The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-10-08
OF THE RAILWAYS.


TO attend the time convention.
Several of the roads in the last few days have
increased their section forces and are putting
their road beds in the best shape possible for
winter service.
President McKeen. Colonel Hill, superintend-
ent, Capt. Fitch, chief engineer, and J. G. Will
Jams, attorney of the Vandalia, were in South
Bend yesterday.
William E. Smokey, ticket agent of the Lake
Erie & Western road for many years at Lafay-
cite. is lying very low with consumption at
Bloomington, Ill.
6. L. Casey. agent Of the Continental line at
Kansas City, is in the city. He states that all
Western freight men predict a heavy November
and December business.
The Wabash management has ordered a gen
eral overhauling and rebuilding of bridges on
their entire system. Already this season three
iron and thirteen new wooden bridges have been
built
The Decline on Monday night ran the night
express in three sections. It consistedo of twenty
passenger coaches. FIVE chair ears and three
sleeping coaches, all laden with excursionists to
St Louis.
A Wabash engine. on the Chicago division of
the Wabash, took General Butler from Decatur
to Chicago, ITO miles, in three hours and twenty
seven minutes. He gave the engineer $40 and
the fireman $40
The Pennsylvania people now say that east
bound rates must be maintained and that a good
deal of noise will be made if there is any more
dishonorable action in the matter on the part of
their comDetitors.
superintendent Miller. of the c., st. L. & P,
and McKenna, of the j., M. & l., are IN the city
trying to determine whetheri it is best to abandon
the old j., NJ & l. depot at once or patch it up
and do business there until spring.
Employees on the division of the T., c. & St.
/. road controlled by the Corbin syndicate will
be paid on the 18th and 10th for September; En-
~Io1~a IN tho 1aSo fantfaO o ta Nj yfGinn Of the H
G. & St L., are said to envy their associate who
are so promptly paid.
The Philadelphia Press says the arithme
ticians Of the Pennsylvania board of directors
are busy daily figuring the dividend, and the
conclusion is that it must be reduced. The il
rectors have not taken any action yet, and will
not for two or three weeks.
After taking a survey of the situation the
Local Rate Association has fixed upon six cents
per one hundred pounds as the rate for grain
from indianapolis to Toledo, 1t is said this is
to be a permanent rate, and that all lines have
agreed to adhere to it strictly.
Superintendent Stevens, of the Eastern divis-
ion of the Wabash system, was in the city yes
terday. He reports the main line full of busl-
ness and thinks thirty days from now, they will
be unable to handle as promptly as they desire
to thu traffic which will be offered them.
u. G. Cleveland, agent of the consolidated
Erie e North Shore and the Commercialexpress
at this point, is loading E. & N. S. cars as here
bCAOLO OhO OAAAhA6 bhNAA O0t to ~
press freight. 1t is stated that all p. & N. S.
cars are to be repainted, remembered and ~lettered
Commercial Express.
W. N. Marshall, late division superintendent
of the L., n. A. & c. railway, has been APP
pointed assistant to the superintendent of the
Texas & st. Louis raiIsoad, with headquarters at
Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Mr.. MarshaHs many
friends will regret that he leaves Indiana, and
wish him prosperity in his new field.
Business men who have private switches lead
mo tO 4hair wards etc off of the Union tracks
do not take kindly to the orders that after Oct.
Is they must pay 81 per car placed on or taken
off their switches. The shippers are fortunate to
get off with a 81 switching charge. In other
cities So is charged for the same service.
Friends of the property are talking loudly in
favor of the middle division of the Indiana,
Bloomington & Western, which, Ghey say, runs
through the corn section Of Ohio, which has pro-
dueed in eleven counties more corn than either
of the States of Illinois or Indiana. Look for
big figures for the stock if this bulling of the l.,
b. & W. continues.
Frank Wade, district passenger agent of the
Wabash, headquarters at Indianapolis, has hit
upon a novel, yet attractive method of advertis-
ing. A painting quite respectable in size rep
resents a neatly dressed young lady on a Fair
banks scale getting weighed Above the paint
ing it reads: 'ITl get Wade then take the Wa
bash for all principal points north, east and
west"
The members of the Middle and Western
States Classification Association meet in Cinein-
natl Oct. 10, to further revise the classification.
There viii be a general rejoicing among railroad
managers when this association gets its trarifS,
which it has been tinkering over for years,
satisfactorily adjusted. 1t is now proposed to
revise the tariff and base rates upon the
mileage.
So frequent are complaints that there are
not ticket agents in sufficient number at the
Union Depot to wait upon parties desiring to
purchase tickets that it is not out of place to
say that General Ticket Agent Donough pro
poses to put in additional ticket sellers when
ever the new Union Depot is completed and
there is more room. He now has a ticket seller at
each window.
Engineering skill is, in a quiet way, doing
wonderful things. At the present time, on the
c., T., St L. 6 O., they are erecting a new
bridge $40 fest in length, in place of the old
structure, over the Big Miami river. The grade
of the new bridge and the approaches to it will
be five feet higher than the present grade. The
old piers and abutments have been raised five
feet, which is one foot above high water.mark
during the recent floods on the Ohio river. The
striking thing is that while the Improvement is
going on trains run over the old bridge as usual