The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-01-28

1870 (A0N
port News there were standing on side
tracks 100 cars of the Kanawha Dispatch.
TO load into vessels for export. For this rea-
son the Big -Four is sending all the busl-
ness 1t can East via Cleveland.
c. H.. Cory. superintendent of motive
ton, is visiting some of the recently COM
pleted railroad shops at different points TO
get some ideas which will enable him TO
keep pace with the times in the erection
OF their new shops at Lima, o.
The passenger department of the Cincin-
natl. Hamilton x Dayton issued a very
neat leafiet setting forth the attractions of
their new train between Indianapolis and
Baltimore via Washington. 1t leaves 1ndi-
annapolis at 1855 a. m. reaches Washington
at 6:fl d. IN. next morning and Baltimore at
7:55 a. IN.
The net earnings of the Chicago. Milwau-
kee & st. Paul for the month of December
were S,241, COS, an increase of A,l43 over
the same month of last year. Since July
] the earnings of the road have been $751;
sac. a decrease OF s117. rs from the net earn
ings of the same period of the preceding
fiscal year.
The annual meeting of stockholders of
the Little Miami Railway Company elected
four directors. James n. Gamble, William
o MoS Xanias and OF r C~l r Rrnoks a. second q nTaS Tice,
president of the Pennsylvania system. The
board of directors later reelected the pres
ent officers.
Ford Wood. general freight agent of the
Peoria * Eastern road. stated last even
ing that the last day or two there had been
increased inquiry for cars and he thought
that the earnings of the last quarter of
January would show a marked improve
ment over either of the three first quar-
tiers of the month.
Kansas City ticket brokers' nave secured
the signatures of a number of wholesale
houses to kilograms addressed TO Congress-
mar Van Horn and other members of
of the anti-scalping bin reported in the
House Of Representatives by Mr.. Sherman,
of the committee on interstate and foreign
ommerce
heavy movement of freights on the Pitts
burg division of the Panhandle. In the
forty-eight hours ending at . p, M. Monday
there were 10 freight trains handled be-
tween Columbus and Pittsburg; on Sunday
there were twenty-seVen west-bound and
thirty eaSt-bound freight trains handled on
that division.
The Wabash has just paid out prizes to
l. ack foremen 81 200, and General Manager
Ramsey thinks it is money well expended.
The points covered in the competition are
drainage, policing, sidings. line and surface
level. joints, ties and switches. Some of
the English roads are Offering prizes to
and surroundings.
A special train on the Little Miami divi-
sion of the Panhandle lines. on Tuesday.
carrying the delegates to the convention of
manufacturers to be held in Philadelphia,
made the run from Cincinnati TO Column
bus, in three hours and five minutes. max
Aho 1OaA GORos NlASA ID " OO0 u "
this season of the year and the present
weather conditions.
General Manager Capo, of the Flint &
Pere Marquette, says there Is no foundation
for the report telegraphed over the coun-
try that. in connection with other roads. a
new through line was to be established be-
Norfolk. Va. He says ii would be folly for
his company to take such a step. when the
line is working so pleasantly with a large
number of connections.
SunariDtaDdaDt of Motive pauer pnffar
of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne 81 Chicago
road. speaks very enthusiastically of the
performance of the large freight engine re-
Gently sent from the Vandalia to that road
to be tested. He says it is a very power
full and fast engine of that class and in
it's performance requires less than any of
the larger freight engines now in use on
the Pennsylvania Company lines west.
At the meeting of the Ohio Coal Traffic
Association at Columbus yesterday an end
was put TO the coal rate war by the asSo-
citation voting nimou to abrogate all
contracts under tariff rates, taking effect
last midnight. Some claims FOR damages
will doubtless follow but these will be met
by the association. A committee was APP
pointed to fix a basis for the division of
coal traffic. The agreement is for one year.
All of the railroads in Central Freight AS
ISOLATION territory have gone back to the
practice of charging but % cents on pack
age freights. as will be seen by the fol-
Tucker. chairman of the Central Freight
Association: Until further notice the
minimum cldTBe On Single cODSlS nT1e0IS OF
freight between points in the Central
Freight Association territory will be %
cents"
Unfortunately. the rumor to the effect
that negotiations had been resumed by the
Big Four people to get control of the Chi
cago & Eastern Illinois has no foundation,
although a Chicago paper treated the mat
ter as being we'll advanced. TIE DSnville
Commercial, in commenting on the Big
Four'S purchase of the G. & T.. / rumor
says: "A company that can build $50 miles
of new road I'm "a wear and DECLARE a 6iVi-
dend of . per cent. Is hardly ready TO sell
out"
c. s. Tomlinson. the general secretary of
the National Association OF Merchants and
man Caldwell, of the Western Passenger
Association, in which he says his o%rganiza-
attempt of the different bouIes of travelling
men which are seeking TO force the rail-
roads to a fiat rate of 2 cents for all pas
the National Association of Merchants and
Travellers is not in favor of the measure
AN and Of PI its T infnence 20 to nh discour + an the ~a era I9e
ing Of the fiat rate.
1t is claimed that the Forthcoming state
ment Of the Burlington road will be a more
favorable showing than has been generally
s~iderably greater than for the correspond
ing period Of last year and as rates were
better maintained. ii is altogether probable
that the road will show a good increase
in earnings. The conditions have improved
so much or late WITH the burlington That
il is thought that there will be no reduc-
ton I'm the regular 4 per cent. dividend, as
asserted in various quarters. The outlook
is said to be for much better business in
the year just opening.
With the taking effect of the interstate
act many elevators along the
lines of railways became of little value. as
freight could be loaded at a proportionate
rate at any point on a railroad instead of at
some small station taking a local rate to
some division point, where the elevator
then came in good play. Now there is "a
movement on foot, started by the National
Grain Dealers Association. whereby eleva-
tor operators shall receive from the rail-
roads. say , cents per bushel for storage or
handling. The association takes the ground
that If railroads do not care to build eleva-
tors IT their own the roads be willing to
compensate operators who invest money in
that direction.
C.. r. Scharff. general manager of the
Big Four lines. was in the city yesterday
afternoon and in the evening went to St.
Of the new freight depot at East ST. Louis
was destroyed, but the depot proper, 600
feet long. suffered but little, the st. Louis
fire department reaching the scene before
the flames made any great Roadway. The
fire originated in a singular manner. The
steam-heating apparatus gave out and a
number of gasoline stoves were put up as
oline was purchased and placed in the base
ment, and i'm getting it down the men lost
control of it; the barrel burst and the gas
oline flowed along the floor until il reached
the fire under one of the boilers. when a
moment later the building was in flames,
or the part of it where the offices were.
and all the books ana papers We're de-