The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-18

fast service is to be continued, and it prob
ably will be, as both the e.. 81 A. and the
G.. b. II Q. people say that they have put
the trains on to stay.
Some very elegant combination sleeping
and chair cars have been put on by the
Pullman company. to run run 6 Between fad GinciR-
Western and the Cincinnati, Hamilton 81
Dayton roads.
The Interstate Commission will in few
days take up the payment.of-commissi ons
question. Judging from the remarks OF
Judge Cooley, that body will declare the
practice virtual cut in rates. and conse-
quently illegal.
The vexed question of settlements for the
service of freight cars interchanged be-
tween the different roads has been reOpened
with a good deal of vIgor by the Pennsyl-
vania Company, which rather favors the
straight per diem system"
The Ohio& Mississippi Railroad Company
has its locomotive department at It's new
shops in Washington, Ind, in operation,
giving employment to 26O men. 1t Will De
some six weeks bef0r the car department Is
In shape to begin operations.
General Passenger Agent Brydon, of the
Lake Erie d. Western, is endeavOring to
ascertain how the scalpers secured some of
the roads tickets to western points. lie
isno friend to the scalpers, and is good
deal disturbed over the matter.
The Chesapeake & Ohio road is receiving
several heavy passenger engines built at
the Schenectady works, which are a
number of improvements suggested by VIM.
Garstang, formerly with the Bee-line, but
now superintendent of motive power on the
T.. IL. u.
One year ago to-day, the strike on the
philadelphia d Reading road, which had
been In progress eighty-tiv days, was de-
clared Oft. About 40 per cent. of the men
who were engaged in the strike are now at
work on the road, having drifted back un-
der promises of good behavior.
The Ohio & Mississippi company last
year put In thirty miles of steel rails,
weighing slxty-seven pounds to the yard
This year it expects to put in fifty miles
more. The lighter rails taken up are to be
laid on the Springfield division, which
greatly needs Improvement IN It's physical
condition.
Mr.. Harahan has already taken hold as
general manager of the Chesapeake a. Ohio
road, and seems to be at home. 1t seems
that there were no reasons of any impOr-
lance for his severing his connections with
the Lake Shore road so abruptly. The
climate of Cleveland did not agree with
his wife, and the railroad surroundings did
not please Mr.. Harahan.
The Interstate Commission has sum-
mOned General Manager Hays, of the Wa
bash Western, to give his reasons for alleg-
ing that the Bee-line has been cutting
PdcoCuSCl IdttS. III pttSScuStT ClIClcS III Is
| thought that the allegations were made to
| cover up some rate-cutting which the Wa
bash Western has been doing in connection
| with the Wabash proper.
The arrangement between the c., c., G.
| d l. and the c., l., st. l.. & c., is said to be
| somewhat similar to that effected by the
Vanderbilts in the Michigan Central Can
| ada Southern deal. The bonds will first re-
ceive their interest. The Big Four stock
| will be entitled to per cent. dividends,
| the Bee-line to per cent, and any surplus
| beyond will be divided in pro rata proper.
| ton.
On the LIST of April J. w. Sherwood will
take the position of division superintend-
| ent on the Chesapeake 81 Ohio road. His
| headquarters will be at Hinton, Va. This
| division is one of the most difficult to Op.
! crate on the G.. 81 o. system. being what is
| known as the Mountain division. General
| Manager Harahan could not have selected
| better man than Mr.. Sherwood for that
| place.
The improvements recently completed at
| the Indianapolis car-wOrks enable it tC
turn out II, 900 more wheels year than arc
| used at the works, although it uses daily an
| average of 152 wheels. George w. Burn
| ham has been given the work of dspOsinl
of the surplus wheels. He started out last
| week and sold 6,0O0, securing contracts to
| furnish several roads with their wheels fol
| the next six months, the Ohio & Mississippi
and the c., III. 81 ID. being of the number
On freight-car wheels guarantee of foul
| years service is given, and on wheels fol
passenger coaches guarantee they will
| run CO. OO0 miles,