The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-02
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Tered over Gn0 BelJ rOdu dSdlIlSL ol3Olf III Au-
gust, 1883, and q, 44S in August, 1882
In the month of August there were 81, 206
pieces of baggage handled at the Union Depot
OF this number II, 700 were checked out.
John King, the new assistant president Of
Erie, is great admirer of Mr. Fink, and, it is
said, will exert himself to uphold the pool.
sect the lowest rate and come back to US, and
we will go under it, was the motto at the out
side offices yesterday, as for some time past.
William R. McKeen, president of the Vandalia,
and 81 w. Hibbard, general freight agent are
in the city and will remain until noon to-day.
The Brightwood Railroad Mems Loan and Saw
ing Association organized at Brightweod
last night. Seventy-two Decline employees are
among the shareholders.
The new secretary and treasurer of the Allan
ia g West Point railroad, MIR. HI. NJ. Albeit,
yesterday assumed the duties of the position,
with headquarters at Atlanta, Ga.
In the month of August the Vandalia brought
into Indianapolis / Clio carloads of block coal,
one of the largest deliveries of any correspond
ing month in the history of the road
Agents, clerks, etc. of the fast-freight lines
are climbing up onto the anxious seat so strong
are the indications there is to be a. thinning out
of lines and general curtailing of expenses
R. NJ Fraser general freight agent Of the
Cincinnati, Washington q Baltimore road, was
in the city yesterday. He reports freight tratfic
tenn.
The Railroad Mems Christian Association at
Fort Wayne now numbers 515. The association
has very pleasant rooms, and in the month OF
August an average of l26 persons visited them
daily
There are at present seventeen .scalping offices
in full operation in St Louis, just four more
than we have at Indianapolis if we count In the
outside local passenger agents offices, which are
little else than scalping institutions.
G. a. Cromwell, the new general freight and
passenger agent of the Western Railway OF Ala
baina and the Atlanta q West Point railroad,
will have his headquarters at Montgomery Ala.
His appointment took effect yesterday.
u @. Cleveland agent of the Erie & North
Shore Fast-freight line at this point is quietly
awaiting developments He had expected to
pull up stakes here yesterday, but the general
manager has not as yet issued instructions to
that effect
Complaint is made that the Police Gazette is
sold on trains of the j., NJ & l. the g., L., st
L. & G. and Wabash roads. Probably in neither
case is the management OF the roads aware that
it is DONE and need only to have their attention
called to the matter.
Chief Engineer Fitch, of the extension of the
Terre Haute g. Logansport road, has struck the
keynote by proposing that the Vandalia people
shall build a belt road around South Bend and
from this road build switches to the various I'M
portant manufacturing establishments in that
wideawake city
L. d. Richardson, commissioner of the
Chicago & Ohio river pool, returned from the
East yesterday He spent his two weeks vaca.
ton in the hills of New Hampshire, and steered
clear of all railroad Offices on his Eastern trip
Although no taller than when he left lndianapo-
lis, he weighs some ten pounds more.
The several roads which cross East street, by
order Of the Council have raised their tracks
some two feet at the East street crossing and
properly graded and guarded it while the city
has not completed its part of the work, and the
street is impossible. Were the railroads as
diatory as the city has been in this matter a
general howl would have been raised.
On Thursday night, Aug %, there were
eighty eight foreign passenger coaches standing
in the New York Central g Lake Shore yards,
at Buffalo which had been brought in laden with
Niagara Falls excursion parties, thirty eight OF
which were off of the Indiana, Bloomington y
Western road; twenty two off the Decline, and
the rest divided between three other roads. tits
said to have been the biggest excursion day ever
known by the Buffalo railroad men.
The PEORIA Decatur 6 Evansville road is be-
coming a valuable property, and really should
be a bart of the Decline system, as 1t is one of
the best feeders the Decline has. Crossing the
/. & st. L. at Mattoon Ill, it delivers the
freight to the 1. & st. L. from points both north
and south. The P, ID. q E. is well equipped,
runs directly through the best corn growing dis
.tricts of Illinois and Indiana is under honest
and able management, and if the corn crop
turns out all right it will show greater increase
of earnings than any other road in the West.
The passenger rate war at ConnersviIs is
practically at an end. The business men of that
city have agreed to ship their freights entirely
over the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Indianapolis
road, providing the restoration Of rates was
made. The Whitewater Valley road is still
carrying passengers to Cincinnati at the war
rates. but few people who value their lives, it is
said, will ride over the road. While the G., H. &
/. had the rate down to % cents to Cincinnati,
hack service thrown in, the business men Of
Connersville were suffering seriously, as every
body was running down TO Cincinnati to do their
trading.