The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-02
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


j. N. Osborn commercial agent of the Wa.
bash system is in the city prospecting
Auditor Benson, of the Wabash, is in the city
on official business. He will remain several
days
Vanderbilt is quoted as saying it is a good
time now to buy stocks, and has taken of his
coat and htaading IN.
The dissd ifssk of the Wabash system will
give an opportunity to some first class ex-rail-
road men to secure positions
JR Kendall assistant general freight agent
of the Yandalia, with his wife, has gone to Mt
Clements, Mich, for ten=days stay.
The Chicago, st Louis & Pittsburg has just
put on several new and elegant Pullman sleep
ing coaches, to run between Chicago and New
York
The Memorial Church yesterday arranged
with Major Emmett, of the L., N. A. & G. Air
line, for an excursion to Pine Lake, near La
Porte
The payments Of interest and dividends this
month will amount to $48, O00 600 in New York,
4 100000 in Boston, aud Sill, 600, 600 in Philar
.1elphia.
q S. Sawyer, general manager of the Con
tinental line was in the city yesterday He. too,
takes rosy view of the prospects for a heavy
fall traffic.
In the month Of June 10, 81 pieces of baggage
were checked out at the Union Depot, CAB pieces
more than were checked out the corresponding
north in 1883
The Vandalia lines report the entire rolling
stock of the system that runs in Illinois as well
as Indiana to the Stale Board of Equalization
for assessment
The Decline people have mada excellent
rangements to Accommodates the Knights, Of
Labor in running trains to their picnic ground
at Brightwood on the 4th
On Sunday next the running time of the st,
Louis e. Boston express between Indianapolis
md Cleveland will be shortened twenty minutes.
Several more stops are to be taken out
Depot Foreman Gregory at the G.. l., st Il.
81 G. depot handled, Monday, with his force of
ten men, seEentYfo carloads of freight
forty seven carloads in and twenty seven out
Receipts from sales Of tickets over the L. N.
A. & G. Air line, at the Union ticket Office, were
80 per cent. larger in June than in May. The
passenger traffic Of the new line is steadily i'm
proving.
The uptown Union Railway ticket Office in
June sold 1922 worth more tickets this year than
in the corresponding month Of 1882 notwith-
standing the fact that all outside Offices have
been selling tickets,
Sunday next the c., l., St L. e. G., fKanka-
kee hne) viii run q train through from Cincin-
natl to Chicago as week days, to RccommO-
date the travel to the Democratic convention.
The train will leave Indianapolis at l2:10 noon.
A prominent line man yesterday remarked
that he longed for the time to come again when
Shippers would rush IN, crowd $50 into his hand,
and say, Here, furnish me to day with ten
cars He added Then Ishould think business
was good
General Ticket Agent Donough at the Union
Depot saystha 1t is really striking THAT so
much larger a number Of travellers purchase &C
cidnnt policies after series of railroad accF
dents than during a lull The demand he says,
dies OUT some ten days or two week after an ac-
cident occurs in this locality
The Union Railway Company seems to have
been too honest for its own good 1t prac-
tically has but five blocks of main track and
that within the city limits The Belt road is
really side track to the Union railway, yet it
is placed before the State Board of Equalization
as fourteen miles Of main track.
The rumor is again renewed that the American
Express is to do all the business the Bee line
proper, as we'll as over the L 81 st. Ii road.
This would throw the entire through business of
the United States Express onto the Erie. Van
derbilt, who is largely interested in the Ameri-
can Express Company, is said to favor such a
move.
The local freight agents held their monthly
meeting yesterday. Joint tariff No came up
for consideration Some gross irregularities
were shown, and after considerable discussion
COMMITTEES was appointed to revise the tariff
which covers business to all competing points in
Indiana, Ohio and Illinois Some of the roads
are abusing the giving OF special rates, and
thereby cutting rates against competing lines.
This matter was also discussed, and then laid
over until the next meeting.
The good people Of New Albany rever seem
contented They have prevented the removal
of the L., N. A. & G. shops to Lafayette, and
they are now making an effort to secure the L.,
e. 81 ST. L. Airline railway shops. When the
city subscribed to the stock of the road, and
voted about $490, 900, it was the express agree
ment that the machine shops should be erected
there. 1t is held that though the company did
change that does not release the present COM
pany. as the franchise they bought could only
have been had through the aid of New Albany.
The Stockholders of the Belt road and stOcks
yards met yesterday, had pleasant talk de-
ciared only a 3 per cent. semi annua1 dividend
as intimated in yesterdays journal that they
would and adjourned. The Belt road extension
has been paid out of the last few months earn
ings, which has cut down the companYs sur
plus sharply. The best part of the year is yet
tocolne for the stnckYards aud the outlook for
business is promising. The yards were never
more economically managed and never have they
been SO popular with shippers as at the present
season.
why the T. HI 8 T. Bridge Fell StiH oues-
Tbs wreck at L0gaAsport on. the Vandalia has
been cleared. Temporary benta are being put
Inland trains will, in a few days, be running as
usual The Vandalia people now use the Wa
bash track to get into Logansport The coro-
ner's jury still puzzling their brains to learn
the causes OF the bridge going down last week.
ktest5t1uI EuS5lHeEr INDOORS SAID ne
could not account for the accident except that
probably the car trucks had broken, or the
wheels jumped the track cutting through The
brake beam might have broken and caught, also
bringing shout the wreck Gibbons in his tcs-
timony, went on to say that he had known of
such bridges lasting thirty years, and had never
heard Of Che Yandalia bridge being proHounced
unsafe. c. w. Fitch, superintendent of bridges
on the Vandalia, accounted for the bridge break
ing down in the same way that Gibbons did.
He snid there was no fixed time for examining
the bridges of his road, but he had been over
the bridge in question only three weeks before
good repair In all the examinations he ever
made Of the bridge he had never nrnnnl111eed Il