The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-24

Trafnc Association territory. A few nne
PullmanS are seen on the central lines, Dut
most OF them are very inferior.
Charles Height assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Georgia * Alabama, is
| trains running with their usual regularity
| on that road and freight traffic unusually
| heavy.
| The Southern Pacific gives notice that to-
morrow all quarantine restrictions hereto
| fore imposed on New Orleans will be with
| drawn and trains on the entire system be-
| gin TO run on their regular schedules to all
| points.
James Hin, general freight agent of the
Panhandle lines, is in the city, looking
| after matters connected with his depart
m mel He says tnat despite allegations to TO
carrying their heavy traffic at tariff rates.
Thomas Rodd, chief engineer of the Pitts
burg Fort Wayne q Chicago, was in the
city yesterday, and last evening, in COM
pany with e. II. Trip, contractor, of this
city, left for the southern part of the State
for a weeks hunting.
L. G. Johnson, of Chicago division super
lntendent OF the Wagner Palace-car Com
pany, was in the city yesterday. lie states
that all the passenger officials admit that
the new Lake Shore vesubuled trains, built
by the Wagner Car Company, are the finest
ever run on any road.
c. NJ. Bissell, general manager; Frank
James, general passenger and freight agent;
A b. Merriam auditor, and A. ). Johnson
chief train dispatcher, of the Findlay, Fort
Wayne a. Western, yesterday removed their
headquarters from Fort Wayne to Flndiay.
which will be their permanent headquar-
tiers.
President Thomson and party, who spent
last week hunting on the line OF the Indl-
to Philadelphia 1856 birds, mostly quail. The
party consisted OF Frank Thomson, presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania lines; his brother,
DR.. Thomson, and Directors GrlScOm ana
Latta, all of Philadelphia.
Never before has the travelling public in
this section been so favored in train serV-
ice to from New England points as under
the new Big -Four schedule The time 70
Boston Is now twenty-five hours and forty
minutes, and coming west the time is tWen-
ty-six hours, and to points west OF indian
apolis the service is equally good.
The Big Four and Lake Shore roads have
under consideration building new
depot at Goshen The present station build
ings are one block apart, and II they build
jointly considerable expense in maintaining
the depot accommodations at that point
can be saved. A new depot at Elkhart is on
the programme of the Big -Four for 1898.
+. A. Bonebrake superintendent of the
Louisville division of the Pennsylvania
lines, and Division Freight Agent Connolly.
of the Pennsylvania lines at Louisville, were
in the city yesterday. Mr.. Connolly states
that shipments of cotton and tobacco north
have set in heavily the last few days, and
yesterday the road brought north eighteen
carloads of tobacco.
The Brice syndicate has made master
stroke by securing an outlet through To-
ledo to Lake Michigan points. 1t is of~
ciaily announced that trains OF the Detroit,
Toledo & Michigan Will, on Dee. /, begln
running through from Toledo to Lake Mich
igan. There will be three trains each way
Between Toledo and Grand Haven. At
Grand Haven the D., T. & M connects with
a boat line across to Milwaukee,, making
third Lake Michigan line out OF Toledo
When the present management took con-
troll of the Baltimore 81 Ohio its tracks
and equipment were SO run down that Isl
tons was the average trainload. The aver
age trainload is now 334 tons. OF course,
the volume of business has something to do
with the trainload carried, but the manage
ment expects from this on to keep the aver
age trainload up to 800 tons. Good results
are being realized from the use OF the
| heavier locomotives.
The Financial Chronicle computes the
g 6d s er sS S sSr an inerease of SO Isl $50
| as compared with the same month OF last
| year, and net $2S,160,lN, an increase OF
| $5,491 94S For the nine months ending Sept.
| 80 the gross earnings of l62 railroads were
$640 603 275 an increase Of $26 1877, 63l as COM
+, pared with the corresponding period of last
| year, and net sol ,6S2 2lO, an increase OF
| $40, 2S8, 1903.
Managers Of the Joint Traffic Association
| have approved the application OF the ST
Louis lines to equalize through rates from rom
Missouri river points via East St LOUIS
| with those via Chicago the same being sub
| ject to the supervision OF the JOINT agent
| at St. Louis At the present time the COM
| bined rate on bulk meats in car lots from
| the Missouri river to New York via Chicago
| is one-haLlf cent lower than the combination
| rate via East st. Louis. The managers or
| the Joint Traffic Association also recon-
| mend that effective Dec. 10, the commodity
| rates on glucose and glucose syrup from
Western to Eastern points be restored to
| official classification.
| Another meeting in the near future will
be held by the tariff managers of the West
ern roads to consider the old question of
taking out of the market the unauthorized
freight tariffs that have been demoralizing
the freight rate situation for so long. Just
how this is to be accomplished with the re-
cent reductions that have been made in the
rates to Colorado points is hard to see, but
some of the roads are in favor of holding
the meeting, and say that they will urge
that 1T be held. AT the same time some of
these roads say that they are ready to re-
duce still further the rate to Colorado
points if such a step should become neces-
| sary, in view of the competition through the
| Gulf of Mexico ports. While this situation
continues there is not much chance that
the proposed meeting will result in any per-
manent good