The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-17

adopted. 1t contains a clause giving recog-
milton to brokers' which the strong lines
will not countenance.
An official OF the Chicago. Burlington g.
Quincy, when questioned as TO how bust
ness was on the road answered, THE Q
is buried in corn and the passenger bust
ness is steadily improving.
NJ. w. Mansfield superintendent Of the
Indianapolis q Vincennes, yesterday went
to Louisville to make q social visit TO r.
a. Bonebrake, superintendent of the Louis
vile division of the Pennsylvania lines.
Under its reorganization the fixed charges
or the Monon are reduced to $3.50 per
annum, which was considered safe bust
ness when taking the traffic of the last
five years as a basis to fix charges upon.
A freight bureau was established two
years ago at Mobile, and f. +. England,
general manager, claims to have, in the two
years, adjusted l, 200 differences between the
shippers and the roads centering at that
point.
The Boston & Maine is building cattle
pens at M1Shah3m, near Woburn, near
Boston, which will accommodate 5000 head
of cattle. The yards are built in the inter
est of Nelson Morris 81 Co., of Chi
D. B. Martin, passenger traffic manager
of the Baltimore & Ohio, who has been
travelling good deal of late, finds business
improving at a rapid rate and thinks the
prospects brighter than at any time in
many years.
The Canadian Pacific has decided to make
Golden, on the Rocky mountain section,
Sive work shops there to repair the heavy
engines used on the mountains and the
cars of that division
While commissions paid to ticket agents
at different points in the country are not as
large as in former years, just now more
roads roads are paying commissions than two
ton against their payment.
j. @. Van Wrinkle, general superintendent
Of the Big Four, goes to Columbus, O.. to-
day, where the board of managers will take
approaches, operating on the same plan as
the Union Railway Company of Indian
apols.
NJ. R. Spelman, who for several years
has been general agent of the Illinois Cen
tral at New Orleans, has resigned and the
position has been abolished. Mr.. Spelman
was for many years with H. b. Hammond
on the Indiana, Decatur & Western as it's
superintendent
For the month of June the Railroad Ga
zttte reports ninety-ffve accidents in which
fioIty-fye persons We're killed and 127 in
Jured. In forty cases the causes of the ac-
cidentS were collisions. The only Indiana
line which suffered any important damages
was the Vandalia, in a collision at Van
dalia, III.
The passenger department of the Wabash
has entered the field and demands a differ
entail between Chicago and New York via
the Wabash, the Grand Trunk and the Lee
high Valley A few DAYS ago the ofticiaIs
of the road claimed to have the banner line
between Chicago and New York as to time,
If reports are true, on some Of the roads
men are working sixteen to twenty hours
OF the day in freight service, so anxious
are they to make money while business is
good. In the end this means trouble
SAID veteran railroader, "as ten hours is
as long as any train man should be on
railroad in the twenty-four hours"
The Southern Railway has established a
barge line from GreenVille, Miss, to New
Orleans, with view Of bringing Alabama
coal to that point from Birmingham and
noatlng II down the river, delivering it to
sugar planters along the lower river. This
brings the Alabama coal in direct competi-
ton with that of Pennsylvania 1t is stated
that the barge fleet, under tow of steam
ers will make the run from Greenville to
New Orleans in sixty hours.
A railway official yesterday, in assigning
the reason for Sampel FELTON, being so much
sought Tor as an expert to inspect roads,
said that he is very strict in his idea of
what proper inspection of O. railway
means. He watches closely every mile of
road gone over and detects any defect quick
~, so much of a study has he made of this
feature of railroad work, he entering this
special branch of service in 1868 as a rod
man after having himself made a study of
civil engineering.
Total east-bound shipments from Chi
cago last week amounted to $1,000 tons,
compared with 55,345 tons last week and
5l,O VA tons for the corresponding week of
last year The total shipments via lake
footed 136,203 tons. The all-rail business
last week was divided in tons among the
roads as follows Michigan Central 9,972;
Wabash, 5,460; Lake Shore and Michigan
Southern, 1888; Fort Wayne, 1878; Pam
handle, $685. Baltimore & Ohio, 2,7S5; Grand
Trunk, 6,6l8 Nickel-plate, 3,275; Erie, 6,OS6;
Big -Four, 1888
Railway officials look for heavy move
ment of coal as soon as the strike is over,
and the shipments to the lakes will doubt
less be heavy beyond precedent. Over and
above the fact that the supply of the
Northwest has been practically cut off,
there is an increase in the consumption
In the Northwest, as we'll as in the East
there has been a general Improvement in
business. Factories have started that have
been idle; Grain mills have been working
demand. All of this has been increasing
the consumption of coal. The Northwest
has taken advantage Of the demoralized
price of coal and bought and stored large
quantities. If it had not been for this that
part of the country would be suffering for
want of coal. But the increased consump-
ton, in addition to the shortage on ac-
count Of the strike will deplete the store
houses of the Northwest, and then when
the strike is over, will come the expected