The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-08-09

aDO|e the alOtteu percentage INTO the pOoi.
II this were done no road would have any
reason for exceeding its tonnage in the
pool. Again. he thinks. thirty days notice
OF withdrawal from the pool should be
ample time instead of ninety days, as
proposed Last OF all. the Toledo, St Louis
& Kansas City now has contracts to haul
a larger tonnage OF coal. and will earn
more money on this business than it pos
sfbly could under the pooling agreement.
Mr.. Peirce says parties are anxious to
develop new mines on the line of the road.
and viii have no encouragement to do
so IL the Toledo. st. Louis & Kansas City
which per cent. would give the road about
fifteen carloads of coal per day TO haul
not enough to carry the coal already mined
The Future of Electricity.
1t is the opinion Of some railroad men
and also OF electricians that the time will
never come when electricity will take the
place Of steam on long distance traffic
either in passenger or freight An official
OF the Pennsylvania road said to a reporter
of the Pittsburg Post that "in so far as
the suburban passenger service was con-
cerned the use of electricity must take
the place OF all other systems before long,
because where cars are run at frequent
intervals and only a short distance apart
electricity is the most economical and eff
(4-h< III ~ a no NAC
service extended. ne said. the steam
roads would be able to hold their own
proper share Of the suburban traffic. par
ticularly in winter, when the snow and ice
interfere with the electric lines, but the
tricity to penetrate all the streets and
settled districts and enable people TO get
on and OF at their doors is an advantage
that the steam roads do not now and
never will possess. But when 1t comes
to the transportation of freight and pas
one hundred or two hundred miles and
upward at a high rate of speed. no electric
motor yet invented Will do the work. Take
into consideration the amount of electric
power that would be required to move from
seven to nine heavy coaches or Pullman
cars three hundred miles at an average
rate of forty-five miles an hour. and you
will find that II would cost more than the
steam engine and be less efficient. For
snother Illustration Illus ,sts he let us SUPPOSE mat wb you
has two hundred trains moving all the
ttne. representing at least $4,000 tons.
TO be kept constantly In motion: 1t would
largest size for each train, or two hundred
plants distributed along the route. We
wonderful electric locomotive which the
Baltimore & Ohio has in use at Baltimore.
tons. or as much as two big steam loco
motives. and yet 1t is able to haul only
thirty cars? The speed of such a ire
mendous mass of metal is limited, first
by it's own weight. and in the next place
BY the danger OF running it rapidly over
anything but the most perfect track. A
fl1esS sen would easine tear sn s shs tracks noad en ali TO
pieces II run at a high rate of speed. AS
long as steam Is in the first place re-
power of the electric current as a motor
Is limited to It's present capacity. 1t Will
motive. but for light cars with frequent
service on suburban roads its supremacy
Is already established"
Rates to the Atlant Exposftion.
A meeting OF the passenger agents of
nearly all OF the prominent Southern rail-
ways was held in Chicago. yesterday. for
the purpose of making rates and arrange
ments to the Atlanta Exposition. The meet
ing agreed on the following forms of tick
cts. and they were offered to the Western
roads for use in the territory north of the
Ohio river. the Southern roads saying when
that they would be put ints effect south of
the river.
First-one fare, plus 10 per cent. for
weuld make the fare from Chicago to At
lanta $3.50 for the round trip.
Notwithstanding per cent; of the
date Of sale until JAMS. which means the
life or the exposition.
Third-Tickets at one cent. per mile to be
on sale once every ten days
The Western roads TO whom the rates
were rendered made no reply, but will take
the matter up and decide upon 1t at an
early date. A meeting Of the Ohio river
roads will be held to-day to consider the
propositions Of the Southern lines. and the
rates as above given will without debut be
accepted by them.
Home~eekers' Excursion.
h Western roads did not succeed in
reaching any decision on the matter OF
homeseekers at their meeting in Chicago
yesterday, and the meeting adjourned until
next Wednesday. The committee which was
to report on the subject OF tickets with and
without restrictions declared in favor OF
doing away with round-trip tickets. Tn
plan suggested was that all tickets which
round trip should be sold az the starting
point at a price closely approximating thai
at which the round trip would. cost. and
would be signed and stamped at the point OF
return on the day OF return on the payment
OF a nominal amount. The m will
make a further report to the meeting, which
convenes on Wednesday next
Martin Mason Sue. the
Martin Mason. Of this city, yesterday
nled a complaint at Frankfort against the
vandalia Railroad Company asking dam
ages of $4,000 for defamation of char
acter. The complaint sets out that for
many years previous to July q. 1894 the
plaintiff. was employed as a brakeman on
the trains OF the company running be-
tween indianapolis and st. Louis. On that
date he was arrested on a charge OF sell
ing fraudulently procured railroad tickets
He was in jail three days in ST. Louis be-
fore he secured bond, and when tried in
May. 1895. was promptly acquitted. He Is
now employed on the Monon road.
Personal. Local and General Notes.
The Pennsylvania has ordered go cars
built at the company's shops at Altoona.
The passenger earnings OF the Lake Fri
& Western for July. this year. were 500. OF
ahead or those OF July. 1894.
Train 20. over the Pennsylvania line. wen
out yesterday with two engines. haulin,
twelve cars. Including the sleepers.
The Great Northern road OF England /.
planning to Introduce the American sys
tenn OF vestibuled trains on its lines.
+. p. Jeffries. the newly appointed genera
freight agent OF the Evansville * TER
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