The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-05
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
RersonaE and Local.


Raymaster Shepherd of the Wabash is making
his first rounds over the system since the road
dropped into the hands of q receiver. Receivers
pay cars usually move slow but they are sure.
The agents of the roads in the indianapolis
East-bound pool met yesterday afternoon at
COMMISSIONS Spiers's Office for conference. The
ouly business transacted was. of q routine char
acter.
Mr.. w. r. Towne has been appointed New
England agent of the Wabash. He was former
Iy agent for that and the Missouri Pacific, and
more recently for the Union Pacl1c. his ONCE
is at 300 Washington street.
James MeNaughton resigned, Aug, !, his
position as chief clerk IN the passenger depart
ment of the Denver & Rio Grande road, to take
a~pesitieB in New York under Vicerchairman
Pierson, Of the Eastern trunk-hne pool
A telegram from st. Louis confirms the state
ment made In the Journal on Friday last. that
the Wabash road had called in its quota OF cars
in fast-freighb lines, and will unload as many
lines as practicable, probably reducing the num-
Der to one-Pennsylvania railroad style.
From an Indianapolis railroad official who has
spent several days recently IN Kentucky ~ Is
learned that they have the anest wheat crop for
twenty five years. and the shipments eastward
over tho Chesapeake & Ohio and northward over
the Cincinnati Southern are immense, the latter
feeding nearly all the cast bound roads out OF
Cincinnati.
Mr.. g. FL. Coolidge. who recently resigned as
superintendent of motive power on the Fitch
burg railroad, and who has for about thirty
years been connected Will that road. has been
presented, By the employees OF that department,
with an elegant silver service appropriately in
seribed. and valued at $3.50, a gold-headed cane,
ard a gold chain.
President Smith and Chief Engineer Devore.
o. the Indianapolis 81 Eel River road, have been
Rnkifed to prepare their bonds to place upon the
Nnsrknt which are now rnadv with the pXCeDtlOn
OF being signed by the Indiana trustee, The
above officials are informed that from this on
the money will be furnished to push the work as
last as practicable.
Commissioner Z. d. Richardson, of the Chi
eago and Ohio river pool, will return from Chi-
eag0 to-day. Commissioner Richardson has pub
lighed a circular giving instructions to agents
relative to special freight rates, taking effect
Aug. |, 1884. for use Of agents only, and not
FOR public distribution The instructions would
cover a page of this paper.
On Friday next President WEIGH and Score
larry Tinney, of the Travelling Passenger Agents
Association, leave for Denver to attend the an
mnAl convention, which promises to be the most
largely attended of any annual meeting yet held.
TIE railroad men of Denver are making great
preparations to entertain their comrades. The
daughters of both Messrs. WEIGH and Tinney
viii accompany them.
It viii be a fortunate day for the indianapolis
roads when the Bee-line system extends its ].
s. St L. division to Kansas City 1t will then
have a forty mile shorter route than any other
road between Kansas City and the seaboard and
can have something to say about rates, and 1t
win, as we'll. farce their competitors between
Kansas City and st. Louis to divide their bus
mess between the northern and midland lines.
W. N Babcock, agent of the Chicago e. North
western Railway Company, at Denver, has been
appointed general agent of the company, to take
effect August /, 1884. He viii have entire charge
Of the companyis freight and passenger interests
at Council Bluffs and Omaha. and also in Ne
braska, Utah. Wyoming, Idaho and Montana.
G. d. Williamson. who has been with the company
some eighteen months, will take Mr.. Babcocks
place as agent at Denver.
Albert Griggs, formerly master Of Transports
ton on the O., n. & D.. lines, and now on a
Southern system Of roads, is considered in
Southern railroad circles one of the most COM
petent officials in the South. He has recently
Ind 400 miles additional of road placed under
his supervision. making 800in all. The trans
pOrtatlon departments of the Alabama d Great
Southern, the Vicksburg 4 Meridian, and the
Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific are all under
his immediate charge
An official circular gives notice that the south
ern division of the Atchison. Topeka q Santa
Fe has been divided, one end being known as the
Las Vegas division aud the other as the Rio
Grande. The old superintendent, George II
Sands. has resigned, and Charles Dyer, formerly
trainmaster at Las Vegas. has been appointed
superintendent t. of the Las Vegas division, ex-
tending from Las Vegas to San Marcial f. r.
Barr will be superintendent of the Rio Grande
division, and will also have supervision over the
Silver City, Deming & Pacific branch.
The Reductions in Railroad Freights Since
1866.
The following table. prepared by an officer of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, will be
found interesting. It shows the enormous
growth of the freight business of that company
since 1865, when 400, O6O, 2sO tons of freight were
carried one mile, while in 1888 there we're carried
1926, 1872, 567 tons one mile. In 1865 the cost per
son per mile for transportation was 2665 cents,
which in 1883 had decreased to .819 cents per
son per mile. A calculation, computed on the
rate Of 1865, as ompared with that of 1883, shows
q total reduction or saving for the eighteen years
of $438, go, lib. It should be remembered, too,
that the service of to-day is far superior to that
of the period prior to the war, while the cost has
been reduced to less than one-third that of a
score Of years ago:
Average Amount Of reduc.
rate per ton each year,
Total tons ton per comp on