The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-05

states freight Association, IS IN New 1ork
trying 10 bring about an adjustment OF the
troubles between the Southern lines.
The Pennsylvania Company. which now
controls the Cincinnati Portsmouth & Vir-
ginia, Is changing the roadbed Tor as
lance OF i've miles at a cost OF s3o,uUV.
West-bound travel is exceedingly heavy.
The Western and southwestern express
trains on the Pennsylvania road Tor some
days past have been run in three to four
sections.
Ticket and freight agents of the Canada
Southern and Michigan Central nave peen
notified that American money must be
taken at par value and no discount made in
any case.
1t is thought in financial circles that
with the reorganization OF the Balt ~ nor q
& o. proper and the Baltimore d Ohio
Southwestern.
The official statement of the Great North
shows that in the year endlng June
80 it handled over its lines 6S.oo00Q0 bushels
of grain, loading 10000 cars, the trains
averaging forty cars.
George Daniels, general passenger agent
of the New York Central who has been on
his farm in Illinois much of the time the
last two months. has returned to his head
quarters at New York.
The Mexican government has already
given in subsidies to its railroads SllO, UO0,oo0
and an the building of some OF rs roads cost
ranged from 81. 500 to s14, 500 per mile.
The last six months both the Pullman and
the Wagner sleeping car companies nave
done better business at Indianapolis prop
er than in any former year. and the bust
ness of both at ST. Louis has been in excess
of the summer of 1895.
All Baltiomre & Ohio through freight
berland one division, 102 miles. Much
of ths way the grades are heavy, and the
trains require the company most powerful
locomotives to haul them.
The middle division of the Pennsylvania
is a gauge of the business of the road, and
last month the total movement over TINS
In August, 1875, the total movement was
1928 cars. 1920 being loaded.
1t is stated that the Brice syndicate is be-
hind the new move to take the Ohio South
ern out of the hands of a receiver and re-
organize the company. 1t is supposed to be
the intention to consolidate 1t with the
Lima Northern, another Brice line.
With the completion of the large shops
the Boston & Maine is building at Con-
cord, N. H.. all Pullman cars in service
on New England roads will be rebuilt or
repaired at the Boston Il Maine shops
instead of at Pullman, H., as heretofore.
The Vandalia on Thursday received two
more locomotives from the Pittsburg loco
motive works. The ten thus far received
all heavy freight engines, and will be
put in use on the main line, transferring
the lighter locomotives to the other divi-
sions.
A meeting of the general mortgage bond
holders of the Philadelphia e Reading has
been called for Sept. H. The decision, it
is believed, viii have an important bearing
upon the reorganization proceedings, and
some think it means the property will be
saved from a foreclosure sale.
The Boston e Maine, the Maine Central
and the Grand Trunk have adopted the
practice of burying ties under the rails
instead of having one-third of the tie ex
posed, as is customary on most roads. It
is expected the ties will last one-fourth
longer if buried in the ballast.
The Boston & Albany is credited witt
maintaining rates nearer at tariff in ever
respect than any road in the country, and
as result its net earnings in the yeal
ending June 80, 1895, were $2943, 525. against
$2g24,169 in 1895, and against $2.469,9SS il
1894. Each year shows an increase in net
earnings
movement is on foot looking to the
building of 102 miles Of road. which would
give the Norfolk & Western an entrance
into Louisville, making it more of factor
in through business TO the Southern sea
board. The proposition is to extend the
Lexington & Eastern from Jackson. Ky, to
a connection with the Norfolk & Western.
Railway officials at Toronto state that
traffic relations between the Grand Trunk
and Lehgh Valley will be established
General Manager Hays and Superintendent
McGuigan talked over the proposition with
Lehigh Valley officials in Buffalo recently
and it is said several changes will soon be
made.
General Manager Schaff of the Big Four
says the railroad has done fully as much
business as it was expected it would the
first year after getting into Louisville. 1t
was several months after the road opened
for business before everything was in good
working order. Now at no terminal is it
better systematized or the service more
satisfactory to the patrons of the road.
Edward Chase of the New York Central
who ran one of the engines which hauled
the Empire expresss4and recently lost his
run after undergoing the contest will be
made travelling engineer for the middle di-
vision of the New York Central, and Frank
Case who now holds the position will be
made master mechanic of the company's
shops at Utica, succeeding NJ Pendegrast
The Southwestern limited over the Big
Four now hauls dining car through from
Indianapolis to ST. Louis, and travel on
the train is so heavy that another day
coach has been added. Those in position t
know say that on no road in the country
has the passenger business kept up so near
to standard, and on some trains increased
as on the Big Four and the Vandalia, be
tween indianapolis and ST. Louis.
Oscar Murray, receiver and vice president
of the Baltimore q Ohio who has been ii
Chicago this week, in referring to the fact
that the r. d Q. carried last week NOR.
than did any other line said it was the first
time in four years it has headed the list
He added that the company had 5000 new
cars, most of them delivered, and was now
in shape to hold it's own in through bust
ness.
The closing of the outside ticket offices
again being agitated. Should this be done
an information bureau should certainly be
outside ticket Offices are the chief reliance
now in the getting of information regard
ing routes, rates, etc. There are not men
enough employed in the Union Station
ticket office to give the time that giving
desired information requires.
Notice of reduced rates on the Southern
railway, incident to the rate war now IL
progress between it>and the Seaboard Air
line, have been fled with the Interstate
commerce Commission, and they will take
effect SATURDAY The schedule filed was
prepared by the Southern States Freight
Association, and applies only to freight
tariffs From the terms of the notice the
commission does not know whether the
maximum rates apply to intermediate
points or not, and Auditor Smith wrote a
letter to the Southern railway requesting
information regarding that fact.
Division All of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, located at Syracuse. N
Y, has adopted resolutions branding as
false the statements that have been publish
ed in regard to the methods of the New York
Central in its examinations for color blind
ness and hearing. The article stated that
each engineer before going to the eXamina-
ton was handed a sealed envelope by Su-
perintendent Buchanan to give the phySi-
clan. In this envelope. it was claimed, was
applicant to examination, but in reality
containing secret message to the physi-
clan to take favorable or unfavorable ac-
ton in regard to the applicant as the com
pany desired BY this secret method ii was
alleged the company was enabled to dis
charge the men whom they did not want.
Trial runs We're lately made in GERMANY
between Berlin and Lubbenau on the Ber-
lin and GorlitZ line. A German contem.
porary says that for these runs a special
express engine of new design with four