The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-25
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

West Troy station, on Jno VI nudlltt, hereafter
is to be known as Formosa station.
The West Shore fast-freight line office will
Dec. 1, be removed to room T. Union Building.
The Chicago g. Northwestern will, Dec l, es-
tablish an agency at indianapolis. A A. Wag-
gener will be their agent
In the two weeks ending Nov. Is the c., l., St
L. & c. earned $50, 4S8, decrease as compared
with same weeks last year, of $l5,59S.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen give
grand ball at Logansport on the evening of the
18th. number of fremen on indianapolis
roads propose to attend.
On Friday last, the c., H. & D. road took into
Cincinnati, forty carloads of cabbage and
poultry, and on Saturday sixty carloads. Local
as well as through business is heavy all over the
system.
The shipments of coal and coke from the
Pittsburg transfer of the Pennsylvania company
for the past four months has not averaged more
than one half as much as for the corresponding
period of last year
Notice is given that the Canada Southern
fast-freght line has temporarily ceased to do
business at st. Louis. The management has had
a racket with the Wabash people over whose
road they reached st Louis.
President King, of the Erie, begins his re
trenehment policy with his own salary taking
$4,000 But he is not likely to suffer for the
necessaries of life on $25, 000
The revenues of the Panhandle system, which
embraces the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis
railway aud leased lines, and the Chicago st.
Louis and Pittsburg railroad, will be at least
three quarters of a million less this year, it is
stated, than for 1883
The Ohio Southern has applied to the Stock
Exchange to list $3.50, 900 first mortgage bonds,
6 per cent. interest dated May %, 1881, payable
,.fr in
come bonds, bearing same date, and maturing
interest when earned not to exceed per cent.
The net earnings of the c., l., ST. L. & G. for
September, were $101. 1861 which was an in
crease of several thousand dollars over that of
September, 1889. The road is now being opera
ted on a more economical basis than at any time
in its history
l. C. Foster, the general manager of the order
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Brakemen, is
doing good work in this State and in Illinois,
and the membership is becoming numerous, not
withstanding the short time since the association
was formed.
The wife of J. E. Haverstick, agent of the j.,
H. & 1. at New Albany, Ind, died on Sunday
might. The deceased was sister of II. II, Dering,
general passenger agent of the j.. NJ. & l., who
accompanies Mr.. Haverstick to West Virginia,
where the remains were taken for burial
Although the Traders Dispatch has been
looked upon as an Erie fast-freight line, Presi-
dent Kings reorganization of the lines on the
Fire Will not eUecU the line. Inc management
seems to have smelt the battle afar of, and some
weeks ago made arrangements to do the bulk Of
their business over the Lehigh Valley system.
General passenger agents H. M Bronson, of
the l., B. & w, Egan, of the c., L, st. L. q G..
Chesbrough, of the Vandalia and Stevenson, of
the c., H. & D., have gone to Chicago to attend
the meeting called for to-day to restore passen-
ger rates. 1t is expected that not only will rates
be restored in this territory, but to Missouri
points as we'll
Commissioner Midgley of the Southwestern
Railway Association, has issued a circular an
nouncing that since the call for meeting Dec,
2 it has been deemed advisable to call meeting
of Western managers for Friday, Nov. 2S at
Chicago, to consider passenger rates first and
lumber rates afterward. After this meeting is
concluded the Southwestern managers will meet.
The putting on of two extra trains on the
MOnon route has somewhat changed the forces.
Messrs Businger Catherwood Loosely and
Browning are now the passenger conductors be
tween Michigan City and Indianapolis. By the
by Conductor Browning, who is good judge
OF track, expresses surprise at the smoothness
aud solidity of the track on the Airline divis-
ion 1t is better than that of many of the old
roads, he states.
While local railroad men think favorably of
the proposed change in doing the switching
services at this point, the Union railway doing
the work, there are fears that it will not be
done so promptly under the present arrange
ment. To do the work promptly is as essential
Lgo well If the right man handles the switching
engines and crews. But it is to be more of a job
than appears on the surface.
Captain Robert G. Cpperton the British con
sui at Philadelphia has sent to his government
an elaborate report upon the Pennsylvania rail
road. The fact that over twoifths of the stock
of the Pennsylvania railroad and large amount
of it's securities are held by British investors is
stated by the consul as the reason for making
this report 1t is an extensive work, giving the
full history and description of the many Penn
sylvania lines, with exhaustive statements of the
business and finances of the company.
Grain Doors-An Important Suit Pending.
An important suit is now pending in the Unit
ed States Circuit Court for this district relating
to the use of flexible or sliding grain doors in
freight cars In 1878 Mr.. c. R. Watson, now
the agent of the Blueline at this point, received
letters patent upon ear in which an inside fex-
ible sliding grain door combined with the
use of the ordinary outside solid door. Arrange
1nents were being made to have it adopted on
several roads, when Mr.. Watson discovered that
the Big Four were handling cars at this point,
belonging to the c., r. |. & P road, in which
the same combination was used. Not being
able to reach the c. r. L 6 P. road in this
district, he brought suit against the Big Four for
infringement of his patent, setting forth the
above facts. The case is being defended by the
Western Railroad Association, whose mead
quarters are at Chicago, and the Van Liew in
terests who manufacture these cars, are assist
ing in the defense The testimony has now all
been taken and the case will shortly come to
hearing and argument
The interests involved are very important, as
the Watson device has come into very gen
eral use, and several of the leading lines have
adopted it, and many thousand cars have been
equipped with the sliding grain doors If Mr.
Watson succeeds in establishing his claim, he
will have better revenue than anything he
can acquire in the way Of salary commission
from fastfreight lines.
The Refrigerator Beef Trade.
1t is stated that 70 per cent of the beef eaten
in New England is shipped from Chicago, dressed
in refripara+hr cara and a recant e+atan,apt