The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-05-01
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Personal and Local.
A H. Mcleod, general freight agent of the c.,
II. & D.. has gone TO New York
The White-lin people will to-day open for
business in their new Office, Bates House corner.
e b. Thomas. general manager of the Bee
line system headquarters at Cleveland, comes
West to-day
EB. Bishop, agent Of the Decline and the
White line at Dayton, Ohio, is in the city at
tending the knights Templar conclave,
VIM r. Mcl<een, president of the Vandalia,
who has been SO unwell for some days as to con-
fine him to his home. was out again yesterday.
Thomas L. Pierce, of Grand Rapids, to-day
takes the agency of the West Shore line. at
Louisville Ky, where the line opens for bust
ness to-day.
Engines A and 80, on the vandalia are now
equipped with the Hunter spark arresters and
the engineers who run them report the arreSterS
as working admirably.
The announcement that Justice Harlan will
enter decree for the sale Of the Illinois Mid
land road May Is, has aroused speculation as to
who viii be the purchaser
Uncle Billy Smith. passenger conductor on the
c., l.. st. l.. & c., who set to one side about
month ago, has decided, 1t is stated not to &C
cept the offer of the company to reinstate him.
A ]. Smith. general passenger agent of the
Bee line system in the city yesterday to
arrange for placing sale at the Union ticket
Offices full line of the Stromberg improved
ticket
John Macleod general superintendent of the
L.. N. A d {. system, spent yesterday i'll the
city arranging to conform to the new rules of
the Union Railway Company which take effect
today.
Goo D. Burgess retires from the position of
cashier at the Nandalia freight depot to take the
position of bookkeeper at Cohurn 4 .lOness lum-
beryard to-day. II. f. Graham, of general agent
%etsell's Office, succeeds Mr.. Burgess as cashier
The Logansport division of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Flremen on Monday sent Mrs Cor
man. Of Hopkinton. Mass. 81, 000as insurance on
the life Of her son. John German who was killed
the Panhandle road last December. His
mother is widow and needy, and this aid will
BE- quite opportune
Lafayette shippers made such a success of
breaking up the east bound pool at Lafayette
that the shippers Of Decatur have adopted the
Same tactics to break up the pool at that point
The Decatur people are late in their movement
They should have tackled the matter month
ago, before the reorganization OF the pool took
effect
The prospects for the lake craft in the grain
carrying trade this season continues decidedly
unfayorable. AS long as the railroads continue
to carry east bound freight at the present tariff
vessel men need not look for any Improvement in
tire condition of lake commerce. Shippers at all
Western points say little about the opening of
navigation so well satisfied they with the
present rail rates.
The order requiring passengers to purchase
tickets before entering the cars on the Vandalia
line has been in force six months, and is work
ing satisfactorily to all parties. Patrons of the
road who first objected to such an arrangement,
are now well pleased with it, and none are more
pleased with it than conductors. who are not
only relieved of making change, but of the trou-
bic of recording cash fares collected.
Col. VIM Shaw, general travelling agent of
the l., B & w, is in the city He has travelled
quite extensively lately in the territory from
which the l., B & W draws a large per cent
of its business and he seems quite sanguine that
the remaing eight months the revenue derived
from passenger traffic will be quite satisfactory.
He reports the new line of sleeping coaches be
tween Peoria and Columbus as doing an excel
lent business.
w. A. Rhodes to-day retires from the agency
of the Adams Express Company at Indianapolis
Dir. Rhodes has been with the Adams Express
Company for seventeen years. and has been
their agent at this point for fveyea and during
that time, it is no eXaggeration to say, has made
host of friends Mr.. Val Rose, route agent
succeeds Mr.. Rhodes. as agent 1t is proper to
state that the company has no complaint to
make of the services rendered, and have had so
much confidence in Mr.. Rhodes that they never
required him to give bond, as agents of the com
panies are usually required TO do. The change,
10 make it short is nepotai in character