The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-24

deficient in eyesight viii be given employ
ment as far as possible In places where
such defect cannot harm the service
w. s. Carr, passenger conductor on the
Erie lines, on Wednesday night celebrated
his china wedding at Huntington. Ind Sew
enty-flve OF his friends gave him sur
prise and passed an evening pleasantly.
Many handsome presents were received
The statement is made on the highest
authority that just as soon as the legality
of the Joint Traffic Ass0cia ton is estab-
lished and its operations successfully DEM
onstrated, similar organizations will be in
augurated in different parts OF the country.
A fine iron bridge, five hundred feet in
length was completed on Wednesday at
Rob Roy. on the Chicago & Indiana Coal
road division of the Chicago * Eastern II
linois. The company did good deal the
last year in rebuilding and renewing
bridges.
Passenger officials of the lines running be-
tween Cleveland and Toledo are somewhat
disturbed over the announcement that the
Cleveland q Buffalo Transit Company will
establish, the coming season, regular pas
senger and freight line between Cleveland
and Toledo, to run daily.
Vice President Peabody, of the Baltimore
& Ohio Southwestern, is quoted as saying
that the traffic department of the company
will be reorganiZed, but he is noncommittal
as to whether the headquarters of the
freight-traftic manager will be at Cincin-
natl, as formerly, or not.
The statement of the Pennsylvania lines
west of Pittsburg for December. 1895. as
compared with the same month in 1894,
SHOWS an Increase in net earnings Of s2l2,3 62.
The twelve months of 1895, compared
with the same period of 1894. show an in
crease in net earnings of 81. 769, 5000.
The managers of the Joint Traffic Asso-
citation have decided that charges for cart
age and drayage on freight destined for
Chicago must be abolished. The Chicago
freight committee is hard at work to bring
about such an arrangement, as carriage and
drayage is simply another name for rebates.
A bill was introduced in the Kentucky
Legislature yesterday by Senator Goebel to
repeal the charter OF the Southern Pacific
railway obtained in 1884 by c. p. Hunting
Kentucky, but in California, and the action
of the Senator is prompted by resolutions
of mass-meetings OF citizens of California.
Two of the Western lines out of Chicago
have outwitted the railroad board by estab-
fishing cattle pens of their own, or stock
yards, as they call them, just outside of
Chicago, on their lines. This is done by
advice or counsel TO enable the roads 10
continue to charge 81 per car on live stock
delivered at the Chicago yards by such
roads engines.
l.. F. Loree. the new general manager of
the lines west of Pittsburg, arrived in the
city by special train yesterday and spent
the afternoon in inspecting the freight
depots. shops. etc. He was accompanied by
John r. Miller, general superintendent of
the Southwestern lines, and the new chief
engineer, Mr.. Johnson. The party, at $50
this morning, will leave for Louisville.
Several division superintendents were in
the city last evening to confer with the
new general manager. :
"A newspaper correspondent at Indianapo-
lis sends out a report that travel is very
light with Indianapolis lines and that often
trains come into the Union Station with
not a passenger aboard. Probably he saw
some OF the accommodation trains backing
In before departure co the regular ruas, out
no one has ever seen. under the most adj
verse circumstances, a train come into the
Union Station with no passengers. The
same correspondent said freight traffic IS
also very light, when the fact is that most
OF the indianapolis lines are doing the
heaviest freight business in their history.
President Spencer and others of the South
ern railway, who have been in Cincinnati
on a mysterious mission, have dropped the
cloak OF mystery and now say that they
did not go there TO accomplish anything
but only TO consult with the trustees and
citizens about the future of the Cincinnati
Southern road and to ask them to consider
two propositions one for a perpetual lease
OF the road at a reduced rental, and the
road needs an outlay OF six millions for
Improvement of facilities and equipments
and that no operating company can furnish
this without lease at a reduced rental.
The Chesapeake & Ohio is creating a rec
ord for heavy freight business on road
which Is chiefly single track. The December
traffic was the heaviest in the history of
that company, and during that month 6,5l7
trains, or an average of 210 per day, passed
over that line. mainly east-bound. The
train-miles run were 5529l6, or 1859, 0s4
miles per loaded car, and 5.39l 647 miles per
empty car. OF this number LII $50 loaded
cars were moved east and 6S,55. empty cars
west. with an average of twenty-rine cars
to each train, Of which 81 cars were empty.
This was an increase os 2@u ,020 car-miles
over December, 1894, and 1859 coo miles over
August, the same year, which had been the
heaviest month in the roads business.
Local passenger officials are somewhat ex-
ercised over the proposition of the board
of managers of the Joint Traffic Association
to lengthen the time of the through trains
: between Western cities and the seaboard
They say the travelling public is edu-
Gated up to twenty-two-hour trains between
indianapolis and New York, twenty-eght-
hour trains between St. Louis and New
York, and Neutrality-suspicious. trains between
Chicago and New York. Travellers are
willing to pay for the better time, ard any
such step would be looked upon as a back
ward move. III is also understood that the
board has under consideration general and
uniform lengthen!ng of time of fast freight
trains between Western and Eastern points.
This will certainly raise howl among
dressed meat, live stock, provision and
produce shippers.