Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-07-20
RAILROAD MATTERS.
Much Decentralization In Eastern
Passenger Rates.
An Indiana Man is Patenting q Very
Fast Engine to be Exhibited at the
Worlds Fair.
Special to the Leaf.ChronlcIe.l !

Cincinnati and indianapolis to the
East continue very much demoral.
lied. Round trip tickets to New
York and Boston, on account of va.
rious excursions, are being manipu-
lated by brokers, who are sending
passengers to their destination for SO
and 81. In the meantime, the stock
of excursions seems inexhaustible
Saratoga and Niagara Falls being the
objective points; nor is the condition
of affairs west.bound in much better
shape, st. Louis tickets selling
for "a for the round trip, while indi-
cations of still greater decentralization
to Kansas City and Denver are plain
ly ahead. Well may many railroad
managers and the owners of the stocks
in these competing lines stand aghast
and wonder when the end will be.
1t is favorite theory in the upper
crust of railroad magnates to attempt
to throw all the blame upon the tick
ct agent or his immediate superior,
the General Passenger Agent, but it
is now pretty well understood that it
is the desire on the part of those in
charge of the property to make a
good showing-to earn money to-day
at the expense of o-morrow-that
causes the fierce competition. There
is much talk of want of faith and
broken agreements, but it is folly to
lay blame on any one who ranks
lower than president.
The worst feature of the present
war Is that being based upon round
trip tickets, the return portions of
which are still in the market, there
can be no restoration to tariff rates for
at least sixty or ninety days.
There is no basis for the threat of
certain lines that they will not honor
tickets held by other than the orig
inal purchaser, the intent being to
shut out the ticket broker. 1t would
be dangerous proceeding for any
road to now refuse to recognize tickets
which their agents had knowingly
sold to scalpers. Take, for instance,
the Wabash out to Chicago. The
sales for one day counted to 1000
tickets to Boston, 80 pr cent. being
through brokers. These tickets were
honored east-bound without question,
the roads over which the passengers
were sent being aware of how and to
whom the tickets were sold. Should
passenger returning be put off the
train because he was not the original
holder of the ticket presented, suit
for damages might result in the dis
comtiture of the railroad.
ANOTHER SLASH IN RATES COMING.
Some remarkable slashing of rates
is expected when the travel to the
Triennial Conclave at Denver begins
to get stirred up. There has been SO
much of the cheap rate business this
year that there is no telling where il
will stop. A general passenger
agent said yesterday he thought the
rates from Missouri river points
would be the cheapest evef known.
This, of course, will cause the lines
east OF here to come down in an eff
fort to get the bulk of travel, and in
consequence the several thousand
people east OF the Missouri river who
intend taking the trip may go at 6
rate that under ordinary circum
stances would hardly take them tt
the nearest summer resort.
AN EIGHTYMILEA AN HOUR ENGINE
John s. Thurman, an Indianapoli,
patent solicitor, is designing a fas
passenger locomotive of peculiar con
struction to be exhibited at TIT
Worlds Fair. The locomotive will
weigh 145,00O pounds when in work
ing order, with 600 pounds on tn
driving wheels and 10000 on tn
trucks. The cylinders are t
be 2Ox24 inches, with 7s-inch driv
ing wheel. The boiler is to be
inches in diameter and the stean
pressure in it is 10S pounds squar
inch. This passenger engine is de
signed to haul four hundred tons, O