The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-30
CONTRACTS TO BE BROKEN
Railroads Are Preparing to Maintain
East-BOund Freight Rates.
Order Issued That Requires the Immediate
Cancellation of All Contracts with Ship
pers-General Railway News.

compliance with q recent ruling by Chair
man Walker and COMMISSIONS Blanchard
relative to contracts on east-bound traffic.
The ruling was read &C the meeting in New
York Dec. @, and 10 as follows:
The returns of east bound contracts fled with
the commissioner OF the Central Traffic Associa-
ton by the various lines, pursuant to resolution
OF the meeting of the joint Nov. IL,
1892, have been considered. and no contracts
are found TO exist which, in the opinion OF said
Committee, cannot be legally abrogated. The
Immediate cancellation of all outstanding con-
tracts on east-bound freight OF all classes, In
Guiding export, whether made In Tie west or
East, Is hereby required. In case any company
or line finds itself involved in obligations which
IL has reason to believe cannot be legally term
mated forthwith, a statement to that effect. to-
gether with the opinion of the counsel OF such
company or line. is requested to be Immediately
fled with the commissioner or the Central Traffic
Association for further consideration.
All of which is preparatory to bringing
about an absolute maintenance OF east
bound rates during the coming year. and
ultimately q division Of competitive traffic,
should the law be so amended as to permit
that form of pooling. Since the contracts
referred to are in themselves violations OF
the law, inasmuch as they allow certain
shippers lower rates than are named in the
tariffs filed with the Interstate-commerce
Commission, there certainly ought to be
no trouble in legally terminating them.
At any rate the fact that the contract
rates have been reported to the officers of
the .loint committee. seems to place the
roads at the mercy of those officers. should
they refuse to comply with the ruling.
C. g. L. Mechanics Laid or.
Yesterday morning seventy-three me-
chauics were laid of at the c. IL E. railroad
shops at Huntington. Superintendent
Reynolds says that the men Will not be re-
turned to work for a month at least, and
they may be laid off for sixty days, or may
be all winter. He said the crippled" cars
had about all been repaired. and the COM
pany would now turn its attention TO get
ting the engines in good order.
Personal. Local and General Notsn.
A. b. Barnard, claim agent Of the Ohio&
Mississippi, retires Jan. l and the Office will
be abolished.
Frank w. Healy, of Cincinnati. goes to
Toledo to represent the Kanawha Dispatch
IN that territory.
III. Nj. Bronson, assistant general pas
senger agent of the Big Four, IL so i'll as to
onfine him at home.
General Agent O'Reilly. of the Monon at
this point, yesterday returned from his
New Orleans holiday trip.
of superintendent of the Chicago d. South.
eastern road Indiana Midland.J
ID. +. Whitcomb. general uperIntendent
of the Union Railway Company and Belt
road. is expected home from the East to-
day.
Oscar Murray. second vice-president of
the Big Four lines. is in Chicago. He will
spend q couple of days at Indianapolis next
week.
During the present year the indianapolis
Division of the Order OF Railway Con.
ductors has lost nine of it's members by
death.
George Blanchard, commissioner of the
$780, TAI -
had his salary advanced from $1,000 per
annum TO S20,0 900.
George Daniels. general passenger agent
of the New York Central, passed through
the city yesterday. en- route TO Baxter
Springs to visit q brother.
Jesse Gray, who for years was q passen-
ger conductor on the indianapolis Il st.
Louis road. yesterday suffered his second
stroke of paraly sis, and is very low.
W. +. Boyle. of Chicago, Will on Jan. 1
succeed Charles L. Appleby, resigned. as
representative of the Santa Fe lines in the
Southeastern territory, with headquarters
az PittsburR.
1t is stated officially that the business of
Anderson station to the Big Four will
reach S45O,OOO this year. and is now $3.50, 600
In excess of the revenue derived from that
station in 1891
The employees in the offices of Thomas
Noonan. general manager of the Central
States Dispatch. have presented him with
an elegant cut-glass punch bow and ladle,
costing over 500.
Charles Willard. general agent of the
Missouri Car and Foundry Company. on
Tuesday closed o contract for the company
be represents to build 1.400 cars for the ILL.,
nois Central road.
w. v. Van Frank. engineer of mantle
nance Of way of the Erie. who. with his fam
lily. has been visiting friends here for q few
days. yesterday returned to Elmira, N. Y.
his headquarters.
Work on the new yards of the Big Four
at Terre Haute is being pushed. and with
two miles of additional side-track at that
point the movement OF freight trains can
be greatly facilitated.
The Baltimore Il Ohio and the Big Four
have dropped the fight they were making
iumbus a. Sandusky Short-lIne. and the
road will now be speedily completed.
j. Fletcher. general freight agent of
the Kansas City, Fort Scott X Memphis.
who has been spending a portion of the
holidays In this city with relatives, has re-
turned TO his headquarters, Kansas City.
The differences between the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad officials and the grievance
committee of the Brotherhood OF Tralnmen
have been settled by the wage scale. which
makes an average increase of from 8 to
is cents per day.
The coal is band-pioked which is used on
the engines which haul the Empire State
express on the New York Central road. All
large Jumps, as we'll as fine coal, are dis
carded. and only that from the size of an
range to that of q cocosnut is used.
Ocean rates are badly demorallzed and
have gone down from IL cents per one hun
drec pounds to six cents on export business.
Rail rates asst are firm. but the decline In
ocean rates Is increasing shipments Of ex-
port freights. more especially -four and
grain.
]. Fl. Best. general traffic manager of the
Kansas CITY, Omaha ~ Quincy. having re-
signed, the office has been abolished. Notice
Is given OF the appointment of Frank
Evatt as general freight and passen ger
agent of the road, with headquarters at
Quincy. Ill.
Superintendent Mansfield, of the Indian
sp0lis ~ Vincennes. las established a
resding-room at Bushrod, where the
freight crews make their Headquarters,
fitting MP a pleasant room and supplying il
with good reading matter. including the
daily papers
The Belt road at Flndlay is six and one-
fourth miles In length. and although but
recently finished IL on a paying basis. The
industries which the road reaches will give
il 5000 OF more loaded cars a year to ham
die. The road connects with all lines en-
tering Flndlay.
The passenger department of the Cinciu.
natl. Hamilton g. Dayton has gotten out q
very unique and attractive Columbian
calendar. Each month occupies one page
and each page is highly illustrated with
scenes In connection with Inn bus dis