The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-21
RATES ARE NOT CUT
INDIANAPOLIS FREIGHT AGENTS
LIVING UP TO THE TARIFF.
RumOr Investigated and Found to BE
Untrue-East-BOund Emigrant
Rates D~emoraIfzed.

Rumor Investigated and Found to BE
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Emigrant
Rates DemoraIized.
Yesterday a shipper asked If there was
any truth in the report that east-bound
rates were being cut. and on being request
ed TO state his reason for thinking they
were, he said a man told him that one ship
per had been offered by a line in the Cen
.raI Traffic Association a cut of 22 cents
per 100 pounds if he would give the line
fifty cars, and that the same line had
offered another large shipper a similar cut
If he shipped only thirty cars. This led the
reporter to investigate the matter. Every
line man approached said he did not know
why any line should cut a rate, as all were
short of cars, and ii was not a question
of business but how to move the present
volume with the present equipment. Sew
eral shippers were approached. Most or
them had heard the rumor, but none had
been offered a cut rate. When run down
II was found that a shipper had, by hand
ling stuff as in transit, secured a rate
which was practically a cut on the Indian
epOlis rate to the seaboard, yet a legiti-
mate transaction, and one which any ship
per could secure under like circumstances.
That there is a desperate effort being made
TO break east-bound rates is well known by
freight men, and. consequently, says a
freight agent. all rumors of cut east-bound
rates one hears are false and originate
with the shippers who are getting neither
cut rates nor rebates.
A Novel Case i'm Law.
It will be that last year the
grand chief of the order of Railway Con-
ductors ordered the members of the Order
of Railway Conductors on the Lehigh VAL
ley road to strike. They went out as a
result and lost 500 each. for they could
nave earned at least that much money
while they were doing nothing but sympa-
thizing with the Lehigh Valley strikers.
After the strike was declared off the SYM
pathetic conductors made a request to the
grand lodge Of conductors for the money
they had lost by obeying the order to quit
work. and as they were given the cold
shoulder the striking conductors made up
q purse, employed prominent lawyers and
brought suit against the grand lodge. The
case will come up in a court of one Of the
eastern States in September. Al Eastern
financial paper, in commenting on this nov
Ell legal proceeding, says that should the
suit be declared in favor of the complain
ants it is extremely. probable that grand
lodges will not so quickly order out subor-
dinate lodges, unless they have plenty of
money to compensate those who lose wages
by going out. This suit will test the liabil-
itieS of trades unions TO those who obey
their orders. The cOmplainantS go on the
theory that when a man, a firm, a corpora
I1On, or (tney saw an order engages or
employs men to do a thing beneficial to the
engager or employer, liability for compen-
sation Of the engaged or employed begins.
They say that when ta they gave up tneir
OF the Grand Lodge Of Conductors.
Chicago East-BOund Shipments.
East-bound shipments from Chicago last
week amounted to $3.50 tons. against 1926
tons for the preceding week, and 44,s52 for
the corresponding week of last year. The
roads carried tonnage as follows: Michi-
gan Central, 1880: Wabash, 3,T72; Lake
Shore, 6.096; Fort Wayne, 5,602: Panhandle,
6.7H: Baltimore & Ohio, 2.642; Grand Trunk,
4.21S; Nickel Plate, 6.02S; Erie, 1896; Big
Four. 1,521. Shipments were made up of
the following articles, in tons: Flour, 1,7S9;
grain and mill stuffs, 1887; provisions,
lard. etc. 10.SS3; dressed beef. 1915; flax
1.1S7; lumber, 1919; miscellaneous, 632. Lake
shipments for the week were 1850 tons,
against 1875 tons for the week preceding.
East-BOund Emigrant Rates.
A meeting of the Chicsgo-St. Paul lines
will be held at Chicago to-day to consider
the question of east-bound emigrant rates,
which, it is charged, have been thoroughly
demoralized by the 500 line. This business
IS quite heavy at the present time. and it
is said the 500 line has absorbed the great
er part of it by cutting rates. paying large
commissions and resorting to other tactics.
all OF them calculated to demOraliZe BUSH
ness. and it is feared that the trouble
will extend TO other lines OF business. The
meeting to-day will endeavor TO formulate
proper amount of the business for the Chi
cago-St. Paul lines.
Injunction Against the Old Midland.
The construction of a branch to the old
Midland railroad was abruptly stopped in
Brazil yesterday by an injunction, secured
by several citizens, through whose prop
erty IL is to pass. The property holders
demand damages previous to the construc-
ton of the road. 1t is thought a settlement
will be secured soon and the road COM
pleted to the city.
Personal, Local and General Notes.
The Barney & Smith Car Works Com
pany has declared a 2 per cent. quarterly
dividend, payable Sept. i.
n. II. Kipp. general agent of the Empire
express at this point, yesterday returned
from an Eastern trip Of two weeks.
10. Van Wrinkle. general superintendent
OF the Big Four. and family are spending
three or four days at Benton Harbor.
As an economical measure the BOSTON e.
Albany road, it is stated, is to consolidate
its Worcester and Boston shops at Boston.
VIM. swanston. master mechanic of the
Panhandle lines at this point. yesterday
moved into his new home in Woodruff
Place.
General Passenger Agent Donough,, of
week was the heaviest of any week in
many months.
Luther Williams. of the Big Four tele-
graph office. has been appointed successor
of Harry Burt as chief operator at the
Union Station.
Ollie Tfchenor, of Princeton, Ind, has
been appointed travelling freight and pas
senger agent of the Peoria, Decatur e
Evansville road.
The Louisville. New Albany & Chicago
Railroad Company has increased it's force
at the company's shops and is running
them ten hours q day.
p. 3. F, Pierce. general manager OF the
Indianapolis. Decatur q Western road, has
gone 10 Wisconsin on a pleasure trip, &C.
companied by his family.
The general managers of the roads com
prising the Union Railway Company will
hold their regular monthly meeting to-
day at the Union Station.
The Monon sold nearly three thousand
more tickets to persons who attended the
Battle Ground camp meeting this year thar
at the annual gathering in 1898.
The Southwestern Traffic Association has
decided 10 establish a weighing and in
spectiOn bureau at Chicago, placing a first
class railroad man at the head of Ii.
o. p. SDilman, secretary of a. a. Zion
superintendent of the Union railway and
the Belt road, accompanied by his wife
will leave to-day for an Eastern pleasure
trip.
Thomas Noonan. general manager OF the
Central States DisDatcn. IS expected home
from the East to-day. where he has beer
for soma time on bnSinpCS and plpa cnrf