The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-07
NO PASSENGER POOL
CHICAGO AND OHIO RIVER LINES RE-
CEIvE A SERIOUS SETBACK.
Their Attorneys Say the Proposed
scheme Might DispIease the Inter-
state Commerce Commission.

A dispatch from Chicago says: The Chi
cago and Ohio river lines have received a
serious setback In their attempt TO form a
passenger pool. The general counsel of
several Of the roads have expressed opin-
ions that the proposed pool is not legal, and
might subject the roads who enter into IL
TO interference from the Interstate-com
merce Commission. In consequence, the
meeting to form a pool. which was scheduled
for Cincinnati. Monday. was declared of.
The general passenger agents have asked
the attorneys to hold a conference and see
II some kind OF a pool cannot be devised to
meet their wishes. and at the same time
Keep within the letter OF the law. 1t has
been suggested that the conference OF the
legal lights be held in this city on Thursday
Of this week, and. IL they succeed In reach
ing a decision that a pool may be formed, a
meeting OF the railroad men win be held
on the day following to put the pool into
operation on the lines suggested by the at
torneys- II the legal opinion is adverse.
they VIII try to form AN agreement on
some other basis.
The Freight Car Shortage.
Already reports are received OF a great
demand for cars and indications are that
there will not be half the cars needed to
move the crops IL all are to be moved in
sixty days after harvested. PROFESSIONALLY
many of the railroad companies are not
prepared to furnish the cars they could
had they kept their equipment in good
order. So anxious were some of the COM
panies to keep expenses at the lowest notch
that they failed TO keep their rolling stock
up to the standard. The Railroad World
says: Reports point to a large crop and
a probable shortage in labor and cars be-
fore the season is ended. Last year many
cars were idle. Now IT is likely that all
the rolling stock will be insufficient to meet
the demands OF the grain shippers. Should
the supply OF transportation not be ade-
Quate TO the demand. the farmers will
complain that railways make no EFFORT to
accommodate the public. The men VIII,
bring this charge lack the capacity to put
1 men ao IN anosners place; They may
family, but they do not maintain a family
physician the year round. Extra men are
after the harvest has been gathered. The
farmer who should keep laborers on his
farm all the year because he needed them
during a month would end In the county
almshouse. Despite these facts, however,
q great many farmers think that railways
should always be supplied with rolling
stock for harvest, even though useless cars
stand on sidings the greater part of the
year. Rural journals take up the cry and
proceed to expose the avarice Of ailways
AE EaAIl6 RuDtL6 Onll tukdkc extra COm-
positors when such action is necessary"
All Must Mend Their Ways.
Every day or two something regarding
the late meeting of the presidents at
Coney island comes to light. although 1t
was to be strictly a secret conference.
The remarks OF j. Piermont Morgan on
the question OF maintaining rates have
been made public by one of the New York
papers that got the Information from on.
who attended the meeting. MIR, Morgan.
reading the riot act TO the presidents, So
he had just returned from Europe n tn;
In England. France and Germany (ar
especially England and Germany. III,
bankers told him that American railroads
were not only carrying freight for less
than the cost OF transportation. but the
economies they had been practicing were
altogether too radical. and were destined
to prove very detrimental to. the properties
under their charge. ! In consequence of this
state of affairs, they said very bluntly
that II this was continued, financiers en-
Essed IN negosia,ins the ns w Of
go home: and furthermore that IL would
not only be useless for them to try TO
securit,es as they Ghe bankers) now hold
would be at once sent TO New York, thrown
on the market. and sold for whatever
price they. would bring. unless there was
-
maintenance OF rates secured, and the rail-
Yoad properties put in a condition to handle
business on a paying basis
Another Line tn the Pacific.
A dispatch from ~Starbuck. Wash, says:
The Burlington railway Is coming west and
there are reasons for the belief that 1t Is
coming In a hurry. A new route running
nearly midway between the Northern and
Union Pacific. through a wild and unsettled
country, Is now being explored and surveyed
with all possible haste by the engineers of
the company, who are working many miles
south OF the routes usually considered
available for the Burlington road. The en-
g.neers are well supplied with surveying
apparatus. and evidently are anxious to get
10 work as quickly as possible, owing to the
shortness OF the season in the Rocky noun
fains. one OF them has stated that they
propose TO run a line up the valley. working
eastward to the Wyoming line. and prob
ably crossing IL In the northern part OF
Fremont county opposite the national
park. unless. a better route through the
Rockies can be securet oy crossing into
southern Montana.
BSg Four's Louisville Route.
The management OF the Michigan divi-
sion OF the Big Four road has determined
or its plan of running trains through TO
Louisville over the b. & o.. s. w. tracks
from North Vernon when the new time
card goes into effect. Aug. IS Only one
train viii run through from Benton Har-
Dor TO Louisville. Two trains will be run
between Benton HarDor and Indianapolis,
- at present. connecting at Anderson with
train from that point for Louisville.