The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-31

agents will have TO travel continually, in
order to secure small and large parties for
their respective lines"
George Graves. superintendent of the In
diana, Decatur & Western lines, said that
on their lines ii is a question of cars and
engines to haul them. The country roads
are again solid and corn is pouring into
way stations. Agents at points on their
line, in the last thirty-six hours, he stated
had called for 62s cars TO load with corn
ior the indianapolis market and for Louis
vile, where large quantities Of Indiana corn
are being shipped. Yesterday all extra
passenger engines were pressed into the
freight service.
Referring to the report that the Wander
bits would shortly have a new short line
between Pittsburg and Chicago, President
Newman, OF the Lake Shore, who has Just
returned to Cleveland from New York.
says: mo new line is contemplated. The
rumor is simply an old story rehashed.
/ don't think anyone proposes building a
lew line at the present price of material
We have an arrangement with lines out OF
Cleveland for handling the business that
the proposed new line would handle. p"
Asked If the recent purchase OF TIE Lake
Erie & Western would have any signifi-
canoe fE that regard, Mr.. Newman said:
1T might, as Il gives us new line through
that territory The matter mas not been
discussed recently. however,.
1t Is stated that the Cincinnati, Hamilton
& Dayton main line Is the most economi-
Cally operated of any in the country, the
Lake Shore excepted, its freedom from
curves and heavy grades making such a
thing practicable The train limit of the
ordinary freight engine Is tifty-five cars,
Toledo to Cincinnati, but a railway trans
portation man acquainted with the road
says that one Of the large freight engines
Of the present day, he thinks, would readily
haul one hundred cars between those
points, but under the circun stances II is
more. profitable to the company TO use the
smaller locomotive, as the longer trains
are cumbersome to handle at passing
tracks and on side tracks; besides the type
Of locomotive the c. Fl. IL d. now uses is
not as severe on tracks as the big freight
engine.
1t is learned that the consolidation of
the various Vanderbilt fast freight lines
into two organizations with headquarters
at Buffalo, has not proved as successful.
as many of the railway magnates dntlci-
pated, and good authority says IL conditions
do not improve number OF lines will toll
low the example of the Michigan Central
in withdrawing from the agreement. Many
OF the old lines are not receiving, under
the consolidation agreement, as large a
share OF profits they received under the
old system, and II is further stated that the
working force at present employed Is not
sufficient 10 properly handle the work;
there are unnecessary congestionS OF
freight, and much trouble is experienced
in the allotment of oifferentials. The mag
mates who brought about the consolidation
are charged by some of the representa-
tives of individual lines with attempting
to continue to carry out a theory which
has already and in a measure proved abor-
tive.
Last week Aguste Faure, chief clerk of
President Cowen, Of the Baltimore & Ohio,
delivered a lecture in Baltimore on Passes
to Politicians" Among other things, he
said: ''Why do railroads give politicians
passes, any way? You may ask which is the
most TO blame / should say ii is six Of one
and half a dozen of the other. When you
ask who gets the most benefit, 1 should
say the railroad gets the worst of it four
times out of five. When a railroad gives
pass to some poor person for charity,
ii is all right. When you give a pass to a
minister of the gospel, the railroad may
get its reward in the sweet bye-and-bye
When you give ii TO a business man II
is investment, but when a railroad gives
to a politician it invests IL in the sinking
fund, and a fund without any bottom,
at that The government allows congress
men so much per mile for travelling ex-
penses, and | have not heard of any one
failing to collect it. The political pass
system is an insult to the American peo-
pie, and has become an instrument of deg
radiation. If the political passes remain in
use they should be legalized."