The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-01-21
TT PAYS TO WEIGH FREIGHT
Statement of Inspector ]. B. Eckman,
of the Indianapolis Bureau.
Total Gain In Revenue Last Year of Nearly
$126,OO0-The Union Pacific Railway Re-
taliates Against Boycott

The seventh annual report of j. b. Eek
man, district inspector of the joint rate and
inspection bureau of the Trunk-line, Gen.
trail Traffic and Western freight associa-
tions, shows the gains of the Indianapolis
district. which comprises bureaus at In
dianapolis Terre Haute. Vincennes and
Evansville, the three latter having been in
operation for three years. Last year was
tho most successful of the organization and
the results most satisfactory and crafty
ing to the officials of the roads and of the
bureau. The report shows that In 1892. at
Indianapolis. 1904 cars were weighed,
with q gain through such weighing to
the roads In tonnage OF 139.040. 100
pounds; through weighing platform
freights. q gain of 4. Isl, 100 pounds gain in
revenue from classification changes and
inspection. s.. $500; total gain in revenue
through the operations of the bureau of the
Indianapolis roads. S125. 901.37. The total
number OF cars weighed by the Terre
Haute bureau was II, 744; gain In tonnage,
81. 30. $50 pounds: gain In weighing plat
form freights. ,466.271 pounds; gain in rev.
enue from classification changes and in
spection. 81 79.99; total gain in revenue at
Terre Haute. $5s.5S5.77. The Evansville.
bureau weighed l7.s03 cars, with Q gain in
tonnage through weighing platform
freights, 1.93l.717 pounds; gain in
revenue from classification changes
and inspection. S3.16l.67; total gain
1891, S3.7l253. The Vincennes bureau
weighed 1854 cars with gain in tonnage
of 5.S1S. 2l1 pounds; gain In weighing plat
form freights. 2S7. 195 pounds; gain through
change In classification and inspection in
revenue. S264.21; total revenue gained OF
Vincennes, S6,27S.13; an increase over 1891
OF $1,000. A comparative statement shows
the revenue gained at Indianapolis for
ell
1887, $51 507.2 1885, $50 500 49, 1882 s94 O4O To-
1890 SlOl. las. AS 1891. S112 24i54; 1892. $685.
sO1.S7. Total, $685. s.6S
The Union Pacific Strikes Back.
The Union Pacific has decided upon q
policy of retaliation against the roads that
recently withdrew from lt q portion of
their interchange passenger business. 1t
will be remembe that two or three
months ago. when the Union Pacific de-
clined to exchange Oregon and Washing
ton business with its connections at Denver
an Ogden, claiming for itself the right TO
control such traffic To and from the Miss
ouri river, partial boy colt was organized
against il by the Rock Island. the BurlinR.
ton. the AtchisOn and the Denver q
Rio Grande. These roads stopped the sale
of round-trip tickets to California reading
in part over the Union Pacific. 1t was q
pretty severe blow, but the Union Pacific
took It quietly ana the other roads settled
down to the belief that it had concluded
to take its punishment without resistance.
They are now of different opinion. The
Union Pacific has struck back with O force
that Is calculated TO daze its opponents. A
circular. signed by President CLARK, Assist
ant General Manager Dickinson and Gen.
eral Passenger Agent Lomax, has been is
sued to connecting lines requesting them
TO discontinue the sale of ell classes of
tickets. both single and round-trip. from
points on or east of the Missouri river.
on or reached by the lines of
the Union Pacific. other than those read
ing via the Union Pacific system from one
of its Missouri river gatewnys or Fort
Worth. On aud after Feb. l, the company
announces that 1t will not accept tickets
from the territory desert bed reaching the
Union Pacific system via junction points
west of the Missouri river or Fort Worth.
By .his action the Burlington. the Rock
Island anc the Atchison are effectually cut
of from interchange of business witt the
Union Pacific road. Heretofore they have
had the privilege of carrying
ssss s~n nss and tbsTs deliver
them TO the Union Pacific, thus
getting n longer hanl by $40 miles and be-
tween S15 snd go more revenue per passen-
ger than they will get by turning over the
passengers to the Union Pacific at the Mis-
souri, river. It will give the Chicago 81
Alton and the Chicago IL North estern g
peculiar advantage with their through
trains to Denver over the Union Pacific
lines The other roads must transfer their
California passengers at Omaha or Kansas
City. When these lines entered into the
boycott business. they cut off ticketing re-
latIons with the Union Pacific only on
round-trip business. They probably did not
feel that they could afford to discontinue
ticketing arrang ement on single-trip bust
ness. but they will no% be forced TO d O so.
as the Union Pacific circular applies TO all
classes of tickets.
Tourist Rates Slashed.
Southern tourist rates from Kansas City