The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-15
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Erie road, will make his headquarters in the fu-
tme at Denver.
W. II. Reed to-day retires as travelling pas
senger agent, of the Chicago & Rock Island road,
! and is succeeded by A. H. Mofet
The Louisville, New Albany & Chicago com
pany is shipping several hundred tons of old
rails to Youngstown, O., to be re-rolled.
Randolph Fink has been appointed receiver of
the Memphis & Little Rock railroad. This is
the thirteenth road which has been dropped into
the hands of a receiver in 1884
w. H. McDeel for number of years gen
eral freight agent of the Hannibal d st, Joseph
road has resigned and accepted the position OF
general agent of the Burlington road at Kansas
City
Ford Wood, of Springfield, O., assistant gen
cral freight agent of the l., b. & W, has been
in the city for day or two He is now ar
ranging to move his headquarters to Indi lnapolls
May j.
J. Tillinghast has been elected president of
the Wagner Sleeping-car Company to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Augustus Schell.
Mr. Tillinghast is well posted in the affairs OF the
company.
The Massachusetts, avenue depot is becoming
quite an important station. Tickets OF the Bee
line, the Wabash and the L., n. A. d c. Air
line are sold there and the sale of tickets runs
from $4,000 to 81, 600 per month
George d. Burgess, cashier in the Vandalia
freight office, retires May l to take the position
of book keeper in the Office of Coburn d Jones.
Mr.. Burgess has been with the Vandalia six
years, and his record is excellent one.
The Wabash people have decided to extend
the duties of j. G. Walker, their local
agent at indianapolis, and give him additional
clerical help instead of appointing a general
agent at this point as had been talked of.
The Wabash road is recovering some of its
lost ground at this point. Its traffic out bound
Handsomely and
ceipts at the local offices the first twelve days of
this month run some 81 geo ahead of those the
corresponding period in 1888
f. B. Stahlman late traffic manager of the L..
n. A. q c. system has not yet buckled on the
railroad harness, although good positions have
beer offered him. The young man, Murray
Keller, ex-general ticket and passenger agent, is
spending few weeks at Hot Springs.
G. A Rodney was yesterday appointed con
tracing agent of the Vandalia for indianapolis.
A better selection could not well have been
made. The Vandaiia now needs a wide awake
passenger man here who will eonfine himself
specially to working business for the Vandalia,
W A. Strong, for some years past assistant
general passenger agent of the Chicago q Rock
Island road has rendered his resignation, to take
effect May l. Mr.. Strong was formerly the Cali
forDia agent of the Lake Shore road in San Fran
cisco, and is known to be a wideawake passen-
ger man.
Tickets to New Orleans, at $40 the round trip,
ticket Offices the 10th and 20th good to return
until May 90 While these rates made for
the benefit of the Knights of Pythias, they are
open rates to the public, as well This rate is
about one half cent per mile
J. c. Stowell who owned the controlling inter
est in the Railroad Herald P Publishing Company,
Buffalo, n. Y, has sent in his resignation to the
directors as editor, manager and director. He
has disposed of his entire interest in the com
pany to d. c. Stickney a well5known rail
hon b11gi
ness.
James MeCrea, manager of the lines owned
and controlled by the Pennsylvania company
west of Pittsburg, the P, Fl. w. & G. excepted,
arrived in the city last night and will make
three days tarry. Several other prominent
officials of Indianapolis lines will arrive this
evening, and it really looks as if the gathering
of to morrow means business.
G. ". Burt, secretary of the c., c., C. & 1.
Mutuai Benefit Association, spent yesterday in
the city, soliciting new members. The associa-
ton now numbers nearly thirteen hundred. Tel
egraph operators are admitted to membership.
Ladies' WELL can become members, and sew
erallady clerks and telegraph operators have
awaited themselves of the benefits this insurance
offers
There promises to be quite building boom
at Erightwood this season. Seventy of the
men who have families and are employed in the
railroad shops there have signed paper agreeing
to rent houses there providedthey are built. The
Decline people are encouraging them so to do,
as it will enable them to take off the plug train
run between the city and Brightwood morning
and evening.
The indianapolis & Eel River Coal Mining
Company seem to have become impatient to
the building of the Indianapolis Eel River Il
Western road by which they expect place their
coal on the market, and are shipping it in here
over the Terre Haute & Southeastern and the
Terre Haute & Indianapolis 1t is rather round
about way, yet very reasonable rate is offered
the company
The rumor is again current that the projectors
of the Indianapolis, Eel River & Western road
are dilly dalying in commencing constructive
work, hoping that the Pennsylvania people will
buy them off If this be the case, of the
officials of the Pennsylvania company says they
are grasping at a straw, for their people are in
different whether the road is built or not, but
don't believe it will be constructed.
The death of H C. Atkins, the assistant gen
erai freight agent of the Chicago, milwaukee q
st. Paul road, announced in yesterdays papers,
cast gloom over home railroad circles, as he
was an extensively known and very popular
railroad man. The deceased has been railroad
ing since 1884, commencing as brakeman, and
has steadily been promoted. He was a great
worker and his death was doubtless the result
of overwork
In the month of March the vandaia brought
into Indianapolis 176 carloads of New Orleans
freight, which they handled i'll their connection
with the Illinois Central The growth of this
business has been remarkable. Two years ago
eight or ten cars per month covered all the New
Orleans business the Yandalia handled A por-
ton of this business goes east of indianapolis,
and is made up of tropical fruits, molasses and
sugars, with sprinkling of cotton.
c. K. Lord, general passenger agent of the
Baltimore & Ohio road, has issued q very neat
attractive and unique book entitled "On the
Picturesque B. q OF 1t is an entirely new de
parture in book making the different pages dis
closing a most extended variety of tints, while
the margin usually blank, is in this instance
completely taken up with studies in blending
coors. The ingenuity of clever artists has been
demonstrated in capitally drawn caricatures-
not broad but laughably effective-of almost
every imaginable phase of life; and it is decided
ly the best advertisement yet issued OF this
character.