The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-01-13

with an average detention of onl? 1e1 days.
Before this bureau was established if a car
was returned within four or five days after
delivered Tor unloading it was thought to
The Southern Indiana Railway VIII be
known as the Bedford route" The COM
pany will to-day receive three new pas
senger engines from the Baldwin locomotive
works and next month its new passenger
cars.
On FEB. 1 new fast freight line will
begin operations over the Cincinnati, Hamil-
ton & Dayton the Michigan Central and
the West Shore & FStchourg roads. William
Mann is to be general manager, with head
quarters at Rochester.
Frank Sargent, grand master of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Fireman. in
speaking of the progressiveness of the labor
union, predicts a glorious future. The
brotherhood of which he is the head is now
in the most prosperous condition.
The Cleveland, Lorraine & Wheeling is
coming TO the front as a railroad property.
1t is stated that the company has now pow
erful backing and there is a determination
and greatly improve 1t physically.
The Toledo, St. Louis & Kansas City
earned in the first week of January S34S9S1s,
a decrease as compared. with h the CORR orr
July /, the beginning of the compaays f1s-
cal year the road has earned Sl,267 ,547.9S, an
increase of $37 1855.
Engineers and conductors on the Panhan-
die lines are making very satisfactory
wages, engineers earning from $3.50 to $l4o
per month. On these lines an engineer is
month, so that there will be no occasion
to say he has been worked too many hours.
The annual meeting of the Terre Haute
q Indianapolis, the Terre Haute & Logans-
port and the Indiana & Lake Michigan
railway companies at Terre Haute yester-
day resulted in no changes, except that Jo-
seph Woods, of the Pennsylvania system
took the place on the boards OF j. Il. DAVID
son, who died last August.
New east-bound rates on grain and grain
products, except, corn, enectlVe JAM 70,
of the Joint Traffic Association on the basis
of 20 cents per 100 pounds, Chicago TO New
York with usual differences to- other East
ern cities The rate on corn, whether for
domestic use or export, has been hXed at
17la cents per 100 pounds.
With each year the Pennsylvania Com
pany has to make up a less deficit en- its
were not its bonds which has to be taken
care of bearing per cent, the deficit this
year would be more than wiped out; stlll,
treasury of the Pennsylvania, and the loss
in operating the road is not as large as
might appear without investigation.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis has made an
emphatic denial that any of its tickets have
found their way by any connivanee of the
road itself into the hands of scalpers. A
test Of the market made some days since
by Chairman Caldwell showed that there
were only three tickets of all the roads to
be found in the hands of scalpers, and these
tickets were those Of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis. That road denies that 1t has mad
any dealings with brokers.
Harry Miller, superintendent of the Van
dalia main line, was in the city yesterday.
He states that their business is employing
to the best advantage all of the company s
power and had it not been that a few
months ago twenty-five new engines were
received from the Pittsburg locomotive
works, they could not possibly have taken
care of the business offered. The main line
is hauling good deal of cotton and coal,
and the west as well as the east-bound bus
mess is very heavy for January.
For some time the Baltimore & Ohio, on
east-bound business, has enjoyed the
privilege of ten-day stop-oyer at Baltl-
joyed the same privilege at Philadelphia: A
short time ago both roads asked for SINH
lar privilege on west-bound business, and
the Pennsylvania Railroad supplemented it's
ingtOn on west bound business. Other roads
also flooded the Joint Traffic Association
managers with similar requests, until the
matter degenerated into farce, and the
board of control closed the matter by refus-
ing all requests for stop-oVerS on west
bound business.
Negotiations are now in progress between
the Union Pacific the Canadian Pacific, the
Northern Pacific and the Great Northern
by which the excessive commissions paid by
the four roads on North Pacific coast bust
ness will be discontinued her eafter. The
deal has not been settled entirely, but it is
practically certain that the roads will in the
near future reach an agreement similar to
that reached by the roads of the Western
Passenger Association some days since. The
Union Pacific is now in position to take
any action that it deems best for its inter-
ests without stopping to consider what eff
feet the action is likely to have on intend
ing purchasers, and the result will very
probably be that the large commissions will
be done away with.