The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-25
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



Perssa1=.I and Local.
III" Wabash system the second week in June
earned $275, coo in round numbers
PAymaster Crawford, of the Vandalia, is on
his monthly rounds paying for May service.
The Pennsylvania road proper earned, the
first five months of the year, 81, 2O9 per mile,
gross.
There are on the c., H. & D. system 80 loco
motives, 70 passenger coaches, % baggage cars,
and 2.747 freight cars of all descriptions.
For the first time in two years the indianapolis
& St Louis road is ahead of its per cent. in the
eastbOund dead freight pool out of St. Louis
FW Lunt, passenger conductor on the G.,
H. Sd line, was married Monday evening to
Miss Anna Schaeller, young lady OF Hamilton,
Ohio.
The stockholders ofthe D. G. NJ. division of the
c. II. & d. lines held their annual meeting at
Toledo yesterday and reelected the old board of
directors
CD. Hepburn superintendent. and Chief-en-
gineer Ramsey, of the c., ii. g. D. lines, are to
be in the city to-day to look after proposed I'M
provements.
A J. Sanborn has been appointed auditor for
the Little Rock e. Fort Smith and the Little
Rock, Texas & Mississippi roads, in place of II.
G.. Adds resigned
The five Indianapolis roads which reported to
the east bound statistical bureau forwarded
last month Is, 207 tons of dead freight against
Is, 4l0 tons in May 1888
Last year the c., H. & D. company increased
the side tracks on the several divisions 29,02l
feet On the c., H. & |. division IL, 202 feet of
additional side track was laid
The Vandalis has made the customary low
rate between all points for the benefit of those
who wish to celebrate the 4th of July. Tickets
are good going on the Sd and 4th and returning
up till the 18th, between ali stations.
Matters are moving along so smoothly with
the Chicago and Ohio River pool that Commits
sioner Richardson and Secretary Hand both ven
tured to take acouple of days recreation, and ac-
eompanied Raper Commandery to Louisville,
kentucly.
Not for some days has there been a better de-
mand for cars to load for the East than yester
day notwithstanding the advance in rates. The
fact is thatthere is considerable grain in the
country to be moved out of the way of the com
ing crops.
In reviewing the annual report of c. G. Waite
vice-president and general manager OF the e.,
III. 81 D., it should be borne in mind that all i'm
provements to road-bed and equipments to sta
tions round houses. ETC., are charged up to OPP
Grating expenses.
NJ e. ingalls,, president of the c., L, st. L. &
c. road says there has not been month this
year, February excepted, that the net earnings
of the Big Four have not been in excess of the
corresponding months in 1883, and that the gross
earnings for this month are running handsomely
ahead of those of June, 1883
A. G. Will, superintendent of motive power
r. Curtis master mechanic, S. H. Harrington
draughtsman and NJ. J. Becker, chief engineer
of the Pennsylvania lines west CT Pittsburg
are in the city to-day. Mr.. Becker will take the
new shops in the eastern part of the city off of
the hands of contractor Routier.
As it is a foregone conclusion that the Wabash
people are to throw the indianapolis, Peru
& Chicago division of their system back on
the lessons, would it not be more honorable to
do so before the crops are moved, that the Cut
ting syndicate can have some good earnings this
fall to improve the roa3bed and equipments
with9
A railroad man who well understands the
financial condition of the c., c., c. & l. road,
remarked yesterday that it was amusing to see
how few hundred shares of the Bee line stock
was being tossed about by the bears, probably
he said, with the hope that it would induce some
of the holders to let go and bring more on to
the market
Several changes in agencies on the Indianapo-
lis 81 Vincennes road take effect to-day. S.
BEEN, operator at Swiss City, is promoted to be
agent at Bieknell A E. Lee, agent at Bicknell
takes the agency at Edwardsport vice F. s.
Montgomery, who succeeds j. H. Jones, as
agent at Martinsville. G. l.. Bush, telegraph
operator at Spencer, has been appointed agent
at CenteFton.
Chief Arthur of the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers will be in Denver in October,
together with number of shining lights in the
fraternity The annual convention meets in
San Francisco in that month, and Mr.. Arthur
will arrive in Denver about two weeks previous
to the convention and visit the State lodges. The
delegates to the convention will leave Denver on
the same train The Pacific roads are arranging
to make the trip pleasant one
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago stock is down
to ten cents on the New York Stock Exchange
One year ago it was seventy-two. This shows
how little respect should be paid to the price Of
stock now prevailing when compared with its
real value. One year ago the officials of the
road were quarreling, rates were demoralized
and everything in the way, apparently, to de-
struction; now the management is working har-
Inoniously, business is good, earnings improving
daily and the property certainly more valuable