The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-08-25

grain now tnan at any previous time In It's
history. The water routes are too slow for
this traffic this year.
Before the end of the year the Lehigh
Valley road will a complete double
track. independent of all other roads. from
Buffalo to Jersey City. and will enter the
field as q grain-carrying route.
l.. ID. Hubbard, president. and w. X:
Bells. secretary, OF the Railway Officials
ana Employees Accident Association. have
returned from an EXTENDED Western trip.
In which they combiLei business with
pleasure.
The contracts of the Pullman company
with several important roads soon expire,
and il IS the general impression that the
roads will continue this service. but at
tempt to get better terms from the Pull
man company. {,
The Brotherhood of Railway Trackmen,
at their annual meeting In birmingham,
Ala. selected a committee to attend the
annual convention of the North American
Section FOremen, to be held in st. Louis In
October. to consider the consolidation of
the two organizations.
The chief clerks at all the shops of the
Big Four will have q conference at the of
ice of K. Z. Boatman, superintendent OF
motive power. to-day. These conferences
every two months are proving of great BEN
eft in systematizing the work the clerical
force - called upon TO do.
Work has not been resumed as yet Cd the
Indiana Midland extension to Brazil, and
it 10 quite evident that the road will not be
completed to that point in season to derive
much benefit from shipments of block coal
this fall and winter, unless there is an early
movement In construction work.
The Maxinkuckee business of the Van
dalia, this season, has been very large. The
numerous excursions to this pleasure resort,
coupled with the going and coming of the
people who spend q few weeks In the sum-
mer there. yielded a large revenue Each
year this division is showing better results.
On Saturday last, when the direct lines
were exercised over the excursion the Lake
Erie q Western run to Chicago. the busi-
ness of the direct lines. both on the through
day and through night trains was the
heaviest IN weeks. showing that these
cheap excursions run by part rail and part
water routes do not, to any extent, affect
regular business.
The Big Four yesterday received two
more freight engines from the BROOKS
locomotlve-works. Two more will be
shipped on Thursday. and on Saturday the
two passenger engines, which fills the con-
tract Tor twenty new engines-twelve
heavy ten-wheel freight engines. six
switching engines and two ten-wheel
passenger engines.
superintendent Wells, of the Indianapolis
division of the Big Four, is on the alert to
increase the local business of the road. a
class of business which former manage
ments have neglected. This week switches
are to be laid to the Muncie glass-works at
Muncie. to the elevator at ADsonia and a
long track put in at Houston to
date new industries.
General Manager Furber. of the Boston
d Maine road. has brought down upon him
the i'll will of the Boston railroad fraternity
generally by issuing an order prohibiting
heads of departments allowing any of their
help vacations With pay. The order says
heads OF departments can allow any en-
ploye q reasonable vacation. but his pay
must be stopped while off duty.
Elwood. on the Richmond division of the
Pennsylvania lines, is rapidly coming to
the front as q business point. There are
now eighteen manufacturing establish
ments there. two OF them employing sew
eral hundred men each. Both the Pennsyl-
vania and the Lake Erie Il Western COM
panies are working to encourage the sew
eral Industries by laying switches to them
and giving as favorable rates as possible.
The turn matters have taken on the Gin
c%innati. Sandusky 81 Cleveland division of
the Big Four makes it possible that this
road Is not to be so much of an elephant on
the hands of President Ingalls, as many of
the stockholders feared. For some weeks
past 1t has been doing 90 per cent. more
business than last year. and the second
week IN August over double the number of
loaded cars were HANDLED on the division
that there were in the corresponding week
of 169O.
The Big Four passenger department yes
terday decided to take no action looking to
meeting the rate which the indianapolis.
Decatur AZ western. In connection with the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois, makes to Chica-
go and return. The Big Four people tax
the position that if the Monon and the
Pennsylvania allow the matter to pass
without notice the Big Four can afford to;
but the latter may run some excursions
later on which will worry the Chicago Il
Eastern Illinois at its vulnerable points.
The Joint committee of the Trunk-line
and Central Traffic associations has issued
q circular announcing that the reductions
In the east and west-bound freight rates,
change at Grand Rapids. will not become
effective Sept. 1, the date originally an
nounced. The majority of the Michigan
lines. however. have already issued their
will probably not consent to the delay.
Chairman Blanchard has called a meeting
of the interested lines for to-day.
East-bound shipments of freight by rall
from Chicago last week amounted to Eli
tons, against As, $50 Cor the week previous,
and 64.3l7 for the same period last year.
The lake lines carried l1S.Ol9 tons, against
1900 for the preceding week. The ship
ments OF Hour, grain and provisions from
Chicago TO the sea-board by the lines in
the Central Traffic Association aggregated
20,03S tons. against Is. 100 for the preceding
week, an increase of 1.S7S tons. and against
1886 for the corresponding week last year.
a decrease of ass tons. The Vanderbilt
line carried IS per cent. of the traffic; the
Pennsylvania lines. 20; the Chicago X
Grano Trunk, %, and the b. a. o., Q per
cent.
The earnings of most of the important
roads for July are In, and the general con-
dition of business is illustrated by the fact
that of IA roads reporting only thirty-fye
show decreases. From Jan. l to July 81 the
Canadian Pacific has had the largest gain,
amounting to 81, $50, 292, with an increase of
only about 1G0 miles OF road. Next comes
Atchison, with a gain of SsS2, 6S4. without
any increase IN mileage. st. Paul stands
third, having gained SS53,Ss0 with less
than fifty additional miles. New York
Central has gained SS31, 1874 on the same
mileage. Northern Pacific has gained S6Ol.-
494, with about three hundred miles more
road. Chesapeake IL Ohio has gained S5o2,-
3SS, with an increase OF thirteen miles.
A railroad man who is well posted as TO
the affairs of the Terre Haute IL Peoria
says that were the needed links built to
connect the three divisions il would be a
very valuable road and do q heavy bust
ness. As il is, the volume of traffic is
steadily increasing and the property has
been improved greatly in every respect
since General Manager Burgoon took con-
troll. With the new engines recently re-
ceived, the company now has fourteen
trst-class locomotives and several hundred
new cars. The wheat and oats crops on the
line were heavy, and the corn crop bids
fair to be a large one, which means heavy
business for this road, as II passes through
o great grain-gr0wing country.