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


Personal and Local.
Tn the month of January 81, 156 cars were
transferred over the Belt road.
The Vandalia commenced the year 742 car
loads ahead of its per cent. in the East-bound
livestock pool out of East st. Louis
Peter Murray, mechanic in the G., st. L. d
P. shops at this point, yesterday received letters
patent on locomotive spark-arrester.
r. NJ Fraser general freight agent of the Gin
c;DDati, Washington & Baltimore road, was in
the city yesterday prospecting for business.
Some fifty employees at the Decline shops,
Brichtwood were discharged yesterday. Gen
eral Master Mechanic Turre1, returned to Cleve-
land last night
C. L. Branham, master mechanic of the Bee
line shops at Union comes to the front ana says
he was not relieved but the sending in Of his
resgnatian was voluntary on his part
President Roosevelt, of the Louisville New
Albany & Chicago road, will be permanently 10
oated in New York city. this being deemed es-
septial to the financial interests of the company
w r. Patterson who has been nine years with
the Hoosac Tunnel line, is about to take charge
If the Western department. of the Hoosac Tun-
mel Dispatch. His headquarters will probably
be Chicago
John Painter, superintendent of the Chicago &
Great Southern road retired from that position
yesterday. He retires to take charge of the
stone quarries recently opened by himself and
John Hack.
The Terre Haute G. indianapolis road Wanda
lia) brought into indianapolis in January 1883
carloads of block coal. But twice has this mum
Der been exceeded in one month since the road
was opened for business.
The engine which goes out with train No.
over the c., ST. L. g. P road. this evening will
be fitted up with electric light Superin-
tendent Miller and other officials will be over to-
day to go out the train and witness its OPP
GRAFTON.
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ors on the Cincinnati Indianapolis, st, Louis 81
Chicago road. Six of them were promoted from
brakemen in the year 1888 They are paid on
the mileage basis and last year earned an aver
aga of 500 per month.
The Woodruff Sleeping-car Company is build
ing three combined sleeping coach and reclining
chair ears, which, it is understood, will be run
over the Indiana Bloomington & Western road
between Peoria and Columbus when completed,
which will be about March l.
Sam Trindel yesterday retired from railroad
service for good. For thirty two years he has
been doing faithful service ON the T. II. & L and
Vandalia, and retires with the best wishes of the
management, who held him in high esteem and
regretted that he leaves the road.
The recent equalization of freight rates by the
railroads centering here is having the desired eff
feet; our merchants are now enabled to reach in
terror points that before they could not touch,
so much advantage had St Louis and Chicago
merchants them in the matter of rates.
w. A Strong assistant general passenger
agent of the Chicago & Rock Island road, is in
the city. He is of the opinion that the prospec-
tive railroad war in the Northwest viii pass over
If the c., B. q Q. people would only tell what
they want, their competitors would try and please
them.
The baggageman at the Union Depot in the
month of January handled 81 ,446 pieces of bag
gage; of this NUMBER 1853 were checked out from
indianapolis Seldom has travel been solight
over indianapolis roads last month, as evil
denced by the comparatively small number of
pieces of baggage handled.
Frank Colvin, of Wabash the section hand of
the Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific road who was
down by a train last September, and who
began suit for $40, 900 damages, on Midday last
withdrew his suit When his attorneys investi-
gated the case. they discovered that Colvin was
intoxicated on the day of the accident. He is
now at the poor-house and can live but short
time.
The troubles of the bondholders of the l. D. e
s. Railroad Company increase rather than dl-
minish. The governing committee of the New
York Stock Exchange has refused to list $3.50. 600
of the new issue of the first mortgage sinking
fund bonds of the indianapolis Decatur &
Springfield railroad. The holders of the said
bonds, it is stated are about to have their old
bonds returned
T.. B. Phillips, late president of the T., G. &
St l.. narrow gauge, but who has, since the
death of w. P. Stearns president of the Fitch
burg road filled that position, has been unani-
mously reelected president of the road. The
directors passed resolutions expressive of their
deep sense of loss in the death of President Viii
liam B. Stearns, and supported them in earnest
and effective remarks
A general freight agent last evening remarked
that he would not be surprised any hour were
Commissioner Fink to order general reduction
IN east-bound rates He has just returned from
the East, and states that it is well under
stood East, as well as West, that
certain fast freight lines are cutting
rates at St Louis PEORIA Terre Haute Cincin-
natl Chicago and Indianapolis on what little
business there is going forward and the only
remedy seems to be general reduction in rates.
The Chicago & Great Southern road is now
completed from Yeddo to Fair Oaks where con
nection is made with the L., n A. & G.
Through trains will commence running about
Feb 15 with Chicago coach attached The
shops of the company are to be located at Ok
ford, the citizens having donated $4,000 and ten
acres of land to secure them. The company
owns the right of way from Yeddo to Brazil ten
miles of which are already graded Harry Craw-
ford ir., who is developing finely as a railroad
man, is to have the management of the road.
which Col Harry Crawford, ST., says, is a sort of
family affair He says he does not want to sell
or lease the road The road promises to be
valuable feeder to the L. N A. & c.