The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


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lonely with several of the roads in the last few
days.
Albert Cushman has been appointed foreign
freight agent of the Traders Dispatch at Boston,
Mass.
R. E. Brown was yesterday appointed agent of
the Decline, at Pemberton, vice D. j. Barringer
resigned.
Robert Garrett, president of the Baltimore &
Dhio road, this week gave $500 to a charity ball
in Baltimore.
The c., l.. St. L. &c. is having a heavy run
pf grain traffic for Baltimore which is shipped
from points on the Chicago g. Rock Island road
MIA Senica.
G. G. Waite, vice-president of the c., Fl. & D.
lines, wascalled to Washington. d. G., yesterday,
On account of the illness of his father, CHIEF
Justice Waite.
The Decline is again out of the market on
leighth-class freights, -four and grain, its 6uslb-
ness of this class going over to the T., st. l.. d
I. to even up pool per cents.
The president of the Nevada Central railroad
mas appointed Joseph K. Choate acting superin-
tendent, vice n. W. Dunn, resigned, with head
quarters at Battle Mountain. New.
Rumor has it that J. H.. Palmer. general
freight agent of the Chicago & West Michigan,
viii retire Jan. l, to be succeeded by J. Fl. Car
penter, now assistant general freight agent.
The Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific has made
public this year but eight of its weekly state
inents, these being the only weeks in which an
Increase of earnings over the corresponding pc
sfiod of 1889 is shown.
The Canada Southern fast-freight line is hav-
ing a fine run OF cotton eastward. 1t is brought
from Louisville, KY, to Indianapolis over the
J., NJ. & l., and is shipped East from this point
OYer the c., H. & /. road.
The hardest working man now in railroad cir
eles is the local freight solicitor. So light is
through traffic that all roads are turning their
attention to local business, and the soliciting
agents make sharp drives for it.
All of the roads centering at Indianapolis eX-
cept the c. st. L. & P, and the !. &. St L., do
Rtheir business with and make their deposits at
Che Indiana National Bank. One year ago they
were scattered between six banks.
Engine No. 5, on the Louisville, New Albany
e. Chicago road, is to be consigned 10 the scrap
heap 1t has been running over thirty years,
and has been in seven wrecks, in which two en-
gineers and one fireman have been killed.
The engines Of the Chicago & Eastern Hi
nOis road are being equipped with steam driver
md tender-brakes of the American Brake Com
pany, the brake which has performed so ~satisfac-
tOrily on several of the Nandalia engines.
superintendent yesterday instructed engin-
eers to run cautiously while the present severe
cold spell is on, and to make up no lost time.
Consequently the fast trains are late in arrival,
most of them from thirty minutes to one hour.
ri Il Oldl IAsl.lOAh company mao ina ~
Francis Adams, jr, president; d. Dickinson,
vice president and superintendent; II. McFar-
land, secretary. The Union Pacific company
Controls the road which is not operated at pres
emit
A young man of this city has prepared q com
pound for removing scales in locomotive boilers,
ard preventing their forming. The article is
Undergoing a test in boilers of engines on the
q, l., st. /. &. O., and the G. st, l.. d z. roads,
and is reported to do the work admirably.
III .o4lo. ,loaro~ 20 [o ,o,do nv +ha PAN,
sylvania company on the 1st of January will be
the consolidation of the Plttsburg, Fort Wayne
& Chicago and the Cleveland & Pittsb urg freight
oIice in Pittsburg. or rather the Cleveland d
Pittsburg freight business Will DO merged into
she Fort Wayne.
e. b. Wingate, late chief engineer of the
ion railway, has been appointed assistant en-
gineer of the government OF Guatemala, South
america, at a salary of 5000 per year with ex-
penses from this country to Guatemala paid.
DIR. Wingate will leave for his new field about
fhe middle of next month.
a question having arisen as to the proper
basis for the rates on dressed beef between other
points than Chicago and New York, the standing
committee has decided that under the arbitra-
fOrs'decision the rate on dressed beef between
hny two points shall be Is per cent. greater than
ihe rates on cattle between the same points.
Steps are being taken to bring matters to a
abead in the lease Of the Indianapolis, Peru 81
chicago road to the Wabash, st. Louis IL Pacific
sfoau. Ire aDlesJ leSal UalSu6 say thdt tHe v d
bash people cannot carry cut their scheme to
hold on to the division between Indianapolis and
Peru, and drop the portion Of the road between
Peru and Michigan City.
T-ack-walkers have been placed on all the
more imnortant INDIANAPOLIS roads since the
more winter-like weather has come on. This
class of employees have each under their care
-four miles of road, and pass overit at an hour, as
hear as possible, before an express train does,
Band then again, directly after. On the c., l.,
" r. e q trarE-VvalEaT travail sixteen miles
ght.
The Traders Dispatch will cease to DO bust
Louisville, KY, Jan. /. The line
shat point over the Ohio s. Mississippi
This is doubtless one of the results of the
VI. having come under control OF the Balti-
* Ohio people, and it is said to be highly
c5..hle that the Great Western Dispatch will
Give the same reatment the Traders Dis
irateh has. The G. W. D. would then, doubtless,
transfer its business to the j., NJ. & L
The courts lately decided that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company must pay for gripping a first
lelass engineer $27, 359. This seems to be a large
sum, yet it should be borne in mind that health
and skin are the capital of an engineer, and rep
resent in money value far more than the sum
given by this court. The man gave his best
Efforts to the company while in health. He ran
the risk daily of sudden death from accidents
(Which seem inseperable from railroad work.
When he was so injured as to he useless, it is
rothing more than fair that he should be paid a
p, the interest of which will support him and
family.
Some months since mention was made that
e.arles Watts, superintendent of the Chicago
division of the c., st. l.. e. P, was strongly i'm
ibued with the idea that men, to be good rail
foaders, must not drink Intoxicating liquors,
visit bawdy-houscs or gambling holes, and is
6ued orders. accordingly, and he is carrying out
fhe rules to the letter. On Wednesday he
ietly dismissed four employees Of the road for
hequenting saloons and gambling houses. Three
fi those were passenger brakemen, excellent
hnen aside from their violation of the company's
fules, which has resulted so unfortunately to
them. 1t is understood that q number OF other
lnen viii be bounced for the same offense.
Tea lures of the Interstate Commerce Bin.
The interstate ommere bill, which has for