The Indianapolis journal., 1890-05-10

lines a total of 4S4,746 bales. as follows:
Over the yandalia. oil ,5o6 bales; over the
Wabash. Il. .T91; over the Ohio 81 Mississip-
pi, 1893; over the st. Louis division of the
Big Four, 4S. .115; over the Chicago & Alton.
A ,Ss7; over the Toledo, st. Louis 81 Kansas
City, S7,137; by miscellaneous routes, 2.297.
From this statement it will be seen that the
Vandalia took about 45 per cent. of this
class of business shipped from st. Louis.
w. III. Miller. foreman of the Vandalia
shops at Terre Haute. has resigned to &C
cept the position Of superintendent OF mo-
Valley road, vice z. b. Patterson, resigned
to engage in commercial pursuits. Mr..
Miller has been with the Vandalia twenty
years, and eleven years of that time was
superintendent of the company's repair
shops at Indianapolis.
The Strong engine has now been put In
service whore its power and. speed with
heavy train can be we'll tested. The engine
now hauls the heavy express trains OF the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton between
Cincinnati and Dayton. Between those
points the through Toledo and Detroit and
the Erie trains are run in one train. max
ing a train of fourteen cars, most of them
Pullman sleeping-cars. The engine Is said
to handle these trains with perfect ease aud
at high speed.
"Of the s., ,OO0, 900 capital stock of the New
Albany d Indianapolis railroad, S600O00
will be taken by citizens of New Albany.
This is over one-fourth the entire capital
stock OF the company, and shows the inter-
est and faith the capitalists of this city
have In the enterprise. Parties at Louis
vile, indianapolis and the towns along the
line of the road will subscribe for the bal
aDce of the stock. 1t can be said that there
is a solid basis for this statement. The
stock is being ssS TAKEN % Col Col NJ % AZ Downing @ me-
of this city. is one of the Indianapolis
capitalists interested in the building of
this road, and on his return from Denver
will take hold of the enterprise in earnest.
The Interstate-commerce Commission
yesterday decided the complaint of j. b.
Pankey against the Richmond & Danville
railroad and Others involving alleged over
charge on freight, denying the complaint of
complainant, but deciding that the Inter
national d Great Northern road should re-
fund to complainant the amount over
charged, caused by failure of its agent at
Troupe. Tex, to way-bill the freight by the
route directed by complainant. Also, the
case Of Charles Eivy against the Illinois
Central road. denying the claim of CON-
shipment of freight, and ordering the COM
pany to cease and desist from longer operat-
ing it's special emigrant freight tariff on
the ground that it is in vi0lotiOn of the act
case was by Commissioner Bragg.
In speaking of the action of the Big Four
in placing collectors on their passenger
trains, thus relieving the conductors of col
lectIng fares, ETC.. aveteran conductor said,
yesterday, that he wished the move
ment would become general Itwould be a
great relief to a conductor to merely look
after the running of his train, and let the
collector see that no one is travelling on an
| other mans pass or using the mileage-book
of another person than the rightful own
er. Then, again, the conductor will not
ha n al ia w cb
| has been stolen out of some office on their
| own or o foreign road. "Yes,n said he,
there are q thousand and one things that
the collectors will relieve US of, and am
/ really anxious that the scheme should prove
| Four, hoping that it will lead the road ] am
on, and. In fact. all roads, to confine the
| duties of the conductor to simply looking
out for running his train safely and on time
/ from one terminal to the othern