The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-09-29

applies from New Orleans, while Chicago
10 nearly a thousand miles from Underwater.
Already Chicago Is being cut out as gate
way for east bound grain shipments. but /
am inclined TO think this new scheme of
Jay Gould's will hurt 10 more than any
thing else"
The Commission Question.
Not since the boycott of the Chicago g.
Alton was inaugurated has anything oc-
Cured which has stirred up railroad cir
cles East as well as West like the announce
ment by the Wabash road that 1t would
resume the payment of commissions. A
peculiar feature of the Wabash announce
ment is that it gives notice to all ticket
agents that &c is prepared not only to pay
commissions in future. but that it will
also pey back commissions on all business
since February. the time when the anti
commission agreement of the sixty-four
trunk-hne and Central Traffic roads became
effective: The announcement is dated
Sept. 70, and is accompanied by
blank commission vouchers. reading;
please render statement on blank here
with Enclosed for all Niagara Falls Short
line business sold from your office from
Feb. ], 1897, TO Aug. 81, 1891, and hereafter
send statement to me on the last of each
month for such business east of Chicago,
giving full routing Eastern ticket agents
have been wondering a good deal over the
words least of Chicago This is explained
by saying that the Wabash has never
ceased to pay commissions in territory
west of Chicago. and only very reluctantly
Joined the ranks of the non-commission-
payers In the East TO please Commissioners
Blanchard. The opinion of railroad men 10
that the return OF the Wabash to paying
commissions Is the death knell of the boy
cOtt business. now recognized as tho most
unpopular and certainly the most unsac-
frrl rQ N nlf mia N parU
have ever formulated.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
Since Wednesday morning the Vandalia
has brought to indianapolis 197 carloads of
live stock.
The Wabash is doing away with the bell
cord and providing all its passenger trains
with electric air whistles.
Harry Crawford. jr.. general manager OF
the Indiana Midland road. is confined to
his bed with nervous prostratlon.
A. A. Zion. superintendent of transporta-
ton on the Belt road. was in Lebanon, Ind,
yesterday, attending family reunion.
w. Z. Hoyt. general Eastern passenger
agent OF the Missouri Pacific road. 10 at
Hot Springs. endeavoring to rid himself OF
rheumatic troubles.
]. E. Foster. the weil-kpown freight man.
has been appointed general agent of the
Lake Shore a. Lehigh Valley fast-freignt
line in New York city.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & Day ton, in
Guiding the INDIANAPOLIS division, is said
now TO be one of the best equipped in
power of any road of equal mileage in the
West.
The Wabash, since Jan. i, has earned &c.
646.slS, an increase over the corresponding
period last year of S446S4 and this in
crease has all been made In the last fifteen
weeks.
The Haskell u Barker car-works, at
Michigan City, to-day begin on the second
i've hundred box cars for the Lake Erie &
Western road, contracted for recently by
General Manager Bradbury.
The decrease IN earnings of the Denver
x Rio Grands road is said TO be due TO the
fact that ex-President Moffitt is boycot-
ting the road. sending the products OF the
mines over other roads as far as possible.
People who 60 to the Pacific coast the
next few months are Arranging 20 see more
OF the country. going west over the North
ern Pacific and returning over the Southern
Pacific lines. A number will 90 over these
routes. leaving next week.
The Evansville & Terre Haute road, the
thifd week In September, increased Its
week of 1880 Psi. The Evansville il In
dianapoiis shows an increase of S54l: the
Peoria, Decatur ~ Western an increase of
ss65.
AZ the present rate the Chesapeake =
lie has already earned over S6.000,OO0, and
has the three best mon tbs In tho year for
business to earn the other S2.5OO,OOO. Its
friends predict that IN 1892 its earnings
VIII reach o million month.
Mr. c. A. Parker, who has occupied the
position of acting traffic manager of the
Iron Mountain d Southern railway since
the retirement of Mr.. Leeds last spring, has
been appointed freight traffic manager of
the Missouri Pacific system. The appoint
merit becomes effective Oct. I.
Z. b. Whitcomb. formerly with the
now has good position on the New York
a. New England, n position with which he
is much pleased. he writes hiss brother. ID.
Il. Nhitcomb, general superintendent of
the Union Railway Company.
The survey of the Cincinnati. Union City
Sc Chicago road will be completed this
week. All OF the line but ten miles is over
an ed road-bed. AS the road touches the
largest gravel hills in the State, and a
subsidy of Sl50.000 was raised By the differ
ent towns, the road is certain to be Quilt at
once.
A. ID. shaw. Third Auditor OF the United
States Treasury. is still an active member
in the National Yardmasters Association.
and this month RENTED 81 TO help the
association paw the death benefits inherited
from the old organization. which was so
badly managed rs To get into trouble imam
emily.
The last of the harvest excursions comes
OFF to-day. and yesterday indications were
that IL would be moro literally patrOniZed
than either OF the preceding ones this year.
Among passenger men there Is n division of
opinion as TO whether this year viii not end
harvest excursions. which lead 10 so much
Generalization IN rates.
The freight officials of the Lackawanna
rood claim TO have increased their business
out OF Ohio and Indiana the Inst two years
100 per cent The Nickelplate is its best
feeder. and the shipments of live stock and
dressed meats over the Lackawann0 have
now reached as large q tonnage as over
either of the trunk lines
The burlington. Cedar Rapids * North
ern road, which 10 not e. member of the
Western Passenger Association. announces
excursion rates from Iowa points TO Barnes
vile. o.. on account OF q Quaker meeting
TO be held at the latter place. On the theory
that the Rock Island is responsible for this
nction OF the burlington. Cedar Rapids Il
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