The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-30
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


The c.. L. st. L. & c. placed ticket cases in
their outside offices yesterday and are now sell
ling tickets over their counters when necessary
$50 TO do for self protection
The motto of the local passenger men seems
TO be maintaining rates when business is light
and cut them when it is heavy. AT other railroad
centers it is exactly the reverse.
The first step for the receivers of the Wabash
system to take is to pay off the employees on all
lines which constitute the Wabash system for
two months service now due them
The Decline yesterday forwarded from this
point l0S carloads of live stock for the Buffalo
and Jersey City market, and there was a heavy
movement eastward over the c., st. l.. 81 2.
Samuel Mclaughlin, general manager of the
Globe line, viii be in the city early next week to
open an Office and appoint an agent here: AS
yet there are but eight applicants for the position.
o. B. Skinner, traffic manager; Edgar Hill,
assistant general freight agent, of the Bee-lne
system, and H. W. Gays. general freight agent
of the L. & ST. L., were in the city yesterday
prospecting
The railroad companies will observe Decora
ton Day quite generally. No /! zeal trelghts are
to be run, and at the city freight depots no
freights will be received, bur they will be deliv-
cred up to 10 A. NJ.
The passenger department Of the Wabash, st.
Louis & Pacific has just issued as an advertise
ment their bill-of-fare on the elegant dining
nA0 Auh wv AhSAA 1ONtf
covers of a very artistic style.
y Edgar Hills, assistant general freight agent of
the Decline system, answered the question do
you think that east-bound rates will be ad-
7ancedl" by saying: Better maintain present
! ates before an advance is made"
The L., N. A & c.. Airline is impartial to-
wards connections at this point. Yesterday they
brought in seventy-siX DunkaPds who went
East over the c., St. L. & P, seven passengers
for the Vandalia, five for the |. q st. l.. and six
for tba 7 r a w and fOl1r for the j.. nj. IL L.
Judge Wood. of the United States District
Court, approved the bill of complaint of the
Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific VS.. the Central
Trust Company, yesterday, and appointed Scion
Humphrey and Thomas E. Tut receivers of the
portion of the system lying in the State of In
diana
George A. Baker, formerly general freight
agent Of the Buffalo, New York & Philadelphia,
has been appointed agent of the company at
Rochester, having charge of all business at the
junction, including that for the West Shore and
L~askawanna roads. George Is a bright fellow,
and was educated on a Western road.
The c., L, st. L. & C. is the only one of the
roads which is living up to the agreement of the
Chicago & Ohio River pool in the matter of
rates to the Chicago convention. President
ingalls, telegraphed District Passenger Agent
Martin that the road would have all the business
they could carry at s.. 80 for the round trip.
II. W. Gays, general freight agent of the 1. &
St L. road, saws the fashionable way Of build
ing a railroad nowadays is to build to the city
limits, then come in, and, through a pool, de
mand equal rights and privileges with the roads
which are original owners of the property and
have done so much to build up the cities IN Which
are their termini.
A Baltimore rumor has it that Garrett will re
tire from the B. & O. presidency, to be succeeded
by his on.-Evening News.
The rumor originated with the Indianapolis
journal and is based on the statement of "A con
idential friend of President Garrett. The fact
Is that his health is so poor as to unfit him for
business.
During the recent French investigations Mr.
French was asked why Connecticut, Rhode
Island and Massachusetts mails were worked
over the Pennsylvania lines when the Beeline
was the quicker route. Mr.. French answered, it
is stated, because the superintendent of the
second division, who is located at New York, re-
quests me to do it.
Calvin Brice, the Ohio railway man, is prepar-
ing for a rainy day. He is described as "a
bright-eyed, red-whiskered young man of less
Than forty years. Within the last six years he
has made more than 81, 600, 900. 1t was he who
originated the plan of the nickel plate" He
lately decided 5000, 900 to his wife as her part of
the profits to this date.
General Manager Jarvis, of the Traders Dis
patch, asks the journal to state that notwith-
standing the fact that the line will work their
New York city business between that point and
Buffalo over the Erie road, parties wishing for a
delivery over the New York, Lake Erie & West
ern road can so order. The Hoosac Tunnel line
VIII Sbi4l 10 tllCI OOSlOA IOubCs
The arguments in the case of CASTOR VS..
Pennsylvania Railroad Company are being heard
in the Court of Common Fleas at Louisville.
Mr.. CASTOR was a former resident of this city,
and was in the employ of Webster & Pitt as
book-keeper. He sues the company for SIC, 600
damages for injuries received by a train run
ming into a wagon he was driving about a year
ago.
William H. Hurlburt, formerly Eastern pas
senger agent of the Michigan Central, but
nONU Oannpol AnGfnnn naCEAnnAT nnAnf of
the Erie, has, it is understood, been ten
dered the position of general passenger agent of
the Denver & Rio Grande, with headquarters at
Denver. Biliy's many friends in the West will
be glad to learn of this advance step to a posi-
ton he is amply competent to fill
For a period of thirty nine years and nine
months, says the Boston Journal, henry =.
Paine, of Mansfield, an engineer employed by the
Boston g. Providence Railroad Corporation, has
run the New Bedford train daily from Mansfield
to Boston and return. During all that time he
has never met with an accident whereby any
person on his train was injured, or been called
up into the Office for censure or reproof.
The story of conductor Palmerton, en- the l.,
b. &c W. road and that Of parties who saw the
encounter between him and the person whom he
reported to be a tramp and who he states jumped
from his train. do not coincide. Witnesses of the
fracas say that he pushed the man off, and that
ne lay from IL A. NJ. to 5 P. NJ. at the side of the
track with his leg broken in two places and was
then picked up by an l., B.. IL w. train and
taken TO UrDana 10 De cared 1or. III conductor
Palmerton was thus %inhuman- the l., B. & w.
people had better drop him from their pay rolls.
The Wabash Receivership-The Future of
the Property.
The announcement in yesterdays journal
that a receiver for the Wabash, ST. Louis &
Pacific road had been applied for was not a sur
prise, and hardly partook of the character of
news. Weeks ago-yes, two years ago-the
journal intimated that unless there was a change
in the management of the property bankruptcy
stared them in the face. Profanity, buster and
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