The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-11
AFFAIRS OF THE


TAe employees of the Union tracks and the
Relt road, some 100 in number, were paid yester-
day for May services.
The meeting of the joint executive commit
tee passenger Department. has been postponed
from June II to June 10.
The Terre Haute car works on Monday com
menced the building of fifty superior refrigerator
cars for the Merchants Despatch.
The New York, West Shore & Buffalo is the
fifteenth road which has tunbled into the hands
of a receiver since the year 1884 was ushered m
The Wabash, June 10, will put on a through
fast train between Chicago and Kansas City, via
jacksonville and Peoria, to be known as the
cannon ball"
Four miles of new side track has been laid in
the last sixty days on the middle division OF the
l., B. & w. road, and three miles additional on
the Ohio division.
Pavmaster Shepherd, of the Wabash system,
telegraphed last evening that he would pay on
the indianapolis division on Thursday or Friday
of this week for April service.
Y. 7. Malotts sudden departure for New York
was in answer to a telegram asking him to come
there to confer about the dropping OF the lease OF
the l., z. & c. by the Wabash people.
Nobby parlor cars were put on yesterday to
run OF the day trains over the L., M A. {. Air
line and the Chicago & West Michigan road, be
tween Indianapolis and Grand Rapids.
The story is again revived that Charles Francis
AGzEz3S, r.. Is TO succeed Sldney DluOh as pfeSE
dent of the Union Pacific railroad, but no one
knows how much foundation there is for it.
WIN. Caldwell, travelling passenger agent. New
York, West Shore & Buffalo railway, is in the
city on official business. He states that the
West Shore line is getting quite a s%prinkling OF
passengers from this section.
Three new standard mogul engines are build
ing at the Cleveland shops, of the Cleveland.
Columbus, Cincinnati & Indianapolis. Each win
weigh forty-two tons, and will have 1Sx24 inch
cylinders, and 56-inch driving wheels.
NJ ~ Reece. agent of the White line at Gin
cinnatl, spent yesterday in the city. He states
fhas at Cincinnati, as well as in Indianapolis
the Traders Dispatch is getting the lions share
of the business, and it is. as well, charged that
the line is under billing in weights.
Flowers and plants shipped from the Chicago
greea housesof the Pennsylvania lines. are being
distributed this week at stations on the Indian
apoais division. Quite u large shipment was
reserved Yesterday by Col. Perry, to be set out
in the grass plats about the city freight depot
General ticket agent Donough, at the Union
Depot yesterday furnished to pupils at the Deaf
and Dumb Institute 27S tickets, and to pupils of
the Blind Asylum, $50 tickets. Most of the
,puEals go to their respective homes TO spend
their vacation. All roads furnish them trans
p~OrSssion at two cents per mile.
A. Il. Palmerton's patent wreeking frog was
tested yesterday on the Union tracks in the
replacing of an l., b. & W. passenger coach
which had left the track. The frog did ad.
1nirable service and indications are that there
is more money in it to eX-Conductor Palmerton
than there would be in running a train during his
patnral life.
Oliver Watson, general manager Of the
Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia, has sent in
his resignation to President Gardner. With the
retirement of Mr.. Watson the Office of general
maaaeer will practically be abolished. Presi-
dent Gardner assuming a portion of the duties
OF the Office, while the authority of General
Superintendent Gatchell will be extended over
she operating and transportation departments.
The bears are making poor Roadway in their
hs1Rmerings of the Louisville, New Albany q
Chicago road. The fact is that so per cent.
of the stock, and y per cent. of the
hoais resting upon the property are held and
owned by five men. all of whom have great con
4iaenee in the property, and one of the number
SAYS neither one of them will let go their hold
ings, should crops be poor and earnings light for
two or three years to come.
v. S. Spiers, who has been for the last few
sisys engaged making the preliminary arrange
xlentS for establishing the east-bound pool at
%his point. left last evening for New York. An
attempt will be made, he states, to fix the per
cents for the seven roads which will be in the
goOi He fears little will be accomplished, how
eyer. so at variance are the views of the rail
road officials interested as to the per cents their
respective roads are entitled to.
Ladies' for agents at the smaller stations on
SONS of the Eastern roads are proving very
eihcient. They keep the waiting rooms more
clesnly and attractive, there are fewer loafers
about the country stations, and tobacco users
are not given the privileges that male agents
give them. Miss Mary Ranahan is agent of the
Rochester & Pittsburg at Orchard Park. The
windows of the telegraph Office are neatly draped
with lace curtains, while the desks during the
summer are filed with flowers.
The passenger trains over the Terre Haute
and Esogansport division of the Vandaia make
tbe run from Terre Haute to Plymouth, leo
miles, III less than six hours, and make thirty
seven stops at stations and railroad crossings.
when the McKeen syndicate purchased the
property, ten hours from Terre Haute to Logans-
port was considered good time, and the road bed
wasin such condition that passengers considered
themselves lucky to get through in that time
safely.
The size of cars used in tho transportation of
1--we stock, they varying from twentyseven to
thirty four feet in length, has in the past led to
trouble about rates. Between the roads west of
the Mississippi river it has now been agreed that
cars from twenty nine feet to thirty-one feet in
length shall be considered standard. Cars of
twenty seven feet IN length and less than TWEEN
1yaine feet will be charged 3d. "a per cent. of
the tariff rate on stannard cars, and cars of
thirty-one feet and over will be charged no per
cent of standard rates.
The brothorhoods of locomotive engineers, To-
connective fremen, yard masters, train dispatch
ers and brakemen all have divisions of their as
sociations, which are represented largely at In
annapolis. AT Terre Haute, where the member
ship is much smaller than here, once a month
sOrae one of the pastors breaches a sermon to
them specially. This service iswell attended. On
Sabbath evening last Rev. J. X. Wheeler. of
Terre Haute, preached to this class of hard
working, deserving railroad men a sermon which
was highly appreciated, and it would seem prac-
tical that in a railroad center like Indianapolis,
once a month, at least, some one of the pastors
-oufa proftably preach to the members of the
above associations who make indianapolis their
none.
Credited with Being a Shrewd Passenger
Man.
A Western passenger man writes the Journal
IF Railway Appliances, published in New York,
regarding the troubles between the roads in the
Chicago and Ohio river pool. as follows: 'The