The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-07
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


east of Pittsburg increased 3 per cent; on those
west of Pittsburg per cent, last year
The management of the Illiana coal mines,
on the l., D. & s. road, have contracted to fur
nish ninety tons of coal per day to the L. B. d.
w. Railroad Company. These mines are now
producing 100 tons per day,
The members of the Cincinnati Hamilton d
Dayton Mutual Benefit Association have been
notified of an assessment on the death of Will
lam Graham, yard-master at Cincinnati. This
is the first assessment this year
Since the accident near Paris, on the I. & st.
L. road, a baggage car is hauled next to the
locomotive on the Paris accommodation, instead
of a combination car, so that the passengers may
be better protected against accident.
Superintendent Evan, of the Decline, has in
structed train men to make as few running
switches as possible, as it not only endangers
life and limb of employees but quite frequently
is productive of loss to the company.
w H. King has accepted the local agency of
the Decline at Cincinnati. His many friends in
indianapolis will be pleased to learn of his pro
motion and will be better pleased to learn that
he has become model temperance man.
Colonel VIM. Shaw, general agent of the Indi-
ana, Bloomington e. Western road is in the city
on official business Colonel Shaw, on March l,
began his fifteenth year in passenger service on
the l., B. & W., and has been connected with
this road longer than any other passenger man
in the companys employ.
One of the Vanderbilt lines is now hauling
the flour from the Hoosier Mills of which there
is to be some fifty carloads for export via Port
Richmond The schemes which have been re-
sorted to by the twenty more line agents at
this point to secure these shipments, if pub
Gshed, would make an interesting chapter.
In the year 1883 there was used on the Penn
sylvania lines east of Pittsburg %, 269 tons of
steel rails and 863, 206 crossties. On the lines
west of Pittsburg there were laid q, 1888 tons of
steel rails. During the year there were ex-
pended ST. 929. 405. rs in betterment to the prop
erty owned and controlled by the Pennsylvania
company west of Pittsburg.
The Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers
and of Locomotive Firemen have each
voted to turn out in a body on Sun
day next to attend the funeral Of John Howder.
Mr.. Howder was one of the engineers of the c.,
st. L. & P. who went with Master-mechanic
Rodgers onto the East Tennessee, Georgia &
Virginia road q few months ago.
The Indiana Bloomington g. Western people
have become tired of looking on at PEORIA doing
nothing, while their competitors, some of them,
are crowded with business, and yesterday
President Corbin gave the freight men orders to
resume taking business and meet rates of com
petitors AS a consequence yesterday after
noon, one grain firm ordered fifty Midland cars
per day until further orders.
A railroad man, who travels 10000 or more
miles year. and who is a good judge of road
bed, says he had rather ride over John F.
Millel's division, of the Chicago ST. Louis &
Pittsburg road, which extends from indianapolis
to Columbus than over any lSS miles of railroad
in the United States, the Pennsylvania proper
not excepted. He says trains are run evenly,
the track is smooth there are few curves and
the trip in every way is pleasant.
John Evan, superintendent of the Decline,
Indianapolis division, gives notice that on and
after April ] next, in connection with the change
in the manner of paying the employees of this
company, all employees who obtain meal tickets
and board upon credit Will be required to settle
personally with the boarding house keepers
within five days after the pay car has passed over
the road The paymaster will not collect these
bills from employees and pay the money so col
]ected over to the boarding house keeper, as
heretofore. If any employee fails to pay his
board bs-for the month for which he has re-
ceived his pay-within five days after receiv-
hight he will be discharged from the service of
The company.
The Baltimore & Ohio Ceases To BE
Looker-On.
The Journal has good authority for the state
1nent that the Baltimore & Ohio road, which,
for months past has been looker-on while its
trunk-line competitors carried freights which
the Baltimore & Ohio is legitimately entitled
to, has assumed the aggressive, and yesterday
contracted to forward 800 carloads of grain
from Kansas City and the same number from
st. Louis at a sharply cut rate The property Is
consigned to Gill & Fisher, Baltimore. and is to
be forwarded over the Ohio & Mississippi, the
Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore and the
Baltimore & Ohio. For some days past the
railroad officials of the b. & o. and the receiver
of grain at Baltimore have been agtated over
fresh evidence of the cutting of freight rates on
grain from the West by some Of the trunk lines
While the rates over the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road have been maintained. there have been
private reductions made in the rates to other
seaboard cities by competing lines Notwith
standing the differental rates established by the
trunk lines of three cents per 100 pounds in
favor of Baltimore there is but very little grain
being received at that city shippers at the West
are able TO get much more favorable special rates
to New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. The
transportation committee of the Baltimore Corn
Exchange held meeting recently to decide what
action shall be taken by the exchange in the mat
ter, and the action of the B. q O. yesterday is
the result of that conference.
Peeping Into s1eeping-Car Berths.
Friends of the Pennsylvania Company express
the opinion that Manager McCrea has over
reached himself in his order that his passenger
conductors should draw the curtains of sleeping