The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-29
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Personal and Local.
VIM. R. McKeen, president of the Vandalia
system, returned from n lew York yesterday.
4. w. Burrows, superintendent of the Indian
apolis & st. Louis road was in the city, yester-
day, on official business.
John F. Miller, superintendent of the Chicago,
st. Louis & Pittsburg road, is in the city, and
will remain until noon to-day.
Paymaster Lewis, on the Louisville, New AL
bany q Chicago system, paid yesterday for Jan =
uary services on the indianapolis division.
Ten miles of steel rails, weighing sixty pounds
to the yard are now being laid on the Ohio
Southern road, operated by the l., B. & w. PEG
pie.
Tomorrow March l. Frank Newly, for some
years past in the When clothing store opens
ticket office at 1876 South Illinois street, as an
excursion agent.
The Pennsylvania lines are behind ten per
cent. in their tonnage in the east bound pool
while the New York Central lines are p per
cent ahead of their allotted per cent
Mr. Mansfield, engineer of maintenance of
way, on the indianapolis division OF the Chicago,
St Louis & Pittsburg road, has gone to Florida
for months stay. His health is much broken.
The head collision on the indianapolis & st.
Louis road, one mile this side of Paris, yester-
day, is said to have been the eleventh collision
on this road Of this character in the last two
and one half years
J. W. Sherwood superintendent of the c., l.,
ST. l.. & c. and Superintendent Sala, of the
northern division of the L., n. A. & c.. were in
Lafayette yesterday arranging for the order
of running trains, which goes into effect to-
morrow.
J. S. May, passenger conductor the Chi
cago, St Louis & Pittsburg road, was yesterday
appointed trainmaster of the second division,
vice j. w. Finfrock. who has decided to accept
similar position on the c., I'll. & D. lines. Mr..
May is a sef-made railroad man, having worked
his way up from the bottom, and is fully com
petent to fill the position.
On Tuesday the Great Eastern line it is
stated on good authority, took out of Peoria
fifty three loaded cars, and the White line sixty.
On Wednesday the former took out fOrty-eight'
the latter fifty loaded cars. The other lines are
doing nothing, practically yet the arrangements
of the lines carrying the business insist that
they are strictly living up 20 rates.
The indianapolis & st. Louis and Decline are
still in clover, so far as freight traffic is con
NJ, yesterday, the indianapolis & st. Lonis de
lveTed to the Decline 2l2 loaded cars, forty of
them loaded with live stock; and the Bee-line, in
the same twenty four hours, forwarded East
eleven through freight trains hauling 243 loaded
cars.
One of the class I eonsol engines the
Chicago, St Louis & Pittsburg road. Wednes-
day hauled thirty five carloads Of live stock
from Bradford to Columbus eighty four miles,
in two hours and fffty-fiye minutes. The Penn
sylvania Company now has running west of
Columbus twenty eight of this class of engines
all new, and they cost $685. 600, or Sill coo each,
ready for service.
Austin Corbin, president of tie Indiana,
Bloomington & Western road, il evidently
man who believes that signing an agreement to
maintain rates means something. Wednesday,
on learning that the Midland fastfreight line,
operating over the L. b. & W, was cutting
rates out of Peoria, he ordered that not another
carload of freight be taken at less than tariff
rates, regardless of what competitors did
Next month the Bee-line adopt the new system
Of paying employees by check. and authorizing
certain officials at each point to identify en-
poyes at the banks. This viii not do away with
the pay car, for the employees in small towns
whore there are banks must still be paid
from the car. 1t is now some four years since
the Indiana. Bloomington u Western and the
Chicago q Alton adopted this plan, and at first
TIE employees exhibited good deal of illfeeling
over the matter but now they prefer it to the
old method Of paying off. The Erie people two
months ago adopted this system, and the B. 4
.. people have the matter under consideration.
There was very fortunate escape, yesterday,
from what nine times out of ten, would be
serious accident on the middle division of the
l., b. & w road As the night express was com
ing west at speed of fully forty miles per hour,
the front axle of the forward truck under the
tank broke short off by the wheel. The axle
was thrown back the sound axle in the rear
and the wheel was wedged in above it, and then,
in such position, the train was run fully five
hundred feet before it could be stopped, and not
another wheel left the track The train was
several hours late in reaching Indianapolis as
aaother engine to haul it had TO be sent out from
Columbus.
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