The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-02
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal ana Local.


a. z. Banks, general agent Of the Continental
line, is SO i'll as to confne him at home
A meeting of the trunk line presidents, tits
reported, win soon take place in New York
A. J. Perkins, division freight agent of the O..
st L. g p, is so i'll as to confine him to the
house.
J. B. Cummins yesterday succeeded J. N.
Carder as agent of the O., l., st. L. & c. at
Westport and G. w. Avery succeeded L. r.
Newsom as agent at Atkinson.
G. b Sweet yesterday checked over his
agency at Fort Wayne to the auditor Of the
Wabash and to-day assumes the duties Of diyis-
ion freight agent. His headquarters will be
Peru Ind.
a. B. Southland, late traffic manager Of the L.,
Il. A 8 O., reached home yesterday in excellent
spirits, and after months rest takes fully as
important apositiOn on another road as he retired
from July 81
A. H. Evans, formerly superintendent Of the
c., H. & L division Of the O., II. & D. system,
now superintendent Of the N. Y, 9. & St u.
Nickelplate road, is in the city on pleasure
and business trip combined.
The following changes in agencies took effect
on the ]. & st. L. division of the Bee-line yester-
day At Witt station J. Fl. Hawk, vice J. w
Hook transferred. Vermillion, j. W. Hook,
vice G. H. Showaller, resigned
The general manager of the Louisville, New
AlDSLy Sn1ed9O ROAD 1SbIBu q SlFcuidrt
day, abolishing the Office of traffic manager, and
appointing W. II. McDpel general freight agent,
Murray Kelley viii be reappointed general pas
senger agent
In the month of July 1924 cars were tran,
sporIed over the Belt road. OF this number
BITS were loaded with live stock. This is the
lightest movement Of live stock in any month
this year In July, however the shipments are
usually light.
H. W. Hubbard, general freight agent Of the
Al. "a, 10
from the East to St Louis. Mr.. Hubbard ex-
presses the opinion that by September LIST the
roads will have all the business they can handle,
prices will adjust themselves to the rates and the
movement Of grain and live stock will be i'm
mense
The officials of the c., T., st, L. & G. road are
in excellent humor SO handsome do the earnings
for July foot up. Every week in the month
shows an increase over that of the corresponding
week Of 1888. General Passenger Agent Egan
reports an increase in passenger earnings ofsome
5000 and the increase in freight earnings tits
estimated, will be some 81, 600.
The smoothness with which business is NOV
ing along on the Cincinnati, Hamilton q Indi
annapolis road is favorably spoken Of Vice pres
ident Waite was very fortunate in securing Mr..
Mounts master of transportation. Trains are
run with unusual regularity. the employees highly
respect Mr.. Mounts, and shippers along the line
highly appreciate his desire to accommodate
them whenever possible
The Cincinnati Hamilton s. Dayton is daily
taking into Toledo some three hundred carloads
of grain. Seventy to eighty are shipped from
points on the o., H. & l. division. Yesterday
RushVille shipped twenty two car loads, and
from points east of indianapolis and west of
Connersville thirty-six carloads additional were
shipped. Then the shipments from Indianapolis
proper are still to be added.
The electric-light works are now run by coal
bought from the mines on the to-
be-bnilt Indianapolis Eel River 8
Western road. The coal. Of which
two or three carloads day is coming in,is ship
ped over the Terre Haute e Southeastern to
Terre Haute and then to Indianapolis over the
Vandalia or L & ST L. roads. ExMayor Ca
ven says the coal is equal to Pittsburg coal for
producing heat but owing to the difficulties in
transportation, cannot be placed on the In
danapols market st figure to compete with
other Goals until the l., G. R. q w. road is com
pleted.
A Timely Suggestion Regarding Car Coup
The carcoupler question is rapidly coming to
tho front Several Western and New England
roads are now testing self-car-eouplers ON their
trains There are a thousand of them and each
new one 'beats all the rest, but mono Of them
will save fingers, heads hands, arms and lives
The new device promises to do all this Coup.
ling is particularly dangerous occupations and
deserves tie special attention of the inventor
device, and right here we would suggest that be-
fore any road decides on what car coupler they
will take, there should be a meeting called Of
prominent railroad men to fully consider the
matter. It is Of the greatest Importance, so ex-
tensiye is the system of the roads, and so nu-
1nerous the ira and freightin trans
fer of the cars of one road to another, that a
uniform elf-car coupler should be adopted 1t
is a thousand times easier to adjust this problem
than That Of adopting standard time.
which has met with such universal
favor. The roads owe it to their train employees
to take strong grounds IN this matter. so great
is the fatality among men who handle freight
trains. The same is true in other countries In
England from 1885 1885, according to return
to the Board of Trade, 1902 men, employed in
shunting on English railways, were killed or in
jured-nearly two-thirds Of the whole number
employed in this department of railway work
Over z, 300 of these accidents occurred sswhilst
coupling and uncoupling vehicles while more
than ], 200 were due to the mon being caught
between buffers Yet, because these men are
taken away silently, one by one, the public Is
little concerned. and science is slow to devise
measures to prevent the awful slaughter The
great difficulty seems to be TO decide on the
coupler best to adopt. All will approve of the
suggestion that it be uniform with all roads,
a Result of Pooling which should BE Cor
rected.
Several times ia the last few months the
Journal has noted complaints Of Western mer
hants that their goods were delayed owing to
the custom adopted by the pool commissioner
IF diverting freights, and it has been pressed
upon Commissioner Fink that something should
bedone to correct the delay and annoyance
The Boston Advertiser has now taken this mat
TOR up, and in its issue Of the 10th says;
Most intelligent shippers select their routes
and have preference which way their goods
shall go. 1t often occurs that time is an element
0f Importance in their calculations Since the
trunk lines began to make rool contracts there
has been great deal of complaint Of the non
arrival Of goods at the time expected, and the