The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-01-31
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


vile s. Tclre Haute road at Princeton, Ind
Feb. l.
J. j. Turner, superintendent of the lnd1anapo-
lis & Vmcennes road, has gone to Philadelphia
TO be absent about week.
H. G. Diehl general freight agent of the lndi-
ana, Bloomington & Western has gone to Butfa-
10 to attend the line meeting.
Myron D. King returned from st. Louis yes
terday and resumed the duties of chief clerk in
the Wabash freight office at this point.
Feb. the accountants department of all
divisions of the Chicago, St. Louis & Pittsburg
road will be removed to Columbus, Ohio.
William F. Tmref general master mechanic
of the Decline, whom the boys say never comes
TO indianapolis without bringing trouble, is III
the city.
C. c. PIERCE. agent of the Merchants Dispatch
at this point who has been quite i'll for some
days. is improving, and will probably be about
again IN day or two.
j. D. Campbell, secretary and general solicitor
of the L, B. & w. Company, leaves for New
York to-day. c. r. Henderson, general mana
ger, accompanies him as far as Sandusky.
Harry Brokaw late of the Vandalia
countant's Office has abandoned the railroad
service and left yesterday for San Antonio,
Texas near which place he will locate on large
cattle ranch.
The Vandalia people have decided to build
new passenger depot at Greencaste this season,
TO cost in the neighborhood of SIS, 900. Chief En-
gineer Robbins is now preparing the plans for
the structure.
Colonel VIM Clowry, superintendent of the
Western Union Railway Company, spent yester-
day in the city looking matters over He
travels in a special car and left for Louisville
KY, last night over the j., M. & l.
The Jacksonville, Madison & indianapolis
road will receive from the Pendleton Locomo-
tive Works ON the Little Miami road this week,
two new locomotives of the same pattern of the
number 10 passenger engine now running on the
road.
An Indianapolis pastor is preparing a sermon
which he proposes to preach at an early day to
railroad men of this city. He has borrowed
from one of the superintendents Poors Railway
Manual for 1883 from which to take extracts for
his sermon.
The Evansville & Terre Haute people are look
ing for quite a boom in business the next few
days The river at Evansville is now open, and
transferring has again been resumed. About
1000 cars of freight have accumulated at Hen
derson, waiting to be brought north.
The employees Of the Toledo, Cincinnati &
St Louis road will be pleased to learn that
Judge Drummond yesterday issued decree or
dering the issue of receivers certificates. to the
amount of 500 900, for paying the current ex-
penses of operating the t., c. & st. L. road.
Some of the oldest and most experienced engi-
neers on indianapolis roads say that Tuesday
night was one of the worst nights they have en-
countered for years to trains They had
bad rail, and the fog so heavy that they
could not see an engines length ahead much of
the time
FL. W. Hubbard general freight agent of the
Vandalia, was in the city yesterday, en- route for
New York. While absent he will give Commits
sfener Fink his reasons for believing that the
Vandalia is entitled to a larger per cent. of the
business out of st. Louis, both in live stock and
dead freight pool
The Chicago & Eastern Illinois earned for the
second week of January $33,306, an increase of
$2,254 Their coal traffic from the Clay county
mines has increased handsomely the last few
days and their Chicago business, in connection
with the l., 8. & W, is said to have increased
considerably of late.
The c., Fl. & D. company has commenced re-
ceIving steel rails on a large order recently
given, and yesterday distributed some 200 tons
the hill west of Connersville. Twentysix
miles of steel rails weighing sixty pounds to the
yard, will be put in the track of the c., II. 6 l.
division within the next few weeks.
Three conductors ON the New York Central
Messrs. Toner, Lower and Heath, have been dis
charged after having been in the service of the
company from twenty to twenty five years EACH
taking the positions when Sam Sloan was presi-
dent Without any cause being assigned, they
were simply 'blue-enveloped, the railroad
men say, and no reason was given.
T. w. Ransom, for two years past master me-
chanic Of the l. < st. t. shops at Nation, has
been transferred to the Brightwood shops of the
Bee-line. considerable number of the en-
ployes at the NATION shops, as WELL are to be
transferred to the Brightwood shops, and the
shops at Nation are to be placed in charge of a
foreman. The change is made for economys
sake, it is stated.
The Indianapolis & Vincennes road has just
received from the East engine numbered
523 They call it a new one but it looks much
hde an old engine rebuilt The story goes that
when an engine fails to perform satisfactorily on
one of the eastern divisions of the Pennsylvania
company, the engine is run into the shops over
hauled little repainted, and sent west to be
run on the l. 81 V. road, and passed off as new.
They soon 60 into the indianapolis shops and
are rebuilt thoroughly, and prove in the end to
be fair locomotives.