The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-16
COMMISSIONS TOO LARGE
Western Railways Want More Pay for
Carrying Immigrants from the East.
Little Left for Them After the Agent Takes
Out His Share of the Rste-Improvements
on the p, Fl W. & c. Road.

migrant agent, they assert. takes the
larger part of the gross rate as has commits
sion. and of late this part has increased TO
two-tblrds and t~hree-qusrters of the gross
revenue. Yesterday the general passenger
agents met at Chicago and authorized
Chairman Caldwell to appoint a COMMITTEES
to 90 to New York and hold o
conference with the immigrant agents
there. A plain statement OF
the case backed by figures will be made.
and the immigrant agents will be told they
need not bid for the business to the steamer
lines on the expectation of getting over 81
per passenger between Chicago and the
Missouri Back of the agreement Is q
unique pooling arrangement. 1t IS TO OIL
vide the immigrant business equally be-
tween competing lines. No allowance Is to
be made on account of future or present
business. Each line is to get the same
prmber OF immigrants as any competitor
or have the difference made up In cash.
improvements on the p, Eft. w. s. C.
A. b. Starr is now superintendent of one
of the longest and most perfect divisions of
the Pennsylvania system west of Pittsburg
the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago.
The greater part of the improvements to
this road, which were begun early last
spring, are completed. Of g. 800. 600 which
the directors authorized to be expended in
Improving this property, S1.50O.OO0 was ex-
pended in laying eighty-three miles of sec
Dnd track. forty-three miles of which is
laid with steel rails weighing eighty-five
pounds to the yard. and in addition there
has been q large increase in side-track
mileage and yards on the line, utilizing the
lighter rails taken up for such purpose.
The work was delayed by the strike at
Homestead. In grading for the second
track at one point 5000 yards OF dirt and
clay had TO be removed. at another ninety
thousand yards of rock. at another forty
thousand yards. aud while these extensive
improvements have been IN progress trains
have been moved with promprness. and ex-
emption from accident, which has really
surprised the management of the road.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
William Segar to-day takes the agency of
the Lake Erie Il Western at Elwood. Ind.
It is stated that the Illinois Central will
soon control the Little Rock d Memphis
railroad.
But four section men on the Lake Erie *
Western. It is stated, are out on the So
called strike.
The Ohio Falls car works are building q
number OF passenger coaches for the Louis
vile. Evansville a. st. Louis.
Samuel Baxter. cashier in the Big Four
freight office, was yesterday called TO Phiia-
deIphia by the death of his father.
ID. j. Mackey, president, aud Ed O. Hop.
kins. vice. president. of the Louisville.
Evansville 81 st. Louis, are this week look
ing over the property.
Paul Rainer, chief inspector of the Joint
Inspection and Weighing Bureaus, is in the
city. he states that there is to be no
change in inspector at Terre Haute.
~ II Peas voafardo ~ appo;Dtad o1anx
Of the Central States Dispatch (B. IL o.,
Western division. at Milwaukee,. and G. H..
Harkins agent of the same at Minneapolis.
w. 4. lockwood having declined the
agency of the Nandaiia and Big Four at
Colfax, T. W.. Miles, telegraph operator at
Coster, was yesterday promoted to the po-
Bition-
The Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
lines the first week in December earned
e59.6 IN increase over the corresponding
week of 1851 of Sl1.920. The four Mackey
lines earned SSS. s6S, af increase this year
of $40. 799
The salary of Leslie Farmer. commission
er OF the passenger department. of the
Trunk-line Association, has been advanced
from $4,000 to $4,000 a year. Mr.. Farmer
begun railroading on the Bee-l inc as %
messenger boy.
NJ. E. Ingalls,, president of the Big Four.
who was to have been in Cincinnati yes
terdsy, was called back from Washington
to New York on account of the unfavorable
turn the illness of his daughter, Mrs. Bar
nard. had taken.
VIM. III. Rau, the expert artist employed
by the Pennsylvania, this week took n
picture of the AlleRrippus curve in the
Allegheny mountains. The photograph is
the largest in the possession of The Penn
sylyania. being 2sx5S inches.
Wm. II. MeKeen. president of the Union
Hallway Company. will make no further
attempt To get the presidents and general
managers of the proprietary lines together
until after the holidays. although some very
important business awaits action.
The directors of the Belt road and
etockyards will. at their next meeting, the
first Tuesday In January, declare a one
-And-a-Quarter- percent. quarterly dividend
on the preferred stock and u three-per-
cent semi-annuai dividend on the common
stock
The Litchfeld, ILL.,, car worksi is building
two hundred thIrty-ton dump coal cars for
the Columbus ~ Hockin Valley road. to
be used exclusively in it's coal trade in con-
nection with the Lake Shore road. The
cars are equipped with air brakes and au-
tomato coupiers.
Grand Master Sargent. of the Brother
hood OF Firemen. returned
from CHICAGO TO Terre Haute. his head
quarters. on Wednesday. He empbatically
stated that the telegraphers' strike on the
Rock Island road would not extend TO 9TH
or branches of the service.
The Schenectady ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS yes
terday shipped the first of twelve heavy
passenger engines which the works are
buiiding for the Big Four. The two first
received Will be placed in service on the
old Bee-line division. They will now ar
rive ut the rate of two q week.
Tie employee s of the Pennsylvania Com
pany at Fort Wayne, eight years ago,
organized a building and loan association.
Last week the first of three series matured.
md IN nEar oanff a NO
that three hundred OF the employees had.
which they now have clear titles.
The tsn-wheel passenger engine No. 1875
On the 81. Louis division of the Big -Four
on Wednesday hauled the Southwestern
limited from Mattoon to the Belt road
crossing. 12S miles. in two honrs and forty
i've minutes. making ton stops at station,
and railroad crossings. q run which en-.
gineer Strickland thinks would puzzle any
other engine TO excel.
E. o Mccormick, general passenger agen,
of the Cincinnati. Hamilton * Dayton
and James Barker. general passenger agent
of the Monon. have returned from New
York. The former says both roads have
ordered moro heavy passenger engines anC
coaches. and Will be better prepared q
handle the worlds fair business than any
other roads of equal mileage In this terri
tory.
The Terre Haute. Saylor Springs & Ches
ter enterprise is taking shape. The
projectors have secured most of the right
of way. Sixty-one miles. from Mt. Vernon
20 Chester. is now built aud IN operation