The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-21
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

n Paymaster Crawford, of the Vandalia is max
ing his monthly rounds now paying for Febru-
AIRY service.
VIM Turreff, of Cleveland. o., general mas
ter-mechanic Of the Decline system, is in the
city looking after matters.
j. A. Jennelle was yesterday appointed east
and wess-bound agent of the Red line at st.
Louis, yiae n j. Coll, resigned
The young man, Murray Keller, late general
passenger agent of the Louisville, New Albany
& Chicago road, has been elected an honorary
member of the Western Association of Local
Passenger Agents.
w H Van Tassall is superintendent of the
Ohio Southern road, operated by the l., B. q W.,
not of the Ohio division of the Indiana, Bloom
ington & Western system, as some of the Ohio
papers have stated
The Local Passenger Agents Association con-
venes at the Denison House on March q, to
agree on what shall be the rates to political con-
ventions and gatherings the coming season, in
the territory reached by Indianapolis roads.
New uniforms have been ordered for the train
men on the indianapolis division of the Bee-line
system The company furnish them and then
deduct their cost from the pay of the men, this
being their secondoutft. The company paid for
their first suits.
o. B. Skinner, traffic manager; A. j. Smith,
general passenger agent, and Robert Blee super
intendent of the Bee line eastern division are in
Buffalo arranging with the New York Central
people TO put on the fast train, note of which
was made few days since in the Journal
Aquilla Jones. ST., has sold his interest in the
Indianapolis iron and steel rail-rolling mills to
John Stewart who it is said made the purchase in
the interest of w c. DePauw The most prosper
days of the Indianapolis iron rail mill was
when Mr. Jones was at the head of its affairs
George Smith, formerly traffic manager of the
q & bac a
general Western agent of the Merchants Dis
patch, headquarters at Chicago. He will doubt
less accept it. Mr.. Smith is an earnest worker
for business, and will be good man for the posi-
ton.
The new sleeping coaches which are 10 be run
between Peoria and Columbus over the l., B. &
", were shipped from Wilmington, Del, yes
terday. They are said to be elegant coaches,
and are fitted up with all modern improvements.
These works are now building all the cars for the
Woodruff company
Geo. Harrington, treasurer of the Terre Haute
&c indianapolis road Ford Wood, assistant gen
eral freight agent of the l., B. & W.; VIM.
e. Thurber, commercial agent of the Nickel
plate road, and n. K. Elliott, master Of trans
DOrtation of the Vandalia, are in the city in at
tendance at the Scottish Rite convocation.
The Decline people are building several com
bination cars, one end of which will be for pas
sengers travelling on second-class tickets the
other for the smokers to ride in. They are said
10 90 reilly udnuSOlnc CARS anu nave I'LL COLI
veniences in the way of looking glasses wash
stands water closets, etc, yet they are odd in
their construction.
The Indianapolis & Vineennes road proposes
TO be important road to this city and
points in this section as a coal road. Capital
lists have taken hold of mines on this line and
propose to develop them. The 1. & ", com
pany is building some three miles of tracks tC
enable them to reach the mines and handle the
coal with promptness.
There was another narrow escape yesterday
from what might have been a serious accident
on the j., NJ g. l. ~ by which their trains
reach the Union tracks. The Chicago & Louis
vile express came near coliding with the c., L.
st. L. & G. Cincinnati accommodation trains
going east. A signal could be erected and man
tanned at that point at a small expense and the
Inatter shonld be attended 70 at once