The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-25
Personal AND LOCAL.
The Retirement of e. C. Murphy Regretted
Moyements of Railroad Officials.

The Retirement of e. G. Murphy Regretted.
Movements of Railroad Officials.
II. B. Smith, general freight agent of the Louis
vile, New Albany & Chicago road, spent the
Sabbath in the city with his family.
E. B. Thomas, general manager of the Bee
Line system, is less than forty years old and is
worth fully 100000, yet is one of the hardest
working railroad men on Western roads.
r. A. Campbell on July succeeds Mr.. Bush
nell as agent of the Evansville & Terre Haute at
Terre Haute Walter Lewis of the Terre Haute
office. has been transferred to Evansville.
CIV. Bradley, assistant superintendent of con-
structiOn on the West Shore railroad, has been
appointed superintendent of the Hudson River
division. from Cornwall to Albany. Mr.. Bradley,
who received his railroad education in the West,
will make an excellent man for this position.
The announcement in Saturdays Journal that
+. @. Murphy, superintendent of the l., p. dk O.
division of the Wabash system, was to be retired
was a surprise, as he had been SO long identified
with the road and filed the position with so
much ability that he was thought to be a fixture
OF the road. However, as q friend OF the road
remarked Saturday, nothing that the Wabash
management should do in their present srait-
ened circumstances. would really surprise him.
Local Notes.
The Louisville New Albany & Chicago hauled
eleven carloads of biooded stock, on Thursday
last, from New Albany to Chicago in fifteen
hours, under a contract TO make the run on that
time.
the north and south roads, lumber was carried
from Chicago to New Albany at three cents per
100 pounds or Sl2 per car Of 10000 pounds.
The tariff rate is fifteen cents per 100 pounds.
In accordance with their established custom
the agents of the Indianapolis & st. Louis rail
way have been instructed to sell excursion
tickets to and from all stations the line, good
going July and and returning until July 5
at reduced rates.
To-day reduction in west-bouDd rates Of nine
n or nnrf raVndG eng oil nnhn
ash, Goldfish and mackerel takes effect, making
the rate from Boston and New York to Indian
apols 25 cents; Philadelphia, % cents; Balti-
more, 81 cents per 100 pounds.
The conductors on the Pennsylvania lines are
becoming better acquainted with the new red
tape method of making their trip-accounts. bow
out eight or ten hours on the road, to spend an
hour and half or two hours in making up his
reports.
Engine No. 1874, on the Vandalia, Just out of
the Shops is TO be put in service hauling the cy-
clone ex press between Terre Haute and Indian
apolis, and some fast time Is expected. The en-
CINE is equipped with driver air-brakes, extern
sion boiler, straight stack, and all other modern
improvements.
he.first shipment of thir5y-seven miles of
steel rails, which is to be delivered to the Jeffer
sonville, Madison & indianapolis Railroad Com
pany between now and Sept. /, was received
yesterday. Twelve miles only of the main line
is iron, and this piece OF track is to be replaced
with steel, ana the other twenty-five miles of
new rails will be laid on the Cambridge City di-
vision.
1t is highly probable that friendly traffic
agreement will be arranged between the Cincin-
natl, Indianapolis, St. Louis g. Chicago and the
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road, on Gin
cinnat business which comes over the Chicago
and Indianapolis line The relations of the two
companies in the past have been of such a char
acter-one of the L., N. A. g. G. officials states
| that neither party can afford to be at logger
heads.
Parties interested in the old Toledo Thorn
town & St. Louis railway project were in the
city yesterday, and they now say the road is to
be built. Within the next few days the company
is to be reorganized under the name of the At
lanti0 & Mississippi road. Colonel Cable, one of
the moving spirits in the enterprise, goes to
New York next week to see If some one of the
trunk lines will not become interested in its con-
struction.