The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-28
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The Wabash has put on Sunday trains out of
St Louis to suburban pleasure resorts.
1t is reported that Mr.. Charles Francis Adams,
jr., will decline to longer act as arbitrator in the
pool of the Eastern trunk lines, as his presi-
dency of the Union Pacific requires all his time
In the reorganization of the working staff of
the Boston & Lowell now in contemplation
General Ticket Agent Kendrck is to receive the
appointment of auditor, thus making position
for a frst-class general passenger agent.
John B. Carson, general manager, and A. B.
Southland, general freight and passenger agent
of the L., N. A e. c. system, have this week
been giving matters general looking over, and
indications are that the L., IN A. 81 Z. will now
enter the most successful business career in its
history.
The general passenger agent of one of the
leading Western roads thinks that if the various
agencies can be discontinued and there can be
joint agency at each important competing point
a pool may be made to hold, and, while giving
the public the benefit of low rates, save margin
OF profit for the roads,
So numerous are the applications which W. S.
Spiers is receiving asking for appointment as
joint agent of the Indianapolis east bound pool
it is proper to say that he has nothing to do with
the selection of said joint agent; the whole
matter lies with the representatives of the
several roads in the pool.
indianapolis shippers are loading twenty to
thirty refrigerator cars per week with eggs and
poultry The growth of the refrigerato--car serv-
ice is something wonderful Five years ago
there were not 200 cars Of this character on the
roads; now there nearly 5000, and the num-
her is constantly being increased.
railroad official of an Indianapolis road in
commenting the item in yesterdays Journal
regarding spoilers, said it was all rightfor news
paper men to abuse them, but he thought well
of them for the reason that putting them on their
road for couple of weeks short time since
was fully $1,000 month in the treasury of their
road.
portant for the l., B. & w. people that they
again secure control Of the Champaign. Havana
& Western road than that President Corbin should
secure the T., G. & st. l.. for St Louis line.
In former times the L, B. 81 w. often for
months at time would haul 100 to 125 loaded
cars per day off of the c., H. & w.
The Wabash passenger department is still
lavish in its expenditures of high priced adver-
tisng matter for general distribution. stock
holder remarked recently that on the day he re-
ceived notice that the road had passed into the
hands of a receiver, in the same mail he re
ceived batch of advertising matter printed
embossed cards, expensive maps, etc.
Paymaster Sheldon is paying on the L 6 St
for May service Tt is very credit
able for the railroad management generally of
this country that employees are being paid with
so much regularity. On but few roads does the
paYnaSleE Iall TO make his EOuuuS IupuJuly
paying for the service of the preceding month
Competitors of the l., B. & w. and Wabash
roads east-bound allege that these roads
ara giving a differential rate of $l.5O
per ticket, for the secondclass as well on
frst-ciass tickets, while under the pool ruling
they are allowed to give but 81 dfferential rate
on second class tickets. The matter is to be
brought to the attention of Commissioner Fisk.
The new train the Wabash people have put
on between Chicago and Kansas City, via Forrest,
PEORIA Jacksonville, Hannibal and Moberly Is
literally patronzed. Frank Palmer, who rep
resents the Wabash passenger interests, is max
ing it quite warm for competitors The trains
for this service are composed of Pullman sleep
ers reclining chair cars free to firstclass passen
gers peerless dining cars and elegant coaches,
and run between Chicago and Kansas City with
out change of any kind every day in the year.
Western merchants have complained for some
years of the high rate on wooden-ware under the
west-bound pool tariff. This has been righted
Commissioner Fink announces by circular that
wooden-ware in carload lots, which heretofore
has been in the third class, will hereafter be
fourth class which reduces the rate per 100
pounds from New England and New York from
AZ to 80 cents. Wooden-ware in less
than carload lots, heretofore second class, is
made third class, which reduces the rate from
II to 81 cents per 100 pounds,
An officer of the Wabash system writes that
the newspapers are not doing the management
justice when referring to the conditions of the
indianapolis Peru q Chicago and the Cairo di-
vision of the system. He says: II have been
connected in an official capacity with both of
those lines since the LIST of July last, and during
that time have put 100, 900 ties into the Cairo
division track and 10, 900 in the l., P. & c. track.
1 expect by Sept to have both lines as well tied
as any in the State of Indiana and with the i'm
proyement we expect to make in the way of
new rail, ETC., will have perfectly safe, if they
are not strickly frst-class tracks. Already
half the distance between Indianapolis and Ko-
zomo is laid with steel rails"
But Forty-Seven Miles of the Eel River Road
To Be Built This Year.
The committee of Eastern capitalists who
have taken interest in the indianapolis Eel
River & Western road have been West, looked
the ground over, and express themselves as
pleased with the outlook They have recon-
Inended to Chief Engineer Devore that he at
tempt this year to build only the forty
miles of road between the crossing of the L., N.