The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-05
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


OF the Indianapolis & St Louis road, is IN the
.rity on official business
The Baltimore & Ohio has gained percentage
since the cut rates have been established and the
Pennsylvania lines have lost.
The wages of section men on the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio have been reduced, and
strike with them is imminent.
f. B. Thomas, general manager of the Bee
line, who was not expected home until April IL,
surprised the boys by returning yesterday
George NJ Loosely, central district passenger
agent of the Chicago & Rock Island road is L
the city looking after the companys interests.
The West Shore fastfreight line will, in a few
days, open for business at Louisville, KY, reach
ing there from indianapolis over the j.. NJ. Il l.
road.
The McKeen syndicate being urged by
business men at points northwest of South
Bend 70 push the Vandaia extension onward to
such points
1t has been determined from recent tests that
il requires 80 per cent more coal to draw the
same train at speed of sixty miles per hour
than at twelve miles per hour.
After May l only the White line and the En-
Dire fastfreight lines will operate over the lndi
annapolis & st. Louis and the Cleveland Column
Gus. Cincinnati & indianapolis roads.
Some of the trunk lines it is stated, are busily
engaged in effort to restore the twenty-cent
rate and where contracts at fifteen cents stand
in the way it is proposed to pool them.
The Wabash people propose to double their
track between Tilton and Newell, Ill. This will
greatly facilitate the running Of their trains i'll
and out of Tilton and through Danville.
Fast time with freights is the great hobby
with the Nickelplate people. 1t is stated that
one day this week train of thirty four cars
was hauled 401 miles in twenty four hours.
The L.. N A. & c. people have been notified
zlat thp R0Uprs T,ocOmOtiVa Works will shin
them four irstclass freight locomotives next
week. Two of them are to be put in service on the
Airline division
General Palmer, whom the Denver & Rio
Grande people are trying to force out of the
presidency of the Colorado Coal and Iron Com
pany, receives $40, 900 year as salary. There
fore it is not surprising tn at he objects to being
removed.
Rumor has it that the five passenger conduct
ors recently discharged on the Cincinnati Indi-
annapolis, st. Louis 4 Chicago road are to be re
instated, and that the salary of all passenger
conductors is TO be advanced from $1,000 to
sSl 200 year
A mortgage for $40, O0O 900 on the Wabash, st.
Louis & Pacific road and its branches, in favor
of the st. Louis q Iron Mountain railway, and
payable thirty years hence, drawing interest at
the rate of per cent, is being recorded at the
county Offices along the line.
The Midland fastfreight line will withdraw
from the Indiana, Bloomington 81 Western road
l.
Erie g. Western road. Whether the Traders
Dispatch is to be thrown off of the New York.
Chicago & st. Louis road is still unsettled.
The Nickelplate fastfreight line will transfer
ats interest from the Bee-line to the Indiana,
Bloomington & Western road May l. and as a
result NJ. NJ. Lands will continue his office
in the Union Block instead of moving in with
the Decline people, in the Bates House corner
The car recorders Office and that of Morris
Hunter, travelling freight agent of the Louis
vile, New Albany & Chicago road, as well as
that of the train dispatcher, are to be removed
from New Albany to Lafayette. Now the good
people of Lafayette are again hopeful that they
will get the shops
The Wabash and Chicago e Alton are making
a lively fight for business between St Louis and
Kansas City, and the former is reported to have
forced the G. q A. people to agree to take
theatrical troupe numbering forty-ive persons
from ST. Louis to Kansas City at s.. 80 per head.
The regular rate is $3.50.
che track-layers on the Cincinnati. Van Vert
d Michigan road, have reached the crossing
point of the Chicago, St Louis & Pittsburg road,
seine two miles south of Greenville, and the
grading is all completed six miles further. where
connection will be made with the Indiana,
Bloomington d Western road
The rumor that the Pennsylvania company's
officers held meeting this week to consider
the ACCESSIBILITY of decreasing expenses, either
by reducing wages the number of employees,
proves to be false. The officers of the compay
held, or that any reduction of any kind is in
tended.
A business man of Michigan City, who was in
indianapolis yesterday, states that the business
men at that point are in fine spirits that the L.,
n A. & c. people have recently made so favora-
BILE arrangements in the running of trains, and
for handling their lumber. He says the lum-
her interest at Michigan City has greatly revived
as result.
G. R. Watson, agent of the Blue line at this
point, and also of the same line at Louisville,
KY, is arranging to move to Louisville, Ky,
which will be his headquarters 1t is probable
that the L., N A. d G. people will occupy jointly
the room with the Blue line in the Scottish Rite
building, and General Agent Brecount will assist
Mr.. Watson in looking after the Blue line inter
ests at indianapolis.
The receipts from excess baggage money at
the Union Depot in the quarter ending March
81 were $3,0l875, against So, 81 for the cor
responding three months in 1883. That there is
90 little difference in results is rather surprise,
as the excess baggage rates are fully 80 per cent.
lower than last year. However, this year theat-
rical trSupes have paid for excess baggage above
200 pounds to each ticket
Thirty passenger locomotives on the Vandalia
line are equipped with the WESTINGHOUSE
air brakes on the drivers and four switching
engines fitted up with the American steam
brake, which Master mechanic Prescott thinks
to be superior to the Westinghouse air brake on
switching engines As soon as all the passen-
ger engines are equipped with the air-brake
he will commence putting it on the freight en-
gines
A clear headed railroad man says However
desirable it may be to improve the methods
of coupling, and to establish a uniform code of
signals, railway experts more likely to reach
sound conclusions on such subjects than legisla-
tors who have multifarious duties to perform.
If Congress State legislatures ever act, it
should only be after an agreement has been sub
stantially reached by the railway lines of the
country"
Engine No. $40 on the Chicago st. Louis &c
Pittsburg road. which is said to be the heaviest
passenger engine run west of the Alleghenies,
has now been in service six months, and given
entire satisfaction. The engine is known on the
Pennsylvania system as class M The engine
weighs, empty, 92 900 pounds has II by "a