The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-15
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

W. M. Sk:lkin has been appointed freight ana
ticket agent of the Vandalia at Montrose Ill,
vice F. W. Adele resigned
Paymaster Sullivan, of the c., l., St L. & C.,
/ pays on the eastern division to-day for April
service and on the western division tomorrow
The Wabash people placed tickets on sale yes
teriay at the Union Depot Office to the base ball
park, where games are to be played on the Sab
bath.
The annual meeting of the Western general
ticket and passenger agents, at Louisville, KY,
was slim affair. No business of Importance
was transacted.
Commissioner Fink has promised the trunk
/ line presidents that he will remain and revise
| the whole pooling business, which will certainl!
be an allsummer job.
There are those who believe that the Cleve-
land, Columbus, Cincinnati q Indianapolis stock
! at "a is good investment. The future OF the
property is certainly promising.
Nav earnings with majority Of the Indiana
roads are showing considerable gains over those
of April, and results would be even better were
loo al tariff rates more strictly adhered to.
Osgood Bradley the veteran car builder, died
at Worcester, Mass, a day or two since, in
the eighty-fourth year of his age. The first cars
he built was in 1885, for the Boston d Worcester
road.
Freight men are looking for sharp squirt in
business Jno latter part OF IDlS HlOHlil- as pue
farmers will place all the grain they can spare on
the market, and in all markets there is sharp
demand.
i Colonel NJ. A. Downing leaves for ST. Louis
! today to look after matters connected with the
St. Beuis Creve Coeur & St. Charles road, and
will, in a couple of days. go on to Hot Springs
for a three weeks tarry.
p. J. Murphy Yesterday assumed the duties of
general agent of the Ohio Southern road, head
: quarters, jackson, Ohio. G.. z. Robinson has
been appointed acting agent of the l., B. q w. at
Charlottesville. vice Mr.. Murphy, transferred.
Edward Moore, who has been placed in charge
of the round.house Of the Cincinnati, Hamilton
81 indianapolis at this point, is one of the vet
! eran engineers of the c., H. d ID. lines having
pulled the throttle on that road for thirty years
Some of the block coal miners in the Brazil
district returning to work, and the railroad
= officials are considerably encouraged over the
situation, The T. H. & l., the c. & E. l. and
the L., N. A. & c. roads have felt the loss of
! this business seriously.
! Notice is given of several changes in agents on
! the Jeffersonville, Madison & Indianapolis road.
| A. M. Gray has been appointed agent at Middle
Fork; c. NJ Taylor, at Manila; |. j. Kaufman,
at Rushville; J. J. Thomas at Wray, and l. c.
Parker, at Cfothersville
Amidst the ups and downs of railroad stocks,
/ that of the indianapolis Belt road never breaks
I 1t is stated that the earnings of this property
this year in connection with the stockyards, will
be in excess of any former year, so economically
is the properly managed
Mr. W. R. Baldwin, who has been chief clerk
in the j., M. & l. passenger department for
number of years past, and who has been con-
nected with this road seventeen years, Petires to-
day to accept position as assistant general pas
Senger agent of the L., n. A. d G.
Colonel r. G. Hervey. as the prospects that
the Illinois Midland road will be sold brightens,
has renewed his interest in the property and
talks about ''our road" He says: eve have
waited patiently for nine long years to have
decree Of sale granted, and we expect to get it
this time"
General Manager Talmage, of the Jay Gould
lines is said to be in a cheerful mood and reports
the outlook for business on the roads under his
management as better than ever before He
says there is more business in sight from July
than the company can handle, and he has made
requisition for largely increased rolhng-stock.
General notice has been served by Receiver
Craig, of the Toledo, Burlington 6 St Louis
railroad, that the Office of the superintendent
will be moved from Delphos, O., to Button,
Ind, on Monday next The division will end
there, ALSO and all train men will lay over there
A rumor is current that the shops will be re-
moved to Bluffton also.
1t is stated that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company by Strengthening the lines, has
duced the distance between Pittsburg and Har
risburg nearly ten miles, and that when certain
grades are reduced and the work of Strengthening
track now in process has been completed. the
travelling time between Philadelphia and Pitts
burg win be fully one hour less.
The announcement is officially made that Mr.
lJ. G. Williams, general superintendent of the
Chicago & Atlantic road had resigned, to take
effect June l. Mr.. Williams was the chief engln
eer of the road when it was built, and finds en-
cheering more to his taste than railway operat
ing. He will therefore, upon leaving that road
assume charge of the construction of a new
road.
General Manager A A. Talmage and First Vice
president Hayes, of the Wabash, have issued
circular taxing all employees receiving over $50 per
month, fifty cents per month and those receiving
under $50 per month, thirty five cents for the pur
pose of establishing hospital. All employees
wounded or stricken down from other causes will
be taken to the hospital and all expenses paid
The order takes effect June l.
The contract of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company with the Pullman Car Company expires
in January next In the meantime the former
company is building some experimental palace
cars at its Altoona shops, to take the place of
those that will be discarded with the expiration
of the Pullman contract. 1t is understood, how
ever that the Pullman company will renew their
contract so far as the sleeping coach service is
concerned.
In the year 1883, on the Chicago St Louis e.
Pitssbure road the number of locomotives was
increased from 149 to 100 The car equipment
consisted on January l. 1884. of sixty eight pas
senger. twenty-seven baggage, six express, seven
mail, z, l46 box, $40 stock, 754 gondola one tool,
and sixty five caboose cars which represented an
increase OF ten passenger, three baggage, six ex-
press, two mail, ], $50 box, $50 stock, and 226
gondola cars
James McHenry seems quite determined to keep
himself before the American public. In letter
ifrom London to his brother-in-law, J. BelIangee
Cox, he says that the accounts in the New York
papers of his arrest and the statement that he paid
"a large sum to satisfy the claims of the Erie
RAILROAD Company before leaving were pure fc-
ition. He paid nothing, he says, and the transac
5tioa between him and the railroad company
Stands just as it did before.
arranging matters to attend the annual conven
lion of the Passenger Conductors Association of
the United States, which convenes at Phiiadel-
bhia Pa, May 81 The meeting promises to be
one of the most important and largely attended
yet held This association is one of the most
Substantial and reliable ever organized upon the