The Indianapolis journal., 1883-12-04
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.

PERSONAL AND LOCAL.
An indianapolis Railroad Clerk Handsomely
Promoted Interesting Personal Gossip.
VIM. Hill, general passenger agent of the Chi
cagO & Eastern Illinois road, was in the city
yesterday on official business.
President Jewett, of the Erie road, has gone
south for the benefit OF his health. He will be
away some three months, probably.
John F. Miller, superintendent of the c., st. L.
& P, NJ. J. Becker, chief engineer, and NJ. W.
Mansfield, assistant engineer, in the city for
a couple of days.
E. L. Dwight, late receiver of the Toledo. Gin
cinnat st. Louis road is TO be in the city to-day,
TO close up his accounts with the United States
Court as receiver of tine road.
NJ E. ingalls,, president of the c.. L, st. L. &
c., %. B. Stahlman, vice-president Of the L., n.
A. & c., and L. ID. Richardson, general manager
of the Chicago & Ohio River pool have gone to
New York.
f. s. Babcock, formerly general freight agent
OF the Evansville & Terre Haute road who has
beeb quite successful in business the last two
years, goes to California to spend several months
In pleasure excursions.
Mr.. Gaylord, engineer of the Cincinnati, Ham
ilton & Indianapolis road, and one of the best
in the service, is putting in all his leisure time
fitting himself for the legal profession. Mr..
Gaylord is 81 prominent church member and
superintendent of Sabbath-school.
The Pennsylvania railroad people say of the
Railway Shareholders Association that neither
President Roberts nor Director Cassatt, whose
names are mentioned, know ANYTHING whatever
of the enterprise; that the road is in no way in
terested in 1t, and that the names Of the Penn
sylvania railroad officers have been used en-
nrely witheut authority IN connection with the
organization.
H. R. johnson, chief clerk in the office of j.
A. Perkins, division freight agent of the G st.
l.. IL p. road, has been appainted general freight
agent of the Cincinnati, Van WertttS Michigan
road Mr., Johnson Will assume the duties of the
position Dec. Is. Although young man, he is
fully competent to be general freight agent of
this or even more important road. His edu-
cation in railroad service has been of the best,
and he has Improved every opportunity offered
to perfect himself in every duty pertaining to
freight service.
Local Notes.
The Pennsylvania Company is laying steel
rails sixty feet in length on the p, Ft. w. & O. di
vision.
Indianapolis roads, last month, handled at this
point 8,572 less loaded cars than in November,
1882, and 1905 less than In November, 1881.
The twelve platform men at the c., l., St L. &
C. city freight depot in November handled 1882
carloads of freight. This includes cars loaded
and unlOaded at the depot.
Telegraph operators on the Bee-line system,
commencing with Sunday last, take the time at
the ST. Louis observatory at 10 o'clock, A. NJ,
daily, instead of IL O'Clock, noon.
The repair of the breaks in the Bloomfield &
Bedford road are completed. and trains began
yesterday TO run through without transfer at
points where the washouts occurred
Engine No. 16 on the Cincinnati, Hamilton e.
Indianapolis road few nights since, hauled
five cars from Rushville to the Belt road cross
ing, tIirty-nine and One-hah miles, IN forty
seven minutes.
Construction work on the Belt road extension
is moving along so slowly that Vioepresident
and General Manager Malott, of the Union Rail
way & Belt Road Company, as patient man as
he Is, has become uneasy.
The Indiana. Bloomington & Western manage
ment have agreed to commence transferring all
their business over the Belt road after Sunday
next. They asked another week lenieHcy that
they might better their connection with the
Belt on the west side.
The Indianapolis Rongmill Company has
turned its contract to furnish 500 tons OF iron
grders, beams, channels. nails, etc, over to
Carnegie Bros. Co, Pittsburg, Pa, TO carry
our, the Rollng-mill Company realizing more
money out of their contract than they would
have done after putting the necessary new rolls
into their owD mills.
The movement of live stock over nearly all
roads Is heavy beyond precedent, and freight
men predict, haslng their predictions on the
large demand for stock ears, that the receipts at
the yards will to-day be immense. Shippers
who gather hogs up in the country making
S75 TO ST % on each car-iOad of hogs they have
brought into the market the last few days, and
they are eager to do all they can while prices
are so favorable.
An INDIANAPOLIS lady complains that at Omaha
the baggage men tumbled her trunk out of the
car, and, although a new one burst it. and
then patched il up by driving four nails in it and
roplng it, and then had the cheek TO charge her
81 .25 for the work. Omaha baggage men, it
seems. Outrank indianapolis baggage men. They
charge only twenty five eenrsfor roping trunk,
and bur fifteen cents where they tighten ropes
on a trunk which chance to get a little loose.
As the statement has been made that the Gin
cinnati, Hamilton Il indianapolis road was dis
terminating against indianapolis 10y giving lower
rates to Cincinnati on live stock than TO Indian
apolis, investigation SHOWS that the rate from
COnnersVille to Indianapolis (tifty-seven miles)
is Sl8 per carload on hogs and from Conners-
Vile to Cincinnati (sixty-sx miles, Tl9 per car
From Rnshvllle to Indianapolis tthirUy-nine
mes) ;he rate is S15 per car from Rushvllle to
Cincinnati (eIghtY-slx mesl $40 per carload.