The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-16
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.
Personal and Local.

Steps to organize pool.
Most of the roads will on Monday next put on
construction trains and crews and begin gen erai
improvement to roadbeds.
Manager McCrea Of the Pennsylvania lines
west of Pittsburg, F., TT. w. & c. excepted. Is
expected in the city to-day.
The Wabash people announce that their Sun
day trains between indianapolis and Detroit
have been discontinued, dating from next Sun
day.
J. n. Woodland general agent of the Wabash,
S. Louis g. Pacific at San Francisco returned
TO that point yesterday taking his family and
household effects with him.
Henry Terhune, cashier of the American Ex-
press Company who has been confined at home
by illness some four weeks, is beginning to i'm
prove. and hopes to be, about again in few days.
b. J. Becker, of Pittsburg, Pa, chief engineer
Of the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg, and
G.. Beach, of Cleveland, o., chief engineer of the
Bee-line system, are in the city on official bust
President ingalls,, of the c., T.. ST. T.. g. c.,
has ordered the roadbed of the c., L. q c. di-
vision graveled to depth of eighteen inches This
division extends from Sheldon to Kankakee, a
distance of forty three miles, and is now mud
roadbed.
Col M. A. Downing president of the ST. Louis
IL Western cable road. who has been seriously
I'll for month or more his friends will be glad
TO learn, is able TO sit up two or three hours at
time and his physician thinks will be out again
IN a couple of weeks.
Vicepresident Malott of the Union Railway
Company expects to get the executive commit
tee of the Union Railway Company together the
early part of next week, to take the preliminary
steps to raise the funds needed for the erection
OF the new Union Depot.
Unless all signs fail after May Commission
ar Fink's jurisdiction will not extend west of the
Trunk Line western termini. Who will be COM
missioner OF the Middle and Western States pool
IS now a matter of speculation. The position will
require man of large ability.
1t is stated that the Indianapolis, Decatur e.
Springfield road, under the present unfavorable
circumstances, is paying operating expenses
and promises within thirty days to well be
paying fixed charges, even should they be as
large III amount as was the rental paid By the l.,
u. 81 w. people.
The earnings of the Indiana, Bloomington &
Western road the first week In April were $48,
198 %, which is an increase of 1914 20 over the
earnings in the corresponding week of 1884 The
exhibit is very favorable one as this year the
earnings of the ST. Louis, now the l., d. 81 s.,
road are not included
The order prayed for by the Wabash re-
the Wabash authority to cease operating de-
Hcient leased lines after May l, 1885, unless the
leased lines file stipulations to make all ex-
penses special liens the individual lines, and
not on the entire system.
The South Illinois street scalper who pro
posed to sue the Chicago Milwaukee e st. Paul
road for unpaid, as he claimed commissions, has
decided to drop the NATTER having learned 1t is
stated, that the company has in their possession
some of the unlimited tickets he supposed were
sold at his scalping Office
Fl. r. Dering. assistant general passenger
Hgent of the Pennsylvania lines, has two i'm
mense scrap books, in which he has pasted hun
dreds of columns of interesting reading matter
regarding railways and their operations, which
have appeared in the daily papers which publish
railroad departments. He has in his scrap-books
railroad matters which appeared in the papers in
1875.
Passenger circles were in turmoil again yes
terday. 1t is alleged that five tickets were sold
by the c., l.. st. l.. q c. for California at cut
of So per head, and ten tickets by the l. g. St L.
to parties going to Kansas point at cut of
$3.50 per head. The question now is, did the
initial or the connecting line make the cut In
both cases all roads over which the tickets read
are parties to the Indianapolis agreement.
The value of the Belt road in relieving the
Union tracks was never more fully demon
etrated than on Wednesday, when the Belt road
was blockaded by a wreck from early morn until
well on toward evening throwing the traffic of
All lines east of the c., l., St L. q G. onto the
Union tracks, causing almost 8 continuous
blockade of street crossings over the latter
seriously delaying business between the North
and South side
With the increased shipments of live stock to
eastern markets the fast time runs have been re-
viyed. Some of the roads are running their
stock trains at an average speed of twenty-tw
and half miles per hour. The c., III. 81 l. yes
ferday hauled stock train from Indianapolis to
Hamilton, one hundred miles, in four hours and
twenty minutes. If twenty-five to twenty five
miles per hour becomes the running time of
stock trains, more substantial cars will be
needed.
Quigley Versus the Corbin Syndicate.
Urt. q
ahe Toledo, Cincinnati s. st. Louis, between To-
aedo and st. Louis, have issued circular signed
BY Chairman Quigley, which states that 1.-The
committee proceeding with all possible dill
gence toward obtaining final DEGREES of foreclos-
ure for the sale of the property, and are now ar
ranging the details of reorganization. The liti-
CATION has been protracted and complicated by
many questions affecting title to portions of the
property, others arising out of trusts and the
dangers threatening our terminal properties; but
on the whole satisfactory progress has been made
Replying to the CoIbin circular OF March 30
calling upon holders of the Qugley certificates
TO hand them over to the Corbin committees
agents, this Quigley circular says that, "while
It would not be possible to destroy our trust yet
the possession of considerable number of our
certificates would, perhaps, enable them to
throw affairs into great and perous confusion
This is characterized as but another attempt to
break up the confederacy of bondholders in order
chat the property may be bought at foreclosure
sale at a nominal price. The Corbin circular
proposes no plan; it only asks boEdholders to
place themselves in the Corbirr committees
hands and the real object is to deliver the prop
erty to the Indianapolis. Bloomington & Western
railroad If Mr.. Corbin and the rest want this
property, .let them pay for it with their own
money, not with your bonds
still at the Head of American Roads.
The old and reliable Chicago Burlington &
Quincy shows decline in net earnings for the first
two months of the year. The report of that road
for the entire year of 1884 shows total gross
ing Of s25, 49, OO0 net, ST. 1872 900, increased by
receipts from other sources to $l3,0s9. 600. OF