The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-14

begin to feel that all hopes of ever estab-s
fishing paying rates and maintaining them
have vanished
8 On application or the Chicago & North
western and other railroads, the Interstate
commerce Commission has suspended the
long and short-haul clause of the interstate
commerce law 50 as to enable railroads ina.
longer distance points in the Nebraska re-
gion OF crop failure.
Thomas Shepherd boiler maker on the
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago at the
Fort Wayne shops, was eighty-two years
old on Monday. and number of his shop
mates esllea on nm IN the ese hansr 70 baa
been on the pay roofs of the Pennsylvania
Company over forty years.
j. ID. Anthony, chief clerk in the passen-
ger department of the Erie, has made appli-
cation for a patent on a coupon which may
be attached to- any ticket, and which when
LORI todn, aIter the style OF a postal hose' VIII
eed. Such a coupon would neutralize the
effect of any alteration in the body of the
ticket.
N. K Elliott, general superintendent, and
Harry Miller superintendent of the Van
daiia main line were in the city yesterday.
In conversation they stated that some i'm
portant improvements to the roadbed of the
main line were under contemplation in the
way of new rails, reballasting and bridge
work. The company is experiencing but lit
tie trouble from broken rails, as the track
was in good condition when the. ground
froze and steady cold weather keeps it
solid.
For three weeks Pennsylvania and Hook
ing Valley coal was Shut out OF the Chicago
market, SO much lower prices could Illinois
and Indiana Goals be secured for ON account
of the rate war. This led the Eastern lines
TO make q. differential rate to some of the
larger Chicago consumers, which resulted
in the Illinois and Indiana lines moving to
a restoration of rates lest 1t might lead TO
permanent arrangement on the part of
Eastern roads to carry the business at the
reduced or preferential rate.
The gross receipts of the Illinois Central
from tratfic for the six months ended Dec.
81 1894, were SO, S2S 006. a decrease of s2,312-
133 from the earnings of the same period of
1893 Operating expenses for the six months
decreased s920,050. The excess of receipts
six months @ Was s!ss7, $50. aao decrease Of Sic
392,0S3 the excess for the same portion
from the net earnings of the six months
ending Dec 81, 1894, has been declared. 1t
is payable March l.
A meeting of the committees of the Cen
trail Traffic, Trunk Line and New England
passenger associations will be held in Bos-
ton Feb. 20. The meeting is called to con-
great meetings which will be held in the
East during the coming summer These
meetings are the triennial conclave of the
Knights Templars, the Baptist Young Peo-
pies Society and the Young Peoples Socie-
ty of Christian Endeavor. The two latter
of decentralization in rates. and it is to
guard as far possible against this that the
meeting has been called.
>. K. Galloway, president and general
manager of the Nickel-Plate, is in the city,
the guest last night of r. B. +. PIERCE.
AIR. Galloway had not been in indianapolis
since the new Union Station was built,
and greatly admired it, but remarked it
was subject to the same criticism most of
the union stations are, that of being built
on too limited scale the few minutes he
had been in the train sheds and the station
convincing him of the correctness of his
opinion. Mr.. Galloway. like most of the
railway presidents, is of opinion that the
railroads have better times in prospect.
The depressed times had shown what could
be done in the way of curtailing expenses,
and the roads are now being operated on a
minimum basis.
The Pennsylvania Company has a large
force of track walkers employed by day and
night watching for broken rails, broken
frogs switches. Superintendent Darling
ton states that every important train Is
any trouble of this character So far on
the Indianapolis division, but five broken
rails have been discovered since the cold
weather set in, but this exemption has not
lessened the efforts to protect trains against
broken rails. Mr.. Darlington says mis-
taken idea prevails about the breaking of
rails. Where an eighty-pound rail is used
fewer cross-ties are put under it than where
a Sixty-pound rail is used. Rails break
usually as result of some croSs-tie settling
below another when the ground freezes;
of the heavy locomotives strikes it it
snaps. Then, again, there are small flaws in
a rail sometimes which make it more liable
to break if resting OF one of the ties slight
N above the others. These flaws are never
found until the rail breaks