The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-22
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Inc IeIlSy lfdhId company 10 htbAh5 up "A
outside Office at Cleveland, O., at an expense of
$1,000.
John T. Miller, superintendent of the C.. st.
L. & P, is in the city, and will remain until this
afternoon.
The live stock shipment cast from Indianopo-
lis proper in the month of February amounted to
4,528 tons.
The Vandalia is again several hundred cars
ahead Of its per cent. in the east-bound live stock
pool out of st. Louis.
c. c. Merrill, who succeeds Wilbur Lee as a
representative of the c.. b. & Q. at this point,
is in the city arranging for an office.
Should the present east bound rates long con
tinue there will be a poor show for the lake
craft this season-certainly until the new crops
come in.
J.. w. Sherwood, superintendent of the c., l.,
St l.. & C., was at Columbus, Ind, yesterday,
arranging to put on trains between GreensbuIg
and Columbus.
Commissioner Richardson, of the Chicago &
Ohio river pool, has asked the general freight
and passenger agents of the roads in the pool to
meet him on the 26th, at his office, for confer
ence,
The tracks on mud road beds are now unusually
rough, there having been so much wet weather
of late, and what is worse road-masters cannot
improve matters until the ground becomes more
solid.
faf OAKS, tne present northern terminus OI
the Chicago & Great Southern road, and where
connection is made with the L., N. A. q c., has
been made a postofice. Thomas A. Mallatt is
postmaster.
q. A. Lucas, agent Of the Red line at this
point. has been appointed general agent of the
line for ali of Indiana north Of the Ohio q Mis-
sissippi road, and Of the Cairo division of the
Wabash in Illinois.
The Boston journal says J.. L. Folsom, master
mechanic of the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
railroad since the commencement of that line,
has resigned, to accept the position of general
manager of a Western road,
There was forwarded to seaboard points in
February from indianapolis proper but 20, 283
tons of grain, -four and provisions, it being the
lighteSt monthly business since the Indianapolis
east-bound freight statistical bureau was organ
lied.
The Pittsburg, Cincinnati e st. Louis railroad
has received in settlement of its claim against
the Columbus, Chicago & Indiana Central 81 OPS
S38 of preferred and common stock of its sue
cvosor, the Chicago, st, Louis & Pittsburg rail
road.
The lumber men are all tore up, as the term
goes. over the fact that they are still asked to
pay 81 II cents per hundred pounds on lumber
to New York. and to other Eastern points in the
usual proportion, while the grain men are asked
to pay only IA cents per hundred pounds.
The Pennsylvania company. having adopted
the semaphOre system of telegraph signals, are
having semaphores put up at all their telegraph
StaLLOfiS. IL Is worthy OF remark btdJ JnfS COM
pany is quick to adopt all improvements which
add TO the safety and comfort of its patrons.
The c., l., st. L. & c. Davenport, Ia, express
train, coming south. was thrown from the track
. few miles north of Kankakee, yesterday morn
ing, by the rails spreading. Fortunately the
train was running slow and little damage result
ed. The engineer and fireman were well shaken,
bat escaped serious injury.
Three carloads of wellto-do farmers. with
their families, from the Cumberland valley, Pa,
from Hagerstown, Shippensburg, Waynesboro,
Carlisle and fredericksburg, passed through here
yesterday. going west over the Vandalia, en-
route for Kansas. The colony numbered about
one hundred adults and a number Of small
children.
Arrangements were perfected yesterday to sell
tickets for berths and seats in the sleeping, re
Ginning, and chair cars OF the Pullman, the Wag
per, the Woodruff, and the Baltimore q Ohio
sleeping car companies at the Office recently eS-
tablished at the Union Depot, in charge of Mr..
Elliott. a very pleasant gentleman, and who Is
well posted.
Il is really amusing to read the mmen in
the Chicago papers on the fast-mail trains, which
consist of an engine and two mail cars, and their
average speed IS thirtytwo miles per hour, as
shown by their time schedule. Sixty out OF one
hundred or more trains run on indianapolis
roads average to run thjrtyfour miles per hour,
stops to come out.
President Vanderbilt evidently understands
the character and qualifications Of those whom
he puts in as presidents of his railroad proper
ties. He is credited with saying that he cousid
ers Mr.. J. H. Devereux, of the c., G., c. & l.,
tho most successful diplomatic railway president
in the United States, and that Mr.. John Newell,
of Che Lake Shore, is the most powerfully aggres-
Sive amongst them.
The fast express coming west over the Chi
cage, st. Louis & Pittsburg road was run in two
sections on Wednesday night. The first section,
engine 460, equipped with the electric headlight,
hauled the train, and although the second sec
ton was run ten minutes behind the first, the
exact position of the first section could be plain
" seen, so brilliant was the sky lighted, and
when curves were made the effect of the light
was wonderful
Flagmen at railroad crossings are becoming
very expensive to the companies. General man.
ayers do not object to placing fagmen at cross
ings over which there is much passing, but they
do object to such an expense at country towns,
or even city railroad crossings where not half a
dozen teams d day cross, One manager says
that often a man viii get a spite at a road, and
his first move will be to endeavor to get a flag
man stationed at as many crossings in the city
or town in which he lives as possible, simply to
crafty such spite, whether a fagman is needed
or not.
The Rate Was Becoming Interesting.
The statement was made Yesterday and was