The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-08
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

i. II. DevereuX, president of the Decline sys-
tenn, has gone to New York for ten days tarry
The rumor that Albert Fink, commissioner Of
the trunk line pool has resigned, is not con
frmed
James Phillips, superintendent of the ST.
Louis Airline, has resigned to accept a similar
position on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe road
The earnings of the Indiana. Bloomington &
Western road for April were $l9j, 75090 a slight
decrease as compared with the earnings in April,
1888
A private letter received by an Indianapolis
line agent yesterday states that the Merchants
Dispatch is arranging to open for business at
Philadelphia, Pa.
The Louisville New Albany & Chicago com
pany recently purchased for 1900 the same
class of an engine as sold for $l4,5 800 when the
locomotive works were crowded with business
The stave dealers can now cry that they are
Disseminated against in RACES, as Commissioner
Fink has ordered that the rates on slaves be
advanced to correspond with the lumber tariff
issued April l.
Fast-freight-line agents and solicitors are re-
ally deserving of sympathy. All are working
like Trojans for business, but there is so little
TO go forward that none can make a satisfactory
report at the end of the month
Receiver Henderson, of the Danville, Olney
& Ohio River road has ordered Warrington
the junction of the Illinois Midland road. James
BOlen has been appointed agent
Although the cannon-b ball train has been taken
off over the Wabash, passengers leaving Indian
apolis over the Vandaia at noon make a connec-
ton at ST Louis with a train over the Wabash,
ST. Louis g. Pacific, which reaches Council Bluffs
at ll:40 A NJ. next day, in season to connect
with the overland fast trains
A. Donaldson, auditor fthe Ohio & Mississippi
road is in the city, and yesterday filed in the
cd Stafa no etota oat,f Of Inn
Douglas, late receiver of the o. & NJ for March,
showing cash on hand March /, 1884, sac 86S So;
receipts. 1891, 496 81; disbursements, 1851 O315O;
cash on hand April l, $ST. 1926.
Receiver Henderson, of the Danville, Olney
& Ohio river road has ordered all employees
paid on Saturday next for April service 1t is
stated that it is many a day since the poor fell
lows on this road have been paid in one install
ment full months pay, in such a poverty
stricken condition mas the road been.
The Decline people are unable to understand
why the mail matter carried over the Decline
proper and over the l. & St l.. during the thirty
days the mails were weighed, was % per cent
lighter than for some weeks before the weighing
commenced and than since the weighing ceased
and it is quite probable that there will be an in
Vestigation of the matter.
Commencing Sunday next the night express
east over the Decline will leave at 1870 p NJ in
stead of p NJ, as now. This will give Southern
passengers who come in over the j., NJ & l.
ample time to get their suppers at the Union
Depot; and the Boston and st. Louis express will
arrive at Indianapolis from the East at 1898 P NJ
instead OF ll:O3 p NJ as now In both cases the
running time is shortened.
The surgeons of the Wabash Railroad Com
pany, to the number of twenty-five, held meet
ing. on Monday, in the Senate chamber at
Springfield, Ill, at which nine or ten papers were
read on the special subjects arising in railway
surgery. The officers chosen for the year were
j. T. Woods of Toledo, presidents B. NJ Griffith
of Springfield, vice-president; G. B. Stemen, of
Fort Wayne secretary and treasurer.
The business of the Columbus, Hope &
Greensburg road is largely exceeding the
pectations of the c. L. st L, &, c. people who
operate it, Heretofore Cincinnati was reached
by going to Seymour, eighteen miles, then
the Ohio Il Mississippi, eighty-seven miles making
the distance l05 miles. BY the c., H. & G. and
the c., l., st. L. & G. from Greensburg it is but
eighty mine miles, the new route being sixteen
miles the shortest
1t is well understood that the Bee-line
people are behind the parties who building
the Litchfeld, CarIolton & Western Railroad
and that the road is to be part Of their Kansas
City line and gentleman who is in position to
know says that at a much earlier period than
may be supposed the Decline will have an indie
pendent road to Kansas City, ard 42-mile
shorter route from indianapolis to --ansas city
than any now existing.
The Pennsylvania company has appealed the
case of George Smith against it to the Supreme
Court. This is thecase in which Smith, of New
Albany. got judgment against the company
for $3.50, for the loss of horse and injury to a
wagon and another horse, while he was loading
glass into the wagon from switch at the glass
works, on the line of the j., NJ & !. railroad.
The Pennsylvania company had put down and
maintained the switch, and had placed the ear
there for him to load. The transcript is being
prepared by the clerk of Floyd county for the
May term of the Supreme Court.
1t might be well for the mail men at the
Union Depot to look more closely after the mail
pouches. The C. H. & l. people employed
new office boy and as usual, on the arrival of
their train at the Union Depot sent him after
their mail Not being well posted. the boy should
cred one Of the mail pouches dropped from the
c. H. & l. train and lugged it to the c., II. &;
J. office. As he entered. Agent Stiles and his
clerks were much surprised at the size of their
mail and what it was brought over in, and the
boy asked in a diseonsolate tone if he had to
bring such load every day over from the Union
Depot. Agent Stiles sent the boy back post
haste with explanation to the mail agent at the
depot