The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-01
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The Wabash increased its earnings on the
.,ain line the third week in February nearly
80. 600 over those of the corresponding week in
1888
WIS. Spiers, who, it is understood, is to be
made general freight agent of the Wabash sys-
tenn, was on Thursday summoned by Vice-presl-
dent Hopkins to New York for conference.
NJ E. Ingalls,, president of the c., L, St. L. &
e.. has gone to New York to look after matters
which, should they meet his expectation, will
greatly increase the freight traffic on the Big
-Four road.
All PENNSYLVANIA lines west of Pittsburg and
Erie for january 1884, show deficiency in
meeting the liabilities Of $l06,556, being de.
crease, as compared with the same period OF
1883, of 1928, 366.
General Ticket Agent Donough, of the Union
railway ticket Office, was yesterday notified to
take off sale all tickets for Chicago or parts
north of there reading over the Air line division
of the L., N. A & G. system.
Thomas P. Barry, general passenger agent OF
the Cincinnati Washing ton & Baltimore road,
was in the city. yesterday on official business.
He leased as AN Office room IL Union block,
where VIM. B. Tinney, who represents the line
st this point, can hereafter be found.
March dawns upon indianapolis with prac-
4icalIy six Understanding offices in full blast
This statement includes three outside local pas
senger Offices where tickets are scalped on rates
nj which they are sold at the Union Depot, al
though the outside offices were established to be
only Information bureaus.
The West Shore fast freight line agent seems
to be loading the hundred ordered
to indianapolis on Monday last about as fast as
they arrive. He yesterday loaded out from an
Indianapolis elevator twenty-three cars which,
ali being new, made a handsome tram as 1t
passed over the Union tracks.
The three new Woodruff sleeping coaches,
which are to be run between Columbus o., and
Peoria H., over the l., B. & W. are mahogany
wood in the interior The fnishings are bat
tered bronze, a new material. The ceilings are
of wood and are very handsomely decorated.
The cars contain twelve sections, a state room,
layatories, etc.
The Hoosac Tunnel fast-freight line which to-
day ceases to operate over the Vanderbilt lines,
using the Erie system of roads instead has per-
feGted arrangements to run into Cincinnati over
the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton road but it
is still question whether they will reach Indian
apolis over the c. II. & l. from Hamilton, or
the H. B. g. w from Urbana, 0.
Business men at points where General Mana
GER A. A. Talmage in his trip over the Wabash
system, stopped, were favorably impressed with
him, and in his remarks he conveyed the idea that
the shippers and the travelling publics interests
and those of the railways were identical-a fact
which has been overlooked in the management
of the Wabash lines for couple of years past.
The Vandalia is still turning a large per cent.
of its livestock traffic out of East St Louis over
TO competitors, to even up the pool per cents.
The official statement of Commissioner Fink
shows the percentages of freight carried by the
five lines east out of St Louis for January to
have been as follows: Vandalia, az. II; Chicago &
Alton, 18.47 Wabash IA. %: indianapolis & st.
Louis, Isl; Ohio & Mississippi 1926 The per
centages allowed these lines by the pool at pres
ent are: Vandalia, % 1-2 Ohio & Mississippi 10,
and the Others p IL per cent. each.
There is good authority for the statement that
Austin Corbin, president Of the Indiana, Bloom
ington & Western road. who instructed his
agents to strictly adhere to rates at Peoria, re
CARELESS of what competitors might do, has given
Commissioner Fink to understand if the White
andthe Great Easternlines, after o-day. continued
TO take l25 to $50 carloads of freight out of Peo-
ria while other lines were doing nothing he would
take il as evidence that those lines We're cutting
rates, and that on Monday he would instruct his
general freight agent to meet these rates.
The reckless manner in which the trains of
the j., M. d l. road run within the city
limits should receive the attention of the city
officers, if they cannot be controlled by some
railroad official of the Union Railway Company.
Three times within the last year or so j., M. &
!. trains have run into trains of other roads at
the over which they reach the Union tracks.
Yesterday switching engine hauling passen-
ger train came around the corner at a speed of
at least twelve miles per hour, and struck c.,
J., st. L. & c. engine crossing their track,
threw the latter off, and damaged the engine
$lAO or more The engineer was using steam up
to the moment he struck the c., L. st. L. & G,
engine. Should this careless engineer some day
run into passenger train in like manner the
suit would be serious.