The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-08

The Business of August.
The official train records show that in
August the fifteen lines handled at Indian
| apolis 104.277 cars. 79,42S being loaded,
against SO.273 loaded cars in August. 1885,
! ABS in August 1894, against 70 397 in Au-
! gust 1888 against $50 in August, 1892
| and against s2.3i2 in august. 1891 One of
| the striking features of last months bust
ness was the large number of empty cars
handled in proportion to the total, it av-
! eraging over 500 empty cars per day
| against 2562 loaded cars per day.
Personal. Local and General Notes
In the board of directors of the Northern
/ Pacific Philadelphia capital is about as
| largely represented as in the old organiza-
| ton.
| by a vote of $40 to yesterday refused to
pay $4,000 as a subsidy to the Indiana Cen
| trail railroad
A. A Heard, late general passenger agent
of the Great Northern, yesterday began
service as secretary of the central passen-
| ger committee.
B. A. Squire has been appointed contract
ing freight agent of the Lake Shore al Chi
| cago. He was formerly with the Chesa-
peake & Ohio Southwestern.
The traffic department of the Chesapeake
! q Ohio has informed Louisville shippers
| that they will be protected in the rate war
as far as the Seaboard Air Line cuts to the
| Caroinas are concerned.
| The Southern Express Company has just
| completed a fine office building at Mem
! phis Tenn. 1t is built of steel, is fire.
proof and eight stories high. The ground
floor is occupied for handling express mat
ter and the upper stories as offices.
Receiver Clarke, of the Union Pacific,
| thinks the chances of a reorganization of
that road exceedingly remote, limiting even
| the possibility of the government taking 1t
for its debt. The statement that new
| gage debt of the present company is doubt
| less true
The officials of the New York. New Ha-
| ven & Hartford have under consideration
the ACCESSIBILITY of equipping the Provi-
dence division with electricity. Vice Presi-
thinks the scheme entirely practicable, and
| probably with the advent of another sum-
mer work will be begun with that end in
| view.
Indiana, Ohio and Virginia to handle
more apples this year than has ever been
known before. There are two counties in
Ohio that expect to ship 100 600 barrels of
apples this fall, and the freight officials in
| these States are preparing to handle them,
as many will probably be shipped quite d
| distance.
Two of the new freight engines which
the Vandalia is receiving can haul as many
| cars as three of the old ones and this has
resulted in the dismissal of fifteen fremen
and the setting back of fifteen engineers
| to firing. When the twenty-five new en-
| gineS are in service more tiremen will be
| dismissed, it is understood, or given work
| in some other line on the road,
AS nothing has been done of Importance
looking to the permanent organization of
the mileage book depository by Chairman
| Caldwell, of the Western Passenger Asso-
| ciatiOn H. G. Townsend, general paSSen-
/ ger agent of the Missouri Pacific, has noti-
| fed Mr.. Caldwell that unless the question
! is soon settled the Missouri Pacific will
withdraw from the Western Passenger AS
| ISOLATION.
The fifth biennial convention of the
| brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen will
/ convene at Galveston, Tex. on Tuesday of
Wagner cars will leave St. Louis over the
o
and will return by the Missouri, Kansas &
| Texas. W. j. Hugo, of this city. will rep
| resent, as delegate, the Indianapolis dvi-
| sion and w. A Canaan goes as an alter
nate.
1t is stated that the passenger earnings
of the Cincinnati Hamilton & Dayton lines
for the year ending June 80, 1885, come
nearer to the average of former years than
those of any road operated in Ohio or In
diana. One of the good features with this
system is that it strikes many good
towns and has such a satisfactory local
business, the trolley lines not having af-
fected to any extent their local traffic.
There drones in the passenger serv-
ice of the c., H. & d. company.
The more important roads are now con-
sidering the problem of reducing the num-
Der of cars and adding to the tonnage car
ried by each car, so as to make a decrease
in The custom of hauling car
hundred miles or more with half load
is to be abolished far as possible, and
the rule will be to load cars to their full
capacity and in this manner add to the
average train load. This plan would in
sure greater earnings per car and per
train, and proportionately decrease the ex-
penSe of transportation.
The late decision of the Interstate-com-
merce Commission in the of the
Omaha Commercial Club VS.. the Chicago
&, Rock Island and other roads. makes one
point which carries with it considerable i'm
portance, as under this clause. of the de-
cision: Through rates matters of
tract between carriers composing through
to compel connecting carriers to contract
with each other If in case of shipments
under a through bill of lading and a
through rate, the privilege of 'stoppage in
transit at an intermediate point and try
ing to market there, and if it be found
unsatisfactory, of reshipping on to the
point of original destination at the balance
of the through rate, be lawful, the granting
of it to one locality and denying of it to
stances would be an unjust discrimination
against the latter"
w. H. Baldwin, who succeeds Austin
Island road will be the youngest railway
official holding the position of president in
lege of the class of 81. He took up the
law, and would doubtless have pursued the
even tenor of his way but for the influence
of Charles Francis Adams and an indorse-
ment by President Eliot, by which he was
persuaded to join the staff of the Union
Pacific railway. When he left this property
it had passed into the control of Jay Gould.
Next Mr.. Baldwin became connected with
the. Flint and Pere Marquette railway
and worked up to be general manager. He
called to help in the REORGANIZATION
of the Richmond terminal which was de-
veloped into the Southern railway by SAM
uel Spencer. then connected with DreXeI,
Morgan & Co. In the growth of this sys-
tenn it is said that Mr.. Baldwin's energy
and power an organizer We're conspicu-
Gus.
Engines 200 and 2G1 on the Big Four
which were, when put in service, cOnsid-
cred the best passenger engines in the
world. have been in service one year
and are performing better than in the first
month in service Since they We're built by
the Schenectady locomotive works, the Van
dalia. the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
the Boston & Albany and the Fitchburg
have each had a number built of the same
pattern. These engines admired not
only by American experts, mechanics and
machiniStS for their excellent proportions
and the manner in which they haul heavy
trains, but by a number of foreigners who
have visited this country in the last twelve
months. Nearly all the railway magazines
have published the dimensions of the en-
CINE. and with it cuts and in several cases
shown the remarkable performance of
these pieces of fine machinery which seem
to have taken the name of the Garstang
engine all over the country and for
eign paper speaks of them the Garstang
type
General Manager Loree. of the Pan-han-
die lines is quoted saying that the
Panhandle officials, like all other well
managed railroads. at this time is making
every effort to make the expenditures come
within the revenues Every nook and cor
no &c hEfT 1kAs NO