The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-26
Chicago Roads Suffering.

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Chicago Roads Suffering.
The statement of east bound freight ship
ments from Chicago last week indicates the
force of lake competition as against the rail-
roads. All told. the shipments of dead
freight east bound from Chicago by the ten
roads engaged in the traffic amounted to
65.O54 tons. against so 062 tons during the
preceding week, and against 54,443 tons
during the corresponding week Of 1891. The
Michigan Central outstripped all compel
itors. carrying TO- 4S tons. while the Lake
Shore took second place on the list with S.
CAS- tons. Lake shipments during the week
amounted to log. 500 tons, or Al. 546 tons more
than were carried by all the roads com
bined. This has revived the talk
by the all-raIl routes. but as
vet the roads arc not agreed as to whether
O reduction of the through rate would be
advisable. The proposition to reduce has
met with strong opposition from those
roads which have valuable local business
to protect. They contend that it is better
TO lose their through traffic altogether
than to save It by the sacrifice or thelr
standing this view of the situation IL Is
the general opinion that an open reduction
of rates cannot be muoh longer postponed.
Shipments of flour. grain and provisions
from Chicago to the sea-board by the
roads in the Central Traffic Association.
lest week. aggregated 27.547 tons. against
S3, 4OS for the preceding week and II ,249 for
the corresponding week last year.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
c. J.. Pickering has been appointed
division freight agent of the ST. Louis
Southern road.
Nicholas J. Power will succeed Mr.. Ed
gar as general passenger agent OF the Grand
Trunk railway.
T. T.. Clark. general superintendent of
the Minneapolis Il ST. LOUIS road, is In the
city for a day or two.
Charles Rockwell. general superintend-
ent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
road. will be in the city to-day on official
business.
The Pennsylvania Company. jointly with
the Big Four. yesterday commenced the
erection of an interlJckIngsignai and switch
st Shelby VILE. Ind.
Colonel Hill, assistant general manager
of the Vandalia lines. has. seemingly. been
permanently improved in health by his two
months stay In Florida.
VI. A. Zook. who accepted q position on
the Lake Shore, temporarily, on May l goes
TO Chattanooga to take a position on the
Queen * Crescent road.
ID. L. Bacon. general manager of the In
diana Car-service Association, left yester-
day for philadelphia. to attend the meet
ing of the national association, which CON-
venes IN that city tomorrow.
j.. ID. RIddell. commissioner of the In
dianapolis Freight Bureau. on May / taxes
the position of Eastern travelling freight
agent of the Central States Dispatch.
The work of pile-driving for the founda-
tion of the new Union Station at st. Louis
was commenced yesterday. There will be
thirty-two parallel tracks under one roof.
On May 1 the Chicago 81 Rock Island Will
put on a train to make the run from Chi
cago TO KANSAS City In fourteen and q half
hours. The train Is scheduled at forty
miles an hour. aud Its equipment will be
new.
w. H. McDoel. general manager. and s.
Collins general uperintendent of the L..
n. \. " e., Will be In the city tomorrow
10 look after matters IN connection with
the company's improvements at the new
fair grounds.
An official high in authority on the Big
Four says there is little prospect of that
company securing a line into Louisville for
its Michigan division until the pending liti-
CATION over ownership of the Ohio& Missis-
sipDl road Is settled.
William Dewitt, a railroad conductor,
widely known by railroad and travelling
men. was struck by a fast train. last Satur-
day, OIL the New York Central road, at
Syracuse. and instantly killed. He had
but recently entered the service of this
road.
President Ingalls,. of the Big Four. has
closed n contract for fifty new engines.
The Richmond. Va, locomOtive-works will
build thirty. and the Brooks and Schenecta-
DIV works ten each. The ten which the
schenectady works buIld are to be passen-
ger engines.
The Chicago. Burlington 81 Quincy has
contracted with the Rhode Island locomo-
fireworks for fifty locomotives: twenty.
i've of the mos1I class. III" type. This
company IS also In the market for two
thousand box-cars.
The Car Inspectors Protective Associa-
tion of North America and Canada met at
80. Louis yesterday IN ANIMAL convention.
One of the principal questions 10 come be-
fore the convention IS whether the order
shall JOIN the North American Federation.
The sessions of the association will be
secret.
N. ). Power has been appointed general
passenger agent of the Grand Trunk rail-
way. of Canada. vice William Edgar. de-
ceased. Mr.. POwer is promoted from the
office of assistant treasurer of the company.
q. 1. Bell. for n number of years chlsf
clerk in the passenger department of the
road. has been made assistant general pas
senger agent.
a month ago I. S. Davant left the East
Tennessee, Virginia " Georgia road TO be-
come general passenger agent of the Nor
folk X Western. Now tits announced that
the position OF general passenger agent has
been abolished, and the duties of tue Off CO
will be looked after by the traffic manager,
Edwin Fitzgerald.
A. L.. Mitchell has been appointed super-
tntendent of motive power of the Erie
lines. lie has been acting in that position
since the death of Ross Kells. ). Higgins
has been appointed assistant s~nperIntend-
snt of motive power. vice William Tureff
deceased. The Chicago X Erie comes un-
der their su supervision.
The tonnage of freight banded on the
Baltimore N Ohio lines has doubled in the
asst seven years. and on no portion OF the
IYstem has the development been more
marked than IN the gas and OF, regions
through which 10 passes in northern Indi-
sna and Ohio. Towns. large and small.
have sprung up by the dozens in such ter