The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-26
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

rOatu fOH many years.
President Paul, Of the Woodruff Sleeping-car
Company, states that in few days two elegant
new coaches will be put on the run between
Evansville and Chicago.
The Vandalia people are grading three acres
Of ground near their station at Lake Maxim
kuckee, preparatory to sodding it and identifying
the grounds with fower-beds.
George w. Ristine, commissioner of the
Transcontlnental Association, announces that he
will retire December 81, not qualifying the
announcement with any ifs or ands.
commencing with Monday next, the morning
tram south over the indianapolis & Vincennes
road will depart forty minutes later than now,
leaving ehe Union Depot at S:lo A. NJ
J. y McQuiston, formerly roadmaster Of the
y, l., 81. l. d c., but more recently on the
missouri Pacific road, has resigned his position
on the latter road and returned to Greensburg,
Ind.
The meeting of passenger agents in the Indi-
anapoiIs association called for yesterday by A.
y Smith, secretary, was a fzzle the representa-
tves Of but two roads, as on Monday last APP
pearing.
Charley Elliott, of Jeffersouville, for many
years conductor on the j.. nj. g l., has been
appointed by Captain J. NJ. Phillips to a con
ductorshlp on the Gulf, Colorado & Sante Fe
railroad
liz OACSblOh VI Oulc6rS OF Gne C1lca20 q AU-
lantlc road has not yet been held but the Jour
tal has good authority for saying III. j. Jewett,
president, would gladly retire if John King will
accept the position
p. B. Hyde assistant superintendent of the
middle division of the Wabash at Havana, ILL.,
has rendered his resignation, to take effect Oct.
l, and +. L. Tompkins has been appointed his
successor, to assume his duties the same date.
The annual meeting Of the stock and bond
holders OF the Indianapolis, Decatur & Spring
field Railroad Company will be held at the
Office in Indianapolis, Ind, Oct g. 1884 at 10 NJ
for the purpose of election of officers of the com
pany.
J J. Turner, superintendent of the Indiana
polls q Vincennes road, returned from the
north, yesterday, in fine trim for business, hav-
ing downed the hay fever while absent. He
went as far north as Duluth, head of Lake SUI
perior.
In answer to the charge that the Wabash road
is cutting rates east out of Indianapolis Mr.
knight general freight agent, says some of the
fast freight lines, operating over the road may
be doing it, but the Wabash road proper is not
participating in any cuts.
As all outside Offices are now selling tickets
it is suggested that they hereafter remain open
until the midnight trains go out, as there is no
time during the day when there is as much con
fusion at the Union Depot and more difficulty in
getting tickets than between 1890 P. NJ and 11:30
P. NJ.
Kernans agency, New York says President
Alexander Mitchell says there is no truth in the
published report that he contemplatas retiring
from the presidency of the Milwaukee & St
Paul railroad certainly not at present. Mr.
Mitchell will return to Milwaukee within few
days
Several agents of the Lackawanna line met
yesterday at the Office of W.. D. Wilson, agent at
this point, and arranged for division of terri
tory. Among those present were f. H. Smith,
of Peoria, L. Y. Palmer, Of Burlington, Ia. l..
r. Stiles, of Chicago, and E. J. Waldron, Of La
fayette.
One who claims to know what changes are to
be made on the Erie, in speaking of the rumor
that r. c. Villas, freight traffic manager Of the
system, is to be retired says there is good au-
thority for stating that if anv of the old officials
are retained Mr.. Villas will be one Of them, as
he ranks among the best freight men in the
country.
New York. Pennsylvania q Ohio railway, says
they have had the electric lomotiYe headlight in
practical working use on their road for three
weeks, and so far it has proven complete sue
cess, and there can be no question about the
adoption of the electric headlight, if the ele
ments of steadiness and reliability can be as
sured.
In their efforts to economize, nearly every road
centering at Indianapolis has reduced the mum
Der of its switching engines and crews to such
an extent as to interfere with business and there
is considerable complaint among coal and lum
Der dealers and manufacturers over the delays
in getting cars. A year ago forty-two switch
ing engines were in service daily at Indianapolis
Now the number is reduced to thirty.
The Chicago News says the statement is made
there that east-bound freight rates are now
thoroughly demoral1zed, and that grain is now
being taken east on basis of Is cents from Chi
cago to New York The Chicago Price Current
reports the rate on grain and provisions to New
York remains nominal at 20 cents per 100 pounds.
These statements confirm kilograms sent to In,
dianapolis shippers which were mentioned in
the Journal Of Wednesday.
An. amusing affair at the Union Depot, yester-
day, was one of the monster new passenger en-.
gines on the Vandalia road departing from the
Union Depot, hauling nine cars and one of the
ordinary passenger engines on the c., st. l. &
P, which had switched the hotel car onto the
rear of the Vandalia train, and was not detached
before the train started, and not until the train
was out several miles was the situation under
stood. The train was then stopped, and the c.,
St L. q r. engine cut loose
Boys are giving trainmen on the Union tracks
much trouble by jumping onto moving trains.
Superintendent Lang, of the Metropolitan police
force, will ask Mayor McMaster to. give the
police leave to catch such boys and give them a
good switching. He thinks this preferable to
arresting them and putting them in the station
house for several days with such characters as
are usually imprisoned there The State law is
very severe upon persons who board moving
trains, yet to enforce it on the boys would seem
rather rough.
President Mackay of the Evansville & Terre
Haute road, is getting somewhat over his eco
nomicai ideas which resulted in his reducing the
men in all departments to so low a point that
neither the physical condition of the road nor of
the, rolling stock could be maintained. Since
the LIST Of September he has added eighty men
to the section force, has put on a construction
train, and increased his fencing and other gangs,
and is using every effort in his power to better
the road-bed of the e. & T. H., and the force in
the shops, as we'll is to be increased,
Takes the Matter CooIIy.
Commissioner Fink in conversation with d
Western railroad man, spoke of the troubles in
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