The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-22
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


William r. Mckeen, president OIL the VIII
dalia and Josephus Cotlett are in New York.
The Cleveland Herald thinks thai private sec
retaries are useful to railroad men as architects
of evasive replies.
The Indiana, Bloomington s. Western road
fad that their Kansas City through car is pay
ing enterprise, if other roads fail so to do
Geo Willis, agent of the United States Elk
eress Company at the Union Depot reported
yesterday for duty after having been confined to
the house thirteen months by illness.
The officials of the recently established Globe
fast freight line are making trip through the
West establishing agencies Arthur Elliott mas
been appointed agent of the line at Cincinnati
The indianapolis & st. Louis road through
Illinois is being graveled to depth OF htteen
inches at the rate of a mile day. me hght
traffic enables Roadmaster Henry to push the
work.
J. A. Miller. ticket agent of the c., l., St L.
6 c. at Lafayette, spent yesterday in this city.
Mr. Miller has just COMMENCED his eleventh
year as agent of the Big Four, and Auditor Sulh
van always finds his reports correct.
One of the officials of the Wabash system re
marked day or two since, that if any syndi
cate wanted to take the Wabash lease OF the OLD
l., Z. q c. road he presumed the Wabash people
would gladly unload it on such syndicate.
E. B. Thomas, general manager Gaylord
Beach, chief engineer, and w. c. Irwin, en-
gineer of bridges on the Bee-line system, arc in
in the city, and will remain the greater part OF
the forenoon, and then move westward on
special train.
That the employees on the Wabash, St Louis
| & Pacific may breathe easier we mention that
the pay car started on its monthly rounds yes
ter1ay Heretofore, or for some months past
30 PaVmaster Sheppard has started out on the 10Th
of each month"; and the seven days delay, with
the ufavorable rumors concerning the aoash,
caused much uneasiness.
Ticket broker Newby's office is in the room
formerly occupied as a local Office Of the C., l.,
ST L. & c. road, and frequently strangers who
are not aware of the change, call at Newbys
office to purchase tickets, and some orders for
tickets to read over the Big Four are presented,
which would make Commissioner Richardson
believer in total depravity.
Mr. Meslier, who during the absence of Mr..
Denney was acting district passenger agent OF
the Wabash. left for st. Louis yesterday. The
few weeks he was in the city he made host of
friends through his genial ways and prompt
mothod of doing business. District pas,
Senger agent Denney yesterday, assumed
control of the business at this point.
William Sullivan, agent of the c., l., st. L. &
C. at this point was last evening married TO
Miss Addie Buchanan. Like sensible man
he attended to his duties as usual yesterday,
and will be at his post to-day His friends at
this terminus last evening presented him with
two expensive and elegant rocking chairs and a
magnificent clock with valuable statuary.
An official of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany estimates that the company will have about
slOO, 900 more to pay in taxes in the State of
New Jersey this year, in consequence of the new
assessment by the Commissioner of Railroad Tax
:tfion The question of railroad taxation is as
Stunning more importance yearly, bothin the East
and West, and is becoming very burdensoLne
for some weak roads.
The projectors of the Toledo Indianapolis &
Western road are to meet in this city next week
for general conference The directors are not
harmonious as to the location of the road or the
methods of raising the money to build it. Sew
eraI handsome subsidies have been voted to aid
tho enterprise by townships on the line, but
certain portion of the construction work must be
completed before the subsidies can be obtained.
Commissioner Richardson's indianapolis
Freight Association is making slow Roadway in
the matter of weighing cars. To enable the as
socIation to carry out their plans 1t would be
necessary 10 put in car weighing scales at all
points where the roads connect with the Belt
road, or some fifteen scales, which is an expense
some Of the roads are not anxious TO incur.
And not only this some agents doubtless prefer
to have the weighing question remain as 1t Is, as
undertaking secures business for them If re-
ports are true, that they would not obtain were
all ears weighed before forwarded.
The Cincinnati papers of yesterday publish
special to the effect that c. 7. Huntington and
General Sam Thomas have bought acontrolling
interest in the Kentucky Central road, and will
make it a division of the Chesapeake 81 Ohio
G. p. Huntington has held controlling interest
in the Kentucky Central for three years
more, and for some weeks the Kentucky Cen
trail has been operated as a part of the Chesa
peake & Ohio system. G. P. Huntington. as
well, holds large blocks of stock of the Cincin-
natl, indianapolis. St Louis & Chicago road, but
not enough to make it probable that he can con
troll it, at least in the near future.
A Pennsylvania railroad official said yesterday
that unless the presidents and managers of the
nine roads composing the Union Railway Com
pany could better harmonize their views on the
question OF location, the citizens of indianapolis
need not expect a new Union depot for five years
to come Some OF the most
influential of their number he thought would
never consent to build any other location
than the vacant grounds west of Tennessee
street. There new depot could be erected and
completed and then system OF tracks laid to it
before the present Union Depot is abandoned.
West of Tennessee street he said, there
ample room, and but little if any damages to
property would be claimed by property holders
in that vicinity.
President McKeen, of the vandalia system, is
a railroad official who believes that paying en-
ployes promptly insures better work. He in
structed Paymaster Crawford to hire horse and
buggy at the end of their extension and go on
through to South Bend, paying all the men on
the construction work which was not let out to
sub-contraetors, roads nowadays are
usually built, and the men allowed
to suffer for their pay. The grading of
al gaps where there has been contest over the
right of way rendering condemnation necessary,
is complete now to within three miles of South
Bend, and the track-layers are three miles out
north Of Plymouth. In the last daY or two
thirty two loads of steel rails have arrived at
Plymouth
An Analysis of President Corbin's Statement.
The Stakeholder publishes the annual state
Inent Of Austin Corbin, president of the Indiana,
Bloomington & Western, which was published
in the journal of last week, and then comes out
IS bear on Che property, making an analysis
Of mileage and earnings, which shows steady
decrease III both gross and net earnings per mile.
and increase in stocks and debts from 1879 TO
1882, and moderate improvement in each in
the last year. The operating expenses have in