The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-29
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The Louisville q nashville ROAD opens q UicheI
Office AT Evansville, May l. c. Collins has been
appointed ticket agent.
Freight traffic east bound out of st. Louis
has increased handsomely the last few days over
the Vandaia and ! & st. L.
Passenger mensreport travel increasing with
the coming of genuine spring weather. Seldom
Is travel lighter than it has been for thirty days
past.
Norman c. Jones has been appointed general
AGENT of the freight and passenger departments
of the Kansas City, Springfield & Memphis and
the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf roads.
The Louisville New Albany & Chicago PEG
ME have closed contract for 200 new box cars,
and the Ohio & Mississippi road are contracting
for 5000 new box cars, 10000 pounds capacity
The Canada Southern fast-freight line as well
as the White line and Nickel plate is now tax
ing Providence business at Boston rates, the ar
bitrary rules heretofore in force being abolished.
From private source it is learned that there
are strong probabilities that j. F. Tucker, late
general manager of the Illinois Central road,
will take an important position on the New York
Central road
c. K. Walrath general yardmaster of the
Lake Shore in Buffalo, n. Y, has rendered his
resignation, to take effect May 10. He will leave
for California to engage in the wholesale paper
business at Los Angeles.
Secretary Sanger reports that 329 new mem
bers have been added to the Yardmasters
Mutual Benefit Association since the last annual
meeting The next annual meeting will be held
in Atlanta, Ga, June H.
Manager McCrea and Superintendent Miller.
of the Pennsylvania lines, Colonel Joseph Hill,
superintendent and N. K. Elliott, master of
transportation, of the Vandalia, will be in the
city to-day on official business.
If the Baltimore & Ohio has any proof that the
J. &c St l.. and Vandalia have cut rates to present
in support of its demand it will have an oppor-
tunity to do so at the meeting to-day. Out West
little stock is taken in these charges.
Although steel rails are down to $50 per ton
they are in moderate demand. Everything
points to extreme economy on the part OF con
sumers, and nowhere is this more manifest than
among railway managers, who are cutting down
expenses right and left
WB. Tinney who represents the Baltimore &
Ohio, and the c., w. g. B., i'll this section, left
over the c., l., St L. & c., at $40 P. M yester
day, accompanied by thirty-fve ministers and
delegates to the Methodist convention which con-
Venes in Philadelphia this week,
Northern Pacific circulars announce that T.
L. Shortell has been appointed travelling passen-
ger agent of this company with headquarters at
St Louis Mo. S. H. Mills has been appointed
travelling passenger agent of this company with
headquarters at Chattanooga, Tenn. The ap-
pointments are to take effect May l, 1884.
The interest which has been awakened in the
Northern Pacific road is shown in the fact that
last week Oscar Vanderbilt, who represents the
road in this section, received 1852 letters and
postal cards making inquiries about the road;
how the trains run, what the fare is, and where
would be the best point for colonies to settle
The members of the Tippecapoe Lodge, La
jayette, No. &c Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire-
men will hold an open meeting at Pythian Hail.
on Wednesday evening, April 30 A number of
members of the Eureka Lodge, of indianapolis,
will attend. Grand Master F. W. Arnold will
deliver address, giving history of the order
There are those who believe that the
l., B. & w, to buy in the Danvile Olney &
Ohio River road, and extend thirty or forty
miles further to the south west, it could be made
valuable feeder, and in time become good in
vestment Alismanagement it is said, has done
much toward placing the property in its present
wretched condition.
The general passenger agents of the roads in
the trunk-line pool meet MAY again to talk over
their troubles and endeavor to agree on a new
contract, to take effect with the expiration of the
old contract June l, and one who is well posted
says the allowing of differentia rates to any road
will then be dropped. The plan is afaiure, and
causes constant wrangling
For years past Indianapolis has stood at the
head as the great passenger rate cutting point,
local agents and scalpers joining hands to dis
lance all other railroad centers; but now they
must give in to Terre Haute. 1t is stated that a
scaper or ticket-broker there as he styles him
self, in connection with local agent, offers a
$40 round trip rate to hutchinson Kansas,
which is a $l775 cut the regular rate being
for the roundtTip, $2175.
Superintendent Sherwood, of the c., l., st. l..
& c., is arranging for the putting on Of the new
trains May A, certainly by May IL. The train
going east will leave indianapolis at 7 A. NJ AT
Greensburgit will take on the Rushville 6 Column
bus branch trains and haul them to Cincinnati.
Returning, the train viii leave Cincinnati at $3.50
p. M, hauling the Rushville g. Columbus trains
to Greensburg, There it will stop over night
and run from Greensburg to Indianapolis the
next morning, an accommodation, at Falkland
MdrtlnSN1lte
to indianapolis. The people ON the. Falkland,
Franklin & Martinsvile road are said to be much
pleased that the Big Four people are to give this
branch better accommodations.