The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

and unique in design.
Passenger conductors and trainmen on the
Evansville & Terre HauJe and the Chicago d.
Eastern Illinois roads are appearing this week
In new uniforms.
D. H. Williams, a veteran railroader, who, for
many years, was at indianapolis in line offices, is
lying so ill at Peoria that no hopes are enter
tanned Of his recovery.
Engine No. rs, one Of the new ten-wheelers
the c., l., st. L. & I. received last week from
Schenectady, yesterday hauled thirty-two cars
through from Cincinnati to Indianapolis.
Paymaster Hodges, of the c., H & D. lines
paid on the indianapolis division, and Paymaster
Sullivan, of the c., l., St L. & c., on the latter
road, yesterday, for November service.
One of the new engines President ingalls,, of
the c., l., St L. & C. recently ordered from the
Schenectady Locomotive Works, will weigh fifty
tons, and is to be used as q pusher on Sunman
hill, Eastern division.
The remains of the late Adam Schmidt, an
engineer on the Georgia q Pacific railway, ar
rived in Lafayette on Monday, and yesterday
afternoon he was buried by the Brotherhood Of
Engineers.
Freight conductors VIM. Simpson, John Heff-
zen, Morris Goodwin and VIM. Cunningham
have taken the trains of the passenger conduct
OTIS who were recently discharged on the Indian
apolis q st. Louis road.
Shipments of grain have fallen off largely the
last week. Owing to the bad country roads
farmers are unable to haul their corn and oats
To the stations. This trouble will never be over
come until Indiana and Illinois have more gravel
e. roads.
The agents of indianapolis roads at this point
held another conference. yesterday with Com
missioner Doherty, the special object of which
was to complete the arrangements to carry out
the weighing of all the east bound freights, live
stock as well as dead freights.
Lucius futile, for years past general passen-
ger agent of the Eastern road, has. under the
reorganization, including the lease with the
Boston & Maine, become assistant to the presl-
dent. The friends of Mr.. Tattle in the West
will be gratifed to learn of this deserved pro
motion.
Rebate tickets to New Orleans are now on sale
at $l6 for the round trip. The party purchasing
these tickets pays $23, and if he returns within
fifteen days So rebate is returned. # he stays
in New Orleans over fifteen days no rebate is
returned, but the ticket is good to return any
time within forty days after date of sale.
Frank Bird is somewhat disturbed in mind.
The general passenger agent of the l., b. d w.
alleges that the C., L., st. l.. q G. has the ad-
vantage over its competitors in having the trans
fer office in the same room With the c., l., st. l..
& c.. ticket office, and he wants the transfer
Office removed to some more secluded spot
E. B. Stahlman, late traffic manager of the L.,
N. A & c. road. has been brought into more
prominence than ever through his successful eff
fort to prevent unjust legislation against the
railroads of Tennessee. The contest was a Sc
we're one, and involved the question of placing
the roads in the hands of a rate-fixing board.
Passenger cirles, locally, are considerably
disturbed over the rumor that one of the roads
in the Chicago and Ohio River pool was cutting
rates on south bound business. If the report
proves true, probably the attention OF General
Manager Waite, of the C., H. & d. lines. will be
called to the matter by Pool Commissioner Rich
ardson.
Stock of the Cincinnati, indianapolis, St.
Louis & Chicago road is moving upward. How
ever there is very little on the market. Friends
of the road predict that by July l, 1885, the
stock will be at par, and President ingalls, will
again resume the paying OF dividends They
base this prediction on the excellent condition
financially as well as physically of the property,
its prospective business, and the hight expenses,
comparatively speaking, in the coming year, for
maintenance Of road bed and equipments.
An official of the Lackawanna fast-fre:ght line
yesterday remarked to a journal representative
that the statement of the journal, a few weeks
ago. that but one fast-freight line. the Lack
awanna, was to operate over the Delaware,
Lackawsnna & Western road, was true. lie
then added that ''the D.. L.. q w. people would
at once ommenc TO build another LOU cars TO
put into the line. On January l the Fort Wayne,
Cincinnati & Louisville road comes into the line,
and will put in as a quota 200 cars, and before
january, 1886, there will be 1000 or more cars
in the line"
Mention was made few days since that the
project of connecting the Bedford G. Bloomfield
road with the c., l., st. L. g. c. at Columbus,
Ind, had by no means been abandoned. In com
menting upon this enterprise the st. Louis Rail
way Register says: 1T would not be surprising
if before long another railway were built between
St Louis and Cincinnati. Perhaps the Cincin-
natl, indianapolis, St. Louis & Chicago may un-
5ertake it, and, possibly, the Chesapeake &
Ohio. 1t would be easy to utilize, as a part of
such a new line, portions, at least, of the In
diana & Illinois Southern, which reaches from
Ehingham, His, to SwitzC City. Ind, eighty-nin
miles, and also the Bedford & Bloomfield, which
extends forty-one miles further east. If the Gin
cinnati. indianapolis, st. Louis & Chicago, with
its Columbus, Hope & Greensburg branch, as
well as the two short lines mentioned, could be
used, il would not be necessary to build much
new track. The Chesapeake & Ohio, or the
Erie either, might want the new line. If such a
read were to be constructed, and capitalized at
actual cost, it would probably pay.