The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-05-21

traffic. and consequently the net earnings
are $4,000 below those of the seven
months of the preceding year.
The Monon and the Pennsylvania lines.
having announced that they would resume
the payment of commissions at certain
points for self-protection the Big Fonr
Will have to fall In line in the matter. al
though it mas not yet announced such an
intention.
The Evansville & Terre Haute and the
Louisville az Nashville have been drop
ping some of their passenger conductors
for alleged color blindness on the L:
~ L. H.. George Lovejoy. one of the most
popular conductors on the line. has been
dismissed.
The Haskell & Barker Company, of Mich
lgan CITY. on Thursday commenced TO de-
liver ten fiat cars a day to the H.. n. A. q
cars is filled. With these in service. the
company hopes to be able TO handle all the
stone traffic offered.
The new class TX" engine. built at the
Pennsylvania shops in Fort Wayne.
weighs. complete. 221.360 pounds: the
tank proper. in running order. weighs S.
$50 pounds. The engine is expected to be
a great runne with heavy rains
The Pennsylvania people have surprised
competitors by their anxiety to get grain
traffic this season. not only by Its all-rail
AAAC0. Il III Will LuO Ahho
Erie boats. The Anchor line. its connec-
ton at Erie. Pa. has delivered thus far
this season $500. 900 bushels of grain to the
Erie division of the Pennsylvania.
But few. if any. roads crossing Indiana
ave expended more money than has the
Lake Erie 81 Western In the last two years
In charging and better protecting it's
waterways. Stone abutments with iron
bridges are taking the place of drIv an-pile
and wooden structures. and large iron
pipes are taking the place of narrow wood
EN- culverts.
1t is stated officially that there are no
stations on the Big Four system which. in
the last two years. have shown q proper
tIOnate increase in business with that of
Muncie and Anderson. In two years the
business at each of these stations has
doubled. by actual figures. the business OF
the two being now $4,000 q month. against
$4,000 two years ago.
General Manager Mellen, of the New
York 81 New England road. is beginning to
cut down the operating expenses of the
road. and operate on Western principles.
He expects. without affecting the train
service. to reduce Its cost at least 80 per
cent. On but few roads. 1t Is stated. is the
tram service so little sy~stematized, so many
interests it has been attempted to serve.
A report comes from Chicago that Presi-
dent Ingalls,. of the Big Four, has deter
mined to build an independent line from
Kankakee to Chicago. connecting with the
Chicago * Western Indiana road near
Hammond. Ind. 1t IS much more probable
the Chicago ~ Eastern Illinois road if it
cuts loose from the Illinois Central, which
Is questionable.
There seems to be an understanding
among the passenger men that the Pennsyl-
vanis Company will make no further effort
to secure the Hendricks Club for the ma
tional Democratic convention. but that the
MonOn Will carry them one way and the
Big Four the other, thus harmonIzing tue
whole matter. the Pennsylvania. at some
other time. being allowed to run q cheap
excursion IL it desires to.
At the meeting. In Cincinnati, of the gen.
eral passenger agents of the roads in the
Chicago and Ohio River Association it was
unanimously voted that in case the In
dianapolis. Decatur 81 Western. in connec-
ton with the Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois
or the Lake Erie ~ Western, run any more
three-dollar round trip excursions to Chi
cago the three direct lines would meet the
rate made on the same date.
On Saturday last the Columbian express.
which consists of six cars. three being
Pullmsns. run from Plymouth to Fort
WAYNE. sixty-four miles. in seventy min
utes; from Plymouth to Whiting. sixty
seven miles. in seventy minutes. and from
Valparaiso to Whiting. tweDty-seven miles.
In twenty-five minutes. The distance from
Fort Wayne TO Chicago. 14S miles. was COW
OAC0 IL '" aOhAo ohu hlinutO0s
Col. Horace Scott, who has been In Jack
sonville. Fla. most of the winter. being at
the head of q construction company which
Is extending the jacksonville, MaypOrt a.
Pablo railway north to Jacksonville. is IN
the city. He states that work on this line
is progressing finely; eighteen miles of
track is already down When completed
the company Will improve it's docks at
haywood. which is the deepest harbOr
south of Charleston. S. G..
1t was reported last evening that the
Vandalia had repaired its track in the
American bottom. where the break occurred
Yesterday morning, and trains were again
running over It out of st. Louis. Chief
Engineer Gibbons. who was in the city
yesterday, said that ten thousand bags OF
sane were thrown into the opening before
the current of water was stopped. There
would have been no trouble, he says, but
for the high wind making waves several
feet high, which dashed over the temper
airy levee which the Vandalla had been
constructing for some days.
The ar-work which build passenger
equipment are all very busy. The Pull
man company has contracted to build for
various roads $40 first-class coaches. two
dining cars, three private cars, seven par
gage. postal and express cars. The Ohio
| Fails car-works have orders for sixty pas
senger cars Of different classes. The Wse-
ner Palace-car Company is to build IA
sleeping cars In the next twelve months,
turning them out at the rate of twelve each
month, and all the Eastern car-works
which DuIld passenger equipment are
working more men b ever before.
The Wabash. the Chicago. Bnrlin gton g.
Quincy and the Chicago, Kansas City 81 st.
Paui roads have got into a fight over carry
ing the delegates from the Southwest to Min.
neapolis. 1t is charged that the c., K. Z.
u 81. L. has offered 80 much free transpor.
tatiOn that it practically outs the agreed
rate in two. The worst feature. of the case
is that politics have entered into the fight,
the Wabash claiming to have twenty
thousand votes which will be influenced
against the nominee at Minneapolis If the
Wabash is not selected by the delegation
from Kansas City, where all the delegates
from the Southwest ore expected to gather
en- route to Minneapolis.