The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-12-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Trying to Shut Out the waba.

Company began suit IN the Circuit Court
this afternoon against the Chicago &
Western Indiana or Belt Line Company.
The Wabash people say in a very volumin-
Gus bill that the defendants have given
them notice that in the future they must
refrain from using the tracks
between Hammond, Ind, and Au-
burn Junction. belonging to the
Belt line. This. the bill says. will cut off
the route of the Wabash line to Detroit
n greatly injure that company's business.
The compliments allege that a conspiracy
has been formed between the West
ern Indiana and the, Chicago d
Eastern Illinois. Grand Trunk and
other companies which use the
Belt lines track against the Wabash. The
bill asks for an injunction restraining the
defendants from taking any steps toward
preventing the cOmplainants from using
the tracks. The main contention of the
Western Indiana people is on a clause
in the contract which prohibits any
of the lessees from using the tracks to give
other roads an ingress to Chicago. The
Western Indiana claims that when the con-
tract was made, in 1879, it only cnntem-
plated an entrance into Chicago from st.
Louis. and, in seeking a connection for Its
Detroit division. it is practically violating
the clause in the contract which prohibits
entrance to a new and competing line.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
1t is stated that the Wagner Palace-car
Company is to establish a plant at Duluth
of about the same capacity as that at De-
troit, Mich.
NJ. E. Ingalls,. president of the Big Four,
and j. n. Mccullough, first vice-president
of the Pennsylvania Company, are to be in
the city tomorrow.
The gross earnings of 152 roads for No
vember were S37. 9S1 600, an increase over
the corresponding month last year of S4,-
O74, $40, or IL per cent.
James Brown. who was ~roadmaster of
| the New York Central for thirty years, died
last week. aged eighty-three years. Mr..
Brown was retired In 1888 on full pay.
Passenger men who have examined the
new form of rOund-trip ticket invented by
l.. ID. Heusner, of the Michigan Central
road. pronounce it the best yet designed.
John B. Carson, vicecpresident of the
Louisville. New Albany q Chicago road, is
in New York.. and to a reporter of the New
York Press gave a rosy view of the situa-
ton West.
n. X. Potter, late train-distatcher on the
Fort Wayne, Louisville & Cincinnati road,
has accepted a similar position on the
Northern Pacific, with headquarters at
MissOula, Mont.
Ameeting of the Chicago and Ohio River
Association has been called in this city for
tomorrow. Competitors of Louisville. New
AlDduy a. OulCdRO dlleR6 tudI Tie ldIItT Is
again manipulating rates.
w. w. Worthingt0n, late general mana
ger of the Fort Wayne. Cincinnati & Louis
! vile road, has sued the company for 3 1000
back salary due hin for service on the
Whitewater Valley road.
The Big Four people yesterday COM
menced using four and a half miles more
of double track west from Cincinnati.
which now gives them sixteen miles of
double track out of Cincinnati.
The Pennsylvania Company is adding
coal and coke cars to its freight equipment
handling $4,000 tons of coke daily in addi-
ton to its other immense traffic.
The Gosport branch of the Indianapolis
a. NlncenneS road was completed yester-
day, with the exception of the bridge over
| White river, work on which has been de-
layed somewhat by an accident.
Box-cars are so scarce on some of the
Western roads that the companies are TAX
| ing ordinary fat-cars and inclosing them
for the transportation of grain. They are
covered with a heavy tarpaulin.
T. A.. Phillips, who was last week ap-
Florida Central & P~eninsular road. was
for some years superintendent on the New
York, Pennsylvania Il Ohio road.
1t is said that there has never before been
q reorganization scheme of a great railroad
property which met with the success that
is attending the plan for the reorganization
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe.
we of the big freight engines which the
Big -Four is receiving will, this week, be
put in service between Indianapolis and
| Gallon. 1t is expected that these engines
will hau forty-five loaded cars between
B%rightwOOd and Union.
The Baltimore & Ohio has established a
great distributing station at Berlin, seventy
miles west of Camden. Five hundred
acres of ground have been purchased. This
/ nr0rnA 10 To ha anuaroA "ifh fra m r. md N
large transfer-hOuse erected thereon.
Traffic over the branches of the Big Four
| system. such as the Aurora, the Columbus
and the Rushville branches, is showing
better earnings this year than in any for
mer year. On the Aurora branch fifty to
sixty loaded cars are handled daily.
The Lake Shore road is not the only road
in the West which has a handsome sum of
money loaned or in ITS treasury. The Chi
cago. Burlington 81 Quincy on the first of
this month had S4.000,000 in its treasury,
besides the proceeds of its 100000 bond
sale.
Said a traffic manager last night: Il
take but little stock in this cry that the
MOnUn is cutting rates. 1t is their fine
trains. which are drawing, and the other
roads nave got TO furnish equally as good
trains if they expect to hold the L.. n. A. 81
&. down."
The ticket scalpers seemingly have a spite
against the Pennsylvania lines. and have
been gathering up mileage tickets OF these
lines. paying face value for them and turn
ing them over to competitors as evidenc
that the Pennsylvania is dealing with
scalpers.
The statement t~elegraphed from San
Francisco To the effect that all tourists
cars to the Pacific coast are to be taken off.
is denied officially. Ninety per cent. of the
travel between Chicago. st. Louis and
Kansas City to the Pacific coast is carried
on these cars.
Nobody seems as yet to have gathered in
the Chicago n Eastern Illinois. The fact
that the road has ceased publishing its net
earnings, coupled with the m~isinformatiOn
as regards the sale of the road to the Big
Fonr, has given the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois a setback.
The Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City
road is not proving so much of a compet-
itor of the Wabash as had been supposed it
would. The Wabash goes on in the ever
tenor of its way, and is carrying more pas
senger and freight business than at any
time in its history.
Yesterday the Pennsylvania Company
commenced receiving seventy-five cars of
grain a day to be- forwarded East from the
Vandalia. which Yesterday morning had
l.0e0 carloads of grain tn turn over to them
standing at st. Louis and on side-tracks be-
tween St. Louis and Indianapolis.
The Evansville ~ Richmond road has