The Indianapolis journal., 1898-04-15


lege of ten days stop in Omaha if the
transportation is properly deposited with the
joint agent
Gaylord Beach, assistant general manager
OF the Pittsburg & Lake Erie road. recent
~ having been given that title, is practically
lts general manager, j. NJ Shounmaker,
vice president. now giving his entire at
tention to the finances of the company.
The executive committee of the Associa-
tion OF American Railway Accountants met
shape the business to be considered at the
tenth annual meeting of the association, TO
be held at Atlantic City on the 25th of May.
The Louisville & Nashville earnings for
the first week of April were $3S2. $40, against
8f26l0 for the corresponding week in 1897
and the earnings from July 1, 1897, to April
], 1898, aggregated $l6,S49500, u gain over the
corresponding period of the preceding year
of S1,01S,6S2
Grattan & Jennings of Buffalo. n. Y
nave been awarded the contract for rails
ing the tracks of the Erie road at Jersey
CITY. N. j. The contract will involve the
raising of about two miles of track through
the city. and the cost of the undertaking
VIII be between 100000 and $3O0,eO0
a call was issued yesterday for meeting
OF rate clerks of the Central Passenger
roads. TO be held in St. Louis April 10. 10
line up rates in conformity with the reduc-
conclaVe in Indianapolis and the Grand
Army encampment in Cincinnati. Summer
toruist rates will also be arranged.
Reports are current that grain rates east
bound from Chicago are becoming worse de-
moralZed. The failure Of the Joint Traffic
Association to take action the recon-
mendation of the Central Freight Associa-
tion for reduction on a 15-cent basis is said
to have led the roads Individually to make
much lower rates than those they asked
should be authorized.
1t was semi-officially announced yesterday
that there will be no increase in Chicago
& Northwestern dividends during the pres
ent year While earnings have been large
enough to justify such increase and the
road has a large surplus the directors deem
1T prudent to reserve the funds for ex
traordinary expenses, such as track eleva-
ton in Chicago, etc.
Earnings for the first week in April have
been given out for the following roads: Rio
Grande Western, $44,100 increase $4,000; Chi
cago Terminal Transfer. $22 046, increase
S2,SC6; Missouri Pacific, $407, ,000 increase $62,
crease S4767; Norfolk & Western 1924, u.s.
Increase $15,S23' St. Louis Southwestern,
$S46OO, increase 900.
1t is intimated that the decision of the
United States Court upholding the validity
of the patent on the Thrall ticket may bring
about a reconciliation of the Northern and
reaus. The Northern bureau uses the Thrall
form of ticket, while the Central Passenger
Bureau uses the one that has been judi
cially held to be an infringement.
Norman Beckley. general agent of the
Big -Four. Michigan division, will to-day
celebrate his seventy-fifth birthday. He be-
gan railroading on. the Vermont Central
road in 1915 came West in 1868, entering the
employ of the Lake Shore road forty years
ago to-day. The best of his railroad life was
spent In developing the Cincinnati, Wabash
d Michigan road, now the Michigan division
of the Big -Four.
The Buffalo local freight agents will
present for consideration by the National
Association of Freight Agents, to meet in
Cincinnati on the l4th of June, the follow
ing: Can uniform practice be estab-
ilshed between connecting lines by showing
load shipments how weight of same was
arrived at, l. e., scale estimated, shippers $
weigh house, elevator or classification
weight?
meeting in Chicago yesterday to devise
means of doing away with extensive de-
moralization occasioned largely by the pay
ment of excessive commissions An agree
ment was reached to cease all excessive
payments at once. Reduced rates were ar
ranged for large number of meetings, con-
ventions, etc, to be held during the coming
summer. All cut rates other than those to
north Pacific coast points are to be dis
continued Immediately.
People who have recently come from the
Northwest say few who have not travelled
on the lines OF that region have any concep-
ton of the extraordinary amount of travel
from the middle West and points east
thereof to the northwestern coast. The
Northern Pacific, the Great Northern and
the Canadian Pacific are all hauling heavily
loaded passenger trains in connection with
the Alaska business. 1t is thought this
business has paid the roads handsomely in
spite of the cut rates that have prevailed
Chicago-St. Paul roads have reached an
agreement on the measures 10 be adopted
TO prevent the manipulation of cut-rate
tickets TO north Pacific coast points,
They have decided to ask their
Eastern connections to adopt the re-
bate plan i'll the sale of tickets from
points in the East to st. Paul and
points beyond other than coast points. The
amount of rebate they suggest is $3.50 first
class, and So, second class. East bound
they propose to make all tickets good for
continuous passage only and to use sigma
ture forms of tickets. 1t is not at all GER
tain that the Eastern connections will ac-
oept. r
The Interstate-commerce Commission is
likely. to be called on to arbitrate the mat
terS IN dispute between the Canadian Pa
cific and the American transcontinentaI
roads concerning the right of the Canadian
Ioad 10 diHerentlals Issue is taken with
the Canadian road on the construction to
be placed on the commissions decision sus-
pending the long-and-short haul clause. The
American roads hold that the decision finds
the Canadian road has no right ITO the diff
ferentials. To concede differentials would
be to place themselves in contempt. The
Canadian Pacific maintains that the decision
does not in any way touch on it's rights in
the premises.
Tie Central Passenger Association has
authorized excursion, rates for the follow
Council of Ohio, Columbus, o. April q and
Is, from points in Ohio only; fiftieth ami
NerSary RapeF COmmandery, No. /, Knights
Templars. Indianap polls, from points in In
diana only; annual convention Christian
Endeavor, eleventh district, Martinsvile
Ind June ard 2 from points in Hancock,
Morgan, Johnson and Hendricks counties ;
thirty-fourth annual state Sunday school
convention, Greenfield, Ind, June 10, from
points in Indiana. Bethany Assembly
Brooklyn, Morgan county, Indiana, July 26
to Aug. 16. from points in Indiana and Ohio
west of the Columbus, Hooking Valley &
Toledo Railway; Improved Order of Red
Men Estate P1wwoW). Bloomington, Ind, ,
Aug IL and Is, from points in Indiana.
In 1867 the Ohio Legislature being for
hidden by the Constitution to pass a special
act-enacted that any city of Ohio of the
first class should have the power to issue
bonds to the extent of $40 000 ,O09 for the con-
struction of the Cincinnati Southern Rail-
road, to extend from Cincinnati to Chat
enterprise (who constituted about all the
manufacturers and merchants of the city)
TO see the road built, so as to enable them
TO secure good share of the business sure
to spring up in the reconstructed South, that
they took little thought as TO how the road
should be operated when built. The line
"a part of the Queen d Crescent route) has
now been in operation a quarter of cen-
tury, and while il has been of material help
to the business of the Queen City the man
agement has been a source of constant
trouble The matter is again before the
Legislature, and on Wednesday a repre-
sentative body of two hundred business men
of Cincinnati went up to Columbus and
made known the wishes of the city. The
pending bill, and which represents the
wishes of Cincinnati separates the extern
sion of lease and bond issue features. so
that when the boards of trustees have
agreed upon a new leasing contract and il is