The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-26
AFFAIRS OF TIE RAILWAYS.


Personal ana LOCAL.
Tia Bee line has increased the number of
working hours at several of the shops on its
system.
The employes of the Camden & Atlantic rail
road on Saturday last presented the retiring
superintendent, W. n. Barnard with gold
watch.
The American Exp ress people are in high gee
That on and after Monday next they have clean
sweep over the Decline. All United States Ex-
press messengers will be withdrawn.
1t is stated that the Illinois Central and the
Indianapolis 6 st. Louis roads pay the highest
average wages to employees of any roads in the
country and the Baltimore 81 Ohio the lowest
Dec 10 has been fixed upon as the day for a
meeting of the members of the Chicago and ONO
River pool, to adjust pool per cents. rms is as
Izray date as President Malott could get the
representatives together
The arrangement for putting on through sleep
eIs between Indianapolis and Washington Dec. L,
Dver the G., L. St. L. & G. and the B. & o., has
been definitely agreed upon, and 1T is SAID II WILL
be a permanent enterprise
The opening of the South Bend extension of
the Vandalia brings South Bend within lo6 miles
of Terre Haute by rail, and within l39 miles of
indianapolis, connecting with the g., l., St Il.
& g. at Colfax Trains of the c., L., St l.. 81 G.
make close connections each way twice daily.
HAG l4Ou1SVllle, New AlDtuy q AnlcHBO
not member of The Chicago east bound pool,
has of late been carrying considerable east
bound tonnage, hauling it some thirty mics,
then turning it over to the Grand Trunk road
Commissioner Fink has been asked to investigate
The matter.
The line of the Indianapolis Eel River &
Southwestern railroad now under course of con-
,struction, traverses the counties of Clay, Owen,
Greene, Sullivan and Knox, through the coal
basin" of Indiana for distance of seventy miles,
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region in Putnam and Morgan counties.
The time fixed upon for taking in charter
members to the National Train Dispatchers'
Association has expired. W. NJ Marshall presi-
dent of the association, states that tho chartor
membership has reached nearly 500 train dis
patchers. Dir Marshall is highly encouraged as
10 the future OF the organization.
James Reed, travelling agent of the c., B. 6
@, was in the city yesterday on official bust
ness In brief talk he plainly showed that in
the passenger rate war the c., B. & Q. take an
honorable, business like position Eand should the
general passenger agents fail in their efforts to
restore rates at the Chicago meeting, the posi-
ton of the c., b., & Z. in the fight will be
further noticed.
The refusal of the Pennsylvania Company to
jeopardize its local rates by joining in the fight is
held by railroad men-and the ticket scalpers
say the same thing-as calculated rather to
lengthen the strife than to shorten il. They say
that had that corporation stepped into the arena
that tbs fght-Yould speedily have been forced to
a close; as it Is, the company stands off and in
sists that the warning corporations must fight
out their own battles 1t looks as if the fight
would be long one. Railroad men and scapers
say so, and the large quantities Of unlimited
tickets sold at the low rates indicate that it
will be.
: E. A. Ford, general passenger agent Pennsyl
vania Company, G. & P. r. R., Pittsburg Gin
cinnati & st. Louis railway, Chicago St. Louis
q Pittsburg railroad, and E. c. james. assistant
general passenger agent Cleveland, Mt Vernon
g. Delaware railroad, issue joint circular in
which they state the above roads will on Monday,
Dec l, 1884 open a through passenger line be
tween Cleveland and Cincinnati, via Hudson
Akron, lit Vernon and Columbus, to be known
as the Mt. Vernon and Panhandle route There
will be a morning and evening line through each
way daily, with Pullman sleeping-ears between
Cleveland and Cincinnati, without change, and
trains will be run in direct connection with
trains of diverging lines at Cleveland Columbus
ard Cincinnati