The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-04
Low Rates win Prevail.

from $3.50 to $3.50.
Low Rates VIII Prevail.
Said q general superintendent: "This
low-rate excursion traffic and abandoning
freight trains to handle it IS O losing busi-
ness to the railroad'companies. There are
80 many things which cut into the revenue
derived from this one-cent-a-miIe business.
In the first place, q certain number of peo-
pie must be furnished free transportation.
Then the companies are obliged To borrow
foreign coaches to carry the business. Every
coach the Big Four or the Cincinnati,
Hamilton IL Dayton b~orrowed-and they
borrowed q good many-costt the companies
SO from Indianapolis to Washington and
return I'm mileage. Then it demoralized the
business of the regular trains for days
after the special business had been dis
posed of. and created Dissatisfaction all
round. But the worst feature Is the
abandonment of freight trains. as the
Chesapeake * Ohio and the Baltimore az
Ohio were obliged to dofor three days, the
earnings from which would considerably
exceed those of The excursion business.
Then this interfering with the movement
of freights has created an i'll feeling be-
tween the passenger and freight men. lie
is no exaggeration to say that the
usual jealousy between the freight and the
passenger men has been aggravated by this
oLu kleL tAO All AoSA at6
nanb that the passenger men have so over
ridden them" A general passenger agent. in
speaking OF the natter, said 1T made no differ
ence what the freight men said, excursion
business IS to increase year by year, and IL
might be we'll for the railway manage
ments to prepare for it. liz this country
keeps on growing, and national gatherings
Ink that at Washington, the knights
Templars, the Knights of Pythias. the
Christian E~ndeavOrers, and dozens of other
organizations which might be named, are
to continue. this excursion business IS to
swell in proportions, and passenger traffic
will become q series Of excursions, with .
few dull days interpreted. Excursions
are to be run south this winter. which is q
new feature, and will tend to support the
last statement.
East-Bound Shipments from Chicago.
E~ast-bound shipments of freight from
Chicago last week, by all lines, amounted
TO 81. 2S4 tons. against 6S.001 during tho
preceding week. q decrease of III tons, and
against 57,92s during the corresponding
week last year. IN increase of 1856 tons.
The traffic was divided among the several
roads In the folio wing proportions: MIchi-
gan Central. 1O,042 tons; Wabash. 1886;
Lake Shore, 9.717; Fort Wayne, 6.141; Pan
handle, 1900: Baltimore x Ohio. 4,092;
Grand Trunk, 4,616; N~ickel-plate. 6.S05:
Chicago d Erie. 7.666; Big Four. AN:
SulplQcut6 ny lbko 6IuOuntcQ W 1SU,1tO
IONS, against lis. $40 for the preceding week,
IN increase of 6.l66 tons.
Through shipments of -four. grain and
provisions from Chicago to the sea-board by
ton, last week, amounted to 4.754 tons,
against 23,609 for the preceding week, an
&. increase of 1.945 tons. and against 90, ZOE for
the corresponding week last year. an in
Vanderbilt lines carried SO per cent; the
Pennsylvania. %; the Chicago IL Grand
Trunk, IA, and the Baltimore Ohio. IL.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
w. A. Love has been appointed freight
cashier of the Pennsylvania lines ct Pitts
burg, vice j. l.. Wright. resianed.
When the Vandalia gets it's passenger
line established to Peoria it will give the
citizens of Evansville and Terre Haute q
abort line to the Northwest via Peoria.
So satisfactorily do the Baldwin COM
pound engines which the Baldwin loco
motIye-works built perform ON the ele-
waited roads of Chicago that an order for
twenty-five more of the sam ~ pc has been
given.
J.. NJ. Brown. recently appointed assis-
tant general passenger agent OF the Union
Pacific road. was but q few years ago q
clerk in q passenger office at Detroit. He
new ranks as one of the best passenger men
in the West. His headauarters are at
omaha.
oCntL0A 1landkC 1O4ICu VI bAO NOW
York X New England road, Goes not go TO
the New York. New Haven Il Hartford
road until Nov. i, and it is thought In
financial circles East that by that time the
~. Y, N. ii. & H.. will be in control of the
Y. Y. IL n. +. road.
The receipts from sales of tickets at the
Union Station I'm September were SI5. 263 in
excess of those of the corresponding
month in 1871. Mr.. Donough thinks this
increase the most remarkable from the fact
that rafaa have haan an demnrallzad and i'm
many cases extremely low.
In the month of September 500 employees
on the Pennsylvania lines west OF Pitts
burg became members of the Pennsylvania
Voluntary Relief Association. making 7. 62S
since Aug. j. 1892. Fully 10 per cent. OF the
employees on the indianapolis and Chicago
division are now memb ers of the organize
fion.
o.. w. Lamport. of Wabash, who two
months ago accepted the general superin-
endency of the Chicago ~ Southeastern
road. has resigned to accept the position of
secretary of the FairmountLan Company.
Mr.. Lamport left the T.. N =. because
the opening at Paramount presented great
possibilities of profit aud advancement.
The new ger engines of the Van
halia are TO be equipped with the National
electric headlight. In speaking Of these
engines the Pittsburg Post says they are
the finest and heaviest passenger engines
ever turned out at the Pittsburg l0cOmo-
fireworks. They weigh 5000 pounds.
are of the ~ten-wheel type and have seventy
two-inch driving wheels.
H.. J. Rhein. general agent of the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton * Dayton for this territory,
returned yesterday from his vacation.
While absent he rode on the famous Union
Pacific train. No. 3, which makes the run
from Omaha to Denvcr-572 miles-in
eleven hours and ten minutes; and he says
that he has come TO the conclusion that
some other roads than the C., H.. IL u. have
fast trains
The first annual convention of the Inter
national Brotherhood OF Railway Track
Foremen is In session at Kansas City, with
Grand Chief John L. Wilson presiding.
There are two hundred delegates present
from the United States and Canada. The
work of the convention will be devoted
chiefly to q revision OF the constitution and
bylaws. The purposes of the organization
are beneficiary, and do not contemplate
strikes.
The acquisition OF the Terre Haute &
Peoria road by the Vandalia adds thirty
three more stations TO It's system. The
Il. Ill. ~ Il. Is now a mud road. Ono of the
first improvements the Vandalla will make
Co 10 is to ballast il with gravel q depth of
eighteen inches. and in the near future the
company Will build fifteen miles of road to
connect the two divisions. the It. H.. * p.
having used the Illinois Central as O con-
Meeting link.
The 1889 Indiana statute recurring rail-
roads to have a blackboard used. for q train
bulletin In each passenger depot at any
station where there Is a telegraph Office