The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1890-02-06

less so resulted. 1t is stated that parties
are to revive the Hinckley locomotive
works. which, for thirty years, were located
in Boston. and locate them at some Western
capitalists here to see whatc can be done to
secure the establishment or one of that
character here.
The friction in the workings of the Indi-
ana Car-seTvice Association and the ship
pers and consignees is increasing, and roads
on which the most switches are located are
losing business. A railroad official says
the weak place in the associations opera
tioDs is that the agents of the respective
roads are Obliged to collect the demurrage
charges. He thinks this wrong. The asso-
citation should do this business. and with
its present force it should be able to do it
without worrying the agents.
+. G. Hollins. of Wall street. New York,
who was sent West by capitalists to inspect
the Indianapolis. Decatur & Western road,
returned to New York yesterday. He ex-
presses himself as surprised at the excellent
physical condition of the property, but is
more than convinced that it must be ex-
tended to some friendly connection which
Will give it business, and he Will recon-
mend that something be done in that dlrec-
ton as soon as the company is reorganized,
which will probably be within the next
thirty days.
Within the next six months $4,000 is to
be expended on the bridges on the Jeffer-
s0nville. Madison & Indianapolis road.
Every bridge on The line will then be new
within the last three years. Some twenty
miles of steel rail, weighing seventy pounds
to the yard, has been ordered for the main
line. Heretofore the heaviest rail laid on
this road weighed sixty pounds to the yard.
Company to nave the j.. NJ. ~ l.. from JEFF
f%ersonville TO Indiana polls, laid with sew
enty-pound steel within the next two years.
A joint committee of the board of di-
rectors of the Chamber of Commerce and
of the shippers and Receivers Association
of Cincinnati has agreed upon a re port
which will be presented to the Chamber
of Commerce for ratification, providing
for the establishment of the Cincinnati
freight bureau. The object is to aid trans
portatiOn companies as we'll as shippers,
and to encourage trade. and to prevent dis
elimination against Cincinnati. 1t is to be
governed by an executive committee of
eighteen. and is to have at its head a COM
petent railroad man. familiar with rates,
classification and business requirements.
The matter will come mp LOT action by the
Chamber of Commerce Feb. "a.
w. A. Neville. the engineer killed by the
falling of the bridge on the Peoria & Pekin
road, was once a resident of indianapolis,
but since running OIL the west end of the
Ohio, Indiana d Western his home has
four children. His Oldest son was bis fire.
man usually. but on that day, not feeling
we'll, Charles O'Brien went out as fireman.
Mr.. O'Brien was also an indianapolis man.
He at one time was in charge of a switch
engine of the o.. L. W. at this point. and
had been with the road six years. Mr..
Neville had been an engineer on the road
for sixteen years. He was q very COM
| petent engineer. and a prominent member
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
| gineers. X. NJ. Lewis, the brakeman. who
also went down in the wreck. was an In
dianapolis man, and leaves d wife and four
children. He has a brother who is a con-
| ductor on the o.. 1. & w.
General passenger agents of the lines
from New York to New Orleans are a good
deal disturbed over the action taken by the
trunk lines as regards business to New Or.
leans and other Southern points via Wash.
ingtOn city, the trunk lines having con.
scented to give the Southern lines a 81 differ
entail, exactly reversing the usual custom.
The Richmond & Danville and the East
Tennessee, Virginia d Georgia nave the
short line. and get a differentlal against
the Cincinnati lines. The Louisville *
Nashville will be the greatest sufferer
through this arrangement. The Southern
lines are allowed to sell round-trip tickets
many of which will fall into the hands OF
scalpers, and a Generalization of rates fol
low. General Passenger Agent AtmOre, OF
the l.. Il n. road. is not an official who
will look on and let business drift away
from his road through ditferentials OIL
trim rates