The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-15
aAFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


saz Albart G White. general agent of the Beo-hne
System at this point has gone to cleveland.
c. E. Henderson, general manager OF Vne L..
! B. & w. system, is expected nome lron 4>0"
York to-day.
The livestock tonnage shipped East In Jan
uary over the FIVE Eastern lines, billed from In
'dianapols, was ., 1876 tons.
G. G. PIERCE of the Merchants Despatch at
this noint who is much out of heath, has gone
to New Orleans for month.
W H O. Cochrane, formerly New England
agent of the Hoosac Tunnel line, has been APP
pointed agent Of the new Nickel-pate at Boston
The fast mail trains of the Chicago St Louis
q Pttsburg road are DeSlhhI.g again " 49,, 49,
on time. the troubles from high waters having
been overcome.
Pavroas+a,. Snee. of the Pennsylvania lines
west of Pittsb1rg Yesterday paid on the indian
apolis division Of the c., st. Ia. d r., and VIII
today nav over the indianapolis u Nincennes
road.
In the month of January, 1858 tons Of flour,
grain and nrovision were shipped East from In
diananolis nroper. over the five roads which re
port their tonnage to the Indianapolis Freight
Association.
Geo. I. Greene, who has been appointed SUI
1,erintendent on the Boston & Providence road,
Viee Fl A Chase deceased, commenced as an
Office how fifteen years ago, and is not yet thirty
years of age.
The Connersville accommodation train, when
the expense of running it is considered, Is SAID
by one of the officials to be one Of the best pay
ling passenger train run on the Clnelnnatl' Hail
iilton & indianapolis road
Daniel Donough, general ticket agent of the
Union Railway Company, has Just commenced
his twenty-arst year of service with them, and
in that period has taken but one vacation, ana
that was of only one week
mn. oe ba arff ctr
Benefit Association propose to make the salary
of Joseph Sanger, their secretary and treasurer,
such sum that he may devote his entire time
TO the interests of the association.
Refrigerator cars which come North laden
with bananas and Southern products, are being
loaded back with potatoes consigned to New Or
leans parties Several carloads have been
shipped south over the Vandalia in the past
forty-eight hours.
A. B. Southland, traffic manager of the L., n.
A. & c. system, was summoned to New York by
the president of the road, and the fact that the
late traffic manager. e. b. Stahlman, and Muir
ray Kellar are in New York gives grounds fol
speculation at least
The Chicago, st. Louis & Pittsburg on Satur
dsy last brought west on one train, over the In,
dispapols division, ninety-fou tons of mail and
ffty-four tons Of express matter. The train con
sisted Of six postal cars and four express cars
loaded to the roof, the conductor stated.
r. w Geger is in the city He came up tc
ATTEND the meeting ceUeQ by commissioner
Richardson, of the Chicago and Ohio river pool
AS several Of the other general freight agents Of
the roads in the pool were unable to attend, the
conference was postponed until next week.
Some sixty passenger coaches belonging to the
c., L., st. L. & c. are standing on their side
tracks in the eastern part of the CITY, awaiting
the opening of the road to Cincinnati again, and
a finer passenger equipment it would be difficult
to find in this country on any road of its length
c. c. Waite, general manager of the Cincin
matt, Hamilton & Dayton lines declined to run
an excursion train on Sunday next to Cincinnati.
Mr.. Waite says his preferences would be to run
no trains the Sabbath, and his orders are that
as few trains be run that day as circum
stances will allow.
Paymaster Sullivan, of the c., L. st. T. & c.,
yesterday left Cincinnati by boat, came to Auro
IA then over the o. & NJ. to Vernon and there
commenced paying the employees of the Big -Four
system for January service President ingalls,
seems net to have forgotten the needs of the
employees, if the road was suffering in its bust
ness seriously from the flood.