The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-08
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local

personal anu LOCAL
]. H. Devereux, president of the Bee-line sys-
tenn is in New York
C. E. Henderson, general manager of the l..
B. & w, has gone to New York.
John f. Miller, superintendent of the Chicago,
ST. Louis & Pittsburg road, is in the city
The Decline people will this season build a
new iron bridge near Sidney, at cost of $4,000
T. A Lewis Western manager of the Erie
fast-freight lines, leaves for New York this even
ing.
NJ. Maxwell, superintendent of construction
on the Indianapolis & st. Louis road, has OBJ
tanned one months leave of absence and goes
East to spend the time with old friends.
D. B. Conroy, passenger conductor on the
Vandaiia, who has been in Hot Springs several
weeks, returned yesterday, in excellent health,
and will take his train in day or two.
The Chicago fast mail and express trains of
the c., l., st. L. & G. yesterday commenced
running between indianapolis and Cincinnati
over the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis
road
The general manager of the Evansville &
Terre Haute road has ordered general reduc
tion in salaries of 10 to Is per cent in all de-
partmeAts, only passenger conductors and en-
gineers excepted.
The Wabash people, who now run their trains
between Logansport and the State line over the
Chicago, st. Louis G. Pittsburg road, have under
consideration building road of their own be-
bBtGu tutst pOiHls, SOlile SlAlH -ou6 ulllSS'
The good people of Nation are greatly dis
turbed over a rumor that quite number Of the
/ & st. L. shopmen at NATION will be trans
ferred to the Brghtwood shops, and that tie
NATION shops will be gradually abandoned, at
ter the style of the Gallon shops.
Dave Grammar, of Kansas City, ticket
scslper of considerable note, and whom the
Union Railway Company once froze out has re-
turned, and proposes to reopen a scalping office
He says he has 500, coo in cash to fight the Union
al.
him
Z. A. Ford general ticket and passenger agent
of the PENNSYLVANIA lines, last evening, IN
strpcted the ticket agents at this point to sell
tickets for points east of Columbus, o., until
further orders. Both bridges and tunnels on
the P, c. & st. L. division are reported to be in
bad shape.
E. B. Taylor, superintendent of the Pitts
burg & Columbus division of the Pennsylvania
lines at midnight telegraphed j. F. Miller, SUI
perintendent Of the c., St l.. p, that the
breaks on that division would be so far repaired
that trains would commence running through by
S-45P. NJ to-day
w. G. Irwin, engineer of bridges the Bee
line system, is in the city. He reports on the
entire system streams -receding and bridges and
TRUSTEES all right. So common in the past has it
been to have trouble on the l. & St L. when
waters were high that he is feeling good over the
favorable reports.
1t is understood that D. J. Jennings late assist
q
read, has been offered and will probably accept the
general managership of the Great Eastern fast
freight line. Although young man, he is well
posted in freight matters, and fully competent to
fiji the position offered him.
The indianapolis & ST. Louis management
have already expended $37 900 on the bridge over
the Wabash river at Terre Haute, and W. c.
Irwin, engineer of bridges, says. that they will
this season eXpend $52 900 additional on the i'm
provement 1t will then be the best railroad
bridge, it is stated, in the State,
It is stated that one of the fast-freight lines
running between Kansas City and the seaboaPd
via Indianapolis, is carrying property Is cents
per 100 pounds below tariff rates. The report
gained currency in freight circles yesterday
and created considerable comment 1t is further
stated that the property is carried over route
which runs clear of the East st. Louis pool
Now that Murray Keller, the young man on
tho L., n. A. 81 G. road, has retired as general
ticket and passenger agent, the question arises
upon whom will the blame be placed when rates
are cut in the Chicago and Ohio river pool Of
late, whenever rates We're demoralized in the
pool, whether innocent or not, competitors of the
L., n. A. e c. charged that he was the first to
break the rates
The temporary trestle-work on the Chicago G.
indianapolis Airline at Broad Ripple is not
completed, and as White river is running high,
General Agent BPecoupt, yesterday, as pre-
caUtOpary measure, sent their trains over the
Wabash road to Upton, then west to their own
road over the Lake Erie & Western 1t is ex-
PscJe0 lnfl lnelf ufal1lS can Sdley pass over TIE
temporary trestle to-day.
NJ. W. Mansfield, engineer of maintenance of
way, and Harry Miller, superintendent of ma
senry on the Chicago, St Louis & Pittsburg
road yesterday, a special train, passed over
the indianapolis division, examining bridges and
masonry, and viii make return trip to-day, on
the same errand. One of the rules of the Penn
tyiVania company is that bridges and trestles
should be closely watched at all times.
An employee in the pattern shop of the Indian
apoiis Car Works has patented a device under
the name Of ''sand molding machine" for mold
ing oil boxes and draw bars for cars. 1t is
claimed one man, with this invention, will do
the work of six experienced molders, turning
out better character of castings than can be
done by hand The castings after coming from
the sand, are so smooth that no chipping fiji
ing is required.
Superintendent Sherwood, Chief Engineer
Morris and General Road-master McQuiston,
are at Cincinnati All are of the opinion that
the road will not suffer from the effects of the
high water except in loss of business The
eleven bridges on Tanners creek, where theyex
pereneed so much trouble last year. have gone
through the flood finely, and that such is the
ease is great relief to the officers of the road.
50 much have they expended to make these
foundations and bridges food-proof
M'HENRY'S. VISIT.