The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

The American Express Company will on Mon
day next open Office at Plymouth, Ind, reach
ing there over the Vandaha extension.
'tBilly Williams" as he is Familiarity known,
late agent of the Red line at Chicago, is spend
ing few days with old time friends in this city
There is another hitch in recognizing the
ast-bound pool out of st. Louis. The Wabash
people claim not to be fully satisfied with GER
tain points in the agreement.
Geo. Smith, general Western agent of the
Merchants Dispatch headquarters at Chicago,
and ]. H. Wickes, superintendent of cars, were
in the city prospecting for business.
The Vandalia people, Monday next, commence
taking freight to and from Michigan City, using
their Logansport division to Plymouth. They
anticipate heavy lumber traffic to the South
west
Freight men report through west bound traffic
remarkably heavy for June. OF late New York
Central has taken something like one hundred
cars of freight day west in excess of its allot-
ment.
The finest coaches now run on any road enter
ing this city the Pullman coaches which H.
B. Hammond placed on the l., D. & s. road
before it passed under control of the l., B. d W.
people
Engine No 16, on the c., H, & D road, on
Monday last hauled twenty coaches. carry
ing 1853 persons, from Cincinnati 10 Dayton,
O.-ffty five miles-in one hour and forty three
minutes.
Engine g. of the c., l., st. L. & c., which
} rought in the Martinsvile and Franklin lodges
If Knights Of Pythias, was very deliberately
decorated and many of the designs were unique
and attractive
The American Express Company is sprucing
up somewhat at this point. This week three
horses which cost 1925 EACH have been added to
their stable and five new wagons will arrive this
week for service here.
Smith af tha
Bee-line wishes to catch on with the travelling
public he will see to it that a chair car is hauled
on train No. 2, which leaves indianapolis for
Cleveland at 1910 A. NJ
President Rutter has cabled to London that
the next New York Central dividend would be
per cent as usual. The question now is, did
the road earn the dividend is it paid out of
Vanderbilts private fundsf
Commissioner Fink says the trunk lines are
working together tremendously, and he believes
that they will finally come to their senses and
put rates higher, but at present through bust
ness is light, and there is no hurry
Receiver Henderson already has the money,
subject to check, to pay off over the Danvilie,
Olney & Ohio River road The ability with
which Receiver Henderson is handling the affairs
of this poverty stricken road is calling forth
favorable comment.
The three Chicago roads yesterday restored
rates to Chicago to full tariff. A number of al
-yays-late people were very indignant that they
to Chicago, instead of the prevailing rate of
a.. rs for the round trip for some days previous.
Chief Engineer Devore, of the indianapolis,
Eel River g. Western road, has awarded the con
tract to furnish 100, 600 cross ties TO Cochran q
Brown at 80 cents per tie. In the construction
of the track $500 cPoss-ties to the mile will be
put in, and the rails are to be steel, weighing
sixty pounds to the yard.
Contractor Reuter- will, on the 18th Of this
month turn the new c.. st. L. & p. shops and
rOund- hOuSe in the eastern mart of the cltV
to the railroad company. Chief Engineer Beck
er. of the c., St L & p, speaks in very compi-
mentary terms of the manner the work has been
pushed, in spite of much bad weather.
c. c. F. Bent, master of transportation of the
L., N. A. & G. system, is proving a very capable
officer, and has won the confidence of the en-
ployeS by giving them to understand not only
that the humblest of them Is in the line of pro-
motion but has already promoted several worthy
men, as an opportunity has presented itself.
Superintendent Whitcomb is raising the Union
tracks to correspond with the grade of the
bridges to be put in over Pogues run where it
is crossed by the c., St L. & P and the c., H.
&c L. roads. The new bridges will be twenty
inches higher than the present structure, which
will give ample room for Pogues run to swell.
Railroads which have depended upon their
ability to borrow money to pay fixed charges
will now find it impossible to do so, hence re-
ceivers will continue fashionable. There is
great danger that two or three Indiana roads
will be obliged to walk the receivers plank
Good crops this year is their only salvation.
The travelling passenger agents have received
from Pereiyal Lowell general passenger agent
of the G., B. & G. road complimentary passes
neatly gotten up IN golden leaf They read from
Chicago to Denver via Lincoln returning via
Kansas City" Mr.. Lowell well understands
that the best advertisement a road can have is
the good will of the travelling passenger agents
In commenting on the Wabash road tumbing
into the hands OF receiver the Springfield Re-
publican says; The property is covered more
thlckfy with mortgages that q frugal country
lads trousers with patches its leases are
numerous and peculiar, and the methods of its
recent manipulators cannot stand exposure.
The termination of the lease of the road to the
Missouri Pacific is now urged as reason for
buying the latters securities, whereas people
were once advised to invest in Wabash stock
because the roads management lad been
assumed by the Missouri Pacific
Could some one convince the expressmen who
do the business at the Union Depot that they
could AS well get their heavily laden trucks in
position to load into the before eight or ten
trains backed into the limited
structure and the depot is thronged with people,
il would doubtless be highly appreciated by the
travelling public. 1t seems to be the hight Of the
ambition of some of the expressmen who handle
those trucks to push them through crowd
yelling Get out of the way, d-n YOU" People
are fully enough bewildePed when the numerous
trains are in the crowded depot without the
above uncalled for commotion.
AS friends of the L., N. g. G. Airline have
fears that the favorable arrangement by which
the road reaches the city from Howands over
the Wabash and enjoys the terminal facilities |
may be cut off under coming changes, the charac-
ter of the agreement becomes one of interest
Under the traffic arrangement the Wabash
people must give one years notice of wish to !
terminate the agreement. The agreement is
eigned by the H. N. A. & c. on the one part |
she Wabash and the l., p g. c company Oh the
other part. The Wabash people have already
given notice that they wished to abrogate the
tPaffic appauo which 0bliDaS fha 7. A
& c. people to make other arrangements |
for reaching the Union tracks between now and
May q, 1885
The East-Bound Pool.
w. S. Spiers, who WAS delegated by Commits
sioner Fink to organize the east bound nool at