The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-24
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Jan. and g.
w. J. Craig, receiver of the T.. C. s. st. L., is
10 the city on official business.
M. Doherty, east-bound pool commissioner,
has gone to Cincinnati to spend Christmas.
w. K. Alderman, formerly president of the
Illinois Central, has been appointed Western
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio.
The Wabash passenger department has issued
new illustrated card to show how that road
keeps up with old Father Time"
]. W. Marsee, M. D., surgeon of the c., st.
l. & P, the J., NJ & L and the c., L. st. L. &c
c., has removed his Office to room %, Union
Block.
Or all roads local freight trains will be aban-
dOned on Christmas, and on several only through
freights will be run, carrying perishable goods
and live stock
A NJ. Stewart. general stock agent of the Bee
line system; E. f. Krenthoff, assistant auditor
and A. OHara, trainmaster, are IN the city on
official business.
General travelling agent 5. H. Hardwick. of
the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia, and n
Kerr, Of the Cincinnati Southern, are IN the
city looking up Florida business.
singular feature of the changes now going
in railroad circles is that the men whose sala-
ries are cut are kickers than the men who
are thrown out of jobs in midwinter.
Shipments of partly cured meats to Southern
markets are said to be heavier than in any De-
esmber for years past; one thing favorable to the
railroads if they continue to maintain rates
Henry Fraser. agent of the Continental fast
freight line will Tomorrow remove his Office
from the Board of Trade Building to the room
occupied by the G., l., St. L. & G. people, on
North Meridian street
gentleman who recently paid President
King, of the Erie, a short visit in his Office says
Mr.. King is 'chirrupy," singing round his little
hatchet, chopping off heads and shaving down
salaries without favoritism.
Tho Office of the chief train-dispatcher of the
middle division of the Wabash is abolished and
tho duties of that Office will hereafter be
performed by the train dispatchers under the
supervision of the ADMINISTERS
Hon. Thomas Hanlon has resigned his position
assoliciting passenger agent of the L., N. A. & c..
b take effect Jan. l. HIS duties as repre-
sentative in the Legislature from Floyd county
viii demand his entire attention, he says.
Railroad officials Who every day or two. are
called somewhere to attend meeting to restore
rates or form pool can now take rest, as 1t Is
announced there will be no more meetings of this
character until the second week in Jan. 1885.
Engine No. n, one of the forty -fve-ton loco
motives recently received by the c., l., st. L. Is
q. company, was transferred to the Kankakee di-
vision yesterday. These engines are doing adj
mirably, their power, practically, being limited
by the strength of the car-couplers.
W. M. Lewis. paymaster on the L.. NJ A. &
G. system, is out again the second time this
month, and will tomorrow pay on the Indiarap
oils division for November service. In paying
for October he was DELAYED until early Deem
her by the removal of the general Offices from
Louisville to Chicago
Tho query in railroad circles yesterday was.
why IS a representative of the Indiana Bloom
ington & Western road visiting the several
scaiping Offices. and wishing to buy all the
@, st. L. & P. tickets for Chicago they had.
offering to pay full rates for them2 His mis-
sion was unavailing, however If the scalpers
had such tickets they kept them in their cases.
The suggestion of the baggage. masters of the
country at their recent convention that all who
travel have their trunks ard satchels marked
with name and residence. seems to catch on well
with the travelling public. The Union Depot
baggage men say that large per cent. of the
franks they now handled are marked in a man
ner which will insure the return of trunk to
The owner should it accidentally be lost
The Chicago & Rock Island people have pub
Iished beautiful holiday volume advertising
that road and entitled Nellie in Dreamland."
it is the story of a little girl who starts upon
journey from Chicago the Rock Island.
She falls asleep and many fantastic people APP
pear before her in her dreams, and the book
tells in a very interesting way her experiences
with these people. 1t is neatly bound and pro
fusely illustrated
The movement of live stock trains the last
year has demonstrated the fact that such trains
can be run as safely at a high speed as at a
twelve mile per hour speed Stock is now car
Ried from St Louis to the Buffalo market thirty
six hours quicker than even two years ago, and
from St. Louis to Jersey City the run is fire.
quently made in fifty six hours less time than
before the heavier locomotives and more sub
stautial stock were put In service.
With the restoration of rates between Chicago
and St Louis the managers of the Wabash the
Chicago & Alton the Illinois Central and Van
dalia and the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy
have agreed TO reorganize the pool, beginning
JAN and continuing one year No line can
withdraw during the year. The Illinois Central
people wanted 20 per cent. as their proportion of
the traffic. but finally agreed to take less. S. P
Brown, the former commissioner, was reelected
He will call meeting of the general freight
agents to arrange details.
L. G. Cooper, attorney of the Guarantee Com
pany of North America, is in the city looking
after the character of some of the railroad men
they stand in for. Mr. Cooper says the last
year the company has been specially fortunate.
so great has been the exemption from crooked
ness on the part of those they have guaranteed
He added, however, that rascaity in railroad
agents. express employees, and others whom
they insure. is epidemic in character. Some
years it breaks out in all parts of the country.
and there is apparently no way of accounting
for it.
General Master Mechanic Curtis of the Penn
sylvania lines west of Pittsburg, yesterday in
spected some new machinery recently received
and put in position at the shops in the east
ern part of the city Mr. Curtis states that the
new shops at Columbus, o., are nearly ready for
occupancy, and in the early spring they will
commence removing the machinery from the old
into the new shops at that point Speaking of
the machinery in the Indianapolis shops,
BIZ. Curtis says: There is some of the finest
machinery and tools to he found in any shops in
this country to he seen there
Ring Change.
Some OF the more conservative railroad officials
ere coming to the belief that the homogeneous
Of the railroads are largely responsible for the
present depressed condition of business. 1t is