The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-06-13
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


have good terminal facilities.
The Vandalia has its bridges on the main
line and on the Il. II. Il l.. division all in
good shape again., and all its trains are ar
irving promptly as usual at terminals.
The intention nowi is 70 put on solid trains
between st. Louis n Cincinnati. over the
Indianapolis * St. Louis and the Big Four
roads. about the middle of next month.
The Traders Dispatch has greatly. inn
proved its facilities for handling freight at
its Jersey City terminal, which Is helping
the line 10 new business IN this territory.
The Railroad Commission of Missouri has
asked the railroad companies 10 appear be-
fore them on june % and show cause why
there should not be a general reduction In
rates.
j. NJ. Crawley, assistant general freight
agent of the Southern Pacific road, passed
through here yesterday on bis way East.
He goes TO Europe to spend a couple OF
months.
w. T.. Ijams, secretary. auditor. ETC., of
the Union Railway Company and the Belt
road and S~tOckyards, is still SO i'll at his
home in Terre Haute as to confine him to
the house.
Freight traffic is improving again. Over
1900 cars were transferred over the Belt
road yesterday, Notwithstanding the fact
that the Pennsylvania lines are doing but
very little.
1t seems like old times in the Decline
yards at Brightwood. so heavy is freight
traffic. OF course. this is In some measure
due TO the Pennsylvania being out of bust
ness temporarily.
Engine No. III. on the Indianapolis &
st. Louis, yesterday hauled train No. 6,
consisting of five cars, from Danvllle to
the Belt road, seventeen and one-halfm miles,
in sixteen minutes.
The White line is the only fast-freight
line just now which has all the business
they can well handle. Both east and west
this line and the Merchants Dispatch are
carrying a big tonnage.
The livestock trains of the Decline are
now equipped with the air-brake, and these
trains are run on about the schedule time
of the passenger trains of the road ten
yeare agO-twenty-tive miles an hour.
The monthly meeting of the superin-
tendents of Indianapolis lines yesterday
was very SHINY attended, neither the Bee
line nor the Pennsylvania lines being repre-
sented. Nothing of Importance was done.
The New York, Pennsylvania 81 Ohio
road is said to be expanding 20 per cent. of
its gross earnings in rebuilding its engines,
and soon Will have a road which Is as well
equipped in its locomotive power as a ma
jority of the Western lines.
On July / the Northern Pacific will begin
to handle the express business over the
Wisconsin Central road. +. w. Farnham,
an old American Express man, on that date
will take the SUPPLEMENTARY of the North
ern Pacific Express Company.
The curbstone ticket agents and railroad
solicitors at San Francisco are a good deal
disturbed that the City Council lave passed
an ordinance which requires that they shall
pay a license annually of 80, and they are
preparing to fight it in the courts.
The Ohio Southern earned in May S36, OS1,
a decrease as compared with May, 1888, of
S1,14S. General Manager Henderson thinks
that the coal traffic of the road will i'm
prove, and that no decreases in earnings
will be shown the remaining months of the
year.
AS all the passenger equipments on the
New York Central, the Lake Shore, the
Michigan Central and the Big Four are
painted yellow, it Is expected that among
the first things done will be the painting of
the Decline passen ger equipment IN the
same manner.
Traffic Manager McDoel and General
Passenger Agent Barker. of the Louisville,
New Albany 81 Chicago road, are in Gin
innat to-day, and will spend tomorrow
in this city. Mr.. Barker is posting himself
regarding the business of the COMPANY at
the leading railroad centers.
Railroad officials, almost without excep-
ton. d%enounce the 800" and the South
Shore and Atlantic lines for demanding
either subsidies or a differential. They
look upon it as simply an effort to extort
money to which the roads have no claim,
except such as is set up by black-mailers.
The New York Commercial Bulletin says
that a Vanderbilt house is engineering the
buying of the st. Louis, Alton ~ Terre
Haute stock, that q ~refunding scheme is
contemplated. and that the road will finally
be owned by the consolidated lines. In
fact. it is believed that this is included in
the Big Four-Bee-1ine deal.
E. o. Mccormick. general passenger
agent of the Cincinnati, Hamilton ~ Day
ton lines. spent Yesterday In the CITY look
ing after the affairs of his department. He
states that in a few days matters Will be so
arranged that the afternoon train will not
leave until all its direct connections have
arrived. This will give through passengers
on the train time to take dinner at Indian
apolis.
The consolidation of the Big Four and
the Decline will quite directly affect the
business of several of the Eastern lines out
of here. For years past the westerndivision
of the C.. l., st. L. {. has been a valuable
feeder TO the c., III. * L.. the o., i. q w,
and has given considerable business to the
c.. st. l.. d p. Now it will all go to the
Bee-line.
The lumbermen of the Northwest are pro-
testing against railroad companies allowing
shippers to place their business cards on
freight cars, declaring it is unfair between
competitors. Usually it is a purlOined
privilege. and has attracted but little at
tention from the railroad officials. This
protest may lead to the railroad companies
charging something for the privilege.
Austin Corbin, president of the Ohio,
Indiana 81 Western road, returned from
the West yesterday afternoon. and inn
mediately left for New York on a special.
Mr.. Corbin was gratified over the condition
of the rOad-bed and it's equipments, it being
much better than he had anticipated. Since
he was last over the Peoria division sixty
hive miles of new steel rail had been put in.
The baggagemasters of the several roads
centering here are moving for the adoption
of a uniform system of checking excess
baggage. Each road now has a plan of its
own. A resolution was passed at their
meeting to bring the matter before the
Union Railway Company at their next
meeting, at which time it is expected some
agreement about the matter will be
reached.
1t cost the Bee-line-Big Four people $50
Ohio and but 50 to file them with the Sec
rotary of the State of Indiana. Should
Judge Burke succeed IN his quo warrantO
proceedings. however, the Secretary of
Ohio would have to return his handsome
fee. The law imposing a fee of oue-tenth of
j per cent. of the capital stock for the filing
of articles of incorporation took effect in
Ohio OF May 1.
Vice-president and General Manager
Waite has nearly completed his annual re-
port, which he will present to the stock
holders at their annual meeting. on Tues
day next lit is said that it will be much
expected under the circumstances. The
company has at last got to a place where 1t
can tell quite definitely how the road stands
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