The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-21
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Iersonal and Local.

erbOHaai thN AfoSaA"
c. c. Waite, vice-ppesident and general man
ager of the c. II. Il D. lines telegraphed yes
terday that he would be home May %.
R. s Hair, general travelling agent Of the
Chicago e Northwestern road, is stopping in the
city for day or two on official business.
The c., l., ST. L. & c., running into Colum-
bus, Ind, makes it a trunk line west bound
pooling pont-Commbus taking the same rate
as Seymour.
The low Joints of the indianapolis Railroad
Freight Association held their regular semi
monthly meeting, but did nothing except talk
over rate matters.
p. Mcclellan, yardmaster of the c.. l., St. L..
& C., at this peint, and engineer had melee.
Az result Mr. Mcclellan retires, and is sue
ceeded by P. Morarity.
Alonzo Berry, who for seventeen years was
passenger conductor on the Decline proper,
died yesterday. His remains will be buried at
Gallon Ohio, Thursday.
w. H. McDoel who was recently appointed
general Southwestern freight agent of the CHI
cage, Burlington &c Quincy road, has established
his headquarters at Kansas City.
II. c. Denney, district passenger agent of the
Wabash, headquarters indianapolis, who has
been in Hot Springs for some weeks, returned
last evening. much improved in health.
There is hitch in the Kankakee & Seneca
and the Chicago e. Rock Island agreement. and
II. r Gable, president of the c. d r. l.. was in
Cincinnati yesterday to confer with President
Ingalls, about the matter.
One Of the ticket scalpers has been careless in
selling tickets, selling unlimited tickets without
stamping them special" and the Union Rail
road Company. it is said propose to take advan-
t:fye Of his carelc5sness and viii make it expen-
siye for MS young man.
Tho taxing off of the train which left In
H. 41,aT OF II
~ NJ, is not meeting with favor with the travel
ing public. 1t was u more popular train than the
train put on at A. NJ can be made, should 1t
be run for twenty years
Ford Wood, general freight agent of the L..
j. & w, with his assistants, is we'll located
in his new quarters in Fletcher e Sharpe's block.
Mr.. Wood brings with him from Springfield,
Ohio, Robert Doods, chief clerk; George Frank
enberg and r. W. Crowell.
The refusal of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy road to. pro rate line of tickets one
of the outside local Offices has been selling. it is
said will likely lead to some ugly developments
as to how the passenger business is carried on
at some of the outside Offices
The stock of the Cleveland, Columbus, Gin
cinnati & indianapolis road, which has been
down to "a this month in May, 1888, sold at "A in
1882 at 76, and in 1881 at 101 SO. The future
Of the road is much more promising to day than
when the stock sold at 1O1 SO.
Superintendent Sherwood, of the c., l., St L.
pass all engineers and their families who go to
Cincinnati to attend the Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers picnic, free on their showing To-
connective engineers travelling card.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of
the country will hold a grand reunion and picnic
at Prices HILL Cincinnati on next Friday. The
indianapolis lodge will be largely represented
Many Of the engineers will be accompanied by
their wives, and grand time is anticipated,
The resignation of George L. Carman as com
,,ics Of tba R1r1ipOtOp and ahas 18Th
has occasioned considerable surprise, and tits
understood that he resigned because he had not
time to attend to all the duties of the Office. Mr..
NJ Knight, his successor, will not assume his
new duties until July l, and not June l, as pre-
YiOusly announced
As at indianapolis, so at Kansas City, thereis
no building, or but few, adapted to making cheer
ful. commodious railroad Offices, aud now an
onterprising party at Kansas City proposes to
erect an immense building to be called the Rail
road Exchange, where there will be ample room
tor all the more important passenger, freight
and line Offices located at that railroad center.
R. w. Geiger, chairman of the Ohio River
pool committee has called meeting to be held
at the Grand Pacific Chicago, at $50 o'clock.
May 2S, to fix rate for carrying grain and pro
visions from East ST. Louis, Peoria, Seneca.
Beardstown and Chicago, to Cairo, Evansville,
New Albany. Jacksonville, Louisville and Gin
cinnati. All roads interested in this business
are requested to send representatives to the
meeting.
Edgar Hill, assistant general freight agent of
the Decline, has addressed dictated letter to
the agents, instNcting them to make no conces-
sons in east bound rates, regardless of what
their competitors do. These instructions seem
useless. for two reasons; first, there is no bust
ness, comparatively speaking to go forward at
any rate; second, the less property a road
carries at the present rates east-bound the bet
ter off is it.
The Vandalia people will in few days have
the entire main line from indianapolis to St
Louis laid with steel rail and we'll surfaced up
with gravel or broken stone, with the exception
of short distances, where it is proposed to cut
down the grade straighten curves Last
week the ten miles between Pocahontas and
Greenville, which was laid with iron, was re-
placed with steel rails weighing sixty -four
pounds to the yard.
In the new parlor cars which the Pennsylvania
people are building at Altoona, the bay-window
feature is introduced. There are five bay-win-
dows on each side of the car The divergence
from a straight line is inward, instead of out
ward, aud ID makes little or no pereeptihe en-
eroachment on available space. The width of
each bay-wndew is Z feet inches, consisting Of
central window feet wide and two wings, de.
fecting slightly in opposite directions which are
each 2 feet inches wide Above the top sill
and below the lower sill, the exterior of the car
presents the usual even or straight surface.
A Growing Railroad Property.
The Old Colony Railroad Company continues
taking under its wing moro short roads in
Massachusetts, and this road will soon bear the.