The Indianapolis journal., 1891-04-13

portation be wholly within the State or
partly within this and an adjoining State
or States" is unconstitutional. for the rea-
son that such shipments are interstate In
their character.
The Vandalia management has decided
TO expend quite sum of money on the L.
II. 81 i. division this year, further reduc-
ing the grades and Strengthening curves.
1t is proposed to make the track, says one
of the officials. between Indianapolis and
Terre Haute the best seventy three miles of
road IN the country. This division of the
Vandalia has been operated for thirty-nine
years. and the foundation will admit of
placing the track IN q condition as near
perfect as can be accomplished in this
country.
The Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City
road, If one-half of the reports are true,
has become more or q rate demoraliZer than
the Wabash was In It's palmiest days. 1t IS
stated that, not being content with cutting
east and west-bound rates direct, they
have. in connection with the Pittsburg.
Akron & Western, begun cutting Pittsburg
rates, and to all Southeastern points, and,
unless there is soon an improvement IN
business, 1t is feared this Will lead to q
general freightrate war. AS passenger
route the road as yet cuts no important
figure.
The first of this month c. c. Pierce. agent
of the Merchants' Dispatch at this point,
commenced his thirty-eighth year in rail-
road service. His first work was done as
conductor of construction train on the
Niagara Falls division of the New York
Central. In 1856 he was appointed q pas
senger conductor. which in those days was
avery exalted position IN railroad service;
q year later he was appointed agent of the
New York Central at Buffalo, which posi-
tion he held until 1872, when he was sent TO
Indianapolis to be the representative of the
Merchants Dispatch.
The Nau Xnrt Ccn<ro1 rooI - crad;kaI
with having more veterans in railroad
service, according to it's mileage, than any
other road In the country. Especially is
this true of its locom olive engineers.
service with the company in the early fif-
ties are Jefferson Clark, Matthew Welsch,
Edward Shaffer, Charles T.. Clark aud
George Brown. With the exception of JEFF
ferson Clark, who runs one of the New
York Central fast trains, the others aro so
advanced In years that they have been
given easy berths in running yard engines
Last week General Superintendent Peck
of the Big Four lines, addressed letter to
Division Superintendent Simmons. on the
Cairo division, stating that indications
pointed to falling of in business, and it
penses on the Cairo division far as
practicable. The division superintendent
answered HIM by saying that business
might be dull on their more pretentious
is concerned, they had boom and he
wished he would send down half dozen
engines and few hundred cars to handle
tine traffic offered.
1t is stated that more money has been
made through the ups and downs of the
stock of the Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois by
Boston capitalists than on any other road
of equal mileage. or even double it's mile
age. The plan of the Stevens Balls syndi-
cate has been to sell, when the stock is
high, to New York capitalists or any out
siders and then, when there is a break, buy
il back. The Boston Advertiser of Satur-
day says: ''Some of the Boston holders
who sold ont on Wednesday are now trying
to get their stock back, and are living in
hopes that prices may go off a fraction.
People thought that when the earnings of
the road came in contact with the gains of
last year they would not show any in
crease. The contrary, however, has proved
TO be the rule. Excellent connections
which have been made with other roads
account for part OF this wonderful increase
In earnings. Still other arrangements are
pending which. when consummated, will
undoubtedly greatly increase the revenue"