The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-21
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

in the rail rate from Indianapolis to New York
equals the canal toll that has been abolished
The earnings of the Wabash, St Louis g Pa
cifc railway for the second week in August
were: 1884, $4O7, JOB; 1883, 1881, 3s9; increase
this year, $25, 10
Financial and railroad circles have come to
look upon Mr. Robert Garrett the permanent
Baltimore & Ohio president, although his father
nominally holds the place.
The PEORIA Decatur & Evansville road has
since Jan. l. increased its earnings over the
corresponding period, 1883, SAL, 3D. the Evans
| vile g Terre Hante 81, 1872
The earnings of the Danville, Olney & Ohio
River road are paying operating expenses, and
small surplus, which, as soon as they swell to any
amount will be put into improvements.
A large party were furnished with round trip
tickets to Independence, Kansas yesterday at
$40, the passenger agent selling them saying
they were furnished on previous contract
John w. Davis, assistant to the first vice
president Of the Baltimore & Ohio, has been APP
pointed by the Governor of Maryland member
of the Board of Police Commissioners Of the city
of Baltimore
The c.. L, St L. & C. people are this month
putting CO. 600 new cross ties in the track of the
western DIVISION and when they IN place
the track of the division will be equal to that OF
the eastern division.
S. NJ Stevens, secretary of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, is doing great work for
the B. L. f. in Canada In the past six days he
has organized five new lodges, the last one, No.
232, at Monckton, New Brunswick
The freight agents of the roads in the east
bound pool yesterday afternoon met the new
commissioner, NJ L. Doherty, and had an in
formal talk. w. S. Spiers will remain over to-
day to initiate Mr. Doherty in his new work.
NJ E. Ingalls,, president of the c., l. St L. &
g., telegraphed yesterday to an Indianapolis
railroad official asking him what could be done
to stop the war on passenger rates. He Thought
1t was time to take prompt action IN the matter
The election of A. B. Harris, of Springfield,
Mass, president of the St Johnsbury & Lake
Champlain railway insures strong manage
ment for that enterprise and probably indicates
the extension northward of the interests of the
Connecticut River railroad
It is understood there is to be an early reor-
ganization Of the management Of the East
Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia road, and Cen
eral Huidekoper, well-known in indianapolis
railroad circles, is prominently named for the
presidency of the company
The passenger conductors on the l., P. & G. di-
vision of the Wabash seem anxious that the
Wabash shall continue in control of the prop
erty as the Wabash pay this class of railroad
men 20 per cent higher wages than did the for
mer management of the l., P. & G.
II. B. Sherman, John Browning, Charles Mil
Hard and two or three other parties of this city,
have purchased the Palmerton wrecking frog
patent for all States of the Union, except In
diana and Illinois. These two States had already
been disposed of to D. F. Whitcomb, John Witty
and others
John King has already assumed the duties of
president of the Erie system, and with several
of the directors, yesterday started out on an in
spection trip of the system They expect to be
in Chicago tomorrow; Cincinnati, Saturday or
Monday, the date depending on the time they
remain at Chicago
F. M. Ironmonger, of the associated railways
of New York, has prepared very simple sta
tistical table showing the per cents. of each road
over which property is carried at a through pro-
portionate rate. The work of six minutes of
figuring by this system is done bya novice in
one minute and by an expert in thirty seconds
Herbert Durand aterailroad editor of the ST
Louis Globe Democrat. yesterday assumed the
duties of general advertising agent of the Wa
bash system, a position to which he was recently
appointed by Mr.. France Chandler, general
passenger agent of the Wabash. Mr. Chandler
has shown excellent Judgment in his selection
for that position
It is stated that the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul people have notified the l., B. & W. people
that they will not prorate with them on the party
ofthirty who on Monday went to Flandreau. D. T.,
but will demand an arbitrary rate. If all West
eFn and Northwestern connections would take
similar action they would soon end the boyish
war on west bound rates.
During the first days of July when the wheat
began to move, earnings showed a heavy increase
over previous years. When the price fell the
movement stopped almost entirely, and the ag-
gregate earnings for July did not pull up, in
some cases to even figures with 1888; and the
same feature promises to characterize the traffic
of August, the shipments of grain still being
comparatively light
The old engineer on the New York Central
road, known among railroad men as Uncle RUDE
Allen, will complete, in few days, his fortieth
year as passenger-tran engineer, and it is
understood that on that day he will renquish
the throttle and retire from railroading. Dur
ing the forty years that he has been in the cab
he has never met with an accident, or killed
passenger or employe.
If the roads west of ST. Louis, Hannibal
Quincy, Peoria and Chicago would demand their
arbitrary as do the roads west of the Missouri
river, and let the rate cutting fall wholly upon
the initial lines from Indianapolis the war
would soon end, as at the cuts made Of late the
initial lines would have to advance to their con-
nections and haul the passengers for nothing to
send them through to destination.
Assistant Master Mechanic Bergo Of the Wa
bash road, at Springfield, resigned few days
since, and the shop men concluded to make him
a present A watch and chain worth 800 were
given him. Speeches of regret, etc., followed,
journal says: Imagine the surprise of the
boys, the next day, when Mr. Bergo resumed
charge OF the shop having concluded to with
draw his resignation He did not return the
watch, however
In commenting on the rumor that the Wabash
was to favor an alliance with the West Shore
road, Russell Sage said: 1.-THE Wabash system
per SCI as John Tyler used to say--as whole
IS capable of throwing sufficient volume Of
business upon this line, or on the Delaware
Lackawanna g Western to make either Of them
very profitable indeed to their owners and that
this will be done is as certain to my mind
Is anything in railroad matters could be without
seeing it carried into practical operation"
The Good of the Pool.
The New York Indicator of the 10th, under the