The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-01-13
EMIGRANT BUSINESS
Western Railways Engaged in a
Fight Over the Question.
The Clearing House Agreement Involved
National Educational Association
May Not Secure Low Rates.


one-whether he is to divide his business
between the association and the Union Pa
cific or allow either one to handle it; and,
If so, which one. The conference was very
animated but nothing definite had been
determined when the meeting adjourned TO
meet again to-day. The Union Pacific is
charged with paying higher commissions for
the business than the association lines, and
If Mcdonnell Is not made to stick by one
side or the other an interesting fight will be
on In defense Of the Clearinghouse agree
ment The Eastern committee of the West
err PASSENGER az AssSelaoon has not yet de-
ISOLATION a rate of one fare for the round
trip to Duluth. The meeting will not be
held in that city unless the rate is allowed,
but will probably go to Detroit. Another
meeting of the committee will be held to-
day.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Evansville &. Terre Haute earned in
1893 $1,3S5,7S3, an increase over 1892 of $S5,60
General Passenger Agent Palmer. of the
Evansville 81 Terre Haute, was in the city
yesterday on official business.
Receiver Hopkins. of the Louisville.
Evansville & ST Louis has borrowed $780,
0c0 with which to pay the employees.
The Wabash earned in the first week of
January $1S6600, a decrease as compared
with last year, same week, of $51,21O.
j. q. Hicks, general yardmaster of the
Big -Four, went East last night, accom-
panied by his wife. TO take a weeks rest.
l. d. Baldwin has just closed his tenth
year as district passenger agent OF the
Mcnon with headquarters at Indianapolis.
The local sleeper between Indianapolis
and St. Louis over the Big Four, has been
on two months and is doing very salts
factory business.
The Central Traffic Association lines and
the Southwestern lines will meet in st.
Louis, Jan. IL. to arrange basis of rates
and divisions to Texas points.
VIC In,
ingS of the Chicago & Northwestern were
off $4,000 as compared with the first week
of January 1892, and those of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST Paul were short SIG, S44.
The new ten-wheel freight engines which
the Peoria & Eastern received from the
Brooks locomotive works few weeks ago
are doing excellent service. These engines
weigh $4,000 pounds, and have 19x24-inch
cylinders.
The higher officials of the Pennsylvania,
the Baltimore & Ohio the Erie, the Lake
Shore and several other lines are in ses-
sion at Philadelphia, considering the adj
visibility Of reducing rates on iron, steel,
coal and coke.
William Green, general manager of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, is expected
week some definite action will be taken as
regards the erection of the new city freight
depot at Indianapolis.
George Challiss, of Atchison. has invented
an automatic car coupler which experts say
is destined to be universally adopted, so
simple yet effective is it, and its cost so
for all of its new equipment.
NJ E. ingalls,, president of the Big Four
says it is not definitely settled whether
common stock or not. The common has
dropped on a rumor that dividends on such
stock We're to be suspended
At nearly all stations on the Monon ticket
agents show larger receipts for business In
December. 1898. than in the same month
S for i bv the .' great exemption from accidents
the road has enjoyed the last twelve
months
III. e. Stevenson has been appointed agent
Arnold. The latter has been in the service
Of the company many years, and retires
on account of i'll health. G. G. Reisner has
been appointed agent ar Bruceville, vice J.
T. Willis, resigned TO engage in business
at Vincennes.
Talk of the disruption of the Central
Traffic Association is branded nonsense
cal by Pittsburg railroad officials. They re-
gard the report as without foundation, as
the railroads are loyal to the association
since IL has proven of great value TO the
lines in il by maintaining rates and In va
r.ous directions.
Inquiry develops the fact that the divi-
dend declared by the directors of the Lou
isvile. New Albany & Chicago on Thurs
day was the first dividend ever paid To
common or preferred stockholders. Start
ing of with liz per cent dividend leads
TO the belief that the preferred stockholders
may look for per cent dividends annually.
n. C.. Parker traffic manager of the Lake
Erie * Western, says he strongly favors
the proposed plan of the trunk lines and
the roads in the Central Traffic Associa-
ton territory of dividing the business, and
thinks IL the only plan by which rates can
be placed on a reasonable basis and MAIN
tained but he fears the conditions are such
that IL will be almost impossible To bring
about such reform at the present time.
General Manager Barnard. of the Peoria
* Eastern, yesterday returned from three
DAYS trip over the western division. He
says should the weather continue as favor
able for outdoor work as at present, the
cutoff at Danville will be completed by
the middle of February. When this IL COM
OF its heavy grades, reducing il for five
miles an average OF thirty feet to the mile.
At the annual meeting of the Mexico,
Cuernavaca & Pacific railroad. held in Den
president. The road is now completed
across the high mountain range from Mex
leo City southwesterly to Cuernavaca, a
distance of about sixty miles. Its ultimate
destination is the Pacific coast. at a point
about four or five hundred miles from the
City of Mexico.
Under the agreement of Eastern roads
no freight which reached them after Thurs
day would be taken at the reduced rates OF
Western termini of Eastern lines were yes
terday glutted with freight in transit, the
carloads of freight in the yards of the west
ern terminals OF It's lines. Ii will be some
days before the trunk lines are cleared of
this accumulated business.
On Jan. Is the Union Pacific will place on
sale S,00o-mile books at 2I2 cents per mile,
good on any part OF its system. The
limit of time 10 use the book is one year
and the holder has the privilege of carry
ing $50 pounds OF baggage. This step is
taken by the Union Pacific TO court the
good will of the travelling statesmen, and is
really reduction. as, over some portions
of the system, 3 and cents per mile has
heretofore been paid on mileage books.
\ business man. and one well up in rail-
road matters, who does not speak rashly
says that twenty-five years from now the
terminals of the o.. c.. G. q St. L. will
have cash value as great as the present
bonded debt At all important points its
terminal facilities second TO none. He
cited the valuable property the Big Fou.
now owns at Indianapolis. CINCINNATI
Cleveland and other points. The value o.
this property now runs up into the millions
Several times I'm the last few years ladies
connected with the Womens Christian
Temperance Association have been instru-
mental In getting reinstated men who were
discharged from the Baltimore x Ohio road
for being intoxicated. Last week one OF the
kindly inclined ladies called upon president
Mayer 10 get a man reinstated, and ne gave
her plainly To- ind 5rstand that the fnnuenc,
she had exerted in this direction in behalf
or some Of the employees who had been 81
unfortunate as 10 lose their positions for
too free use OF intoxicants would no longer
be entertained. He had, he said. given strict
orders that no employe who was discharged