The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-02-04
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


The Decline forwarded east last week 1,45s
loaded cars, the Chicago, st. Louis & Pittsburg
l,147 loaded cars.
In the year of 1888 there was shipped east,
over the Decline, from indianapolis, 672 car
loads of live poultry.
Vandalia engine No. ISL, on Friday last, hauled
eight cars a mile in %ffty-four seconds Twelve
miles was run in thirteen minutes.
The Cincinnati, indianapolis, st. Louis & Chi
cago road, last week, delivered at Cincinnati 800
and forwarded from that point 915 loaded cars.
On Friday evening, Feb. %, 1884, the clerks
in the Indiana, Bloomington e Western general
offices will give their first gran d dress reception
in Lyra Hall.
Chief Engineer Lincoln, of the Wabash, st.
St. Louis & Pacific system, is preparing plans
and specifications for a new depot at Fort Wayne,
to cost some $l5, 600.
The Vandalia brought into Indianapolis in ne
month of January l,032 carloads of live stock.
Ofthis number 1855 carloads were forwarded east
over the Chicago, st. Louis e. Pittsburg road.
G. J. Hepburn, general superintendent of the
c., H. & d. lines, is still so i'll as to confine him
to his room, but is thought to be slowly recov-
ering from his illness, which is something of a
paralytic nature.
The five Western roads, last week, brought
into indianapolis 4,O08 loaded cars, as follows:
The l., b. & W., st. Louis division, 222; Peoria
division, 431; c., l., St. L. & c., GAL; Vandalia,
l,198; 1. & st. L., 1,516.
Charles Howard, receiver of the Danville,
Olnev e Ohio road. has cot on his high horse,
and says that he will not resign, but proposes to
fight to the death for the rights of the bonded
interests he represents.
Fl. M. Bronson, general passenger agent of
the Indiana, Bloomington & Western road, who
has been in New York for a couple of weeks
aiding in arranging the per cents in the trunk
line passenger pool, returned on Saturday.
FL. J. Jewett is a director of twenty companies,
Samuel Sloan of twenty-three companies, Jay
Gould of twenty-four, George r. Roberts of
twenty-six, Augustus Schel of twenty-eight,
Sidney Dillon of thirty-six, and Frederiek L.
Ames of fifty-two.
An official circular from James McCrea, man
ager of the lines owned and controlled by the
Pennsylvania company west of Pittsburg, the
p, Fit. W. & G. excepted, announces the ap
pointment of II. w. Wynkoop as superintendent
of telegraph of the several divisions in this sys-
tenn.
The bridge of the Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific
road at Delphi, Ind, has been in bad shape for a
few days, and the Wabash people are using a
portion of the j., N. A. & G. track to get around
the break, which will probably be repaired so
that trains can be run over it the early part of
This week.
The Chicago & Western Illinois people have
sent two of their best coaches to the Dayton.
o., Car Works to be generally repaired and
fitted up as reclining-chair cars, to be run be-
tween Indianapolis ana CnlcagO, over the In
diana, Bloomington & Western and the Chicago
& Eastern Illinois.
The Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific road is re-
ceiving from the Cambridge City Car Works 100
coal cars Of a superior build. These cars are
thirty feet long, eight and one-half feet wide,
and have a carrying capacity of 10000 pounds.
They rest on a heavy truck and are well sup
ported in the center by trusses. g
George H. Prescott, master mechanic of the
Vandalia line, gives notice that, commencing
-,4I 10 1or ~ oil ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xuorI- vu;l oaro
mence in the morning at 1880 to II, and after
noon l to 4:30. Eight hours a day pleases the
boys much better than would the discharge of a
MALT hundred or more of their shop comrades.
The Railway Exchange at Chicago will be
opened to-day. Joint Agent T.. q Moore has APP
pointed Mr.. r. G. Moffett as superintendent of
the Railway Exchange, where all the Chicago
lines will hereafter receive their mail sent them
by other Chicago lines. A similar arrangement
at Indianapolis would be convenient and econom-
ieal.
For a couple of weeks past NJ. J. Becker, chief
engineer of the Pennsylvania company, with the
respective division bridge builders, have been
carefully inspecting every bridge on the entire
system. One of Mr.. Beckers chief hobbies,
which certainly is a good one to ride, is that
special attention shall be given to the security of
their bridges.
Master Mechanic Arp, of the Chicago, st.
Louis & Pittsburg shops at this point, has de-
Vised an engine register of a novel and useful
character. By it an engineer can tell at a glance
the train number, and the section of the train he
is to take out. If there be more than one, and
what class of service any engine of the road is
in, or if out Of service for repairs.
The Indiana, Bloomington & Western people
last week bought a lot of steel rails from a Penn
~sylvania mill at $35.5 80 per ton. Steel rails are
now selling in small lots at $36, and large orders,
on good terms, at $35. 30. This is a slight advance
over what they have been selling al, and the
feeling in trade is that there will be a strong
market before the first of March.
East-bound traffic over the indianapolis & st,
Louis road continues to be very heavy, l,516
ears arriving at indianapolis in the seven days
ending Feb. 2, as follows: Jan. 81, 300; %, 1875;
%, lS6; 30, III: 81. 800; Feb, !, 175; Feb. 2, 2S3
loaded cars. tits stated that the l. & S.. L.. last
week delivered more grain to indianapolis eleVa
tors than in any week for many months.
The best performing locomotives, as the en-
gineers say, are those which pick a train up
quick The engines that run the fast trains
reach their highest speed within three miles of a
starting point, and locomotives that cannot at
tain a speed of a mile per minute within four
miles cannot handle the train properly, and need
not be expected to make fast average running
time.
General Superintendent Bowen, of the New
York, Lake Erie & Western road, succeeds Rob
ert Harris as first vice-president. B.. Thomas,
heretofore superintendent of transportation. sue
ceeds Bowen as general superintendent, and H
ii. Blackham, formerly chief clerk for Thomas,
will succeed the latter as superintendent of
transportation. Both gentlemen are old at
taches of the Erie.
Freight circles were considerably disturbed on
Saturday over a rate said to be given by the
Traders Dispatch on 5000 sacks of export flour
for Belfast. The White-line offered a ffty-one-
cents-per-100 pounds -railand-water rate. 1t was
refused A line agent offered a forty-fve-cent
rate via Baltimore The frst-named line is re-
ported on good authority to have takenit at forty
three cents via New York.
WELL PLEASED.