for the winter
season.
The Eau Claire. Mississippi g. Lake Su-
perior Railroad Company has secured the
right of way from Eau Claire to I%ndepen-
dence, and will commence building the line
at once.
The recent absorption of the international
q Great Northern road by the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas has developed a lawsuit
which may have the effect of annulling the
transaction.
The Columbus & Hooking Valley road is
discharging men and cutting down ex-
penses generally, to meet the falling off in
its business as q result of the light coal
traffic this year.
Indications are more pronounced than
ever that the Northern Paci1ic is soon to
gather in the Wisconsin Central road, which
will give the N. p. a through line from Chi
cago to the Pacific coast.
By placing the agencies of the seven fast
freight lines operating out of Boston over
the Fitchburg road under one general
point will be reduced $4,000.
The shops of the Philadelphia & Reading
company are being run thirteen hours q
day; The entire passenger equipment OF
the line, as we'll as its locomotive power,
are undergoing general repairs.
The legislation looking to the appoint
ment of three railroad. commissioners for
the State OF Arkansas has failed, the ma
jority regarding such action as inimica to
railroad development in that State.
The Philadelphia division of the Balti-
more 81 Ohio road did not earn operating
is claimed that the New Jersey Central,
which is to be its New York line, will profit
$500,00 this year through such connection.
To do this the Philadelphia division of the
B.& y. must earn five times as much as it
did in 1888.
Seventeen pages of the annual report of
the Railroad Commission of Massachusetts,
are devoted to the subject of tresspassers
on tracks and trains. A complete list of all
accidents of this character which occurred
in the State last year is given. They in
clude 25 per cent. of the accidents in which
persons were killed or injured, and 46 per
cent. of all persons killed in the operation
of roads in the State. Accidents to passen-
gers and employees are unavoidable, but to
kill or injure 1876 persons who have no bust
ness on or near the tracks in that small
State shows that a remedy is needed. The
State has laws f%orbidding trespassing ON
the tracks, but when arrests are made it is
DIFFICULT to get a conviction. and arrests are
usually followed by retaliatory measures,
such as placing distractions on the track
or burning buildings belonging to the rail
road companies. The commission recon-
mends that there shall be a special police,
whose duty shall be to arrest any and ali
persons trespassing on railroad property,
such police to be an independent body and
not subject TO be curtailed in their opera
tiOns by public opinion or threats of tres
DasSers.