The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-29
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
PerronaI and Local

rod and Union tracks has been established at
the corner of Tennessee street and the Union
tracks
Conductor Whitson, of the L & ST.. L.-Paris
accommodation John Browning on the
through express, and extra conductor Barnett
takes the Paris accommodation.
The new iron bridge near zionsville, over
Eagle creek, n.the Cincinnati, Indianapolis St
ISanis q Chicago road was Sunday swung
into position and yesterday trains began running
over it.
On Sunday last engine No. l6. on the Cinein-
natl, Hamilton & Indianapolis, hauled eight
coaehes laden with Turner's, from Hamilton to
Indianapolis miles-in two hours and thir
ty i've minutes.
circular from H. G. Townsend, general pas
senger and ticket agent of the Missouri Pacific
road announces that that company has resumed
its business relations with the Gulf, Colorado q
Santa Ne road.
President Roberts, of the Pennsylvania road,
has issued orders to practice the str1ctest econ
OsHy, in view of the small earnings of the road
The Pennsylvania can probably make money
whenany of the trunk lines can.
Engine 20 on the c., l., st L. & G., on Sat
urday last hauled express train No. 4, consist
ing Of seven cars, from the city limits Of Indian
aEois to the city limits Of Cincinnati, lO7 miles,
In two hours and thirty one minutes.
S. B. Sweet for ten years agent for the Wa
bash at Fort Wayne, has been appointed division
freight agent of the company, his district to ex-
tend from New Haven Ind, the Nickel-plate
crossing, to Danville, Ill He will be succeeded
by Charles II. Newton.
G. e. Henderson, general manager of three
divisions of the T., G. & st. L. narrow gauge,
has taken the bull by the horns in the matter of
euuipping the roads. He has offered fixed
rental for the use of the narrow gauge equip
ment, which the owners are asked to accept or
CAKE the equipment on the line.
p Tol. lic
is now doing the heaviest freight business at
amy time in its history. On Sunday last lab
loaded cars were taken into Hamilton from the
west, sixty consigned to Toledo PARTIES One
Of the consol engines hauled forty-tWo loaded
cars from indianapolis to Hamilton.
W. s. ST George, general agent of the Queen
& Crescent road at Louisville has been appoint
ed general agent of the company at New York,
to succeed L. B. Morrison w. l.. Culp, who
has been contracting agent of the Louisville &
Nashville at Louisville, will take the position
1nado vacant by Mr.. st. Georges removal to
New York. The appointments go into effect on
tic LIST of August.
A. A. Talmage, general manager of the
Wabash SYSTEM K. II Wade, superintendent OF
transportation; NJ Knight, general trelghtagent;
r. Chandler, general passenger agent, and Geo.
Stevens, superintendent of the eastern division,
arrived in the city on a special at 1890 P. NJ.
yesterday, and will leave this morning ats
O'Clock ON an inspection trip over the l., z. u q.
division of the Wabash system.
The bondholders of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois railroad are notified that the first con-
scIidated mortgage per cent. bonds of the COM
pany, issued for the purpose of retiring all pre-
vious issues of bonds, including income bonds,
arc ready for delivery. The new bonds have
fifty years to run, and principal and interest are
payable in gold The manner President Stevens
has handled the financial affairs of this road is
spoken of in very complimentary terms
VIM. r. McKeen, president of the Vandalia,
yaq in ha ri a cheer
full view of the situation and thinks the pros
poets favorable for heavy fall traffic over all
divisions of the Vandalia The Terre Haute %
IoganSDort is proving to be valuable division
of the system, and overreaching the most SAN
gune expectation of the management in the
matter Of earnings; and the road bed is in such
condition as to admit of operating this division
on an unexpectedly small per cent. of the gross
earnings.
The friends Of the Toledo, Indianapolis &
Western road-about which little has been said
of late-are quietly securing the right Of way
between Indianapolis and point in northern
Ohio, where they will Join hands with the In
diana. Illinois & Iowa Railroad Company, and
will build into Toledo. Within the last sixty
days. forty five miles additional of right of way
has been secured. The projectors say that when
the road is built the distance from Indianapolis
to Toledo will be shortened forty miles, so near
an airline will the road be-
Some of the business men who have been ac-
commodated a good deal by the local agents in
the matter of delivering freights and waiting the
conslgnees option to pay the charges, do not
take kindly to the new rules of the local agents;
yet were these dissatisfied parties to investigate
the matter they would discover that the move
ment on the part of the agents was really for
self-proteetion. So much dishonesty has sprung
up in business circles that travelling auditors
make more frequent visits to agents than form
erly, and it is not very pleasant for an agent
to come to his Office in the morning and find one
of these auditors awaiting his arrival to balance
- ~,
for twenty carloads of freiget delivered to Tom
Dick and Harry to account for. Then shippers
are so apt to make some excuse for not paying
their freight charges promptly that it makes it
UNPLEASANT for agents to any risk as the
companies expect them to make upall DEFICIENCIES
The recent bank troubles, as well, have caused
agents to be more cautious, as certain consignees
have not acted very honorably in the matter
where checks have been given on these rotten
hanks and the fact is that it will be better for
the roads and tine parties receiving freights that
The charges should be paid more promptly than
heretofore, and as the action is unanimous on
thepartiof all the local agents good results may
be looked for
Che Union Railway Company Purchase Adj
ditional Property.
The Onion Railway Company has purchased
from VIM. G. DePauw and others, joint owners
of the Eagle Machine Works, strip of ground
ninety feet in width on the north side of the
plat with the building thereon. This gives the
Union Railway Company ample. room to lay
their tracks the south side of the
proposed new depot, either between Me
ridian and Tennessee streets or Illinois and
Mississippi streets, and will, as we'll, give them
ample room to approach the depot, as. they own
tie grounds on which the old buildings stand
heretofore occupied to store reapers, and mowers
in4 A Union railway official says the purchase
of the Eagle Machine Works does not
necessarily imply that the new depot
will be located between Meridian and
Tennessee streets. but to the contrary. he
still believes it will be erected between Illinois
and Mississippi streets. Itmatters little about
the location the fact that the company has pur-
chased the above-named property and is making