The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-04-19
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Between Camden and Clymers, on the Wanda
liza northern extension, steel rails are being laid
at the rate of a mile per day.
Twenty seven new engines are standing idle
in the Pennsylvania companys shops at Altoona,
which are to be placed on their lines west of
Pittsburg when needed.
Charles Clark, commercial freight agent of the
Grand Trunk road headquarters at Detroit,
Mich, and Ira W. Gnatt, agent of the Great
Eastern line at Peoria, H., are in the city.
After May l the operating expenses of the
Union railway and the Belt road are to be paid
by the several companies using the same, in pro
portion to such use, on the basis of wheelage
The j., NJ. & l. people are delivering to the
indianapolis gasworks 500 carloads of Pitts
burg COAL at the rate of fifteen carloads per
day The coal is loaded from Madison on the
river.
D. B. Mccoy has been appointed assistant SUI
perintendent of the Pittsburg division and
branches and the Wheeling and Pittsburg divls-
ion of the.B & 0. road, with headquarters at
Pittsburg.
John A. Glover. general baggage agent on the
1. B. & w. system, was married ON Thursday at
Springfield, Ills, to Miss Clara Wood A num-
Der of friends of the bride from Indianapolis
witnessed the marriage ceremony.
On Thursday the steam yacht "Flora," of
Cleveland was unloaded from the cars at Mar
mont on the Vandalia. She will be placed on
Lake Maxinkuckee. The boat is equipped in
regular ocean steamer style, with life-preserv-
ers, life-boat, anchor, etc, and is propelled by
u steam engine Of about thirty or, forty horse
power.
Presidents ingalls,, Devereux McKeen and
Mccullough each speak in very complimentary
terms of the excellent service of V. T. Malott as
Yice-president and general manager of the Union
railway company in looking after their interests
a; this point. They say never before have their
matters moved along more smoothly been
managed more economically.
NJ E. Ingalls, president of the c., l., St L. &
g. road, on Thursday remarked that the three
titles in this country which promised the largest
and most healthy growth in proportion to their
present population and business capacity were
Columbus, o., indianapolis, Ind, and Kansas
City. f. B. Thomas, general manager of the
Bee-line, agreed with President ingalls, in this
opinion.
The Union Railway Company propose
this season to construct stone walls on
each side of Pogueis run, and lay
track thereon from the east end
of the depot on Meridian street to Delaware
street Their intentions are to make a similar
Improvement as far east as Washington street,
within the next eighteen months, one of the presi-
dents states.
The local representatives of the c., l., st. i.
81 c. road at their office on South Illinois street
were boasting yesterday that, Notwithstanding
the fact that the presidents and general mana
gers had on Wednesday voted to sell no tickets
at their outside Offices, they were continuing so
70 do. just such tritfing with the instructions
of superior officers will in the end close up every
outside office, not only for the sale of tickets but
for information.
Colonel M. A. Downing and other indianapolis
capitalists who are interested in the st. Louis,
Creve C9ur & st, Charles road and the proposed
extensions of it. are receiving very encouraging
letters from business of St Louis, and
the st. Louis press, and there is little doubt as
to their securing the right of way and other
privileges asked, which will enable them to at
once push ahead with the converting of the road
into standard gauge and building the proposed
extensions
J. N. Mccullough vice-president of the Penn
sylYania company, who seldom, if ever errs in
Ris judgement of the value of railroad property,
says ten years from now the Indianapolis Belt
road will be one of the most valuable and best
paying fifteen miles of railway in the United
States j. II. DevereuX, president of the Bee-fine
system, says never, until his recent visit has he
fully appreciated the great value of the Union
Railway Companys interests at this point, in
Gliding both the Union railway franchises and
the Belt road.
Under the reorganization agreement of the
nine companies forming the Union Railway Com
Iany after May l, the tracks of the Union Rail
way Company are to be used exclusively, or as
far as possible, for passenger train service, and
such local freight deliveries as may be necessary.
In consequence of the location of the
several freight-houses and private sidings,
all other freight transfers and deliver
les must be made over the Belt road.
Adopting this measure, it is believed, will relieve
the Union tracks of fully40 per cent of freight
cars handled over it under the present arrange
ment. ~ III
J. N. Mccullough, vice-president of the Penn
syivania lines, says that the purchase of the
TeFre Haute q Logansport road by the McKeen
syndicate and the extending it to South Bend is
one of the best and most promising ventures
that has been made by any syndicate for years.
The road and its franchises were purchased at
very low figure, while the road as an
entirety is the best located of any in the
State of Indiana to draw a heavy traffic The
fixed charges were small, and he looked for it to
become a handsome paying dividend road as soon
as the improvements now in progress which
were absorbing all surplus moneys above operat
ing expenses, were completed.
On Thursday evening, several railroad officials
were in conference, when the matter of dishonest
passenger conductors was brought up One of
fetal on whose road, in the last few months.
several conductors have been discharged re-
marked: what surprised me most was that the
conductors whom for years l had trusted the
best and had the most confidence in were the
dishonest ones and had failed to punch tickets
and resold them to scalpers, and even our own
agents, and were resorting to more contemplate
tricks to defraud the company than one would
think possible for them to do, while, the other
hand, conductors whom | had suspected re-
ported their tickets handled and cash faxes paid
to an exactness which was really surprising.
Fast-Freight Lines Not Corporations.
The general manager of one of the fast
freight lines remarked yesterday the greatest
bosh he read was the talk that it would require
years to clear the fastfreight lines off the rail,
roads and pay them for their enormous equip
ments. The fact was, so far as his line was con-
cerned, the property consisted of few chairs,
desks, carpets, etc. He said there was general
misapprehension regarding fast freight lines.
They are not separate corporations. They are not
corporations at all. Except in the one instance
of the Merchants Dispatch, they have no cap
ital, no stock and pay no dividends. They are
merely agreements between number of railroads