The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-24


rates during the summer months are lower,
but the matter has been allowed to drift
along at the summer rates until yesterday.
when tbs freight officials of the roads
handling the business from the points met
and reached an agreement to advance rates
on iron and its class 10 cents per 100
pounds to points In the territory mentioned
above.
Wheat Kate War Impending
Ir has been found necessary TO POSTPONE
the conference which Chairman Midgley
announced to be held at ST. Paul to-day to
consider the decision of the Interstate
commerce Commission regarding wheat
rates to Minneapolis and Duluth. The
trsnscontinental conference now going on
at ST. Paul makes 1t inconvenient for some
of the interested roads to respond to Mr.
Midgley's call and another date will be
fixed for the meeting. In the mean
time. however. the 500 line has obeyed
the order OF the commission and
reduced the rate on wheat from Dakota
points to Minneapolis. making the required
difference between this rate and the rate 10
Duluth. The other roads will probably
not follow this example until after con,
ference Is held. 1t is generally believed
that the outcome of the matter Will be
similar to the Eau Claire lumber case. In
which the roads adopted the rates ordered
by the commission just long enough to
prove their impractlcability and then can
celed them. In this case the Northern
Pacific cannot be compelled to make q
lower rate to Minneapolis than to Duluth,
because by its lines the distance Is the
same and tbs other roads will claim the
right to meet competition.
Heavy Decrease in Freight Traffic.
The extreme cold weather is said to be
chiefly responsible for the liRhtness of the
freight traffic from the West to the East.
as compared with the heavy movement one
year ago. Whatever the cause the official
reports show that the east bound ship
ments of dead freight from Chicago last
week by all the roads aggregated Just &C, 407
tons. against x. 736 tor the preceding week.
q decrease of 13 500 TONS and against los, 1856
for the corresponding period of last year. q
decrease of S9,079 tons. The tonnage was
divided as follows: Flour. 1883 tons; grain
and mill stuifs. 20. O40; provisions. lard, etc..
9,947; dressed beef, 1859; fisxseed. 1887;
hides. 2,329; lumber, ASIA; miscellaneous.
1891.
According to the statement of the Central
TRAFFIC Association the shipments OF Hour,
grain and provisions from Chicago TO the
seaboard last week amounted to 40.390
tons, against 81. $50 for the preceding week,
decrease of II. 147 tons, and against 76.0S4
decrease of s.. 695 tons. OF this traffic the
Vanderbilt lines carried 81 per cent; the
Pennsylvania lines, 81 per cent; the Balti-
, more IL Ohio. 6; the Big Four. 4; the Chi
cago & Erie, D; the Chicago q Grand
trunk, % and the Wabash. 8.
Doing Good Work.
The monthly bulletin of r. +. Smith,
superintendent of the Pennsylva volun-
tary relief department. west of Pittsburg,
for December, shows that there were dis
bursed IN death benefits during the mon tn
81, 500. OF this sum 5000 was on deaths
from accident and $4,000 on deaths from
natural causes. In accident benefits SS.-
1885 were disbursed; in sickness benefits,
So so; total disbursements in the month
of December. s26. S3S.O5. In the forty-two
months the department has been in opera.
tion there has been disbureed in death
benefits S29S. $50; in disa blement Si22 592 %;
total relief fund benefits. 1921, 1922. Dur
ing the forty-two months Az death benefits
nave been paid 12,2SS accident benef Is
and 3. 754 sickness benetits, making q total
of $751; benefits paid. and it Is stated in 90
per cent. of the cases such benefits proved
p great blessing to the recipients.
Personal. Local and Genera, Notes
The Monon. on Saturday, completed an
iron bridge over the tracks of the electric
line to the State fair grounds.
Samuel Townsend will. on Feb. 1, take
the position of rate clerk in the general
offices of the Lake Erie ~ Western.
j. @. Van Winkie, superintendent of the
ST. Louis Terminal Railways Company.
was In the city yesterday en- route East.
The Cincinnati. Hamilton & DAYTON has
contracted with the PittsbuIg locomotive.
works 10 build seven engines OF the consol-
idated type.
L. b. Weigle has been appointed travel.
ing freight agent of the Missouri. Kansas
N Iexae for this territory, vice j. w. Con.
ner. resigned.
+. Is. Parker. assistant general passenger
agent OF the Missouri, Kansas & Texas. will
retire Feb. TO engage IN the practice of Ia "
at Houston. Tex.
Fred Ellison. claim agent of the Wanda
liza. who has been quite i'll for three or four
weeks, is better. ami was at his office yes
terday for a short time.
J. Fl. Luce. assistant general passenger
agent of the Pennsy lvania lines at Chicago
hae retired on account of i'll health, which
united him for so responsible position
C. Ii. Goodrich. who has just resigned a.
assistant general freight agent of the New
York X New England railroad, will. il IL
said. accept a similar position with the
Reading
On Feb. I. II. III. Coyle will take the gen.
eral agency of the Canada Southern fast
freight line. operating over the Wabash
with headquarters at ST. Louis. vice l.. l.
Hire, resigned.
ID. +. Crawford, assistant master me-
chanic of the Pennsylvania Company,
shops at Fort Wayne. ii is stated is to be pro
NOTED to more important position on the
lines east of Pittsburg.
Joeeph Ramsey. ir.. general manager OF
the Big Four. and j. A. Barnard, genera
manager of the Peoria ~ Eastern. are out
on their respective lines and will not ra
turn until Wednesday afternoon.
Haskell tS Barker. of Michigan City are
turning new cars out for the Monon at the
rate of twelve q day. Those the works are
now building are coal and stone care O,
which they are TO build i've hundred,
In the week ending JAN 81 but - COB car.
were transferred over the Belt rOnd, in
Guiding empty cars. Last week Belt road
engines handled but 76S car loads of stock
against l,l6S in the corresponding week o.