The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-12
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local

III. A. Lewis, western HldndSer VI Iho l4lAO
lines left for New York last night.
C. J. Grammar, general passenger and freight
ngent of the Evansville & Terre Haute road, is
In the city official business.
Michael Doherty, commissioner of the Indian
apolis east bound pool, left last night for New
York to attend the trunk-line meeting
The Ohio Falls Car Works, at Jeffersonville,
has received the contract for constructing two
hundred freight cars for the L., n. A. d q. rail-
way.
Station agents baggagemen and porters on the
Wabash system, after Monday next. must wear
uniform caps, with a nickle-plate band giving
their title.
j. Gregor, depot master at the C., l., st. L. &
{. freight depot who has been quite i'll for some
weeks has so far recovered that he was on duty
again yesterday.
The earnings of the Evansville 6 Terre Haute
road for September and October show an in
crease of some $l3, 900 over earnings OF the cor
responding month of 1883.
A. E. Alcott former master mechanic of the
c. St L. & p. shops at this point, now being in
charge of the Chicago, Milwaukee St Paul
shops, at Milwaukee, is in the city visiting old
time friends.
j. J. Turner, superintendent of the Indianapo-
Lis & Vincennes road, will to-day be married to
Nettie, daughter of Frank Churchman, the
banker. The bridal party will take an extended
Northwestern trip.
Justice Harlan, it is stated, does not favor
sale of the Illinois Midland road until the siJua
ton with railroad interests are less depressed
He fears that at a forced sale the road would
not sell at one third its real value.
CD. Hepburn, superintendent of the c., FL
4 d. lines will spend to-day in Cincinnati Mr.
Hepburn continues to improve in health and is
now en- route from Cory, Pa, where he has
been spending q few weeks to st. Louis Springs
Mich
On Saturday last engine number 1923, on the
Wabash main line hauled second section of 43
from Toledo to Peru distance of 14l miles, in
three hours and seventeen minutes. Fourteen
stops were made, and once the train side
tracked.
An interesting innovation in time cards has
been introduced on the Decline system, which
consists in showing profile of the road to a
small scale on the back of the time card and
also adding scale to each time card giving the
ruling grades between stations.
". G. Hobbs, assistant general freight agent
of the c., l., st. l.. & c. road, will to-day re-
move his office from the freight depot to the
passenger office North Meridian street.
Henry Fraser, agent of the Continental line,
VIII not remove to this room until Dec. l.
The earnings of the Cleveland, Columbus,
Cincinnati & Indianapolis road for September
were 1920, 129, against $411, GA in September
1883; decrease this year $9l, 485. The earnings
OF the road since January l were 81 1884, 65, a
decrease, as compared with the earnings Of the
first nine months of 1888 Of $46O,O72.
For some months past the Vandalia, in connec-
ton with the Illinois Central has been making a
SHARP drive for business between St Louis and
Chicago, and the results of their efforts have
been very gratifying Of the several routes be
Sween the two cities named, with but one excep-
sion, the Vandalia and Illinois Central is the
shortest.
Superintendent Whitcomb reports that the
Decline people have hired one of the Belt road
engines to help them out in their switching
aService. This is one Of the results of running
nm al Rrify chOTN-
are now run The Decline year ago had six
first class switching engines; but two of them
are now fit for service-the other four are in the
shops.
Passenger earnings of the roads which carry
the Southern winter travel will this month foot
up unfavorable. Owing to the mild weather those
who usually spend the winter in the South are
delaying migrating. November, 1883, earn
fngs from this class of travel were the largest
of any of the fall winter months while this
year half the month is gone aud the sales of
tickets have been very small.
The roadbed of the Decline system from
Cleveland to Cincinnati, and from Cleveland to
St Louis, is in fine shape the entire distance for
heavy service Chief Engineer Beach and his
assistant road masters and bridge superntend-
ents certainly deserve commentator for the
great improvements made to this property in the
last eighteen months. There is no better track
IN the.country for so great distance
Chief Engineer Tom Morris of the c., l.. st.
IA & G., Is feeling finely over the excellent con
dition of the Big -Four track for winter service.
Within the last eighteen months fifteen new
bridges, average length $50 feet, have been built
on the main line Thirty-seven miles of steel
rail weighing sixty seven pounds to the yard
have been laid, 132, 900 cross-ties put in, and
large amount of regraveling done. All this aside
from the improvement and building of branches.
An official of the Evansville & Terre Haute
road, in commenting the statement recently
made in the journal to the effect that Boston
capitalists had lost confidence in the property
sid were unloading the stocks and bonds, says
that they the Boston capitalists some twelve
months ago, conceived the idea that they had
secured control of the property, but found lit
tie later that they were foiedin their attempt in
that direction Now they cried the property
down He added that the Chicago & Eastern
and would have been glad could it have operated
the e. & T. H. jointly with the q. g. Z. L, to
help it out in earnings.