The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-09-30
KING e. ELDER. Furniture.


in the trunk-line pool. They claim that the fig
ures viii show that it has carried over 40 per
cent of the business Its superintendent, in
view OF those facts, appears ridiculously small
It is understood that Mr. Fink has promised that
new apportionment shah be given the Bee
line
A circular announces several changes IN agen-
cies on the L., N a.. q G. road. j. H. Bowman
takes the agency at Linden, vice W. F.. Tread
way, who has been transferred to Rensselaer,.
W. ]. Mcclellan, formerly baggageman on the
northern division of the road, and late agent at
Brookston and Rensselaer, has resigned L. j.
Hudson has been given the agency at Shelby,
vice J. p, Oaks resigned.
George N. SmalIey, Jonathan Dwight, A.
Evans and Austin Corbin the committee Of the St
Louis division of the T., O. g ST L. bondhold-
ers, have issued circular giving notice that they
have hledsa formal acceptance of their powers
and duties, and that the international Trust
Company Of Boston has also accepted its trust
They claim to already have in their possession
bonds sufficient to control the property.
The accounting department of the Baltimore
81 Ohio road is to be reorganized on and after
Oct /, 1884 as follows: General auditor, auditor
of revenue, auditor of disbursements. The fol
lowing appointments are hereby made, to take
effect on the above date: General auditor, Mr..
VIM. T. Thelin; auditor of revenue, Mr.. VIM. M.
Buchanan; auditor of disbursements, Mr.. A r.
Dunlevy Mr.. Dunlevy was formerly on the 1,
d. & s. road.
telegram from Charles G.. Eddy, freight
traffic manager of the New York, West Shore &
Buffalo road, says that a freight train,
leaving Buffalo last Saturday evening, and ar
irving at Weehawkin yesterday hauled by one
engine Buffalo to New York, contained sixty cars
of grain for account Of Irwin, Orr & Co. All
cars in this train were New York, West Shore &
Buffalo twenty cars; total weight of grain in
the sixty cars, ], 13I tons
G. J. Grammer, general freight agent Of the
Evansville Il Terre Haute road spent yesterday
in the city Regarding the adverse criticism Of
the management of the property by D. J.
Mackey, Mr.. Grammer says much of the criti
cism has been unjust, as Mr.. Mackey did not re-
duce the forces so much as an economical meas
ure, as to unload the road of shop men, section
men, etc, who had been on the road twenty to
twenty-iv years, so long that it made little diff
ference, they thought, whether they worked or
not-their pay would go on--and replace them
with men who would accomplish something.
The opinion prevails in freight circles that UNI
less the Nickelplate, the Red line, the Lacka-
wanna and the West Shore lines advance rates to
tariff tomorrow. October l, Commissioner Fink
will order all lines to make rates based on 10
cents per 100 pounds from Chicago to the sea-
board. This would make the Indianapolis rate on
grain 144 cents per 100 pounds WelI-authenticated
kilograms, received at this point yesterday, show
that certain Chicago lines were offeringa 15-cent
per 100 pounds open rate to the seaboard and
that at Peoria, HI, 16a cent per 100 pounds
rate is openly offered Late last evening an
Indianapolis fastfreight line is said to have
taken p fifty car lot Of grain at Is cents per 100
pounds.