The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-15
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Personal and Local.
W. A. Goings goes out to-day as agent Of the
Decline at Yorktown. j. S Harshberger Sic
ceeds him.
The management of the Hoosac Tunnel fast
freight hne have decided to abandon their Office
at this point, for the present at least.
new station on the L., N. A. & c. Airline
will be opened to-day to be known as Cambria
E. D. Campbell has been appointed agent.
Paymaster Snee. of the Pennsylvania lines
passed over the Indianapolis division of the c.,
St L. & P, yesterday and paid for February
service, and will pay on the L & V. to-day.
The Lafayette Car Works last week made a
contract with Chicago parties for one hundred
refrigerator cars They also recently made a
contract with the Lake Eric & Western for 800
freight cars.
The indianapolis Car Works are now building
go cars for the Chicago, St. Louis & Western
road. President Milliard is now East and has
practically closed a contract to build several hun
dred cars for leading Western road.
George w. Clemmons has been appointed
yardmaster of the Cincinnati, Hamilton a lndl-
annapolis yards at indianapolis, vice R. E.llinger,
resigned. Mr.. Clemmons for years past has
been on the Evansville & Terre Haute road
A c. Sheldon. for many years in charge of
the advertising department of the Chicago Bur
Sition of general passenger agent OF the Texas d.
st. Louis railway with headquarters at St.
Louis
The rate on nlnth-class freights was re-
duced yesterday to the basis of thirty cents per
hundred pounds from Chicago to New York.
This takes in bulk meats and makes the rate
from indianapolis to New York twenty-eight
cents per hundred pounds, and will likely move
some business.
The through freights carried over the Pennsyl-
vania lines in 1888 paid 22-l00 of a cent per ton
per mile carried; the local freights l IL cent per
T6u per mile carried. 1t is hardly to be wondered
at that the management foster their local bust
ness and show no great anxiety to handle much
through traffic.
General Manager Henderson, of the Ohio
Southern, operated by the L., b. & w, this week
contracted with the Bethlehem Steel Works for
500 tons of steel rails. With these placed in
the track of the Ohio Southern, the main line
win be laid entire with steel rails weighing sixty
pounds to the yard.
The Bee line people are fully determined to
make their lines i'll connection with the Lake
Shore, New York Central and Boston & Albany,
a fast mail route between New England and the
Southwest large pei cent. of the mail now
goes through New York, then west over the
Pennsylvania lines.
An octuplex telegraph instrument has been in
vented, by which eight messages can be sent over
one wire in opposite directions at the same time.
Now, if only railroad dispatcher could devise
plan for sending trains in a similar manner
oyer the same track, it would be good thing for
an indianapolis road which could be named.
Detrick Coster, who for twenty-seven years
past has been employed by the Decline in the
humble position of keeping things in order in
ths Offices, looking after fires and the water
coolers. was buried yesterday He was quiet
bat faithful man, and is said not to have been
OF duty day in the twenty years of
service, for sickness or pleasure
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago people,
IN March %, put on two through trains each
WY between indianapolis and Michigan City
Business men of Michigan City, under the new
arrangement. can come to indianapolis and
spend six hours; or, vice versa indianapolis men
can spend the same number of hours in Michigan
City, and return on the same day.
The Wooley electric headlight has been in
service on the c.. st. L. & p engine No. $50,
Tor two weeks, nightly and performs admira-
bly,. Master Mechanic Arp states that on a
test II switch stand and its position could
i,e seen 4 800 feet away. Mr.. Arp is of the opn-
Ion that, within two years, the light will be
adopted by every road running into Indianapolis
The Wagner freight-car door, which was de-
ES-ribed in the Journal some weeks since, is prov
i1ig valuable invention Eight hundred and
6fty of the ears built for the Erie people at the
Indianapolis Car Works We're equipped with this
sioor some months ago and not one cent has yet
been expended in repairs to the doors. The
simple device for opening them does away with
the use of a crow bar by reckless employees and
SnOw, rain and einders are shut out of the cars