The Indianapolis journal., 1884-06-23
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Thee Beeline forwarded East from this point
CAST week l, 1O8 loaded cars the c., st. L. & Z.
992 the l., B. & w. 800, and the c., Fl. & |. 2l5
j. p Meredith, master of transportation of the
Atlanta G. Charlotte Airline has been appointed
assistant superintendent of the East Tennessee,
Virginia 6 Georgia.
President ingalls,, of the c., l., St L. & C.,
hopes to resume the paying of dividends Oct.
d. Mr. Ingall is one who does not believe in
paying dividends unless the road earns them.
The Wabash receivers are paying the taxes on
all the 5000 miles of road which is really owned
gby the Wabash, st. Louis 6 Pacific: the taxes of
LEASED lines are not receiving any attention
Mr. D. NJ Kendricl, general passenger agent
iof the Delaware 81 Hudson Canal Company
whose headquarters are at Albany N. y, is
Visiting old time friends in the West for a few
days.
Receivers of roads who went into bankruptcy
lin 1875 are pricking up their ears, so excellent
fare the prospects that some ten more roads will
humble into the hands of receivers within the
next sixty days.
! Samuel Hunt has resigned his position as mas
ter of transportation of the East Tennessee,
Virginia & Georgia railroad Mr. Hunt has oe
cuEied this position for the past year, having
formerly been connected with the Cincinnati
Southern
In the week ending June 81 there were trans
9erred over the Belt road s 3O2 cars Otthat num-
Der 1,092 were loaded with live stock. In the
week ending June IA there were 1928 cars
tra nsferred over the Belt road; increase last
week, 374 cars.
A meeting Of the roads in the coal pool will
be held on Mr.. Hibbard's return from the East,
at which it is confidently expected the pool will
be re-established on a basis proposed by Mr.
Hubbard, of the Vandalia, the Wabash being
allowed Is per cent
One thousand carloads of stone have been
contracted for at Spencer on the Indianapolis d
Vincennes road, to be put in the foundation
walls of the new insane asylum at Richmond,
Ind. The l. & V. and c., St L. & P. have al
-eady commenced hauling the stone.
The Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati 6 In
dianapolis Railway Company has applied to the
New York Exchange for the listing of 81, OO0, 900
more of its $12 100000 general mortgage 6 per
cent bonds, $500 900 of the $l2, 600, 600 having
already been listed and sold
One year ago to-day the Airline division of the
L.. N. A. & c. road was opened for business, and
ithas to be one of the favorite roads running
into Indianapolis so local is the character Of its
business and SO much do the officials in all de-
partments do to make the road popular with its
patrons.
Receiver Humphrey, of the Wabash, arrived
in St Louis yesterday. Important changes are
to result from his present visit West which we
are not atliberty to make public. Without doubt,
before he returns East, which, if any, of the
leased lines the Wabash will keep will be deter
mined upon.
Il. w. Hibbard general freight agent of the
Vandala, passed through Indianapolis on Satur-
day night, en- route to Boston. One of his spe-
cial objects in going is to arrange with Boston
freight men to work a certain per cent of their
west bound freight over the Terre Haute & Lo-
gansport road.
Master Car-builder Marsh, of the Bee-line sys-
TEN, will to-day turn out of the Bee-line shops
at Brightwood two elegant passenger coaches,
numbered $50 and 331 They are equal in every
respect to Pullman's best day coaches, which is
as good a compliment can be paid to the work
OF any master car-builder.
A travelling man who last week. passed over
the Cairo & Vincennes division of the Wabash
system, and over the Danville, Olney & Ohio
River road as well, says the track of the latter,
after all the abuse that has been heaped upon it,
is as much better than the G. 81 " as a steelrail
stone -ballasted road is better than the D., o. &
O. Il. road.
Mr. E. Phillips, president, and J. Whit
more traffic manager of the Fitchburg road who
have been West several days, returned to Bos-
ton on Saturday The question naturally arises
why Mr. Phillips should return East without
coming to indianapolis to look after one of his
pet enterprises, the indianapolis, Eel River 81
Western road
The train dispatchers in the Indiana division
of the National Train Dispatchers' Association,
met at 5 P. NJ yesterday. The principal bust
ness transacted was the adoption of a constitu
ton and by laws, as prepared by committee
appointed at a previous meeting. Train dis
= patchers all over the State are showing muchin-
terest in this organization, and Indiana will be
we'll represented at the meeting to be held in
Louisville to organize on a permanent basis the
national association.
For the time being ". S. Spiers is to be the
acting joint agent of the Peoria east-bound
pool The per cents. as arbitrated are
as follows. Wabash 295 per cent; Indiana,
Bloomington & Western, 255 Rock Island,
25.5; Peoria, Decatur Evansville, 1915.
The commissioner in submitting those per
centages stated that if any of the parties
had, under the rules. two weeks in which to
make an appeal to arbitration
Herbert Durand railroad editor of the St.
Louis Globe Democrat was in the city yesterday.
He came over the Vandalia and was surprised at
tho smoothness and soliditv of the track. A
newspaper mans opinion of a roaa-bed is valua
BILE, as he is unbiased in reaching conclusions.
Before the close of the present year doubtless
the Vandalia its entire distance, will be one of
the best tracks in this country Col. Hill, the
superintendent, is a civil engineer as well as
practical railroad man in all respects, and he is
fully determined to make this the model road of
the West
Denying Rumors Becoming the Burdensome
Task of Railroad Presidents.
Charles Francis Adams recently elected
president of the Union Pacific road, had not
got his seat fairly warmed before he had to
deny three big bear stories, invented seemingly
TO prevent calm settling on Union Pacific.
These rumors were: First that he, Mr. Adams,
had discovered and broken up an extensive con-
spiracy to rob the company; second, that Gen
eral Manager Clark had handed in his resigna-
ton and that it had been accepted; and, third,
that he, Mr.. Adams, had protested against the
expert report on Union Pacific to the Secretary
of the Interior. If President Adams will DENY