The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-02-04

The train will be run over the Canada
Southern and the Mich igan Central.
The new bridge of the Chicago, Burling-
ton & Quincy over the Mississippi river
will be completed to-day: The trst bridge
completed and opened for trafiice Aug. 1.
1856. bat 1t became too frail to carry the
present heavy equipment, and was rebuilt,
The bridge. as 1t now stands. cost 81. 275.0 900.
A rate of TIA cents per one hundred
pounds has been authorized by the CON-
missioners of tile Western Traffic Associa-
tion on mining machinery. chloride of lime,
crude sulphur and sulphurlc acid. in car
lots. from Chicago to Central City. S. d..
with the usual differentIals from Missis-
sippi,river points. The rate Is to take eff
feet Feb. %.
Train 2. over the Vandalia. which was
put on to bring back the day equipment
run on II west, leaving ST. Louis at ll:40 A.
NJ. Is proving 70 be one of the best paying
trains run on tie road. Ii does local work
all the way. and runs at an hour which is
very convenient FOR patrons of the road.
After q years trial it has been decided to
keep the train on
Chairman Blanchard has issued n call for
a meeting of the Central Traffic Assoeia-
ton freight ami to be held at Chi
cago Feb. o. The meeting will take up the
subject of rates from the South, including
Nashville TO Newport News and Norfolk,
as compared with rates TO Baltimore. The
report OF q conference between meSSrS.
Grammer and Blanchard and the Southern
lines will be submitted.
The Wisconsin Central has n gifted Chair
man Finley that the Northern Pacific has
determined to meet Canadian Pacific COM
petition In making half-fare rates for stock
men returning from Manitoba points to
points IN Ontario and eastern Canada. and
the Wisconsin Central Will join with the
Northern Pacific in meeting these rates.
Chairman Finley has authorized all other
interested roads to do likewise.
The situation in the Western grain
grain is being loaded for Kansas City
from Western points and it Is next TO
impossible TO send any East by
way of Chicago. and only q limited
supply by way of ST. Louis. Yesterday
the Missouri Pacific road had eight hun
dred cars loaded with grain between Omaha
and Atchison. superintendent Rath-
burn Gay says he has no idea b the
blockade will be broken.
The Union Switch and Signal Company is
putting in one of the largest systems of
signals in the world at Chicago. The plant
includes eighty-four signals, thirty-seven
single switches, twenty-five double slips.
twenty-five movable frogs. all operated
from forty-eight working levers. with six
spare spaces. Each signal will be illumi-
mated by n sixteen candle-power electric
light. The whole machine for operating
the switches occupies a space t~wenty-fOur
feet in length by five feet in width.
A railroad official remarked yesterday
that be did not hin there was in this
State. or either of the adjoining States. q
case which paralleled the Indiana Midland
road. The company actually disbursed,
when it was In operation, moro money to
people on its line than it earned, yet the
very people whom 1t benefited gave the
management the most trouble, until moth
ing could be doue but to stop operating the
road until new friends came TO the rescue
and furnished money TO start business
again.
One of the projectors Of the Indianapolis
& Northeastern road, q line which it is
proposed TO build as q cutoff for the Lake
Erie d Western. giving it as short q line
east as the old Decline, says that one of the
three routes surveyed between 6 point on
the L.. T.. d w: Just north of this city and
Anderson will be selected and built with
out doubt this year. While the Lake Erie
q Western will not build it. after compile
tion it will be operated and doubtless be-
come a part of the L. +. IL w. system
eventually.
Eastern papers are getting matters some
what mixed. 1t is the East Tennessee, Vir-
GINA 81 Georgia and the Louisville South
ern which are seeking to make the Louis
Vile. New Albany 81 Chicago their north
ern outlet, not the Chesapeake 81 Ohio.
President ingalls, does not turn business
over to O competitor that way. The Big
Four Is the natural Chicago connection for
the Chesapeake 81 Ohio, and the immense
business the two roads have been doing
Jointly Of late demonstrates the truthful
ness of this remark
A railroad official who is we'll posted as
to the rumored railway deals OF late said,
yesterday. that If the Big Four does not get
control of the Columbus & Hooking Valley
road it will be because NJ. +. Ingalls,, presi-
dent of the Big Four, cannot convince the
Vanderbilts that it would be q good move
Uhan q mad hn an ~ an h0Dd Ah hAh< N a
has the G. d H.. v. The Financial Investor
shows that the bonded debt outstanding is
now SIG. 4S0. 900. OF the consolidated gold
mortgage bonds, which amount to $14. 500,-
600. but 100000 nave been sold.
1t Is rather quiet times in passenger bust
ness. and T.. o. Mccormick. general passen-
ger agent of the Cincinnati. Hamilton 81
Dayton. Barker of the Louisville, New Al
bany 81 Chicago, and DAILY of the Lake
Erie ~ Western lines are making plans for
doing q large picnic and excursion bust
ness the coming summer, expecting q big
year In this class of business. so prosperous
is the country in the territory covered by
these lines. This feature of ger
business Is yearly becoming more impor-
tant. and If properly handled does not In
terfere TO any extent with regular travel.
1t Is stated that John f. Miller has had.
as division superintendent and general
superintendent, charge of the road between
I~ndIanapolis and Columbus, o.. longer than
any official holding q like position on any
road in the country. He commenced as
superintendent OF this division in August,
1864, which position he held until promoted
to general superintendent of the South
western system, which includes this di-
vision. During the twenty-eight years not
q passenger has been killed between In
dianapolis and Columbus. Since he &C
copied the position the road has been oper-
ated by five different companies. commend
ing with the Indiana Central
The Trunk-line executive committee met
at New York yesterday. The question of
free transportation of fiour and corn do
mated for the relief of the starving peas
ants in Russia by the millers of the West
and Northwest to the Atlantic sea board
was very freely discussed. 1t was decided
to give free transportation to q reasonable
amount of food products. Another ques-
ton discussed was the delay in returning
from the New England States to the West
empty freight cars. In MANY instances the
delay amounts to from five to SIX weeks.
The only relief that could be suggested was
the formation of q car-service association,
and the commissioners were asked to take
up the question and report