The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-27
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Terre Haute road, has gone East for a confer
ence with the board of directors.
Mrs. John Byrne, mother of Major John
Byrne, general agent of the Chesapeake & Ohio
railroad, died at her residence at Branch Hill,
o., yesterday.
The employees on the Airline division of the
L., N. A. & G. railway have presented Passen-
ger Conductor W. S. Losey, of Monon, with a
beautiful silverplated lantern.
The material for a new iron bridge over
Pleasant run. on the Belt road, has been re-
ceived, and will be put in position as soon as the
stone abutments are completed.
M. C. Blain, of Blain Bros, is in the city.
He states that on March 10 they will start up
their car works at Huntingdon, Pa, and have
work to keep them busy some months.
Complaints that east-bound livestock rates
are being cut are pouring in on Commissioner
Fink, and the question now is, did the presidents
agreement scalp this class of business.
Murray Kellar, late general passenger agent of
the L., N. A. q c. road, has been offered a good
position on an Eastern road. The young man has
its acceptance under consideration.
Manager McCrea, of the lines owned and con
tire lie by the Pennsylvania company west of
Pittsburg, the p. F.. W. & c. excepted, has
gone to Philadelphia on official business.
C. Z. Henderson, general manage of the l.,
b. 81 w. system, who, for a week past, has
bSSu III OulO SlfdlSiibeliuS up IhdCtSio jill IC
eastern division and the Ohio Southern, returned
last night.
TIL Pennsylvania Railroad Company have
commenced rebuilding their cars of ffteen-ton
capacity into cars of twenty-fve-ton capacity.
The bodies are strengthened and a heavier truck
placed under them.
The work of putting on an automatic inter-
locking switch, at the point where the Decline
crosses the Belt road, was begun yesterday.
Should it perform satisfactorily other roads will
adopt them at their Belt crossings. .
COMMISSIONS Fink is quoted as saying that
east.bound rates were now fully maintained, ex-
cept at Peoria and indianapolis. So far as In
dianapolis is concerned there is hardly business
going forward to make it an object to cut a rate.
Western agents of the Baltimore & Ohio fast
freight lines have been notified that this road is
ahead OF its per cent. in the west-bound pool
out of New York and is this week turning its
westbound freights over to the New York Cen
trail road.
Ed j. Kelley. agent of the c., L, st. L. & c.
railroad, at Kankakee, goes to Chicago the first
of the month to take the freight agency of the
Wabash railroad. The Wabash people are get
ting some good railroad men to represent their
interests in Chicago.
In the notice in the journal of yesterday of
Che funeral of G. W. Minton, at Columbus, o.,
occurred an annoying typographical error. which
is much regretted, as Mr.. Minton was highly es-
teemed by all who knew him, and was a very eff
ticient railroad man.
The Indianapolis division of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen now has some ninety mem
bers. The organization is highly prosperous.
The average gain in the membership is near
seven hundred per month. In September Of
1888 the organization numbered 1881 members
IN good standing, which is now increased to over
10000.
T. W. Worsdell, who was formerly master me-
ehanic in charge of the Altoona shops of the
Pennsylvania railroad, is now locomotive super
intendent of an English road, the Great Eastern.
L. q. Park, the locomotive superintendent of an
other English line, the North London, was also
formerly an American master mechanic, having
charge of the Buffalo & Lake Huron.
E. B.. Thomas, general manager of the Bee
line system, is to be in the city to-day to look
matters over. While here he should drop in at
their outof-the-way, forsaken-looking local pas
senger office, then compare it with the attractive,
northumberland outside Offices of the Penn
Sylvan iualia, the Wabash, the c., l,
and the l., B.. & w. roads.
most important thing done at the. recent
annual meeting of the general baggage-masters
was to vote to publish a blacklist, similar to
that OF the general passenger agents, on parties
who abuse pass favors. In the baggagemen'S
blacklist dishonest baggage men are to be
branded, and also tricky men who resort to mean
tricks to get excess baggage through. The QueS-
ton of how much should be charged for roping
trunks was not considered.
The White line is said to have been fortunate
in securing the thirty carloads of export flour
which has been so ably fought for By the TWEEN
ty-ive or more line agents at this point. The
flour is to go to Belfast via Port Richmond. A
sixteen and a half-cent rate from
Indianapolis to Port Richmond is alleged to have
been given. 1t can hardly be possible, however,
aS the understanding was that all lines would re-
store rates on Monday last.
Freight men report west-bound through ship
ments as unusually heavy for February and daily
increasing. 1t is stated the trunk-line ship
ments westward We're very large from New York
in J~anuary-larger than in any previous Janu-
airy, except 1882, when everything was taken at
extremely low rates, and nearly a fifth more
than last year, when they were larger than in
any other year, except 1882, while February
shows a still heavier tonnage.
Wm. Parmelee, agent of the West Shore line
at this point, was yesterday notified that the
United States Rolling Stock Company had
been instructed to forward to Indianapolis, to
be loaded, one hundred of the 1000 cars this
companyis building for the West Shore line.
What to load them with is now worrying agent
Parmelee's brain. If rates are maintained new
fast-freight lines have a poor sight for business.
With rates maintained the personal ability of
agents to get business will be developed.
In the hall of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen, at Terre Haute, now hang two grand
photographs eighteen by twenty, showing the
Denver q Rio Grande road as it appears at the
Grand Canon of Arkansas, near the Royal
Gorge, and at the canon of the Rio Las Animas.
near lockwood, two points where the greatest
achievements of engineering skill ever shown
in railroad building were successfully accomp-
Iished. These photographs were presented to
the Brotherhood by the officials of that read.
An Important Traffic Agreement.
The higher officials of the Louisville, New AL
bany e Chicago, and the Cincinnati. Indianap-
oils, st. Louis & Chicago roads met at Cincin-
matt, yesterday, and entered into a very impor-