The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-09-23

the road has more than doubled since he took
the position Is ample proof OF his ability.
The brick walls for the new shops of the
Mackey lines at Princeton, Ind. are up and
ready for the roof. The main building is three
hundred feet long by seyenty-nve feet wide.
The stone foundations for the less important
buildings are in.
L. b. Ledyard and other general officers Of the
Michigan Central have this week been inspect
ing the property across northern Indiana. Great
improvements have been made 10 the Michigan
Central In the last eighteen months. the cost OF
dollars.
The Evansville * Terre Haute road earned IN the
second week of september S26,5o2. an increase
over the corresponding week OF 1897 OF $3.50.
The Peoria. Decatur IL Evansville earned SIS
A., an Increase e sed THIS .yye year Of q si:2lo. aaCr sae
this year OF $50.
ID. j. Mackey, president of the several Evans
yille roads, who accompanied the Eastern par
ties who recently inspected the Louisville,
Evansville d ST. Louis road to New York. has
returned, and is quoted as saying that arrange
ments have been perfected TO raise the $1,000
900 needed to place the L., Z. Il st. l.. in good
shape physically and In the matter OF equip
ment. .
The official report TO superintendent Whit
Ing at midnight 222 trains. averaging nine cars
each, arrived and departed at the Union Station
train-sheds. This includes the 136 regular trains
In and out. fourteen second sections 70 accommo
date the State fair business, and the scheduled
fair trains of the Lake Erie & Western and the
Monon.
W. II. McDoel. general MANAGER rof the Louis
vile. New Albany IL Chicago lines, with the
Eastern parties who attended the annual
meeting yesterday, spent a few hours ON
the State fair grounds. and then left for their
respective homes. The inspection trip has been
postponed till next month. when President
Thomas and others largely interested In the
property will inspect 1t.
Three days in succession the Louisville divis-
ion of the Pennsylvania lines has missed every
connection which Train 10 should make. People
who patronize this train have become disguised,
as the manner IL Is now run greatly discommodes
them, and Is not the usual method of running
trains on the Pennsylvania system. In years
past the j. NJ: & /. NOW the Louisville division)
has been credited with running it's trains nearer
on time than did any indianapolis road. and it
behooves superintendent Miller to remedy this
trouble.
A railroad man who seldom errs In his state
ments says that the owners of the Lake Erie &
Western are determined on building a line from
Laporte TO Chicago. It would require the build
Ing OF but forty miles OF road to reach one or
the great terminal systems of Chicago, and, IL
built, would make the Indianapolis and Michi-
gan City division Of the l.. L. W. one or the
best roads in this section. An official or the
road was approached as to the truthfulness OF
the above statement, and he smiled and said
such a thing was in the air, and pretty high up
yet, but 1t need not be a surprise II such an en-
terprise was undertaken.
In all the as regards the heavy
travel to Washington the last ten days. the Ches-
pie into Washington than did either the Balti-
more & Ohio OF the Pennsylvania, has hardly
been mentioned. Great credit Is due Harry
Fuller, the general passenger agent, and Assist
ant General Passenger Agent Ryan for the vol
ume of business secured and the manner IL was
handled. During four days the Big Four turned
twenty-eight special trains over 20 the Chesa-
peake & Ohio. and from the Southeast and other
northern roads running into Cincinnati the
Chesapeake & Ohio got its full share.
Oscar Murray, traffic manager of the Chesa.
peake g. ohio and the Big Four lines; W. z.
Walker, jr., freight traffic manager OF the Chesa-
peake q Ohio, and Z. Il. Cost, assistant general
freight agent of the Big -Four at Chicago, were
in the city yesterday en- route southwest on q
pleasure trip Mr.. Murray remarked that he
Thought IL a good time 10 take a ten days yaca-
ton, as tho Big Four road was so crowded with
business that it was obliged 10 decline a good
deal OF freight. In speaking of the business of
the Chesapeake d Ohio. Mr.. Murray said, on the
going to Washington, the G. g. o. had 1S5 of its
engines hauling q. A. r. business.
1t Is said that Chairman Nidgley has been en-
sion to the East. His conference with the At
lantic-coast and Southern lines has resulted in
an agreement on their part to restore freight
nah on Missouri river traffic. These rates have
been cut 20 cents per 100 pounds first class,
which, added TO the authorized diferential OF 10
cents, made the rates 80 cents lower by way OF
Savannah than by way OF Chicago. The an
nouncement that they are TO be advanced will
be hailed with pleasure BY the Western roads.
Chairman Midgley is now in Boston working TO
secure q restoration of rates from New England
points to st. Paul. via the Canadian Pacific.
Much attention has recon lily been directed to
the loss to the Western roads through the abuse
of the reduced-fare business. tits the rule that
a reduced passenger rate be not allowed for
parties less than one hundred in number. but
figures collected show that the number of peo-
pie travelling on reduced rates granted for meet
ings at which the attendance was less than one
hundred from November, 1851, TO July, 1892,
was 9,035, or q little over one thousand passen-
gers per month. These travelled ut the rate of
1 cent per mile, whereas they should have paid
Scents per mile, and IL Is estimated that each one
OF them Travelled on an average of one. hundred
miles, making one Thousand n month. or $24,0 600
q year, O sum great enough TO cover the whole
expense connected with the maintenance OF the