The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-17

sold at one fare for the round trip Sept, 10
to 16. good To return until Oct. 10. Trains
will be run through from Cincinnati TO
Chattanooga without change, except OF
locomotives.
Those who are posted as to the affairs of
the Ohio. Indiana Il Western road say that
were the road properly. provided with
freight cars. the line would, with ease, earn
its operating expenses and Its liked
charges. The company has locomotive
power to do four times the business 1T has
been doing at any time IN the last four
years.
V. Il. Malott. receiver of the Chicago &
Atlantic, has published in pamphlet form
his report of receipts and disbursements
from May 10 to July 81. which shows re-
amount 1851 .524.91 was from the operation
of the road The disbursements during
that period were $500, 919.54. leaving a bal
ance of cash on hand July 81 of s9S,545.
The Cairo & vincennes is said to be well
equipped with engines; there are twenty
five of them. most of which are either Nc
Queen or Baldwin build. and have been
placed on the road since 1884. Hereafter
the repairingo of che equipments or THIS road
will be largely done at the NATION shops
of the Big Four. In these shops 266 men
are now employed. and the number is to be
increased to 300 on the first OF next month.
The coming annual convention of the LO-
connective Brotherhood is beginning to be OF
interest. The principal business VII! be
the election of a successor to Grand Chief
Arthur. There is an earnest canvass going
on over il. Some of the younger members
of the brotherhood want to elect a new and
younger man, but the prevailing opinion
among the conservative members of the or
ganlZatlOn Is that the old man" Will pull
through all right.
The following general passenger agents
are having a good time this week at Cape
May. %mingling business with pleasure:
Boyd, of the Pennsylvania; Scull, of the b.
d o.; Lambert, of the West Shore: Farmer,
of the Erie; Daniels. of the New York Cen
trail; Snow, of the Wabash; Wren, of the
l.. T., q. * "; Hancock, of the Reading;
Holmes, of the Lackawanna; ByingtOn, of
the Lehigh Valley, and Tuttle, of the
unk-lin Passenger Committee.
The net earnings of the Union Pacific
proper must be very gratifying to the
friends of the property. An official state
ment just made public shows that the gross
earnings of the main line were for June
S3.2O5, e9S; increase over the same month last
year, Sal, III. net earnings. SLIPS 24: in
crease, 1896, SGT. For the six months to u
30: Gross earnings, S16, 354. 593; decrease
from same period last year, SSs2,2l4; net
earnings, S5,56S, 322; decrease, $500, 967. Lines
in which Union Pacific has a half interest
show a net deficit for the Union Pacific for
tue six months of $50, 796.
On the Indianapolis, Decatur & Western
road, for a year past, two of its passen-
ger engines, which haul the night express
trains. have been equipped with an electric
headlight, which has given perfect satlsfac-
ton. Never have they gone out, and the
engineers of the locomotives have expert
enced no trouble in caring for them. Master
Mechanic Mckenna Is of the opinion that
the question of a reliable electric headlight
is settled. aud were the l., ID. II w. road in
shape financially to equip its freight en-
gines, as well as its other passenger en-
glnes, with this light, he would insist on
4 tho m WIS a N lofnn nv tho n q a nf This
headlight he thinks several accidents have
been averted, where the damages might
| have been serious.
The circulars sent ont to the millers of
Indiana, Ohio and Illinois by Hervey Bates,
of this city, and addressed to the managers
of the roads engaged in seaboard traffic, is
creating considerable of q stir. and will
likely come before the Interstate-commerce
Commission. In this circular Mr.. Bates
takes the position that in making the rate
on corn from Chicago to New York 20 cents
per. 100 pounds. while on corn products,
such as cOrn-meal, feed-meal. hominy,
grists. and corn flour in bags or barrels. it
is % cents per 100 pounds or 80 cents per
barrel. is discrimination such as the COM
mission was appointed to prevent. When
competition is so close. Mr.. Bates says that
this Scent per hundred pounds discrimina-
ton gives the Eastern manufacturers of
the articles named much the advantage.
Eastern railroad men are amusing them
| selves over n blunder of the lOst-car tracer
of the Chicago ~ Northwestern road. A
short time ago he wrote q sharp letter to
the superintendent of the Nantucket road.
a little n%arrOw-guage affair, eleven miles
long, demanding the Immediate return of
one of the freight cars of the c.. ~ n. W.,
which had strayed on to that road. To get
| there it would have to be carried by boat
forty miles. This is little less of n blunder
than that of the Railroad Commission of
Massachusetts, which wrote u peremptOry
letter to the same superintendent requiring
trains on that road. AS it is operated only
in July and August, and to accommodate
persons who wish To ride on the island and
cool OFF, no heating apparatus Is required.