The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-17
OLD DIVISIONS RESTORED
Apportionment Of Through Freight
Rates That Affects Indiana Railways.
Revival Of a Scheme That Did Not Give Salts
faction Three Years Ago-Chicago and
Ohio River Roads Still Fighting.

Revival of a Scheme That Did Not Give Salts
faction Three Years Lgo-Chicago and
Ohio River Roads Still Fighting.
Association. has issued @ circular authoriz-
ng the reinstatement of the divisions of
The through rates formerly existing on
shipments between western Indiana and
MIssouri-river points. These divisions are
rs follows: From territory in western In
liam, on and north of the line OF the
WABASH road, west of and including La
fayette. and In eastern Illinois. On ship
ments TO Missouri-river points % Der cent.
Of the rate goes to the line OF lines east of
Bloomington or Peoria and 20 per cent. 10
the lines west thereof. From territory in
sentral Illinois to the Missouri river 20
per cent. goes To the lines east
Of Peoria and so per cent. TO the lines west
thereof. Authority is given by the chair
man to put the divisions into effect Oct. 1
On Missouri river traffic, both east and
west-bound, but he announces that they
are subject TO withdrawal on fifteen days
notice. Until about three years ago these
divisions were In force, but they were sus-
ceptible of great abuse as applied on ship
points, and wcre so manipulated as TO result
In the wrongful depletion of the revenues
Of roads west of Bloomington and
Peoria. Shipments originating east
II the arbitrary above the Chicago
rate, and thence forwarded at the local
rate, and p per cent appropriated by the
lines east of the junction point. Fo- this
reason the percentages on the traffic to
Kanaaa Kitty and kIndrah nOlufa wQl with.
drawn. Afterward the divisions in effect
with the Chicago q Eastern Illinois road,
BY way of st. Louis. on shipments to the
commissioners of the Western Traffic Asso-
~eiation. This action was subsequently re-
considered, and now, on tho application
Of the interested roads, all the divisions
that were withdrawn are restored, subject
10 the conditions allowed named.
The Passenger Rate War Still On.
Recent efforts to check the decentralization
in passenger rates in the Chicago & Ohio
river lines have not paDned out well. The
Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois has announced
that IL has established and will maintain
IN IS rate between Chicago and Louisville,
provided the general managers of ell the in
terested roads will get together before Sept.
e2and sign an agreement do likewise. This
ompany will not hear of q less rate than
IS TO Louisville, as il desires to preserve it's
full proportion of the through rate on bust
ness going through Evansville. 1t has
been found impossible to have . managers
meeting rs early as Sept. %. Consequently
the Monon will put into effect q rate of 80
TO Nashville, based on the Chicago 81 East
ern Illinois raN of $3.50 to the Ohio river.
Affairs In that territory are rapidly grow
ing worse instead OF better.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
j. G. Patterson, passenger conductor on
the lake Erie * Western. and wife have
returned from q months pleasure trip.
The Lake Erie IL Western. on Its 722 miles
Of road, has earned since ar. l S2,317, 500,
an increase over the corresponding period
of 1891 of $50, $50.
81. E. Ingalls,, president. has given orders
that the expenses of the passenger depart
ments of the Big Four and the Chesapeake
q Ohio be curtailed.
Louisville. New Albany Il Chicago, states
that never in its history has the company
been 80 free of litigation as at present.
The report of General Agent Stiles, of
the Cincinnati. Hamilton q Dayton. shows
that in the month of August5 8. 24O more tons
OF local freight were billed for Indlanapo-
lis this year than IN August. 1891.
The Pennsylvania Company is pushing
work at it's colleries. and by the lat of Jam
uary will increase it's output over q million
tons n year, and be III q position TO market
double the quantity OF hard Goals it now
does.
1t is said that the real animus of Chair
man CaldwelPs objection to Il. A. Ford
serving as ar arbitrator for the Santa Fe
is the fact that Mr.. Ford once discharged
him from o clerical position on The AN
dalis road.
bany * Chicago will put on its new dining
cars between Louisville and Chicago. This
evening tho newspaper men OF Chicago
will take q trip on them and be served with
an elegant supper.
The Indiana Car-service Association
handled In August q SOP loaded cars. the
average detention being 1.70 days. This is
by several thousand the largest number
aver handled In any one month since the
association was organized.
S. NJ. Hice, ticket agent at the Big Four
uptown Office. is to be pat IN charge of the
lower ticket office. and James Power will
succeed him at the first-named office.
Dewey Drake Is To be the city passenger
agent. and Col. VIM. Hicklin retires.
Orders have been given by General Man.
ager Halstead. of the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna ~ Western, to have alr-brakes ap-
Piled to all treigh h cars which are worthy
of such improvement. and that all new
equipment be supplied with air-brakes.
L. A. Ford and A. j. Smith. arbitrators in
the Atchison appeal from Chairman Cald-
Wcll y uoCioiOu III ickdiu W tuo DcDNcE OK
eursion rate, have selected as the third ar
bItrator c. Z. Atmore. general passen ger
agent of the Louisville ~ Nashville road.
The New York Centraps big new engine
cannot run on its Western DIVISION. Its
height is fifteen feet. making it impossible
for it to pass through the tunnel under the
canal at Syracuse. which is but fourteen
feet in the clear. Steps will be taken to
remedy that trouble.
James W. Gibbs. who has been connected
in an official capacity with the Eastern
Car-seryIce Association of New York. has
left that association and taken service with
the Rhode Island Car-service Association.
with headquarters at Providence. Mr.. Gibbs
is an expert in organizing car-ssryice asso-
Citations.
The Ohio g. Mississippi earned in tho
first week of Septem Der S105. asa. a decrease
as compared with the corresponding week
of 1891 of e2.34o. The Baltimore & Ohio
(Southwesternl earned $56.S53. an increase
this year of 500. The Chicago IL West
Michigan earned S43,sS9. an increase this
year of $5.5O5.
Engine els, built at the shops of the L.
high Valley company a few months ago,
and now hauling the Royal Blue train be-
tween Philadelphia and Jersey City. con-
tinues to make eighty miles an hour. IL
necessary TO do so, with as much ease as
the ordinary engines on that road will run
sixty miles az hour.
Col Horace Scott was in the city yester-
day. returning from New York. where he
perfected arrangements TO raise money To