The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-27
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



, day with the sleepng-car Office at the Union Depot
The Indiana Bloomington & Western road is a
member of eleven pools at points west of Indianap
ellis
H R. Dering assistant general passenger agent of
the Penns vaia lines has returned from Florida and
is in fine trim bodily
The Indianapolis Car Works yesterday forwarded to
the Chicago ST. Louis & Western road the G., L.
St4 g. c. 102 new cars the last contract calling
for $50 cars.
In the twelve weeks ending March Is the Indiana,
Bloomington g. Western road earned 1926. 222
which is decrease of $50 compared with the
corresponding period i SS3
Fred Peck, formerly superintendent of the l., D. Il
S. road is spending day two in the city Mr..
Peck is now interested in Tennessee road and a
Tennessee lumber company.
The directors of the St Louis, Alton & Terre Haute
road the western division of the Indianapolis & st.
Louis, have declared per cent. dividend on the
preferred stock, payable May l.
The earnings of the Cincinnati, Indianapolis. st.
Louis & Chicago road from Jan. 1 to March 7 were
SS249 772, decrease of $3.50, 400 as compared with
the earnings of the corresponding period 1883.
j. K Lape late master mechanic of the Beeline
shops Brightwood yesterday accepted the position
of master mechanic jay Goud's Southwestern
system, the equipment Of 6l6 miles OF road to be
under his supervision.
W. It. Holly of the Wabash district passenger of
flee on April joins Frank Palmer, general agent of
the Wabash at Chicago. This change will greatly
strengthen Frank Palmers force at Chicago, so well
posted is Billy in passenger business.
We have yet to find a freight agent who says the
business OF the line he represents has increased with
the recent reduction in eastbound rates This is
disappointment, however, the less carried at the
present rates the better off the trunk lines.
f. o. Hopkins president of the Evansville & Tenn
esses River Packet Company, and unusually
bright freight man. is to resign it is stated to accept
the position of assistant general passenger and freight
agent of the Evansville & Terre Haute road.
J. c. McQuiston, late roadmaster Of the c. l., st.
/. c. is now taking his first rest in thirty two
YEARS Mr.. McQuiston helped to put together the
Srst locomotive run the Indianapolis & Cincinnati
road as it was taken from the boat at Lawrencebug
The directors of the Pennsylvania road yesterday
organized, rejoicing principal executive officers.
President George B Roberts; first viee-president,
Edmund Smith; second, Frank Thompson; third, j..
&. Sims, jr.
An officer of the Cincinnati Indianapolis ST. Louis &
Chicago road states that they greatly need better shop
accommodations and he is confident that should the
prospects for business sixty days from be reas-
Onably good President ingalls, would begin the
ton of the proposed extensive shops at Indianapolis.
One of the smoothest working pools in this country
is said to be the Ohio, Indiana & Michigan lumber
pool It is what is known as money pool and there
six roads in it, namely, the Decline the l.. b. &
W. the c., H. & D., the Ohio Central and the Toledo
x Hooking Valley roads. D. T. Disner pool commits
soner.
The West Shore line will April l. open for bust
ness at Kansas City. j. S, Cook has been appointed
the agent at that point. An Indianapolis house has
furnished desks and furniture for all the offices of the
West Shore line which have been opened in the West
within the last few weeks and yesterday forwarded
those needed for the Kansas City office.
General Manager Paul, of the Woodruff Sleeping
car Company went st. Louis yesterday to perfect
arrangements to put line of seepers between In
tiianapolis and Buffalo over the Wabash and Canada
sumed aggressive policy and proposes one year
from to have double its present number of cars
running.
Commissioner Fink has been arraigning General
Agent Albert S. White, of the Bee-Ilne a charge
that he had cut on the reduced eastbound rates. A
line agent at this point is said have through his
general manager, entered the complaint, which, upon
investigation, proved to be groundess As a rule
when line agents make such complaints they get the
worst of it. Not only railroad men, but shippers dis
approve of this tattlng business.
The Board of Trade of Terre Haute already has
266 members. large number of whom railroad
men, and they not stayat home members, but ap-
pear on Change daily and as much interested in
the prospects of the young and thrifty institution
do the dealers in grain, provisions, etc, who in
attendance. Fortunately for Terre Haute, railroad
men and business are equally interested in the
prosperity of that city and the former make it their
special business see that Terre Haute is treated
fairly in rate matters Unfortunately for lndianapo-
liz her slippers rates are fixed at Cleveland Pitts.
burg, or in trunk line general Offices.
The Decline people will within the next thirty
days call in their old issue of tickets of which there
are some two thousand FORMS and in their place will
issue the improved form of the Strornberg ticket.
BY adopting the latter 275 forms cover much larger
territory than does the issue the Decline people have
been using for months Upon the new form of tick
cts three thousand five hundred stations are
printed on the different tickets and by Of
spaces left vacant to be filled in by agents they he
made to cover IS 600 points Agents can also in
dictate by the punch whether they first, second
third class and whether limited or unlimited. The
tickets will be of uniform eolor-H light brown.