The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-27
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


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spend Thanksgiving
All city freight depots will be closed to-day,
and only freight trains will be run carrying live
stock and perishable freight
Passenger men report travel unusually light,
and fears are entertained that it will continue to
be during the winter months.
VIM McGinnis another veteran passenger
conductor on the c., L, st. L. & c., has rendered
his resignation, and further designations are
limited
George Boyd assistant general passenger
agent Of the Pennsylvania road will spend
Thanksgiving with his parents, who reside IN
this city.
from the P. TT. w. & Q. railroad shops in Fort
Wayne. Many Of them were clerks for foremen
in the different departments
The Wabash shops at Fort Wayne shut down
three days this week The reason assigned is to
cut of the three days intervening between the
dates of the old and new pay rolls. The shops
are crowded with work.
The Chicago and Ohio River pool statement
shows that the J. NJ & l. has within the last
sixty days carried more live stock to the Louis
vile market than the G., l., ST. l., d e., and the
c., H & d. to the Cincinnati market
The Seneca division of the c., L, St L. & c.
road is proving Godsend to the Lake Erie 81
Western road the former for some time past de-
livering to the latter an average of fifty cars
daily, laden with grain for Eastern markets.
The Louisville. New Albany & Chicago line is
behind in its per cents in the Chicago and OHIO
River pool for the first year, yet the officials of
she road claim that they should not be compelled
to accept the same per cent. or lower one IN the
future pool
Thomas Jackson has been promoted to the po-
sition of road-master of the western divisions OF
the Pittsburg Fort Wayne & Chicago railway,
Headquarters in Fort Wayne. He succeeds Mr.
d. L. Slataper, son OF Chief Engineer f. Slata-
per, resigned.
The South Bend people can leave homo at A.
NJ, daily, except Sundays reach Indianapolis at
1915 A. NJ, and Cincinnati at 800 P. NJ, which is
four hours quicker than they have been able to
do prior to the opening of the South Bend eX-
tension of the Vandaa.
The Gould Southwestern system of roads re-
ports a large reduction in its pay-rolls. Other
companies make like reports. This will be bad
winter for the great army of railroad employees,
for there will be work for some and reduced
pay for all, unless indications at fault.
The Chicago & Rock Island road delivered to
the c., l., st. L. q c., at Seneca, yesterday, 10
loaded cars. Northwestern shippers have dis
covered that they get grain to Eastern
markets via Lafayette and Indianapolis thirty
five to forty hours quicker than via Chicago, and
are taking advantage of that fact.
The Pennsylvania Company yesterday issued
the order made at the opening of each winter,
way department, by which 200 section men viii
be discharged on the divisions betweet Crestline,
o, and Chicago alone. This will include a gang
of eighty which has been at work on the stone
ballast near South Chicago for a considerable
time
T. A. Ford general passenger agent of the
PENNSYLVANIA lines west of Pittsburg, has issued
a circular to general passenger agents giving the
number of all tickets stolen from the Shelbyvllle
depot the night of the 23d and he asks gen
eTal passenger agents to instruct their CON
ductors to take up such tickets and collect fare
The stolen tickets, some 500 in number, bear the
old official stamp number 81, or the new stamp
number 1921.
S. B. Jones, assistant general passenger agent
of the Union Pacific railroad has issued a proc
lamation to general and travelling agents,
questing them to observe Thursday, the 18th of
November as a day of thanksgiving, to cease
their arduous labors and to give the travelling
public as well as their distended organs of
speech one day of rest. THE tack hammer and
half sheet" he says, the mapfolder and hand
bill. the bulletin board and the ticket agent,
should also be included"
Railway service on the Pennsylvania system,
says an exchange, resembles in many respects
that of the army Obedience to the orders of
superior officer is expected in all cases. and it is
usually given without hesitation. Orders are
given and reports are made with the same regt1-
1arity, so far as the channels of communication
ara concerned, as in the army. Corresponding
to this is the division of responsibility, for the
subordinate is subject to the orders of his supe-
rior officer so is his responsibility less. In the
matter of promotion and succession, the resem-
blance to military service holds true There an
pears to be regular line of promotion in rail
way service, which, it is tacitly expected among
railway men will be followed
Henry Monett, general passenger agent of
the West Shore road, is showing genuine West
ern pluck in his fight with the New York Cen
trail He says the CentraPs latest trick is of
those petty acts of treachery which, unfortun-
ately have attended almost every effort to
store rates, wholly or in part, during the past
ten years. There is nothing new or ingenious
in the device, and in every instance such acts
prove boomerang, being regarded by man
ayers of opposition lines as a sufficient justfea-
ton for disregarding all agreements affecting
competitive business. West Shore was invited
to become party to the agreement and recog
nizing thatit would protect the business of con
Meeting lines. put it into immediate effect The
direct breach of faith Cd the part of the Central
in this transaction discredits the avowed desire
of that line to be even as conservative as the
policy of Its com petitors would permit it TO be-