The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-26
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.



President SfcKeen, of the Vandala, President
Collett, of the T. H. G. S. E., aud Mr.. Minshall
have gone East,
A Wabash railroad official is quoted as saying
Ehe Wabash people will take care of themselves.
Improbable leases must go.
The new c. ST. L. & P. shops are built, and now
The Irvingtonites are after Superintende mt
Miller to put on the promised suburban trains.
M Strickler, chief clerk in the freight Office of
the c., st. l.. g. p, at Cambridge City July l,
takes the ticket agency of the road at Cambridge
City station.
Up to June 10, the L, B. & w. road has
earned this year $1,072,913 against 81, 299, 41O
The corresponding period 1883. Decrease this
scar, $l56, 497.
July l. on the L., N. A. & c. road, the Office
of auditor will be consolidated with that OF
treasurer, the latter officer dischargng the
auditors duties
VIM. Strip a locomotive engineer. and VIM.
FARRELL, freight conductor on the Indianapolis
8 Vineennes road, succeed Perkins and Bran
ham as passenger conductors.
JB Holton, who has supervision of the real
estate matters for the c.. c., c. & l. and l. &
St. l.. companies, has removed his headquarters
from Indianapolis to Cleveland, o.
General Palmer has resigned from the directory
Of the Denver g. Rio Grande because of ''incom-
potency of the present managem emit" The other
Fellows say he was asked 10 resign
t. W. McKenns. superintendent, and R. W.
Geger, general freight agent. of the j.. M. 81 l.,
are spending couple of days at this point
looking after the interests of the road.
The II o'clock noon trair north over the L.,
N. A & G. Airline, and Chicago e. West Michi-
gan, makes the run from indianapolis to Petosky
in eighteen hours and thirty six minutes.
,Phe ST. Bernard Commandery, of Chicago,
was night before last hauled from Louisville,
KY, to Indianapolis over the j., M. & |. road in
two hours and thrty-two minutes; distance. ITO
miles.
W. s. Spiers, for the time being, is looking
after the Indianapolis east bound freight pool.
purchasing books and the necessary amount of
printed matter to got the pool in good running
order
r. Robinson. of this city. has been appointed
travelling agent of The Canada Southern fast
freight line. a position which he is fully compe-
tent to fill. He assumes the duties of the posi-
sion July 1.
Coal traffic is a little light on the Ohio South
srn road and the management is improving the
time by lengthening every side-track on the road.
Within the next thirty days fully six miles of
new side-track will be put down.
The item in yesterdays Journal undertakes
II should have read that the road earned in the
first five months of this year, an average of
81, 2O9 gross, per mile per month
The Cleveland rolling mills are this week de-
livering to the Bee-line people another 1,000tons
installment of steel rails weighing seventy
pounds to the yard to be laid on the west end of
the Indianapolis & st. Louis road.
Receiver Henderson, of the Danvilie, Olney
& Ohio River road, is operating the line for all
the money there is in it. Tuesday he borrowed a
dozen coaches from the l., B. & w, and ran
excursion trains from the north and south into
Kansas to Masonic celebration carrying nearly
five hundred people.
Chief Engineer Becker, of the c., st. l.. & P,
states that the new shops at this point completed
machinery in, etc. will cost the company fully
500 COO without including additional buildings,
when will probably, should the road prosper be
erected next year Mr.. Becker yesterday took
the Building off of the hands of contractor Rou-
tier.
Rumor has it that the Boston capitalists inter
ested in the Fitchhurg road, Hoosae tunnel
New York West Shore & Buffalo road. The
visit of e. B. Phillips, president of the Fitch
bnrg road and J. Whittemere general freight
agent, west last week, is said to have been in
the interest of this scheme.
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois road up to
June Is, had this year earned $500, 5l8, against
$Il6S46 the corresponding period 1883 The
strike at the Clay county coal mines had much
to do with this unfaEorable exhibit. The re-
manning six months and two weeks of the years
traffic promises TO be so large as to more than
overreach the deficit of the first part of the year.
e. A Ford general passenger agent Of the
Pennsylvania lines west Of Pittsburg was in the
city yesterday, en- route westward Ms. Ford
states that all divisions of their system there
has been handsome increase in travel the last
few days. and he anticipates larger passenger
earnings during the coming summer and fall
months than have been shown the preceding
months of this year.
J. H Devereux, PRESIDENT Il. B. Thomas,
general manager Gaylord Beach, chief engin-
eer; W. c. Irwin, superintendent of bridges;
VIM. Furref general master mechanic, of the
Beeiine system, are making their semisnnual
inspection trip over the several divisions, yes
terday going oyer the Columbus g. Cincinnati
Before they return they viii spend couple of
days on the 1. e. St L. road
Superintendent Whitcomb is doing grand
work in improving the Union tracks Already
some two hundred carloads of coarse gravel has
been distributed on the road-bed, and the entire
inches and neatly surfaced up with gravel The
improvement makes much better drainage,
and renders the street crossings much less rough
and more pleasant Go drive over.
The appointment of Mr.. Galloway as assistant
general manager of the Union Pacific road is
looked upon with favor. President Adams is an
able man, and although lacking in practical ex-
perieree his ability and thoroughness in every
thing be undertakes WILL with the assistance Of
Mr.. Galloway, enable him toeorrect many defects
in the previous management. The appointment
of Mr.. Galloway as assistant general manager
will also relieve Mr. Clark who has been over
worked.
General Manager Talmage, of the Jay Gould
lines, telegraphs from Jefferson City, No; 1.-The
crops are looking splendidly everywhere on the
Missouri and on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Central branch lines Ia Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska corn is well cleared and the weather
is favorable Reports from the assistant su
perintendent of the Central branch say there is a
s6 per cent increase in wheat on that line, and
that it is all in fine condition, with harvesting
now on along the Joplin line, and the wheat is