The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-02
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local,

Personal and Local.
Presidents Ingalls,, Mccullough, McKeen and
Devereux, left for their respective homes last
eYenAng.
William Parmalee is to act as agent of the
Hoosac tunnel as well as of the West Shore line
at this point
". d. Wilson, agent of the Laekawanna line at
this point, has decided to remain in room 10
linton block.
Il. W. McKenna, superintendent of the j.. M.
& l., is confined at homo in tussel with the
schils and fever
Dir. A. J. OReilley has been appointed agent
of the Laekawana line at Louisville KY. in place
of Mr.. w. I. Hamilton, resigned.
1t is stated that the nine-hour rule is meeting
with, "a good dealof favor among employers, es-
pecally in locomotive and railroad shops and in
afew of the smaller shops
This week the Wabash management began run
ming through lightning passenger trains Under
the arrangement there will be two sections of
AZ and 43 between Decatur, Ill, and Peru, Ind.
The Mcixeen syndicate which owns the Terre
Haute 81 Southeastern road, have decided to
string telegraph wire along the line This is
the only road in Indiana which has no telegraph
wire.
President ingalls, states that.theefreight earn
ings of the c., l., St L. & @. in September will
run, some. Sc, 900 ahead of corresponding month
last year, while the passenger earnings drop be-
hind some $1,000
Manager MeCrea and Superintendent Miller
of the Pennsylvania lines, will remain over to-
day and will visit the new shops, and decide
what to do regarding further improvement to
the shops and yards.
James Snodgrass, transferiagent of the c., ST.
L. e p at the Belt road crossing, returned yes
terday from Carrolton, Ky, with a life1mate.
him on the step he had taken.
w. e. Everest, late general manager of the
Hoosac tunnel fast-freight line. yesterday as
sumed1the position Of general Western freight
agent of the New York, West Shore e. Buffalo,
with headquarters in Chicago.
j. N. Mccullough, vice president of the Penn
sylvania lines, says the Chicago a& Ohio river
pool is the model pooleof the country, and sex-
presses the wish thatithe Trunk line peewas. on
as permanent and harmonious basis.
For the second time it has been decided by the
courts that patents on extension boiler for loco
motives has expired. Now this Improvement
will likely be adopted by majority eflthe roads
IN this country, especially on their passen-
ger locomotives
All lines west of Pittsburg, owned and CON
trolled by the Pennsylvania company, in the
month Of August earned $580000 less than in
the corresponding month of 1883 while the oper-
Rting expenses of these lines was reduced $40,
BOO IN round numbers
Paymaster Shepherd of the Wabash, paid on
the Indianapolis division, yesterday, for August.
Paymaster Shepherd is steadily gaining time,
and by next month will be around as promptly
as any roads pay-car, where paymaster
coversiso large mileage
The Indianapolis Car Works built 278 cars in
the month of September President Milliard
set the number toibe built at 800, and sueh
would have been the result had not there been "a
break in machinery in the wheel foundry, which
delayed matters in this department
Mr.. Garrett owned about 600 shares of the
common stock of the Baltimore g. Ohio railroad
company or about twosevenths of the whole
Estimates of his wealth made by persons who
have had close business sPelations with him vary
greatly, and range all the way from $4,000, 600
to $3O000,0e0
Eugene V. Debs was reelected grand secre-
tary and treasurer of the b. IL. f., and Samuel
a. Stevens grand organizer at the annual meet
ing at Toronto The next meeting will lbe held
at Philadelphia, in September, 1885 AS an or
ganizer Mr. Stevens has done big work the last
twelve month.
The friends of Charley Pierce an Indianapolis
%ung man agent of the Merchants Dis
patch at Minneapolis, will be glad to learn that
he has been heard from. He was on his way to
New Orleans when last heard from having left
. escape an attack Of tbs typhoid fever, His