The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-13
RAILWAY CHANGES HANDS
The Ohio Southern Passes Into Contr
of Men Who Will Make Things Lively.
George W. Saul Likely to Be the President and
General Msnager-Grain Rates from Chi.
csgo to the Seaboard to Be Reduced.


csgo to the Seaboard to Be Reduced.
Maxwell and Graves and their friends. who
have held control of the Ohio Southern
road, have been quietly selling their hold
ings in the property for some months past
and will retire from the management at
the coming annual election. Maxwell and
Graves have already announced their pur-
pose to retire because of their large inter
ests in Jersey Central and allied
properties. The property. under their con-
sentative management. has developed
into one of the best In Ohio. Its
physical condition is excellent: il has
no floating debt. Money is In the hands OF
the treasurer TO pay interest on the bonds
mp TO next September. and there is a large
amount OF cash on hand Tor dividends on
stock or for other purposes. There Is no
reason why the road should not take Its
place among dividend-payers at once.
Some new and strong directors have been
agreed upon, who. Ii Is said. VIII actually
represent three-fourths of the entire stock
OF the company. There Is good reason Tor
believing that George w. Saul, ex-presi-
dent of tho Chicago 81 Eastern Illinois.
will be president and general manager or
the company.
Grain Rates VIII BE Reduced.
When the freight representatives of the
Central Traffic Association met in regular
session. at Chicago yesterday, they were
confronted by q question that was not
down on the docket for consideration at
this meeting. This was proposition TO re-
duce the rate on grain from Chicago to the
sea-board. The opinion so generally ex-
pressed two months ago that. in view of the
increased tonnage this year, it would be
possible to maintain winter tariffs through
out the summer on east-bound traffic has
already been oontToverted. For several
weeks IL has been apparent that some of
the roads were shading grain rates and
thereby securing an undue proportion of
the business. The conservative lines hesi-
tsted TO meet these secret cuts, hoping
that the guilty ones might be reclaimed
and decentralization averted. but this hope
has been dashed TO the ground by the &C
ton by the lake-and-Tail lines In openly
announcing rate OF l1l5 cents per 100
pounds on grain from Chicago TO the sea-
board. THIS is 2le cents below the agreed
dlherential, and Will force the all-rall
routes TO mako a similar reduction unless
they are willing to turn over the whole
business to the boat lines. The matter was
only informally discussed at yesterdays
session. and then. with all the other sub
Jects awaiting consideration. II was re-
ferred to one of the various committees to
be reported on to-day. The association
will probably be in session two more days,
and there is little doubt that before the
adjournment 1t will be voted to reduce the
grain rate from q to 70 cents per hundred
pounds. Chicago to the sea-board.
The Increase In Weight of Rail-
A gentleman who has been more or less
identified with interchangeable for the
last thirty years. in conversation yester-
hot ha in Of
rails has been fully as remarkable as any
feature of the railroad business. In 1862
the weight OF rail varied from fifty TO nifty
six pounds TO the yard. when the PeDnsyl-
vania road introduced q rail weighing
sixty pounds to the yard. ana this weight
came into general use on the more impOr-
tsnt roads. Ten years later the New
York Central. the PennsylvanIa line
and two or three roads In the
West began laying a rail weighing
sixty-seven to seventy pounds. and i'll the
eighties the eighty-pOund rail was intro
duced on several roads. and within the
last three years hundreds of miles of road
have been laid with O ninety pound rail.
Now the New York Central. the Pennsyl-
vania and the Philadelphia 81 Reading are
laying several miles each of rails weighing
one hundred pounds to the yard. and he
thought the limit had been reached. The
one-hundred-pou rails are laid by the
use of rollers. but this method requires
clR0b VI ten men I'D lay LQem WITH any
rapIdity. He thought rail weighing one
hundred pounds to the yard. with ties ten
inches apart, would make q track which
would carry any locomotive or loaded car
which will ever be used.
Rumored Official Changes.
Mr.. Barney Fitzpatrick. master mechanic
of the shops of the Pennsylvania Company
at Wellsville, was called to Indianapolis
Saturday by Superintendent of Motive
Power E. p. Lord, of the Big Four, who
made him tender of position which, had
he accepted. would have been in the nature
of promotion. Mr.. Fitzpatrick took the
offer under advlsement and declined
Mr.. Lords offer. 1t is stated that
he was given To understand that promo
ton awaited him on the Pennsylvania
shortly II he remained. This, it Is thought,
goes to corroborate the statement of i'm
pOrtant changes in the motive power de-
partment of the Pennsylvania Company
IL Is stated by one who has Just returned
emit of Motive Power Casanave.
who recently declined $4,000
position with the Reading road.
shortly is to be appointed general superin-
which time Mr.. George L. Potter, now mas
ter mechanic of the Fort Wayne shops will
be made superintendent of motive power,
and Mr.. Fitzpatrick. who was for years
u lOTculuu OF u ucpaEbIIcuI at OEL w dyne.
will succeed Mt. Potter as master nee hanic
at that point.
Suits Against the Big Four and Erie.
Two important suits against railroad cor.
porations were entered in the Bloomin gton.
Ill. Circuit Court. late yesterday after
noon. They are brought by Attorney gen.
eral Hunt in the name of the people of Illi-
nois. One IS against the Big Four for Sl0-
Geo. The charge Is unjust discrimination"
in rates under the State statute. 1t is
charged that on July ], 1891. the Big Four
transported for a Bloomin gton merchant
two barrels of alcohol from Pekin TO Peoria
the barrels weighing $50 pounds and the
toll being Sl.62. or at the rate of 81 35
cents per hundred. Afterward the same
company carried one barrel from Peoria 10
Bloomington. weight four hundred pounds,
at the rate of IL cents per hundred.
The other case is against tho Lake Erie.
The charge Is that the company carried
plOws, etc. from BLOOMINGTON to PeOria.
for BloOmin gtOn merchants. charging Is
cents per hundred. Afterwards IL carried
the same class of goods from Peoria 10
Ranken for the same rate. the distances be-
ing unequal. The claim in this case is
S20,0UO.
hIonon Fighting tho Tax Law.
An application was filed in the Office OF
the clerk of the Lake County Circuit
Court last night by the Louisville, New
Albany * Chicago Railway Company
against the treasurers of the following
counties: Lake. Boone. Carroll, Clark.