The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-08
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

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leaves for Boston this morning
Dir John N. Abbott, general passenger agent
Of the Erie road, has been West several days
taking soundings.
,. P. hoffman. yard-master at Evansville, on
the e. s. 7. H. road, has resigned and is sue
ceeded by George Loveioy.
The Chicago & Alton road delivered, on Satur-
day, the first carload of wheat Of this years
crop, placed on the Chicago market
The Bee-liEe Is doing an immense New Eng
land business Yesterday, at the out-town
ticket Office, the receipts from sales of tickets
reached $3.50.
All locomotives on the l.. B. e w. system are
to be equipped with the steam blow-back, an
improvement which should be adopted by every
road in the country.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has pnr
chased the Southern railroad This gives the
Pennsylvania railroad people an independent
outlet to Lake Ontario.
The earnings Of the Indiana Bloomington
Western road for june were $tS7, 80 From
freights $l12, 006 Az passenger traffic, $40,
b49.38; miscellaneous, $14, 1857.
Inquiries for cars are becoming more numerous.
Yesterday the Evansville & Terre Haute people
called for fifty Great Western Dispatch cars and
the G., L. st. i. & @. for the same number.
Secretary Tinney Of the Travelling Passenger
Agents Association, WILL within the present
woek, be prepared to furnish passes to all dele
gates who propose to attend the coming annual
meeting at Denver.
The St Louis Office Of the American Express
Company has been placed under the supervision
of e. w Sloane. By the by, Mr.. Sloane is now
the veteran division superintendent IN the EN-
ploY of the company.
President Mackey of ftae E. & T. H. road is
stsit cutting down expenses. One crew and
switching engine is doing the yard work at
fk,.ao
engines were in the switching service at that
point
The present management Of the IT,, NJ A. &
Y. road are less scrupuious regarding the run
ming Of Sunday trains than was the Young man
RgemenE Sunday last at fe1r different points
was the company running trains 70 pleasure
resorts.
Employees of the Indiana, Bloomington &
Western road at this point will to-day be paid
for June service, on the st Louis division the
Dth, Peoria the 10TH the middle division the
I1th. Ohio division the 18th, Ohio Southern road
the 14th.
Receiver Henderson has ordered the employees
On the Danyille. Olney & Ohio River read
paid July 10, for june service He hopes the
coming months of the year to make surplus
earnings sufficient to put the rOad-bed in fair
condition for winter service
There is no definite information as to whether
or not Mr.. Austin Corbin has abandoned his
proposition to lease the st Louis division of the
Tolsdo, Cincinnati e St Louis, owing to the
tar5fRess and divided opinions of the bond
holders. There Is great danger that bis scheme
viii fall through.
D. ri Higgs, president and general manager
of the Texas Continental TRANSPORTATION Com
pany, announces that Mr. G. a. Hasiett gea-
eral superintendent Of this company, having re
signed that Office, for the present, will be abol-
ished, and the duties pertaining to same, until
further notice, be performed by him.
Railroad men are not surprised that the
Wabash people find it SO difficult to secure a
general manager for the property, as the chances
are that taking the general managershiP weuld
ruin mans reputation as raiiroader unless he
& is we'll backed financially, and is enabled to
make all needed Improvements TO the road bed
and equipments.
To-day the executive committee Of the Middle
and Western States classification hold meeting
In Cleveland. O. Tomorrow, general freight
agents Of the Ohio, Indiana and Illinois roads
meet at the same place to form a Middle and
Western States rate association, and Thursday the
representatives of the roads in the Ohio lumber
pool meet in Cleveland
The passenger men deserve credit that when
circumstances were 50 anspiciOus for general
war on rates that the better policy has been
pursued, and all the Chicago lines have done
m excellent business the last few days, in spite
of the ugly threats of officials of competing
lines. Hereafter. when q reduction in rates is to
be made by all lines to a certain point the rela-
ti0n Of differentiai rate to reduced rate
shonld be better understood.
An old expressmau, in speaking of the ruInOr
that the American Express Company would
soon do all the business ON the Bee-line system
remarked that such an arrangement would have
been made long ago but for a special agreement
between Presidents Fargo, of the American Elk
press, and Kipp, Of the United States Express.
Both parties are now dead, consequently there
is no longer any obstacle to the rumoEed change.
Evidence accumnlates every day that the ship
pegs have not forgotten their old tricks. ills
stated on good authority that at certain large
shipping points the grain men propose to for
ward all their business oyer lines which have
heretofore been noted as ratecutters and thus
create an impression that they are faxoring
these roads with their business on account Of
certain concessions in the way Of rebates or
under billing.
An Elk Wabash official, who is well posted, as
he thinks, regarding the system, says thu Cairo
division, if well managed, can be made one of
the best paying divisions in the system. There
Is grand opportunity. he says to build up an
Immense local traffic on that division,
which he thinks has been greatly neglected. Ii
seems a pity that the late managers of the
Wabash system could not have found some Of
their railroad men who could have made such
divisions as the Carlo & Vincennes. the Toledo.
Peoria & Warsaw and Eel River pay. operating
expenses, If nothing more.
George B. Sherman, general manager Of the
ked line, was IN the city yesterday. Mr. SHEER
man is on a prospecting trip He expresses the
Dphlon that the very large crop this year gives
assurance of an enormous east bound traffic for
the railroads very soon, and this will be supple
mented by an Increased west-bound business, as
the West viii increase its demand for merchan-
dlse Of various kinds Stocks in merchants
hands in the West have been allowed to run
down, but the money which the new crop win
pnt ahoat win cause an activity in business in
retail circles which win result IN a demand
upon the East. This win give the railroads
Traffic both ways and at remunGrative rates.
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An English Hallway Commission To Be Es-
tabIished-
The regulation Of freight charges is a problem
shat English, as well as American people are en-
leavoring to solve. A bill has been framed by
the Gladstone administration and introduced ia
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