The Indianapolis journal., 1884-05-20
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


J. o. Rogers was yesterday elected president
I Of the Louisville & Nashville
The low-ioints indianapolis freight assoca-
ton hold their regular semi-monthly meeting
to-day in Commissioner Richardson's Office.
r. A. Lewis, Western manager of the Erie
limos has gone to Chicago to remain several days.
Manager Duva1 is expected West this week.
Alonzo Berry, for many yearsa passenger con-
duetOr on the Bee.line proper and who has been
i'll some weeks, was thought to be dying last
night.
The rates upon est-bound freight from Boston
are as badly demoralized as ever. Some lines
claim to have withdrawn from business for the
present
Superintendent vandergrift, Of the Toledo
Cincinnati e. st. Louis road. with his train dis
patehors, yesterday removed their headquarters
from Delphos, Ohio to Bluffton, Ind.
Thirty two of the Eclipse Witty switch stands
wore shipped to the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Company yesterday This company now has
eighty Of these switch stands on its system
Commencing with Monday next trains No.
east and % west over the Beelne win make
close connections with trains of the Cincinnati,
Wabash & Michigan road at Anderson, Ind.
President Roosevelt and some of the directors
Of the Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road
are arranging to come West within the next ten
days for a general inspection of the property.
Mr. Joseph +. Tucker, recently of the Illinois
Central road, yesterday accepted the position of
arbitrator of the Transcontinental Association.
He says his acceptance of the position is but tenn
pOrary.
w. A. Haugh, formerly of indianapolis, has
been appointed assistant of 7. C. Moore, joint
agent of the Chicago roads, his special work be-
ing to look after the affairs of the Chicago East
railway freight weighing association.
Engine 10 on the c., L. St L. & c., night or
two since hauled ten cars two of them sleeping
coaches, from Cincinnati city limits to the In
dianapolis Belt road in two hours and forty seven
minutes, time lost in making four stops to be
deducted.
The greatest mileage made by a passenger
locomotive on the Pennsylvania proper, in 1893
was 83 638 miles; by freight locomotive A, 1862
miles, the average mileage made by passenger
trains during the year; was "a, 7S3 miles by
freight trains, 1922 miles
A Wabash railroad official on Saturday last
in conversation, dropped the remark that the way
matters were run at the Indianapolis terminus
one would think that the L., N. A. & c. Airline
were the owners of the property, and the Wa
bash, st. Louis & Pacific the tenants
E. B. Thomas, general manager of the Bee
line system has recently encouraged his divis-
ion superintendents by addressing them very
complimentary letters that matters moving
along 80 smoothly on the respective divisions,
and that there Is so great exemption from acct
dents.
An indianapolis scalper is in trouble He pur-
chased from Indianapolis local agent, it is
stated a short time since hundred more
tickets from indianapolis to Kansas City, read
ing around through Iowa. The through train
over this route has been hauled off, and he finds
it difficult to sell the tickets at $40 rate.
Under Manager Talmage's hospital scheme
hospitals for railroad men have been established
at Sedalia, Fort Worth and Austin on the South
western system and he proposes to establish
similar hospitals at Decatur, Ill, and Fort
Wayne, Ind. The buildings on the Southwestern
system are commodious, cheerful and the
grounds large and attractively laid out.
The personnel of the freight department of the
Gould lines as remodeled will be George Olds
general traffic manager; George w. Tilley,
freight traffic manager; W. H. Newman. traffic
manager of the lines in Texas; Samuel Phillips.
assistant general freight agent of the Missouri
Pacife j. L. Ripley, assistant general freight
agent of the Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific.
The Bee line people contemplate substituting
4 a paFlor for the Cleveland sleeping coaches
now run daily each way between Indianapolis
and st. Louis, and the sleeping coaches will be
out on to run between Louisville and Cleveland,
leaving Louisville at $40 P. NJ, reaching Indian
apolis, over the j. NJ & l., at $50 P. NJ. in sea
son to connect with the Bee-hne express east
The management of the Louisville, New Al
bany e Chicago system are feeling cheerful over
the fact that both their gross and net earnings
every month thus far this year have shown
something of an increase over the corresponding
months of 1888 notwithstanding the fact that
tne loss OF Unelf DlOck coal traI1c nort1WaFd
from Greencastle Junction has been serious
drawback on their gross earnings.
Messrs f. c. Ripley, George NJ. Bogue. and J.
w. Midgey; who at a meeting of the representa-
tiyes of the general freight departments of West
railroads, held November l3, were ap-
pointed comittee to formulate plan for the
organization of general freight agents associa-
ton, have called q meeting, to be held at the
nd.Pacife Hotel. Chicago, at o'clock Thurs
day evening" when they will present their re-
port
The Indianapolis division of the Yuard mas
ters Mutual Benefit Association of the United
States and Canada has elected the following del
.egates to their annual convention, to be held in
atlanta, Ga, next morth: t. H. g. L, Joseph
AveriTl; l., B. & w, James NJ Cummings; c., st.
L. q p, Joseph L. Goth; c., c.. c. G. l., George
p. David; Wabash, George B. Russell; c., H. &
L., George W. Clemmons; c. l.. ST. L, & c.,
John Hicks; Union Railway, William H. Smead.
Altcruates, T., H. & L. John Howard T., b, e
W, George B. Slaughter; c., ST. L. & P, Hugh
s Curley; c., c., c. g. L, A. d. Shaw; Wabash,
George R; McCqtcheon; G., H; & L, Reuben
ElIinger c., l., St L. & c., Charles 7. Bell;
Union Railway, James A. Washburn