The Indianapolis journal., 1884-04-17
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



B&w who has been in New York, for some
ten days, returned yesterday,
John F. Miller superintendent of the c., st. L.
&P., has gone to Colorado, where he is inter
ested in live stock ranch, He will be gone
about ten days.
Several hundred empty cars of the Union line
which, ,Ihave been standing on side tracks in this
vicinity are being forwarded to Chicago to be
loaded for the East.
The annual election of directors for the New
York Central railway held yesterday.
Sherman w. Jewett, of Buffalo, and William
Bliss, of Boston, were the only new additions.
This week eight and one-half miles of steel
,..ile have been distributed on the j. NJ. & |.
road With these in the track the entire main
line will be laid with steel rails weighing sixty
pounds to the yard.
II is stated on the best authority that the
PENNSYLVANIA company has announced its de
Termination not to consent to a restoration Of
rates until trunk line affairs have been adjusted
y ON some basis which it considers enduring.
Some OF tho business men of Noblesville who
do not feel kindly towards the Wabash road are
shipping their freight for indianapolis around
through Anderson over the old A, i. 81 st. L.
road, thence here over the Beeline. Four car
loads of grain came in yesterday over this round
about route
This evening the Indianapolis Eureka Lodge
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen give
their grand reception ana banquet aL EIdlilu
Hall. Delegations from lodges in Terre Haute,
Lafayette Richmond and Fort Wayne are to be
present and the reunion promises to be very
pleasant one
The annual meeting of the stockholders of the
Toledo Indianapolis & st Louis Railway Com
pany will be held at its Office in the city of Chi
raSo on Monday, June 2, for the purpose of elect
ing Eve directors for said company, and TO vote
Gu the consolidation with the Toledo, Indianapo
lis & st. Louis railway of Indiana.
IL. IL. l.
continues and this market is now being largely
supplied with coal from the Newburg mines in
Clay county, the Abbey mines on the Western
division of the Vandalia, and the Ohio Goals,
mostly from Jackson mines on the Ohio South
erD, operated by the l., B. & W. company.
Manager McCrea, of the Chicago st. Louis &
Pittsburg lines, states that they expect to get
their new shops in the eastern part of the city
In full operation by September l. Then all new
work and all repairing to locomotives and cars OF
the c., St l.. &'P. lines between indianapolis
and Bradford, and Indianapolis and Legansport
and of theJ,, NJ. & L and the l. & V. roads will
be done at the Indianapolis shops
The new standard of classification adopted by
the express companies went into effect the 18th.
The companies adopting this classification
the Adams, American, United States, Wells Far
60 National, Southern Pacific, Baltimore &
Ohio, Philadelphia & Reading, Northern Pacific,
Adirondack, Denver & Rio Grande, United States
sc Canada, Texas, New York & Boston Dis
patch, New Jersey Central, Earle & Grew, New
aud Canadian.
The watchmen in the courthouse tower say
that they the electric head
light on C., St l.. & P engine No AGO
some fifteen minutes before the incoming train
which it is hauling reaches the city limits or at
least ten miles off. The general manager of one
of the most extensive systems of indianapolis
roads remarked yesterday, that within three
years he thought every passenger locomotive on
che more important roads of this country would
be equipped with this light.
May 3, the G., l. St L. & G. puts on new
train between indianapolis and Cincinnati to
feave indianapolis at A. M, this train to take
the passengers off of the Martinsville division,
tho Rushville division and the Columbus divis
ION for Cincinnati. Returning, the train will
leave Cincinnati at $3.50 P. M, hauling the
class of travel and reaching indianapolis at 1870
p. NJ On the same date, the c., l.. St L. & C,
will put on an accommodation train between
Martinsvile and indianapolis via Fairland TO
reach indianapolis at $50 A. NJ Returning, the
train will leave indianapolis at P. NJ.
An ex railroad general manager, who dislikes
to see veteran railroad engineers discharged on
account of color blindness, suggests for the use
of all engineers who are likely to be so affected
by false vision in looking at signals, to have a
good telescope or spy glass so kept in a conven-
lent place that he can at any time lay his hand
upon it, then pass the outer end through hole
cut for it through the front end of his cab and
aim it at such color signals as he wishes to dis
tinguish. By this means the colored signal is so
focused, and apparently drawn up to close con
tact as to make such color signal easily and read
lily distnguishable, as to the real color, without
any danger of mistake.
The master mechanic of the l.. B. & W. sys-
sem has recently been making a test of the
coal consumption of their passenger and freight
locomotives on the several divisions He finds
Shat consol engines on the Peoria division aver
age to haul twenty eight loaded cars seventeen
miles with ton of coal while the mogul
engines average to haul twenty cars nineteen and
half miles ton of coal. On the
mi No ICn1 hut
the consol engines haul thirty five cars
twenty and one half miles with ton of coal
and on this division the passenger engines aver
age to run forty seven miles on each ton of coal
consumed On the Peoria division, which
has sleeper grades, forty and one half miles
with ton of coal.
Although the American Car Refrigerator
Company have been doing business some three
years on the Jay Gould system. the first one of
Sheir cars to come onto the indianapolis division
arrived yesterday and was loaded out by Budd
& Co., with eggs and butter for New York. The
car is a model affair in every respect and does
grand service. Last year 700 cars were in the
line and only 81, 600 paid out for losses. and
that mostly for goods stolen The company
guarantee freights against heat or cold.
THESE cars cost 81, 600 per car
and arc very substantially made
and hundred have been built recently es-
pecially for carrying eggs and butter. Six air
spaces surround these cars on each side, the bot
tom and the top, and they seem quite perfect in
their construction in every respect. The
loaded yesterday was named W. S. Budd. Ii is
a new car and attracted considerable attention
while standing on side track near New Jersey
street. The refrigerator has become to the
freight service as important as the Pullman car
70 the passenger service.
Alarmed Over the Situation.
Mention was made in a recent issue of the
Journal that the proxy committees representing