The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-04-17

Shattuc. the commissioner. who threatens
TO retire, does so, the association will likely
pass out Of existence
The national convention of freight men
viii be held at Pittsburg, June II, g. IL
and -. Already the freight men located
at Pittsburg are making arrangements To
hanosomely entertain the freight officials
and their wives who attend the meeting.
The association now has over four hundred
members.
The Galveston & Great Northern Rail-
way Company, recently incorporated in Ne
braska and Kansas TO construct line
from NiObrara, Neb., to Galveston, will
Northern railway. known as the Hill sys-
tenn That company now has a line TO
Yankton, s. D.
=. John G. Williams, general manager. of
the Eandalia lines, was in the city yester
day. He says that in few weeks the pas
senger earnings OF the Vandalia will begin
10 show handsome increase over last year.
as, owing TO the worlds fair. east-and-West
roads suffered in their passenger business
last year, while this year the reverse will
be the case.
A rumor was current yesterday that the
Monon had decided TO reduce wages of its
employees 10 per cent, but it could not be
confirmed by any OF those in the employ
yesterday came in from Chicago. The men
on this road have thus far been very fortu-
nate, the pay of none having been reduced
during the depression.
Pacifc, who came here to attend the funer-
al OF his father last week, wild remain here
most of the week Mr.. Paul was formerly
a passenger conductor on the Indianapolis,
Bloomington a. Western. His father, G.. II.
Paul who was buried last week, was one
apolis in its early history.
stockholders OF the Ohio Southern rail-
road yesterday elected as directors Fred
II. Aims r. Morehead and Joseph r.
Mengrue, Of CINCINNATI; George II. Frey
and George Saul. of SDrin pyfiPld. nj. III.
Barse, of Buffalo, and S. Beymer of New
York The capital stock was increased
from A.OVO,OJ0 TO $000,000, principally to
build a line from Cincinnati to Columbus.
Vice President Harris. of the Chicago.
burlington & Quincy, refers to the railroad
situation. so far as earnings and pros
poets are concerned, is improving. To-day
Is better than yesterday. and this week bet
slip back four feet and only regain three,
now we gain more than we lose all the
tlme and that covers the situation"
The ST. Louis Terminal Company, oper-
ating the Eads bridge and tunnel at st.
Louis, has completed the absorption of the
Merchants Bridge and Terminal Company,
which started out a few years ago to pro-
vide competition in transriver traffic. The
work of operating the two terminal sys-
TENS TENS VIII be done by the Eads bridge force.
The Merchants company will maintain
president and board of directors, however,
10 comply with the law.
Thomas G. Plat, receiver for the New
in the United States Circuit Court, at New
YORK, report made by L. II. Wentworth,
an expert expert VINO examined the accounts of
cost or operating them and the profits or
losses Mr.. Platt says that he and Mars
den Il. Perry, the other receiver, believe
1t to be the best interests of the company
to pay the rentals on the leased lines.
The Canadian Pacific, the Grand Trunk
and the Bee-line have agreed that. after
April 20, they will pay commission of
Sl30 per ticket on all business coming
through Canadian ports and Boston. This
commission will be paid only to an agreed
list of steamship companies, emigrant
agents and general agents. The Sl.30 rate
is to be added to that heretofore paid to
st. Paul and corresponding territory. The
result OF this agreement will reduce the
rate of commissions on this line from Sc
to $3.50.
The Western Passenger Association lines
are about to make an active fight against
the Union Pacific for the control of the
California emigrant business. A conference
York, between Chairman Caldwell and emf
grant agents johnson and Miller, who
have pooled their issues with those of the
Western Passenger Association. 1t is prob
able that an agent to act for the associa-
ton and also for the New York emigrant
agents will shortly be appointed in San
Francisco and then the fight Will begin In
earnest
Arguments were heard yesterday in the
United States Supreme Court in the case
OF the Interstate-commerce Commission,
appellant. VS. w. G.. Crimson, from the
Circuit Court for the Northern district of
Illinois. This case involves the obligation
OF a witness before the commission TO teS-
tify i'm a matter where he himself has VIC
lated the law. The decision in the So-caileo
| Counselman case was that a witness could
not be compelled to incriminate himself
| under such circumstances. Subsequent leg
| islation was enacted to exempt witnesses
from liability for such testimony. This case
is to test the efficiency of this provision.
| the defendant having declined to allow
| access to his account books in a nearing
before the commission.
The starch and cerealine manufacturers
| are complaining that Cincinnati parties are
| paying at all points on the lines Of the Big
| Four two or three cents above the regular
| price for corn, with the understanding that
IL is to be shipped over the Big Four End
| the Chesapeake & Ohio road. in kanawha
| Despatch cars. They say the Cincinnati
firms could not pay so much above the
| market price if they were not favored in
rates by this fast freight line, which, they
allege, has an excellent faculty of covering
up its methods of cutting rates. Local
| freight officials of the Big Four say that
so far as Indianapolis is concerned, rates
| east bound are strictly lived up to, and
| competitors of the Big Four admit that
after the most careful investigation they
| could not find any evidence that the Bis
| Four was deviating from tariff rates here
Tho monthly report of r. F. Smith, SUI
| perintendent of the Pennsylvania voluntary
| relief department shows that in March
| there were $4,000 dis5ursed in benefits or
| account of death from natural causes, anC
| $3.50 on deaths from accidents. In disable
4
| $534425 was disbursed, and on account Of
| sickness, 81, AL go. making the total disburse
| ments- OF the month $17 525. IS. the number
| Of members receiving benefits being I6O
| In the forty-seven months the association
| has been in operation there has been dis
| bursed in death benefits $ili,9i2.69 in eicl
| benefits $349 S44.S0; in accident benefits
| S272. 525. 10, making a total of $193T. 30. 81
| During the forty-seven months benefit!
were paid on deaths from accidents 70
| Isl members; on death from natural causes
| ass; on accident benefits, 1857; in sickness
| benefits, 80 42S; in other words, 4S,42S EN-
| ployes on the Pennsylvania lines west o
| Pittsburg have received benefits from thi
| voluntary relief association