The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-22
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
PersnnnI and Local.

RerSOniI ana LOCAL.
The telephone call of the Bee-line in their new
Office, Bates House corner, is 973.
Paymaster Crawford of the Vandalia, pays on
the r. H. & 1. division to-day for March
service
The stockholders of the l.. B. & W. road pro
per hold their annual meeting in this city
May l3.
Fresh charged 1 rate cutting have been
lodged with Commissioner Fink against some of
the fast-freght lines within the last day or two.
Frank Catherwood has returned to Lafayette
as secretary to c. C. F. Bent the new superin-
tendent Of transportation of the L., N. A & G.
railway.
Paymaster Shepperd of the Wabash. will pay
on the Indianapolis division to-day for March
service. Bears on the Wabash, take note of
this fact.
Captain S. B. Holly, agent of the j., NJ. & L,
at Jeffersonville, has rendered his resignation,
and W. P. Foster Of New Albany, is to be his
successor
The semaphore signals on the j.. NJ & l., main
line, and the new tran-order signals on the Mad
ison branch of the j., NJ. q l., were put in op-
Grafton yesterday
The meeting to perfect the Peoria pool called
for tomorrow at Chicago, has been postponed
until May 2, and viii be held i'll Commissioner
Finks office New York.
One of the local agents has cut the rate to
Pittsburg on sixth-class freights to 18 cents per
100 pounds, and there is racket over it. The
tariff rate is % cents per 100 pounds.
T. @. Denny, district passenger agent of the
Wabash, headquarters Indianapolis has OBJ
tanned three weeks leave of absence, and will
spend most of the time at Hot Springs.
Austin Corbin, president, and H. Graves,
large holder of the l. B. & w bonds left New
York for the West last eVpDjOO They nXDept TO
spend several days looking the property over.
General Freight Agent Gays, of the l. & St
L., and Traffic Manager Parker, of the P, D. &
Il. road, are reported to have gone to New York
to be curtain-lectured by Commissioner Fink.
The Indianapolis low-iontIrate committee were
in session at the Office Of Agent Brecount yester-
day for several hours. They have begun the
work of harmonizing rates, as railroad parlance
has it.
The Massillion Bridge Company yesterday
closed a contract with the Ohio Southern COM
pany to build two fine ombination bridges on the
Ohio Southern road operated by the l., B. & W.
company.
The Vandalia is bringing in daily from fifteen to
twenty carloads of blocks of stone weighing ten
to twelve tons each, to be placed in the new
State house. They are shipped from the Bed
ford quarry on the L., N. A. & G. road.
e. F. Graham on May takes the position of
cashier in the Vandalia freight Office at this
point. But few years ago Mr.. Graham was an
competent for any Office position the railroad
service offers.
General Passenger Agent Minis, of the Denver
& Rio Grande, has sent in his resignation, to
take effect May l. Mr. Minis will go to Europe
to spend the summer months. and in the fall
will return to accept lucrative position on
Southern road
The Lafayette lodge of the Brotherhood of Lo-
cOnotive Firemen are to have grand time
the evening of April 30 The grand master and
tbn GRAND of he Orda in the Tinted
States will be present Eureka lodge, of Indi-
annapolis, will be represented.
On May IL the through coach between St.
Louis and Boston the /. & st. L., Bee line
Lake Shore, New York Central and Boston 81
Albany roads goes on. On that date dining cars
go onto the Bee-line proper again. Since taken
off they have been practically rebuilt and made
quite attractive
Rumor has it that the Erie and North Shore
line will turn their business, May 1St over to
John Walker the agent of the Wabash at this
point The fact is the line has never paid
operating expenses on the business it secured at
Indianapolis and were it to withdraw from In
dianapois entirely there would be no regrets at
this point.
John r. Elder, of this city has built for him
self quite reputation as railroad contractor,
much of a success has he made of constructing
the Lake Borgne road out of New Orleans. The
press and business men of that city speak in very
complimentary terms of the substantial charac-
ter of the work and the rapidity with which it
has been accomplished
The Cincinnati indianapolis, ST. Louis G. Chi
cago railroad company is getting its financial mat
ters so well in hand that by Oct l the Big Four
win again come into the list of dividend paying
roads, and with the excellent business the sys-
tenn is now doing there is good reason to predict
n sharp advance in the price of the stock. There
is but little of it on the market, however.
General Freight Agents Hibbard, of the
Vandalia and Gays, of the /. e. st. L., have
each sent in to Commissioner Fink reasons why
their per cents. in the St: Louis east-bound
pool should be increased This, of course, is to
Offset the movement of the Wabash people in
that direction Probably the high joint executive
committee will conclude to let we'll enough
alone.
Denver papers note the arrival of distin-
guished party. The party includes Mr. John F.
Miller, superintendent of the Panhandle road;
Messrs. j. A. Kirby and A. j. Jennings, capital
lists, of Urbana, Ohio; MIR. H. B. Ijams, Of st.
Louis; Mr.. W. p. Iiams, treasurer Of the Indian
apolis Belt line, and Mr. Curt G. Paddock, of
the Vandalia road. They travel in a Pennsyl-
vania private car.
A strong opposition to the Vandalia and Penn
sylvania people putting on fast train between
g. Louis and New York is manifesting itself
and possibly may defeat the enterprise Some
very sharp correspondence is said to be going on
between the higher official of the roads above
named and their competitors, and the same old
threat that I'VE will knock the bottom out of
rates, is made
The proposition to establish plan of weigh
ing freights carried over all indianapolis roads,
similar to the manner it is done in Chicago, is
taking definite shape. The arrangement will re-
qIrire chief weigher and deputy weigher at
each yard. The roads claim that they are
sponged out of large sums of money annually
through the rendering of false weights by ship
pers, and some agents condeseend to cut rates
by reporting light weight
indianapolis now has but eight roads out of
here competing for Chicago business-namely
the Vandaha & Illinois Central the indianapolis
& St Louis, and Peoria, Decatur & Evansville
and Chicago & Rock Island the Indiana Bloom
ington e. Western, and Chicago 6 Eastern Hi
nois, the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis &
CHICAGO, the T.. N A. & G. Air-line. the Wabash