The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-18

amounts previously appropriated for new
rolling stock $3.50 SSS. and the company on
Oct had over $1,000 oo in the bank and IS
entirely free from floating debt.
W. b. Hutter, city ticket and passenger
agent of the Eastern Minnesota at Duluth,
has been appointed Northwestern passenger
agent of the Lake Shore, with headquarters
at st. Paul
The Indiana, Decatur & Western shops
are crowded with work. In the locomotive
shops there are four Indiana. Decatur e
Western and four Cincinnati, Hamilton d
Dayton engines being rebuilt.
All indianapolis lines will sell tickets on
Friday to the Mckinley demonstration from
stations within seventy miles of Indian
some of the roads will run special trains
Horace G. Burt. president of the Union
Pacific. asserts that the Union Pacific viii
not absorb the Union Pacific. Denver q
Gulf or any part of it. The Julesburg line
he says, is already under control of the
Union Pacific.
]. G. Dayie, private secretary Of M. E.
ingalls,, president of the Big Four was in
the city last night en- route to Lafayette TO
visit +. b. Earhart, a passenger conductor
on the Big Four. who is quite Ill at the hos
pital in that city.
In speaking of the fact that there is re-
ceived and forwarded at Indianapolis weekly
a total of $500 to 10000 cars, an official
said yesterday that he did not know how
We're 1t not for the Belt road, which re-
lieves the Union tracks of about 10000 OF
the cars.
]. M. Chesborough. formerly general, pas
senger agent of the Vandalia, has made an
excellent record in charge of the joint ticket
agency at Pittsburg during the knights
ing the week twenty-five assistants, and
there was not the least friction or delay in
stamping the tickets.
Since the Southern Indiana got its new
cars and power. into service there has been
very handsome increase in its business,
and it is proving a good feeder at Seymour
the ne ouisviiie division of the pennsylvania
lines, and at Greensburg the Big -Four gets
a good deal-of business from this line, most
ly for Michigan points. The passenger
trains are now so scheduled as to be con-
venient for travelling statesmen.
Cars of all descriptions are so short of
supplying the orders that the transportation
officials are stirring up their lost car tracers
and agents at different points urging that
they have cars loaded and unloaded prompt
ly to keep them moving, they being worth
rush of business. There has never been a
time in the remembrance of the oldest of
the freight officials when every description
of car was so much in demand
The heaviest freight train ever hauled
was run from Altoona to Columbia on the
Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Tie train was
made up of 100 cars loaded with coal, and
was 1877 feet in length. The total weight
of the train behind the locomotive was 5,212
tons, and two crews were required to handle
Altoona shops, and is said to be the heaviest
locomotive in the world. The average tom
mage of trains on the Pennsylvania road is
1850 tors, little over one-half the number
of tons hauled by this monster locomotive.
In commenting on the decentralization, in
freight rates in the West, President Gala
way, of the New York Central, is quoted as
saying: There is not much chance of
harmony in this respect until a federal law
is passed giving the railroads the power to
adjust their differences on a pooling basis.
While there are many diverse interests
affected by widely different conditions, it is
impossible to get all the railway lines to adj
here to the same schedule of rates. Self
interest asserts itself in each case In
former days Western railway rates were
all made in Chicago. different state of
things prevails now. Complications have
arisen over territorial divisions and the
formation of shorter routes to the sea-
board. Railroads in the St. Louis terri
tory are pulling for Chicago business, and
roads in the Chicago territory are pull
ing for St. Louis business. Rates, there
fore. are constantly disturbed. The East
ern lines naturally feel the effects of the
Western rate troubles. Railroad rates are
very sensitive, and a disturbance at any
point is almost Immediately felt all along
the line"