The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-24

at a cost Of only % cents per ton, so well
arranged are the depots for handling
freight.
The Vandalia time card over the Michigan
division which took effect last Sunday, is
said to be the best arranged schedule ever
operated under on this division as TO max
ing connections with other lines and going
through from st. Louis TO ST. Joseph with
out change of cars.
The Milwaukee. Benton Harbor 6, Column
bus road has been completed from Benton
Harbor TO the St. Joseph river. and the
new bridge over the river 354 feet in
tract for building the road TO Buchanan,
Mich has been let
A. Galloway, superintendent of the Gin
cnnati & Indianapolis division of the Gin
city yesterday looking after some pending
litigation against the road. He says bust
ness is very good on the main line, and
on the Indianapolis division it is improving
n. j. Weis, chief clerk of Division Super
intendent Fletcher, of the Cincinnati Ham
ilton q Dayton, has resigned to accept a
position with Superintendent Hustled of
the Baltimore 81 Ohio, with headquarters
at Cumberland. John Connor, of the c.,
II. & D., is promoted to take Mr.. Weis 5
position
r. B. Jones, general agent of the Chicago,
Rock Island q Pacitlc, is in the city, and
states that in the last three weeks he has
been over good deal of territory and on
every hand he could see improvement, in
business. He is confident that within the
next six weeks it will be a question of cars
not business.
The earnings of the Evansville & Terre
Haute in the second week of June show a
decrease, as compared with the correspond
ing week of 1886, of 1893 The earnings Of
the Evansville 81 Indianapolis increased
sos, and the earnings of the Chicago &
West Michigan in the second week of June,
this year. show an increase of $2,69S.
In the thirty-six hours ending Monday, at
6 p. m, the Panhandle handled. between
Columbus and Pittsburg, ffty-tive east
bound freight trains and forty-tlve west
bound trains In the thirty-six hours the
Panhandle turned over to the Pennsylvania
road 40 carloads of live stock and fifteen
carloads of dressed meats and other perish
able freight loaded in refrigerator cars.
A full statement of the earnings of the
Chicago & Northwestern road for the fiscal
year ended May 81 shows gross earnings of
$50, 243, decrease Of $2,51l, 517 from the
preceding fiscal year. The total net income
Of the road from earnings and all other
resources was 81 $50, 500, a decrease of $677,-
462. The total dividends paid during the
$l5s2. amounted 70 '''0i0O''' q" increase u
The Sunday edition of the Ohio State
Journal contains an interesting description
of the new union station at that point and
pictures of the first depot constructed, of
the remodeled depot later and of the new
union station just completed. The depot
proper is $50 feet long by eighty feet wide,
ard the train sheds are go feet long by
200 feet wide The cost of the Improvement
in round numbers was $650,000
There is q growing impression with many
of the general passenger agents that the
running of cheap Sunday excursion trains
is mistake and is decreasing rather than
increasing the revenue of the roads. People
now for 4he to s5 GnfIn
rate, and on reaching Cincinnati selling it
to ticket scalpers for 25 to 90 cents, and the
same thing is being done in the opposite
direction
When the roads leading east from Chi
cago are behaving themselves on rate mat
tiers the apportionment they. are to carry
in tonnage of dead freight is as follows:
Baltimore s. Ohio, s per cent; Erie, 112;
Lake Shore, 14.2; Nickel-plate, 81; Fort
Wayne, 14.2: Big Four, IS; Grand Trunk,
II; Michigan Central 1876; Panhandle, Z;
Wabash, &C. When one OF these lines for
some time carries more than it's allotted
tonnage suspicion arises that it is shading
rates.
close watch on the Christian Endeavor
business, which will begin to move within
six days. There have been all sorts Of
stories regarding the low rates that would
be made and the concession that have been
made on the side, but nothing tangible has
been developed regarding the cutting of the
rates. The rate has been fixed at little
above / cent per mile, and 1t is not expect
ed there will be much cutting of rates. For
all that, all the roads that are to have a
part in the business are keeping close
watch on all of their competitors.
The scalpers at Cincinnati, Pittsburg,
Cleveland Chicago and st. Paul claim to
with which will give them a good business
for some months, having invested large
sums in books of even the stronger lines.
IF the general passenger agents go about
the matter in the right way" said a pas
senger official, they can soon clear the
market of this mileage, as, when 81 few
books are taken up and the holder of the
mileage is called on to pay his fare, he will
be timid as to investing further in mileage
handled by scalpers."
One of the principal objects of S. M. Fell
toms inspection trip over the Baltimore az
Ohio lines, is to report whether a further
issue of certificates to purchase 10000 tons
of steel rails is necessary. The bondhold-
ers take the position that it is time to
call a halt in the issuing of certificates to
improve the property and pay for further
improvements out of the earnings of the
road, and it is the impression that Mr..
FELTON, will view the matter much the
same way. On the other hand 1t is claimed
that the rails which it is proposed to re-
place have been down sixteen years and
are too light for heavy traffic to pass over.
1t is reported that the Rio Grande
Western has taken the same action with
regard to the San Francisco market as the
Union Pacific has recently done. 1t has
cleared the market of all the tickets of it's
issue that were in the hands of brokers,
pay no more street commissions nor COM
missions of any sort except to authorized
agents of connecting lines. This action will
improve the situation on the Pacific coast
very greatly, and if all the roads will fol-
low the action taken by these two roads
there will be very little trouble with the
Pacific coast rates for a long time TO come.