The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-26
Low WINTER RATES
WESTERN ROADS LIKELY TO RUN
MONTHLY exclusions TILL MAY.
The Illinois Central Has Taken the
Lead and Other Railways May
Foiiow-Another Fast Run.


C. H Chappell, vice president and gem
erai manager Of the Chicago & Alton, and
a man very conservative in his views,
draws a dark picture Of the situation in
the West as regards freight traffic. and
fptimates that the Alton is getting into a
lighting mood. Mr.. Chappell says: West
ern freights are In very bad shape and
viii continue In the same worse straits
until the end Of the year The present cut
rates are largely contract business, and
the contracts do not expire before jan !.
Class rates are cut about as much as those
on coal and lumber, the only difference be-
Ing that part OF the reductions on these
two commodities have been made openly.
The situation is very serious We do not
know exactly what We will do about the
coal rates, but we have made up our minis
that We will take part of the tonnage in
any event We have been Systematically
chiseled out OF coal tonnage every year
since the interstate act went into effect.
competitors have taken the entire tonnage
TO kapsas City. We gave notice some time
ago; when rates began getting shaky. that
ness II we had 10 90 as low as 81 per ton
against the tariff rate of 800 We now
share Of the business at the 81 rate the
San,1 re Will make tomorrow. / do not
believe we can get any tonnage at this
not stop at $50 or any Intermediate figure ire.
have reached their present state tate" We e' Mil
simply go out after the tonnage and get
IT There is nothing in sight TO stop the
rate cutting. and IL Is apt to continue in
definitely after the corn crop begins 10
move Unless the rates such as to force
the corn down the river via Galveston there
VIII be good many empty cars In Chicago
and freight will probably be taken at very
low rates rather than haul the cars empty
back West"
Statistics ON Lcng-DfstRnce Runs.
Theodore n. Ely, chief OF motive power
or the Pennsylvania lines. has just COM
pleted and made public the official records
for fast long-distance runs AS a result of
his examination he says: First of all,
the worlds record for a long-distance
train is held by the London & Northwest
ern, and Is. by the official figures I have
just received. e4.s miles an hour for $40
miles Second, the longest run ever made
without stops was 1891 miles, by the Penn
sylvania Company, in ten hours and FIVE
minutes. This was the Jarrett & Palmer
train is held by the London & Northwest
The Jarrett & Palmer train was made
up in Pittsburg. sent to Jersey City with
out stop and was instantly redspatched
and really ran nine hundred miles without
stop. There was no attempt to make
speed on that particular run.
Third. the speed record OF the United
states Tor long-distance train seems 10 be
neld Dy the New York Central with 1851
mile run: at the rate, according to news
paper reports; OF AS miles an hour. al
gives the figures as 6422 /, of course have
not the official data for that particular
s. $40 miles IS held by the Pennsylvania
fastest record for 5 LILO miles is at the rate
train. on the Pennsylvania me hish hsstt
speed record for a distance of about sixty
miles vas made by the Pennsylvania on
APrn n, 1885. Camden to Atlantic CITY
5s-3 miles. in 45A minutes. an average speed
for the whole distance of 761z miles an hour.
been run at the rate of eiehty-three miles
an hour, while rate of-87S miles an hour
was reached for portion of this latter dis
I'VE miles was made on the Pennsylvania.
Maryland division. Aug. g. 1896 A regular
train made the run from Landover to Ana
&c 10 x Of mites In three minutes. a rate
The famous Jarrett & Palmer train left
OF 3.3i3 miles, to San Francisco' in eight ull
four hours and seventeen minutes. with
seventy-two stops, at the rate of forty
miles an hour
sargeht ON the Wabash Rumors.
T. p Sargent. grandmaster of the
brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, SAYS
he has no information whatever of any
attempt on the part of the Wabash rail-
road to get rid Of members of the brother
hood or OF those OF any other organiza-
ton, and he does not think there is any
thing IN the reports He thinks the Wa
nash would be very foolish to attempt any-
thing OF the kind and has no excuse for it.
ion - he. Eo~~<
the A. r. II. strike these organizations re-
fused 10 join in &c And therefore, the
Wabash and other roads ought to feel good
VIII TO them. He declared empha ticalIy
that all Efforts TO crush these old line or
Eanfzatfons would be in vain The men,
bcrs. as rule, acted like honorable men
and they should not be held responsible
for any mistakes a few individual MEM
bers might make.
Large Sale of Bonds.
The largest sale of American railroad
bonds Of the year has escaped the atten-
ton OF Wall street owing to the extreme
secrecy observed in such transactions by
the firms prominently identified with the
late government bond syndicate. A syndi-
cate comprising a number of the most in
nuential banking houses in New York and
ton syndicate OF the Erie road s15.oO0 COO of
first consolidated prior lien four-per-cent.
ronds II - understood that the larger
proportion OF the bonds will be disposed OF
in Europe.
Presidents' Agreement Finished.
After being in session three days at New
York the subcommittee of the special COM
mIttee OF eight. appointed on Monday by
the railroads in the Trunk Line Associa-
ton, to prepare plan for pooling their
interests finished it's labors last evening.
+. H Hoyt, secretary OF the Trunk-line
Association. said after the meeting that
he could make no statement for the pa
pers yet OF the results reached. He also
said that a report of the subcommittee
would be presented TO meeting of pres
idents just as soon as it could be .conven-
fently done.
George L.. Brnd3ury's New Honor
George l.. Bradbury. general manager
Of the Lake Erie & Western, with head
quarters in this city. was yesterday elected
vice president of the Cleveland Akron &
Columbus railroad. a new purchase of the
Brlce interests Mr. Bradbury was in
Cleveland yesterday and could not be seen
last night The organization occurred in
New, York
las Miles I'm 40 Minutes.