The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-08-01
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.


Beach and Turkey lake, fixing the rate at 81 for
the round trip.
The freight departments of the trunkli inc
roads which have termini at Baltimore rep ort
a demand from the West for cars to move the
new wheat crop to the sea-board.
E. W. McKenna, superintendent of the j., M.
s. L road, says the rumor that he is to resign on
the return of Manager McCrea is all "bosh,n
and must have originated in some round-house,
The passenger men are making a lively fight
for the Friends Yearly Meeting business. The
Friends meet this year at High Point n c.,
which point is reached via Cincinnati or Louis
VILE
Zone thing it is well to understand, says
Gould organ; the. Gould properties are able to
support themselves Their merits boom them
Wabash, NJ, K g. t., and Texas Pacific, for ex-
ample.
What has become of the North & South rail
roadg A certain little appropriation will turnup
missing if the road does not reach Brazil Ind,
prior to JAN l. Col. Harry Crawford will do well
toSook into the matter
c. G. Waite, vice president Of the c.. III. & D.
lines, compliments the agent, line agent, etc.. on
the G., II. & y division over the heavy freight
tTafic they are working up, which is the heaviest
in the history Of the road
Thomas p. Cheney for fifteen years the super
intendent of the New England division Of the
pension agency at Concord, N H. He will be
succeeded by William II. Bigelow, of Maine
OF the new directors of Louisville & Nashville
J. N Linderberger is president of the Mer-
chants National Bank, of Louisville, and J. B.
Wilder is the ex,president of the Shortline rail
road financial plan will be decided upon
August 8.
J. J. Frey, for number Of years past division
superintendent of the Iron Mountain road, has
resigned, to accept the position of general SUI
perintendent Of the Texas & st. Louis narrow
gauge. Mr.. Frey will assume his duties on
August 5.
An order was issued, Wednesday, by officials
ofthe Pittsburg & Western railroad, transferring
the Office of @. w. Bassett, general passenger
agent of the Pittsburg, Cleveland & Toledo rail
road from Youngstown to PittsDurg, where he
viii have his headquarters
Col. VIM. Shaw general agent of tho l., B. g.
w, returnedy yesterday from an extended North
western trip. OF course, he reports crops good,
and this gives him faith that passenger traffic is
to be heavy this fall He states that like opin-
ion is held by the passenger men throughout the
West and Northwest.
indianapolis, St Louis & Chicago road earned
$142, 625, an increase of $16.744 over earnings
Of the corresponding period 1883. A few weeks
OF such gains will not only overcome the falling
of of the earlier part Of the year, but yield, as
well, handsome excess
line shops Brightwood is still employing his old
men to take service in the Big Springs shops of
the Missouri Pacific, over which he now has
supervision Four. left last night for that point,
making twenty-five who have gone to him from
the Bee-line shops, and others were arranging
to go.
On the 30th the Decline handled, on their di-
vision running into Dayton over nine thousand
people, the T., B. & w. delivered to them, in one
train, at Springfield, 1882 passengers; the G.. !,
H.. p ffc fb1soa fxy;c f0a1r
passengers into Dayton. and the c., III. & D. is
said to nave carried nearly as many as the c., St.
&. & p.
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago road
to-day begins operations under an entirely new
set of general officers, and the results of the
MANY changes in the last eight months will be
watched with interest. Some excellent men
have been dropped The new set of officers are
said to be eeof all cliques and the choice of
ali parties interested in the property.
For some time past the c., L, St L. & G. has
been receiving from a western connection twelve
car loads of wool daily. This wool goes to
eastern parties, is loaded in California fast.
freight line cars and comes through from Colo
RADIO without breaking bulk. The rate from
point of shipment to Philadelphia and Boston
averages from So 25 to So so per car.
Vice-president MCCULLOUGH, Of the Pennsyl-
yania company, has issued circular of instruc-
tions requiring that the greatest economy of
materials and labor be observed Where an
elnploye can be discharged without injuring the
service, this must be done, and what may be
looked upon as trivial saving must be regarded,
lest the management be compelled to take more
radical measures to cut down expenses presum-
ably reduction in wages.
After behaving very handsomely for some
thirty days, war on passenger rates has been
opened between the local agents The contest
is said to be the most bitter between the l., b. e
w. and the c., ST. t. & p. and Vandalia The
latter charge that the L, B. 81 w. is cutting
rates east west and north, and they now pro-
pose to meet such rates. Passenger business
has just begun to improve, and this break is cer-
tainly unfortunate. 1t is good thing that John
Martin of the Big -Four, is absent as he cannot
now be charged with bringing on the democrat
ization.
Cincinnati Honors One Of Its Most Enterpris-
ing Business Men, nj. #. Ingalls,.
The reception given last night at Cincinnati in
honor of NJ e. ingalls, and his associates,
through whose efforts the Grand Central Depot in
that city has been brought to completion, is re-
ported to have been grand affair, and Presi-
dent ingalls,, Of the Big Four could but be graft
fled with the compliments heaped upon him over
the success of this enterprise, which was of his
own conception. Such drive-ahead mon as NJ
E ingalls, cannot be too highly appreciated in
any community. The Cincinnati Enquirer says:
Neither time nor money has been spared to
make it first-class in every respect. On October
2, 1881, an ordinance was passed by the City
Council sanctioning the erection of a union
depot BY the Big Four Company The building is
located at the corner Of Third street and Central
avenue; the main house is l08 by IS feet five
stories in height, to which is added wing Of
four stories, extending west on Third street
$50 BY 80 feet The entire amount Of surface
under roof, not counting the various stories, but
only the ground floor is lO2 42S square feet. The
walls of the first or track story are built Of
heavy white Indiana limestone, averaging ten
inches thick, and laid in rock faced range work,
and trimmed with dressed Indiana lime
and Bedford stone The second or Third
in the style known as broken ashlar, and the
remaining stories are Of brick, faced with red
pressed brick, and with terra Gotta yellow
pressed brick and Bedford stone trimmings The
entire structlre is covered with an orna1nental